User talk:Rjalexander

Inserting text

If you are inserting text in a sentence before a reference, make sure that the ref covers the text you are adding, or else add a ref. David notMD (talk) 19:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David,

please bear with me but I'm new and confused. Not sure what you're referring to. May you be so kind to try and explain?

Take care Rjalexander (talk) 19:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In Signs and Symptoms you added words (shown here in bold) to make the text "A medical sign is an objective observable indication of a disease, injury, or abnormal physiological state that may be detected during a physical examination, examining the patient history, or diagnostic procedure." The text as it was, is immediately followed by a reference. My advice is that you look at that reference to see of it supports your revised description of a medical sign. If not, either undo your change or add a new ref that covers your changes. David notMD (talk) 19:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Be not afraid

Some/many of the medical/health articles are a horrible jumble because people have been adding to them over years. (Clicking on View history provides a chronoligical list of edits; then clicking on prev show a side-by-side of that edit, while clicking on the date shows how the article looked after that edit.) David notMD (talk) 19:12, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David notMD, RobertMD here :)

I'll read around trying to better understand all of this before I bug more people :)

Thanks a lot Rjalexander (talk) 19:16, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

See Help:Referencing for beginners for general info on creating references. There is a shortcut for medical journal refs. If a search at PubMed locates refs you want to add, those will have PMID numbers. Open up https://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi then enter the PMID number and it generates a reference. Just remember to add the ref and /ref at the beginning and the end when you insert the ref into the text. The ref system assigns superscripted numbers and adds the ref to References, at the bottom.

From my User page, you can see why I am not David MD. David notMD (talk) 19:24, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. Read your page, very interesting personal history :) Take care! Rjalexander (talk) 19:28, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]