User:Ethanzzzzzz

Hello!

I am a student studying at University of Sydney in medical science.

	Please don’t bite me, I’m a newbie! I’m a university student in a Wikipedia Education class, and I’m currently learning how to contribute to Wikipedia. This page is a work in progress and I am approaching my subject in good faith. Thanks!

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

1. Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
2. We do that by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving
   synthesizing
   content based on primary sources.
3. Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see
   predatory publishers – check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list
   .
4. The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at
   WP:LEAD
   . It summarizes the body. Do not add anything to the lead that is not in the body. Style is covered in MEDMOS as well; we avoid the word "patient" for example.
5. We don't use terms like "currently", "recently," "now", or "today". See
   WP:RELTIME
   .
6. More generally see
   WP:MEDHOW
   , which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, it provides a way to format citations quickly and easily
7. Citation details are important:
   • Be sure cite the
     PMID for journal articles and ISBN
     for books
   • Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article, and please format citations consistently within an article.
   • Do not use URLs from your university library that have "proxy" in them: the rest of the world cannot see them.
   • Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
8. We use very few capital letters (see
   WP:MOSCAPS
   ) and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
9. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities. Avoid
   overlinking
   !\
10. Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
11. Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.

Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us! Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:51, 14 July 2019 (UTC)