User talk:Brendan.Deeney

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Primary source material

Hello and thanks for taking time to work on Wikipedia! I'm an intermittent contributor and my area of interest and professional expertise is cardiovascular medicine. I just undid your contribution to Coronary artery disease, as I felt it was against the policy against primary sources; I did so only after searching and failing to find if your content could be linked to a more suitable secondary source. Moreover, checking your recent contributions, one sees only content from single studies, affiliated with NIHR, where you kindly disclose that you are employed. I am not saying that these studies aren't respectable - they all come from top-tier journals; only that Wikipedia articles are not always the right place to mention their results. Please ignore me if you are familiar, but consider also reading Editing for medical experts. Talk to you soon! NikosGouliaros (talk) 15:16, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello Nikos,

Thanks so much for getting in touch. I'm happy with you decision to revert the change I made. I defer to your greater judgement.

For each article we write for for NIHR Evidence, we consider adding it to Wikipedia to aid dissemination. We try to only add the most appropriate articles and therefore don't add all of them. We also try to adhere to the editing for medical experts guide, but as a non-medical expert myself I mightn't always make the right decision, so I appreciate your feedback. I'll try and scrutinise my choices more carefully in future.

Finally, I really appreciate the comment and the tact with which you delivered it. - Brendan Brendan.Deeney (talk) 14:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Brendan.Deeney! Your additions to National Health Service have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 13:13, 19 December 2024 (UTC)