User talk:Pbandjs

September 2020

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Hello @Diannaa:,

Thank you for the feedback and links to resources, I have been reviewing them and will do my best to abide by the posted guidelines.

Pbandjs (talk) 04:19, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Medical references

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.

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, or post to the talk page of the Wikipedia WikiProject Medicine Boghog (talk) 17:24, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Hello, Pbandjs. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to research published by a small group of researchers.

Scientific articles should mainly reference review articles to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

Editing in this way is also a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest in Wikipedia – please see WP:SELFCITE and WP:MEDCOI. The editing community considers excessive self-citing to be a form of spamming on Wikipedia (WP:REFSPAM) and the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Finally, please be aware that the editing community highly values expert contributors – please see WP:EXPERT. I do hope you will consider contributing more broadly. If you wish to contribute, please first consider citing review articles written by other researchers in your field and which are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite your own research, please start a new thread on the article talk page and add {{requestedit}} to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

Boghog (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Boghog:,

Thank you for the detailed feedback, I have read the linked materials and will do my best to abide by the guidelines. As a new editor, one of the most straightforward ways to add cited peer-reviewed content is with research areas that I am most familiar with, but these are often related to early stage drug discovery research efforts and are unlikely to have secondary review sources available.

For example, under the Organoid page, I added two types of organoids (pancreatic and glioblastoma) and listed the peer-reviewed publications associated with these type of organoids. It seems based on the sources comments regarding self promotion, that this type of edit is not welcome and that I should have instead requested a volunteer to perform the addition of via the Talk page, is that correct? My previous understanding from the WP:Conflict of interest page is that self citation is allowed and I have added references to work by other researchers. I will continue to be mindful of these guidelines going forward as well.

Thanks,

Pbandjs (talk) 04:15, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]