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It is acceptable to write from experience, but material should be supported by reliable external sources whenever it is likely that such exists for the topic of a sentence or section. Such external sources should, where available, be secondary ones such as textbooks and reviews rather than primary studies.
→References: +necessity
==References==
===Necessity===
It is acceptable to write from experience if editing under one's real name rather than a username, although material should preferably still be supported by reliable external sources whenever it is likely that such exists for the topic of a sentence or section. Such external sources should, where available, be secondary ones such as textbooks and reviews rather than primary studies.
When editing under one's real name, it is also acceptable to use a hospital as a reference for local practices, as for example in [[X-ray of knee prosthesis#Reporting]]. Geographic origin should also be specified in the text for guidelines or other information that are expected to vary, including positive and negative predictive values (which depend on prevalences and incidences in the population). On the other hand, any geographic origin does not need to be stated for more universal knowledge such as sensitivity and specificity (which are independent on prevalences and incidences).
===Coding===
In wiki code, it is recommended to add references by within <nowiki><ref> and </ref></nowiki> tags, in addition to adding {{tl|reflist}} at the bottom of the article. Such <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags can be automatically generated from the doi codes, PMID or PMCID of articles at this site:
*[http://sumsearch.org/cite/ http://sumsearch.org/cite/]
*{{cite journal| author=Giles J| title=Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. | journal=Nature | year= 2005 | volume= 438 | issue= 7070 | pages= 900-1 | pmid=16355180 | doi=10.1038/438900a | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16355180 }}
===Contentious matters===
Dubious or insufficiently referenced texts should be corrected, removed, or marked with inline cleanup tags, such as:
<br>{{Dubious}} - in source code editing, this is added by the addition of <nowiki>{{Dubious}}</nowiki>.
