User talk:Dellyjacobs

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!

Welcome to Wikipedia and WikiProject Medicine

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) 14:09, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Complexity

Hi Dellyjacobs,

Welcome to the English Wikipedia. What sort of thing are you having the most trouble with right now? Finding information about Wikipedia? Choosing an article? Finding information about the source? Figuring out what to do after you click the Edit button? (Did anyone tell you that there's an alternative editing environment that looks like a word processor?)

Oh, and talk pages are strange. Unlike any other website, you open the same editing tools, just like you wanted to change my words instead of writing your own. That really is how it works, so don't worry. You're not doing anything wrong. The least-strange page for talking to people is probably at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, which is a place for new editors to ask questions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:03, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

These are great ideas! I can also help help from the Cochrane side of things. I would also be happy to review your first few edits. It looks like you are doing a great job so far based on your user page and posting at WP:MED. Once again, it is great to have you here! JenOttawa (talk) 16:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! I wrote much of this, so I may be biassed in thinking it useful, but there is a beginner's guide called Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics, which is intended to utilize the extensive cultural knowledge people acquire in academia. HLHJ (talk) 00:11, 12 March 2020 (UTC)