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BoheeLee (talk) 10:53, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
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[edit]We are pleased to see new editors here on Wikipedia improving the health-related articles. I moved your paragraph to the talk page for the time being, so we can work on it and make sure that it follows Wikipedia's standard for what types of references can be used to add new evidence. Please see WP:MEDRS for the guideline. I also added citation needed tags to part of your work to give you an example of what the content should look like if it is ready to be added to Wikipedia. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out, or I know that the Wikipedian in Residence at your University is an excellent resource. Thank you again. I look forward to seeing all the improvements that your class makes to Wikipedia. JenOttawa (talk) 21:49, 2 November 2018 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Successful_aging is a link to the talk page. You can click edit and work on the paragraph directly on the talk page. Thanks again!JenOttawa (talk) 21:50, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Many thanks for contributing Ssu-Ying
[edit]Hi Ssu-Ying, thanks so much for contributing to the article on Successful aging. I see that you have added approximately 225 words in the Physical health as you age section. Be aware that any biomedical statements on Wikipedia have a stricter referencing policy than other statements made on Wikipedia because it is so very important to get good quality health information out there. For this reason there some citation needed tags in the text you drafted. Also be aware more recent sources from the last 5-8 years are favoured and review articles are deemed much better sources than journal articles looking at one study only so do cite review articles when backing up biomedical-related statements. For further information on WikiProject Medicine's guidance to referencing there is a short paragraph on page three of this guide to editing articles about medicine OR you can click through this easy-to-follow mini tutorial to editing medical topics on Wikipedia. The text you drafted just needs a little bit of finishing off in terms of its sources to make sure we are doing due diligence for the information being shared online. So you an add some extra citations to the drafted text here. Do feel free to reach out to myself or JenOttawa for help so we can get your verifiable information added when you next have a moment. Thanks so much and happy editing! Best wishes, Stinglehammer (talk) 23:10, 11 November 2018 (UTC)