User talk:YetiHed

Thank you for helping with the Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative. You can track your personal contribution using this tool: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/ Just add in your username. JenOttawa (talk) 02:04, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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.
• The Wikipedia community includes a wide variety of editors with different interests, skills, and knowledge. We all manage to get along through a lot of discussion that happens under the scenes and through the bold, revert, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss them on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.

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! JenOttawa (talk) 02:04, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thanks for the adding of reviews :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

		The Medicine Barnstar
		Thank you for all your improvements to medical articles and your contribution to the Cochrane-Wikipedia Project

JenOttawa (talk) 02:30, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with citation consistency is only an important issue when editing Featured articles, as they must maintain a consistent citation style. Most (but not all) of Wikipedia's medical FAs use the Diberri/Boghog format, with vancouver-style author names, and more than five authors truncated to three et al. It's VERY easy to generate a citation for those by plugging the PMID into this citation filling tool. My advice would be to use that tool on all articles, because it gives a much cleaner citation that creates less bulk in edit mode and is easier to edit around, but that's just my preference :) But you should always check the citation style on FAs, and stick to it.

So, the next thing is, how to know when you are editing a Featured article. There are many ways to check (see dementia with Lewy bodies):

1. EVERY time you edit, you get a big pop-up window that tells you they are featured, for example, Template:Editnotices/Page/Dementia with Lewy bodies ... this is only because I created editnotices for (I hope) every medical FA.
2. There is a bronze star in the upper right hand corner.
3. On the talk page, FAs have an Articlehistory template which indicate Featured status. See Talk:Dementia with Lewy bodies
4. You can also install a gadget that always tells you an article status. Go to your preferences setting (top of the page), click on gadgets, scroll down to "Display an assessment of an article's quality in its page header (documentation)", check that, and save.
5. Review Wikipedia:Featured_articles#Health_and_medicine

@BDD user: who also adds Cochrane reviews. That should do it, Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:48, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @SandyGeorgia:. I'll go through my list of edits when I can, hopefully in the next week.Regards, YetiHed (talk) 07:54, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ... best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:53, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]