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03:30, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, Tania.bhatti, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:38, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

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

Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
We do that by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving WP:WEIGHT as they do. Please do not try to build content by synthesizing content based on primary sources.
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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
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– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:42, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a reliable journal Linacre Q. Plus some of the sources you used were super old. Plus some of them were primary sources... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:42, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Plus you changed correct caps to incorrect caps. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:42, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Text

"It results in about a 77% reduction in menopausal hot flashes."^[1]

Ref says "Results indicated a 77% reduction in frequency and a significant reduction in severity of symptoms with oral estrogen compared with placebo."

So it does not apply to this article.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:13, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Nelson, Heidi D. (2004-04-07). "Commonly Used Types of Postmenopausal Estrogen for Treatment of Hot Flashes: Scientific Review". JAMA. 291 (13): 1610–1620. doi:10.1001/jama.291.13.1610. ISSN 0098-7484.

User:Ian (Wiki Ed)

Can you give me a hand with this class please? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:14, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback

Hi. I notice that you have run into some problems with your contributions to the Levonorgestrel article. Please keep in mind that when someone reverts your additions to Wikipedia, you should need to stop and understand what went wrong before you try adding the information to the article.

Through some oversight it looks like your class was not assigned the Editing medical topics training module. Please take a moment to work your way through this training module before you proceed further on Wikipedia. When it comes to medical topics, it's critically important for you to understand that these articles have special sourcing requirements that you need to adhere to.

For example, this is one of the sources you used

von Holst, Thomas; Salbach, Birgitt (2002-03-25). "Efficacy of a new 7-day transdermal sequential estradiol/levonorgestrel patch in women". Maturitas. 41 (3): 231–242. doi:10.1016/S0378-5122(01)00297-3. ISSN 0378-5122.

This source doesn't meet the requirements for medical content in Wikipedia because it's (a) based on a single clinical study (you should be using review articles, not individual studies) and (b) it's far too old (it's from 2002 - you should be using sources that are no more than five years old). Other sources you used date to 2004, 1995 and 1982. Sources like these cannot reflect the current state of the science.

In addition, as Doc James mentioned in the section above, you need to make sure you get it right. While it's rather less than ideal that they do so, people rely on Wikipedia articles for medical information. So it's critically important that you get things right.

Please do the training module, and then check back with me if you have questions about any of this. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:46, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Scott Lyons for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Scott Lyons is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Lyons until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Cheers! Central Time 301 20:15, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, this article is a candidate for speedy deletion under criterion A7, a person with no assertion of significance or importance. Please reply immediately if you think there is some reason this person is significant enough for an article. —C.Fred (talk) 20:34, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Nelson, Heidi D. (2004-04-07). "Commonly Used Types of Postmenopausal Estrogen for Treatment of Hot Flashes: Scientific Review". JAMA. 291 (13): 1610–1620. doi:10.1001/jama.291.13.1610. ISSN 0098-7484.

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