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Wikipedia allows limited use of primary sources, but typically only for straightforward, descriptive statements of facts, and only if they are published and verifiable without requiring specialized knowledge.
Secondary sources should be the main basis for a biography on Wikipedia.
If you're working on a topic related to medicine or psychology, ensure that your sources follow
these special guidelines.
If you're creating a new article, consider the following:
Ensure that your topic meets Wikipedia's
notability guidelines.
In order for a topic to meet the notability requirement, you must be able to identify 2-3 sources that are reliable, verifiable, and independent of the subject you're writing about.
Finding sufficient sources to establish notability can be especially hard when writing about people or organizations.
Sources that are not independent of the subject might be useful additions, but don't count towards the notability requirement.
Wikipedia has developed special guidelines for writing about
living persons. Please follow these carefully.
Wikipedia has a series of
guidelines for writing about different categories of people, such as academics and artists. If you're trying to create a new entry about a living person, please look at these carefully.
If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, ask a librarian! If you have questions about Wikipedia's sourcing rules, you can use the Get Help button below to contact your Wikipedia Expert.
"Immunology for Pharmacy". ScienceDirect. Retrieved 2024-02-27[1]
This is a textbook written by an associate professor for a pharmaceutical university. It has a whole chapter dedicated to natural killer cells and its receptors involved in its function including KARS and KIRs. This is a reliable source because it has multiple peer reviewers and published for academic use.
Colco, Richard: Sunshine, Geoffrey (2015). Immunology: a short course (7th ed.). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell[2]
This is a textbook which is written by two medical school professors. it talks about natural killer cells and their activation during several chapters. This textbook is also used in my immunology class as recommended material for course work. This source is reliable as it has multiple peer reviewers and published for academic use.
Sivori, S., Vacca, P., Del Zotto, G., Munari, E., Mingari, M. C., & Moretta, L. (2019). Human NK cells: surface receptors, inhibitory checkpoints, and translational applications. Cellular & molecular immunology, 16(5), 430–441. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-019-0206-4[3]
This is a scholarly article written by professors within medial and biological departments at a university in Italy. I chose this article because it talks alot about how NK cells work and especially with cancer/ tumor producing cells which is talked about a little bit in the article I am editing. This is a reliable source as it is posted on a reliable medical website along with citations various other sources and had been peer reviewed amongst multiple people.
Mosimann, Beatrice; Wagner, Marion; Shehata, Hassan; Poon, Leona C. Y.; Ford, Brian; Nicolaides, Kypros H.; Bansal, Amolak S. (2013-03-27). "Natural Killer Cells and Their Activation Status in Normal Pregnancy". International Journal of Reproductive Medicine. 2013: e906813.
doi:10.1155/2013/906813.
ISSN 2356-7104.
PMC 4334074.
PMID 25763390[4]
This article is written by professors within several medical departments within King College Hospital. I chose this article because it gives examples on activation receptors and even talks about the first ones to be discovered and how they work. This is a reliable source as it is posted on a reliable medical website along with citations various other sources and had been peer reviewed amongst multiple people.
Moretta, Lorenzo; Moretta, Alessandro (2004-01-28). "Unravelling natural killer cell function: triggering and inhibitory human NK receptors". The EMBO Journal. 23 (2): 255–259.
doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600019.
ISSN 0261-4189.
PMC 1271745.
PMID 14685277.[5]
This article was written by a professor from an institution in Italy. This article talks a lot about how the natural killer cell works in both inhibition and activation. This is a reliable resource as it has had several peer reviewers along with being published by a notable academic library database, Wiley Library.
Examples:
Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.
Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.
In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.
Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.
Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.
Reliable publications include established newspapers, academic journals and books, textbooks, and other published sources with reputations for accuracy and fact-checking.
Unreliable sources include blog posts and other self-published works, press releases, and social media posts.
In order for a source to be considered verifiable, other editors should be able to consult the source.
