User talk:Sr183155

This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Northeastern_University/ENGW_3306_(Spring_2020) .

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Hello, Sr183155, 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) 20:48, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Using the best sources for medical content[edit]

Hi, I wanted to let you know that your sandbox was not ready for mainspace, so it has been moved back to your sandbox. You can find it here: User:Sr183155/Gender disparity in American healthcare. I wanted to make sure you were aware of requirements for sourcing medical content on Wikipedia. Biomedical content must be sourced according to specific Wikipedia rules. You can only use secondary sources that are reliable. Popular press articles and primary sources are not acceptable. Instead, you should be citing material like systematic reviews. Please carefully review our training for editing health or psychology topics. Make sure that every statement that has to do with biomedical content is sourced appropriately with a reliable, secondary source.

Also, your tone is not encyclopedic. Encyclopedic writing is described as dry or bland. We want just the facts, no "color" to make it exciting. Instead of "In the US, women have worked tirelessly to make huge strides towards gender equality." you might instead say "There are issues with gender equity in the US, including in healthcare". You should rarely use words like "tirelessly" or "huge strides". Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:07, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]