User talk:CardicalAce
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May 2019
[edit]Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Engineer. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:34, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
An extended welcome
[edit]Hi CardicalAce. Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.
Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.
Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.
If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.
Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.
I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 21:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Quoting poor references
[edit]Please be very careful when you are keyword-searching for references to add to existing Wikipedia prose - two I have examined that you have added to Inge Stoll are unacceptable, as they mirror the content of Wikipedia itself. Use of websites in this way - where their content has been plagiarised from Wikipedia - is known as WP:CIRCULAR.
The first is a privately-owned commercial business offering industrial buildings (http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/blog/cat/motorcycle-news/post/isle-of-man-tt) - this is known as WP:SPS a self-published source. The second appears to be a wiki - that is, a crowd-sourced portal requiring membership/login which has already taken the content from Wikipedia (https://prabook.com/web/inge.stoll/2363586). I have requested advice on this website.
Please familiarise yourself with WP:RS - anything you see with "blog" as above, or forums, chat rooms, fanzines, self-published (personal websites) are not acceptable sources. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 01:34, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- After seeking specific guidance, several editors have confirmed at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Prabook that Prabook is unacceptable both as a source and/or as a reference. Additional links are contained therein which refer to discussions in 2015 and 2016.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:51, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
References
[edit]Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN.
- While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
- Then click on "templates",
- Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
- If the article is available in Pubmed Central, you have to add the pmc parameter manually -- click on "show additional fields" in the template and you will see the "pmc" field. Please add just the number and don't include "PMC".
We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:04, 2 July 2019 (UTC)