User talk:Tiddlypeep
Welcome!
Hello, Tiddlypeep, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- Quick introduction to Wikipedia
- How to write a great article
- Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, an essay from PLoS
- Identifying reliable sources for medicine-related articles (general advice)
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style for medicine-related articles (general style guide)
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, try Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then type {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page.
If you are interested in medicine-related themes, you may want to visit the Medicine Portal.
If you are interested in improving medicine-related articles, you may want to join WikiProject Medicine (sign up here or say hello here).
Again, welcome! WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Paraphrasing
The amount you are paraphrasing is not enough. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:39, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for adding that interesting source. If you look at these changes, you can see how Doc James has tried to make it sound even less like the original source (while still being factually true to it). WP:Close paraphrasing is a problem because it opens up the risk of copyright lawsuits, and the community is pretty paranoid about it. So we try to aim for a standard of "not even the most ambitious lawyer could possibly pretend that this is a copy of his client's beloved masterpiece", rather than just meeting the bare legal minimum.
- By the way, if you're interested in medical articles, then there's a group of us who talk about them at WT:MED. A lot of people bookmark the page and check it regularly. Everyone's welcome. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)