User:Markworthen

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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.
This is an excellent WikiJournal of Medicine article: Konieczny PB Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia. Wiki J Med. 2023;10(1):5. doi:10.15347/wjm/2023.005

Tips for searching the research literature

PubMed

PubMed User Guide (National Library of Medicine)
PubMed Search Tips (Johns Hopkins Medical School)
Build a Strategy Using the Advanced Search Builder (University of Otago)
PubMed Help - Extensive info re: how to find information at the U.S National Library of Medicine site, including PubMed.

Google Scholar & PsycINFO

Search Tips for PsycINFO (University of Michigan Library Research Guides)
Literature search tips and tricks: Techniques for effectively using Google Scholar and PsycINFO (APA)

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

Requests for comment (RfC)/Example formatting

Brief unofficial pieces I have written that might help

Bluebook citation style for legal sources - List of resources for when you want to use Bluebook legal citation style.

Feeling misunderstood and attacked - A list of Wikipedia articles that helped me when I felt misunderstood and attacked by other editors.

Cool Tools

These are online tools I use all the time. All are free; none of them contain affiliate links. Except for the Wikimedia URL Shortner, these are all external links, i.e., not part of Wikipedia or its sister sites.

Wikimedia URL Shortner - Links to the following domains may be shortened using this tool: *.wikipedia.org, *.wiktionary.org, *.wikibooks.org, *.wikinews.org, *.wikiquote.org, *.wikisource.org, *.wikiversity.org, *.wikivoyage.org, *.wikimedia.org, *.wikidata.org and *.mediawiki.org.
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 Small Caps text with this tool, for uses other than Wikipedia. Small Caps are uppercase characters with the 'x-height' of normal text. Among other uses, Small Caps are used for Bluebook legal citations, although on Wikipedia small caps are discouraged for understandable reasons. If you want to use small caps on Wikipedia, use the Smallcaps template, {{sc1}} or {{sc2}}. That template explains its limitations in the Technical notes section. There is also a helpful section, Reasons to use small caps.

Great articles about Wikipedia

Stuart, S. C. “Wikipedia: The Most Reliable Source on the Internet?” PCMag (3 June 2021).

My Wikipedia interests

This user is a psychologist.

ORCİD

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0000-0002-7409-1692

This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 8 months and 18 days.

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the Guild of Copy Editors.

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Old-fashioned Wikipedian values.

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This user prefers to be referred to using masculine gender pronouns.

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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.

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Subpages: Sandbox

Subpages: Index

Index to all my subpages

Tip of the Day

Tip of the day...

Portals

What are portals? "Doorways to knowledge." Wikipedia's coverage of subjects can be extensive (mathematics, for example, is covered by tens of thousands of articles on Wikipedia). Portals are an alternative entry to a subject (besides its main article), and to that subject's coverage in the encyclopedia, in a way similar to how the Main Page provides sample fare from Wikipedia as a whole.

Portals may include features such as Selected article sections, Selected image, news, points of interest (Did you know?, Anniversaries), and links to related Wikimedia. Portals are more diverse than the Main page, and may include features such as panoramic banners, slide shows, category trees, topics lists, and whatever else portal designers can come up with.

A secondary purpose of portals is to provide bridges between reading and editing, and between the encyclopedia and the Wikipedia community. They may provide links to the related WikiProjects, Wikipedia's Reference desk, and so on. Portals are a hybrid between encyclopedia pages and project pages, and occupy their own special namespace, the Portal namespace. Therefore, all portal titles are preceded by the prefix "Portal:"

The list of all completed portals is Portal:Contents/Portals. A list of all portals, including those under construction, can be found at Category:All portals. The Portals WikiProject is dedicated to collaboratively building and maintaining portals, and further expanding on the Portal concept, such as with automated features, and is always looking for new participants.

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Motto of the Day!

Motto of the Day, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Take an inch and you have a mile.

[1] Worthen, Mark. "This is a helpful template tool." Journal of Groovy Tools 27, no. 5 (2020): 56.

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