User talk:Zarkme

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Welcome!

Hello, Zarkme, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Jenks24 (talk) 04:28, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome! Much appreciated :) Wikipedia is just a tad daunting for a newbie, but for good reason I suppose. Zarkme (talk) 04:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Primary vs. secondary vs. tertiary

Hello there! Thanks for your edit to Alzheimer disease. But Wikipedia is to be based off of secondary sources, and not primary ones (it's a tertiary source). So it's exceedingly rare that such a well researched topic as Alzheimer disease would ever start a sentence with "A 2011 study..." Could you find a study that covers the study you cite? http://scholar.google.ch/scholar?cites=16157310550510699496&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en lists articles that cite it in google scholar, so that readers have a wider appreciation for the literature? We're not supposed to highlight individual studies as much as we're just there to cite the facts. Let me know if you have any questions. Best regards. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 09:57, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Biosthmors, thanks for explaining this to me. I didn't know about that (still learning) and thought sources from journals were more authoritative, especially since I had seen so many references to journal articles in the reference section. I reckon I will start a section in the Talk page on Alzheimer's and HSV1. I am quite hopeful about the future for this direction of research, if it works out we will be able to establish root cause and far better treatment options. Zarkme (talk) 00:32, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations. WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:11, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]