Is the source independent of the subject?
Is the source connected in any way to the subject? This is especially important when writing biographies or about organizations.
For example, if you were writing a biography, sources like the person's webpage or personal blog would not be considered independent.
Is the source primary or secondary?
Primary sources include first-hand accounts, autobiographies, and other original content.
Wikipedia allows limited use of primary sources, but typically only for straightforward, descriptive statements of facts, and only if they are published and verifiable without requiring specialized knowledge.
Secondary sources should be the main basis for a biography on Wikipedia.
If you're working on a topic related to medicine or psychology, ensure that your sources follow
these special guidelines.
If you're creating a new article, consider the following:
Ensure that your topic meets Wikipedia's
notability guidelines.
In order for a topic to meet the notability requirement, you must be able to identify 2-3 sources that are reliable, verifiable, and independent of the subject you're writing about.
Finding sufficient sources to establish notability can be especially hard when writing about people or organizations.
Sources that are not independent of the subject might be useful additions, but don't count towards the notability requirement.
Wikipedia has developed special guidelines for writing about
living persons. Please follow these carefully.
Wikipedia has a series of
guidelines for writing about different categories of people, such as academics and artists. If you're trying to create a new entry about a living person, please look at these carefully.
If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, ask a librarian! If you have questions about Wikipedia's sourcing rules, you can use the Get Help button below to contact your Wikipedia Expert.
"Immunology for Pharmacy". ScienceDirect. Retrieved 2024-02-27[1]
This is a textbook written by an associate professor for a pharmaceutical university. It has a whole chapter dedicated to natural killer cells and its receptors involved in its function including KARS and KIRs. This is a reliable source because it has multiple peer reviewers and published for academic use.
Colco, Richard: Sunshine, Geoffrey (2015). Immunology: a short course (7th ed.). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell[2]
This is a textbook which is written by two medical school professors. it talks about natural killer cells and their activation during several chapters. This textbook is also used in my immunology class as recommended material for course work. This source is reliable as it has multiple peer reviewers and published for academic use.
Sivori, S., Vacca, P., Del Zotto, G., Munari, E., Mingari, M. C., & Moretta, L. (2019). Human NK cells: surface receptors, inhibitory checkpoints, and translational applications. Cellular & molecular immunology, 16(5), 430–441. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-019-0206-4[3]
This is a scholarly article written by professors within medial and biological departments at a university in Italy. I chose this article because it talks alot about how NK cells work and especially with cancer/ tumor producing cells which is talked about a little bit in the article I am editing. This is a reliable source as it is posted on a reliable medical website along with citations various other sources and had been peer reviewed amongst multiple people.
Mosimann, Beatrice; Wagner, Marion; Shehata, Hassan; Poon, Leona C. Y.; Ford, Brian; Nicolaides, Kypros H.; Bansal, Amolak S. (2013-03-27). "Natural Killer Cells and Their Activation Status in Normal Pregnancy". International Journal of Reproductive Medicine. 2013: e906813.
doi:10.1155/2013/906813.
ISSN 2356-7104.
PMC 4334074.
PMID 25763390[4]
This article is written by professors within several medical departments within King College Hospital. I chose this article because it gives examples on activation receptors and even talks about the first ones to be discovered and how they work. This is a reliable source as it is posted on a reliable medical website along with citations various other sources and had been peer reviewed amongst multiple people.
Moretta, Lorenzo; Moretta, Alessandro (2004-01-28). "Unravelling natural killer cell function: triggering and inhibitory human NK receptors". The EMBO Journal. 23 (2): 255–259.
doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600019.
ISSN 0261-4189.
PMC 1271745.
PMID 14685277.[5]
This article was written by a professor from an institution in Italy. This article talks a lot about how the natural killer cell works in both inhibition and activation. This is a reliable resource as it has had several peer reviewers along with being published by a notable academic library database, Wiley Library.
Examples:
Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.
Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.
In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.
Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.
Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.