User talk:Rocapp
Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!
[edit]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!
- Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
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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! Zefr (talk) 17:26, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Psilocybin edit
[edit]Hello, Rob. On my talk page, you said: I'm writing to discuss a recent edit I made to the Psilocybin article that you subsequently removed. Could you please explain in more detail why you removed my edit? I am genuinely interested to learn more about Wikipedia's guidelines, with which you seem to have significant experience. Thank you, Rob.
- Your edit derived from a primary research (lab) study published in 2013 (WP:MEDDATE, 5 years or less preferred), and was not a review, but rather was mainly speculation that might be suitable for a thesis or journal article, but not an encyclopedia (WP:NOTJOURNAL #6-8). Read WP:MEDRS and WP:WHYMEDRS for more background about using reviews published in reputable sources for medical content. You can ask further quesitons here on your page, if you wish. Good luck! Zefr (talk) 17:33, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying! I'll keep the guidelines in mind for future edits. Rocapp (talk) 14:33, 25 August 2020 (UTC)