Guides & Tutorials for New Medical Editors
- Plain and simple guide for new medical editors
- Wikiproject Medicine tutorial for new medical editors
- Wikiproject Medicine resources summary
- PDF for editing Wikipedia articles on Medicine
- WP:MEDHOW: Useful Wikipedia tips for editing medical and general content
- Yes, we want experts to contribute to Wikipedia. But first learn the whys and wherefores of Wikipedia. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
- This is a useful template for welcoming new medical editors to Wikipedia: {{subst:MedWelcome}} (Template:WPMED welcome)
- See this discussion: Helping new editors: Learn Wikipedia's unique culture, which was on the WP:MED Talk page. (I write "was" because Talk pages are automatically archived so the page does not become unwieldly lengthy. However, the archives are always available and searchable.
Very Helpful Wikipedia Templates
Template:Reflist-talk - If you want to cite references on a talk page, this handy template places your references in a nicely bordered list.[1]
Template:GATable If you conduct Good Article reviews, this template creates an easy-to-read, well-organized layout.
Template:Done explains how to add 
Done to a talk page, Teahouse, etc. But that's not all! Dozens of other icons/images are available on that page. It's 
Great!
References
- ^ Worthen, Mark. "This is a helpful template tool." Journal of Groovy Tools 27, no. 5 (2020): 56.
Very helpful Wikipedia guides
Cool Tools (external links)
These are online tools I use all the time. All are free; none of them contain affiliate links.
- Wikimedia URL Shortner
- Case Converter - Case Converter is a simple free online tool that converts any text to either lower case, upper case, proper or sentence case.
- Remove Line Breaks - You can remove line breaks from blocks of text but preserve paragraph breaks with this tool.
- Text Fixer - Online Text Tools - Too many great tools to list here. Well-organized, user-friendly, and free.
- Character Counter - Useful when you want to experiment with different short descriptions and see how close you come to the ideal 40 characters.
- Sᴍᴀʟʟᴄᴀᴘs text tool - Create official looking sᴍᴀʟʟᴄᴀᴘs text with this tool. Sᴍᴀʟʟᴄᴀᴘs are uppercase characters with the 'x-height' of normal text. Among other uses, sᴍᴀʟʟᴄᴀᴘs are used for Bluebook legal citations.
Great articles about Wikipedia
Stuart, S. C. “Wikipedia: The Most Reliable Source on the Internet?” PCMag (3 June 2021).
My Wikipedia interests
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Personal
Mark is the proud father of three awesome kids, who are the most important aspect of his life.
My Favorite Wikipedia Essays
Zeroth law of Wikipedia - "On Wikipedia, the zeroth law is that good editors are the most valuable resource."
I'm feeling misunderstood and attacked, so I'm going to quit Wikipedia in a huff! - Something I wrote when I was feeling that way. It contains links to several Wikipedia essays that helped me tremendously.
Current Wikipedia Article Focus
Veterans benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States
Substance use disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder#Assessment
Psychopathology
Psychological evaluation
Causes of mental disorders
Causes of transsexuality - Currently heavily slanted toward biological determinism and reinforces some stigmatizing information.
Addiction
Articles Needed
Symptom validity test
Performance validity test
Disability Benefits Questionnaire
Hard to find pages
Ask an uninvolved editor to close a Request for Comments (RfC)
Hard to remember wikicode
Enter <!-- Comment --> and replace the word "Comment" with the hidden text you wish to enter.
Subpages: Sandbox
Subpages: Other
- PubMed Help - Extensive info re: how to find information at the U.S National Library of Medicine site, including PubMed.
- Markworthen/Core Entrustable Professional Activities list - An aspect of competence-based medical education (CBME).
- Markworthen/Feeling misunderstood and attacked - A list of Wikipedia articles that helped me when I felt misunderstood and attacked by other editors.
- Markworthen/WikiProjectCards/WikiProject Medicine - my WikiProject "card" for WP:MED.
Subpages: Index
Tip of the Day
 Preview tomorrow's Featured Article
To monitor or copy edit the upcoming featured article (FA) that will appear on the Main page, place – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}
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Motto of the Day!