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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Happy Squirrel ( talk) 13:28, 31 May 2015 (UTC) reply

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 requires recent secondary sources to support information; its 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.
• Wikipedia is a kingdom full of 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, edit, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss it 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! Jytdog ( talk) 14:11, 31 May 2015 (UTC) reply

Hi Laura - for the third time today, welcome to Wikipedia. The two templates above contain a lot of information that you will find helpful here. Please do take some time to get acquainted with how this place works.

There is a huge jungle of guidance and a lot to learn. Here are some of the key things that I think are helpful.

• Please keep in mind that there is a lot to learn, and while you are an expert in the real world, you are a novice here. Please ask lots of questions and really listen to the answers. Please read links that people give you.
• Please see the essay WP:EXPERT written for experts coming to WP for the first time. Please also read our conflicts of interest guideline ( WP:COI) - especially the part about writing about yourself - and please also read Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine).
• For essential "how to edit" information, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/How to edit

• There is a foundation of what we call "policies and guidelines" ( WP:PAG) (see, there is an example of a link that explains what I am talking about it). People cite PAG all the time - they will write things like: "Revert per WP:VERIFY". What that means, is that the edit that was deleted, violated the policy that all content must be verifiable. Probably there was no citation given, or the citation was not what we call a "reliable source".
• PAG were created by the community over the years, to govern itself. PAG provides a foundation for rational discussion of content and editor behavior. Without PAG, this place would be a very ugly wild west, and the content would be a garbage dump. One of the hardest things for new editors to get their heads around, is that PAG exits and does form the foundation for everything we do here. This is what it takes time to learn - both the letter and spirit of PAG, and how we work with it.
• PAG are described and discussed in a whole forest of documents within Wikipedia that are "behind the scenes" in a different "namespace", in which the documents start with "Wikipedia:" or in shorthand, "WP:" (for example, our policy on verifiability is here: WP:VERIFY not here VERIFY). You won't find these documents by using the simple search box at the top right of very page in WP, which searches only in "main space" where the actual articles are. However if you search with the prefix, (for example if you search for "WP:VERIFY") you will find policies and guidelines. Likewise if you do an advanced search with "wikipedia" or "help" selected you can also find things in "Wikipedia space". The link in the welcome message above the " Five Pillars" points you to our most important policies and I recommend that you read them all, if you have not already and if you intend to stick around! They guide everything that happens here.

With all that in mind, here are some things that I suggest you read (I know, I know, things to read... but like I said, Wikipedia can be complicated!)

• WP:MEDRS - this is our guideline for sourcing health-relating content in Wikipedia. This is probably the key thing you are missing right now
• WP:MEDMOS - this our manual of style, for how we write about health-related things. We are very careful not to discuss pre-clinical findings, as well as initial clinical results, as though they are applicable to medicine. We are very conservative in that regard!

• WP:OR - no original research is allowed -instead...
• WP:VERIFY - everything must be based on reliable sources (as we define them - see WP:RS for general content and WP:MEDRS for health-related content)
• WP:NPOV - this does not mean what most people think it means. it means that you read the most recent and best reliable sources you can find, and figure out what the mainstream view is, and that is what gets the most

• WP:CONSENSUS - Wikipedia has plenty of policies and guidelines, as I mentioned, but really at the end of the day this place is ... a democracy? an anarchy? something hard to define. But we figure things out by talking to one another. CONSENSUS is the bedrock on which everything else rests. So please talk - please never edit war (see warning above). If you make a change to an article and someone else reverts it, the right thing to do is to follow WP:BRD (please do read that) - but briefly, when you are reverted, open a discussion on the article's Talk page. Ask the reason under policy and guidelines why your change was reverted -- and really ask, and really listen to the answer, and go read whatever links you are pointed to. Think about it, and if there is something you don't understand, ask more questions. Please only start to actually argue once you understand the basis for the objection. If you and the other party or parties still disagree, there are many ways to resolve disputes (see WP:DR) - it never needs to become emotional - because we do have this whole "body of law" and procedures to resolve disputes.

Anyway, good luck! Jytdog ( talk) 14:29, 31 May 2015 (UTC) reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by EricEnfermero was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Laura L. C. Johnson and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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EricEnfermero ( Talk) 14:37, 31 May 2015 (UTC) reply

Hello! Lauralcjohnson, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! EricEnfermero ( Talk) 14:37, 31 May 2015 (UTC) reply

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Laura L. C. Johnson, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot ( talk) 01:34, 1 December 2015 (UTC) reply

Hello, Lauralcjohnson. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, " Laura L. C. Johnson".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo ( talk) 14:09, 9 December 2015 (UTC) reply