User talk:Vandykel1013

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine!

Welcome to Wikipedia and WikiProject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED).

We're a group of editors who want to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. I noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles, such as your edits to the article Zefr; it's great to have a new editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:

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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any questions. I wish you all the best, and thank you for your help! Zefr (talk) 20:23, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Vandykel1013. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Radiofrequency ablation, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. This edit under 'Patient responses' promotes your own clinic, creating a conflict of interest and self-promotion, WP:PROMO. Please remain objective. It would be a good idea to not edit articles that overlap with your practice in order to remain outside your conflict of interest. Zefr (talk) 20:30, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 2024

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Radiofrequency ablation. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please familiarize yourself with the style Wikipedia uses before further editing. Please do not edit war, WP:WAR. If you have questions, you can get assistance at the help desk. Zefr (talk) 21:22, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will need you to give me a specific example. All of my citations I used were taken directly from PubMed in the accepted style. I haven't "warred" with anyone, I only applied the feedback I was given? Vandykel1013 (talk) 21:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning this edit,

1. the section headings have a format in MOS:SECTIONS - use 2 or 3 = signs, depending on the header level

2. bolding is not used in section headers

3. several sentences were not sourced - WP:MEDREF

4. references provided were not in a format where the reader could click and access the source. You can follow the MEDREF guide or use this Wikipedia citation tool. Use a PMID number from a PubMed search. Check the boxes for 'add ref tag' and 'use full journal title', then submit. Edit as needed, then copy the result into the text after the punctuation

5. after your edit was revised, you overwrote the changes. Read the edit summaries left by other editors, and provide a brief description for your changes, WP:ES.

It takes some orientation to Wikipedia's style, but you will likely see it quickly. Also review WP:MEDMOS. Good luck. Zefr (talk) 22:46, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]