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Happy editing! Jay8g [V•T•E] 19:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

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- Ratnahastin (talk) 13:07, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

January 2025

Hello, I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Mpox, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Primary sources are not suitable for WP:MEDRS details added to an article. Especially those describing brand new cutting edge in vitro and animal studies. — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 15:07, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

@Scientific observer, are you an author on the Witwit article published in Viruses a few days ago? It's okay if you are.

We really do need more expert editors on Wikipedia! But you need to be careful, and follow Wikipedia's guidelines. Especially I would caution you to not add your own articles to wikipedia pages, unless it's a very uncontroversial WP:DUE addition, with high quality secondary sources backing up that addition. You could be perceived as having a conflict of interest in such matters. Especially if such citations are added to many multiple wikipedia articles in a short span, as it appears someone has recently done here.

Please, I would caution you, slow down, and edit articles not directly related to your area of expertise, using SECONDARY review articles published by others. To avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest. — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 21:10, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Edit to WP:MEDRS

Wikipedia does not allow primary sources for most medical uses. While your doctor may very well use primary sources to determine their medicine, Wikipedia is not a substitute for a doctor and we have different guidelines. You need to follow the MEDRS guidelines for edits on Wikipedia - regardless of what you do in the real world for your decisions/care/etc. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez | me | talk to me! 02:07, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Also pinging @Shibbolethink: I saw this edit this user made to MEDRS. I am willing to assume they were merely trying to help or write about medical sources as a whole (though that would be an article rather than on a projectspace page), but I'm unsure if they were trying to justify their edits above by changing MEDRS rather than complying with it. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez | me | talk to me! 02:09, 20 January 2025 (UTC)