User talk:Ryuju Takahashi18

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Hello, Ryuju Takahashi18, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:48, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

1. Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
2. We do that by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving WP:WEIGHT as they do. Please do not try to build content by synthesizing content based on primary sources.
3. Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS; for the difference between primary and secondary sources, see the WP:MEDDEF section.) High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed. Please beware of predatory publishers – check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list.
4. The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS. The section above the table of contents is called the WP:LEAD. It summarizes the body. Do not add anything to the lead that is not in the body. Style is covered in MEDMOS as well; we avoid the word "patient" for example.
5. We don't use terms like "currently", "recently," "now", or "today". See WP:RELTIME.
6. More generally see WP:MEDHOW, which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, it provides a way to format citations quickly and easily
7. Citation details are important:
   • Be sure cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books
   • Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article, and please format citations consistently within an article.
   • Do not use URLs from your university library that have "proxy" in them: the rest of the world cannot see them.
   • Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
8. We use very few capital letters (see WP:MOSCAPS) and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
9. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities. Avoid overlinking!\
10. Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
11. Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.

Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us! Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:50, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you Doc James! Ryuju, the content has some issues, which I'll go into more depth below:

1. The content is largely unsourced. All content must have independent and reliable sources that back up the claims in the article. This is important for all topics, but especially so for anything health related.
2. It looks like the only sources used were primary, meaning that they were released by Integrated Listening System themselves. This poses a couple of issues. The first is that primary sources cannot establish notability, which is needed to justify including this information in an article and giving it weight. The other is verification based. Primary sources can make several claims and even "puff" themselves up to promote their products and company to the reader. As such, an independent, secondary source is important because they will help verify the claims.
3. Be very cautious when it comes to studies and results. Studies are often limited in scope (ie, can't survey every person), so findings are seen as only really true for that group of people. Secondary sources are needed to help verify the findings and put them into context. You should also exercise caution when it comes to studies since some may be sponsored. Having a sponsorship doesn't mean that the researchers would falsify data or set up the study to get the specific answer the sponsor wants, but it has been done before. It's honestly better to not use studies as sources since they need to be accompanied by an independent, secondary source that discusses the study. I'd recommend sticking to secondary and tertiary sources like literature reviews and encyclopedias.
4. Be very careful about tone. Avoid subjective and vague terms. With subjective terms, these can change depending on the reader's perspective (ie, one person may see something as the best example, while another may disagree) and with vague terms, it can sometimes be unintentionally misleading. Also make sure that you avoid a casual tone. This is probably one of the harder things to get used to with Wikipedia as all of these are things that are commonplace and sometimes even recommended, whereas on Wikipedia they should be avoided. It took me a while to get used to, honestly.

I have a training module on editing health topics - if you plan on trying to re-add the content after working on it, this is definitely something you should take. I'll also post this to the page for your partner as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:50, 3 April 2019 (UTC)