User talk:Leparra

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16:09, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Leparra, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia 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. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:56, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing

About your edit to Rat - you added content based on what we call "primary sources" (see WP:SCIDEF and the parallel definition in WP:MEDDEF). Please base scientific content - especially anything about biology or health -- on recent literature reviews in high quality journals or high quality academic books. Please avoid assembling content that reports on a series of primary sources; it is too easy to fall into what we call synthesis this way. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:18, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Jytdog. Leparra, there is also a training here about the source requirements for biomedical topics. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:54, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will make my corrections asap.