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Article titles use the scientific or medical name. Write for the average reader and a general audience—not professionals or patients. Explain medical jargon or use plain English instead if possible. Become familiar with the common sections, info boxes and citation templates. Use the highest-quality medical sources available.
{{Medical citation needed span}} − functions exactly the same way as this template, except it highlights the text that needs a reference. E.g., this text is an unsourced biomedical claim. [medical citation needed] {{More medical citations needed}} – adds a banner to the article: "This article needs more medical references for verification ...
An maintenance tag that generates a banner with the text "This article needs more medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Please review the contents of the article and add the appropriate references if you can. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed." Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status 1 1 ...
Use this template to indicate that an article may be affected by a current event, that information may change rapidly as the event progresses and that initial news reports may be unreliable. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Month and year date The month and year that the template was placed (in ...
Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Reliable sources for medical articles. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC
This template is used on approximately 8,800 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This and closely related templates are generally expected to appear on an article for less than a day, sometimes longer. If you would like an article on a significant current event to be noticed, please see Wikipedia:How the Current events page works and Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. Check main (article) namespace links
For medical text: see WP:MEDRS, NIH.gov, PubMeds MedLine, and major medical journals. See medical essay: "WP:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)". For human genetics and anthropology topics, see a Wikipedia editor's annotated bibliography Anthropology and Human Biology Citations.