User:Fetters of ennui
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Existential Question of the Day: Why am I here? As a Nursing student, at times I have turned to Wikipedia for help studying. I was very dismayed to find many of the Anatomy pages are either bare-bones, severely lacking in information,, or, worse yet, full of likely well-intended yet glaring errors, obvious even to me. While I am happy to see many of the pages have been drastically improved since then, misinformation and omissions persist. This is a disturbing vision of the future for me. Think of all the poor souls who won't know any better, take not what they read with a grain of salt, and will assume our mistakes are true. I feel that those of us afforded the education to know better have a responsibility to the young'ns. Help me improve the Anatomy pages. Let not the next procrastinator up late cramming for an exam be faced with a blank page, or one full of misconceptions. I would love to see Wikipedia held to the highest standards of peer-review; a respectable, go-to place for accurate and concise information. Calling all RN's, MD's, and others with two or three letters following their name; it's time to give the next generation of future medical staff what you wish you had when you were in school.
Welcome to Wikipedia from the Anatomy Wikiproject!
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Anatomy! We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of anatomy articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are involved in editing anatomy 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 the WikiProject Anatomy 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 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!
- You will make a big difference to the quality of information by adding reliable sources. Sourcing anatomy articles is essential and makes a big difference to the quality of articles. And, while you're at it, why not use a book to source information, which can source multiple articles at once!
- We try and use a standard way of arranging the content in each article. That layout is here. These headings let us have a standard way of presenting the information in anatomical articles, indicate what information may have been forgotten, and save angst when trying to decide how to organise an article. That said, this might not suit every article. If in doubt, be bold!
- We write for a general audience. Every reader should be able to understand anatomical articles, so when possible please write in a simple form -- most readers do not understand anatomical jargon. See this essay for more details.
Feel free to contact us on the WikiProject Anatomy talk page if you have any problems, or wish to join us. I wish you all the best on your wiki-voyages! Fetters of ennui (talk) 03:30, 5 February 2015 (UTC)