User talk:Pishoygouda

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Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine Wikiproject!

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED).

We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:

Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on our talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the WPMED talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!

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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages!Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 16:28, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And welcome from me too! Good luck. Axl ¤ [Talk] 18:51, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for the warm welcome!

I'm just trying to get familiar with using and editing wikipedia! This is pretty much just a practice reply! Pishoygouda (talk) 16:53, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages are complicated. Someday, in the distant future, we may get something better, but for now, we're old-fashioned.

I replied to your request at WikiProject Medicine's talk page. Congratulations on finding that talk page and figuring out how to post; you're already ahead of the average new user! Just click the 'edit' button next to the title there, and you can reply in the same section. We use colons (":") to indent paragraphs. It's a bit of a kludge, but it helps people figure out where one comment stops and the next begins. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:37, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Hi there,

Look over this page which explains the use of an edit summary. Help:Edit summary. It is much easier for people to understand the work that you are doing if you use one. Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 16:29, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks FloNight I'll give it a look Pishoygouda (talk) 22:12, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your first barnstar

	Good Start Barnstar
	Thanks for your work to improve our articles. I like what I'm seeing so far in your Special:Contributions list. You've got the "ABCs" down pretty well, and I think you're going to turn into a solid medical editor. Happy editing, WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:16, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't look like anyone's given you this link yet: http://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi

When you want to create a citation to a paper that's on PubMed, just get the id number from PubMed, paste it into this webpage, and it will make the citation for you. Also, if you'd like to try out WP:VisualEditor, then I can tell you how to set things up so that you can do this inside VisualEditor (very cool, but setup requires extra steps right now, because it's still officially experimental). WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:19, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank a million WhatamIdoing I used it for the first time today on the BCG vaccine page check it out!

It looks good now. Congratulations on figuring it out.

The link on tools.wmflabs.org is designed for the wikitext editor. If you're using VisualEditor, then you can use the Cite menu (which adds all that code for you), but you have to fill it out by hand (unless you separately install the experimental autofiller). WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:13, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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