User talk:Jay W Friedman

Welcome to Wikipedia

Welcome!

Hello, Jay W Friedman, 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:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

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 {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Them From Space 22:12, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

February 2010

Your addition to Wisdom tooth has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Them From Space 22:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled a list of guidance for students and new editors:

Use high quality sources for medical content. This is described at WP:MEDRS. High quality sources include review articles (note this is not the same as peer reviewed), position statements from national and internationally recognized bodies (think CDC, WHO, NICE, FDA, etc), and major medical textbooks. Lower quality sources may be removed.
References go after not before punctuation (see WP:MOS)
We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
Do not use the url from the inside net of your university library. The rest of the world cannot see it.
If you use textbooks we need page numbers.
Please format your references as explained at WP:MEDHOW or like the ones already in the article. This is simple once you get the PMID / ISBN.
Every sentence can be referenced. We reference more densely than other sources.
Never "copy and paste" from sources. We run copy and paste detection software on new edits.
Section order typically follows the instructions here at WP:MEDMOS
Please talk to us. Wikipedia works by collaboration and this takes place on the talk pages of both articles and user.

Again welcome and thank you for joining us.

P.S. Please share this with your fellow learners and instructors.

James Heilman a.k.a User:Doc James
MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of British Columbia

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The Team at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:06, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Experts and Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Jay

Like the messages above - Welcome! I am a member of WikiProject Medicine (WP:MED) and also deal with conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Many member of WP:MED are doctors, surgeons, academic researchers and other kinds of experts, and WP:MED is one of the strongest projects in Wikipedia because of that. At the the same time, experts have some challenges when they first join Wikipedia.... writing here, is unlike writing anywhere else.' Really - there is a learning curve. Experts who take the time to learn - who bend and realize they are new here - can thrive and become really valued members of the community. We also get experts who refuse to learn and end up leaving angry.....

Anway, there is a great essay written to help experts get oriented - it is here: WP:EXPERT. Please give it a read. Please also read Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine) and the piece of our COI guideline called WP:SELFCITE.

What you should take away from all that, is that we really value experts, but only when they are what we call Here to build an encyclopedia (which is also good to read).

A bunch of your editing has been citing others in the field, and treatment guidelines and the like, but some of it has been about citing your own work. The more you can stay away from the latter, the better.

I can explain more about how things work here if you like - I have a couple of quick orientations I can provide you, but the links in the welcome messages above are really great, if you take the time to check them out.

Again, welcome, and good luck to you! Jytdog (talk) 03:34, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]