User talk:JGM73

Hello, JGM73! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 13:00, 21 January 2012 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

cite pmid

Hi,

If you're using {{cite pmid}} you need to check the reference after you insert it. Each reference is created on a template-by-template basis; once it's created it always exists, but the first time it appears you need to actually populate the template. A bot used to do it, but apparently it's busted. If I'm not sure, I usually search for "queue" on the page (incomplete templates incorporate the text "Citation will be completed automatically in a few minutes. Jump the queue or expand by hand"). If you click on the blue link saying "jump the queue" then the bot will kick in and extract the material from the pubmed database. I usually open it on another window or tab with a right click 'cause it retains my old one.

You can also use {{cite doi}} for non-pubmed indexed articles ({{cite pmid}} is actually a subset of {{cite doi}}) and there might be more. I thought {{cite isbn}} existed but the last time I tried it the system choked. You might be interested in WP:CIT in general if you're using citation templates within your first couple edits.

I've left a couple unfinished templates open for you to "practice" on if you'd like. Otherwise I'll populate them in a couple days. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 13:50, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much for all your great advice! JGM73 (talk) 18:35, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page if you ever have any questions. I like figuring out technical stuff and helping new editors. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 15:07, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine! I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities: Read our Manual of Style for medical articles and guide to Reliable medical sources Join in editing our collaboration of the month (the current one is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) Discuss with other members in the doctor's mess Have a look at some related WikiProjects Have a look at the collaboration dashboard Have a look at the Trusted Sources recommended by Wikiproject medicine Have a look at the most powerful citing tool Diberri's tool If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, or please feel free to ask for help on my talk page. Again, welcome!. Happy editing, JFW | T@lk 23:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine, tasks you can do:

JFW | T@lk 23:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Medicine

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 08:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)