Radlines:Editorial guidelines

References

Material should be supported by sources, which should be secondary where available (textbooks and reviews rather than primary studies).

Authorship

To be mentioned among the authors of an article, a user must:

• Use his/her real name in the author list (regardless of username used for editing).
• Have made a significant contribution to the article. There is no strict cutoff to what is significant, so in case of uncertainty it is recommended to make an entry at the Discussion page of the article on the matter. If there is no response after a couple of days, it is acceptable to add oneself in the author list.

Being listed as an author implies a shared responsibility for the content of the article.

When at least one author is listed, and edits have been made by additional users (regardless of fulfilling the criteria above), et al. should be added to the author list, linking to the "View history" page of the article, in order to denote that the listed author(s) is not the only contributor(s).

Inter-article structure

Articles in Radlines can be directly found by search engine, either by the internal search box at top, or external ones. In addition, each article subject should be connected with the main page through links in a series of pages, so that a radiologist can find their way to it by the appearance of that condition. For example, Angiomyolipoma should be found by clicking links in articles in the following sequence:

Level	Main	Location	Location	Modality+Location	Modality+Presentation+Location	Disease
Example	Main	Abdomen and pelvis	Kidneys	CT of the kidneys	CT of renal mass	Angiomyolipoma

There can additional levels between the ones above, and there can be articles about diseases in specific locations or by a specific modality.

No orphans

The creator of a new article must link the article back through a likely sequence that a radiologist would find that condition when seeing it. Articles lacking an unbroken connection to the main page should be tagged with {{Orphan}}, and should be either connected to a sequence or deleted (if the author has been notified of this intention but hasn't made amendments in over two weeks).

Structuring into these levels require more extensive work for more systemic diseases. Arthritis, for example, must be added in the articles of multiple joints. It is the responsibility of the creator of such a disease article to add it to all locations where it is relevant.

No lists of causes

When linking to a condition from the previous level in the sequence, it should not be done by including it in a list of causes.

Rather, it must be integrated so that it is clear how it is different from other conditions, in prose and/or a table such as this example of how to include Angiomyolipoma in the article CT of renal mass:

Causes of renal mass: CT findings

Angiomyolipoma	Macroscopic fat
Renal cell cancer	No fat
etc.	etc.

If there is no radiologic appearance that distinguishes the condition from one or more other conditions, then another type of distinctive feature needs to be mentioned, such as a specific clinical symptom, or epidemiology including incidence or prevalence. Images of the conditions are sufficient when the difference is visually obvious.

The exemption to this rule of no lists of causes is if the article as a whole clearly conveys unique characteristics for each listed condition.

Modality+Presentation+Location articles

Sections

Besides from this organization, each article should follow this layout:

• Planning. Possible content includes:

• Whether alternative modalities are indicated
• How soon the investigation should be done

• Quality checking, including signs that the investigation needs to be redone
• Findings, whose structure of subsections should generally be based on appearance, but sometimes on other information that is generally known, such as age of the patient for bone tumors.
• Report

Still, it is not necessary for the creator of an article to start multiple sections right away, but can let it grow with time by collaborative editing.

Disease articles

Sections

• Introduction, including a definition of the disease
• Planning, which assumes that there is a referral specifically asking for an investigation of the subject at hand. Recommended subsections include:

• Justification of the investigation, such as symptoms raising the suspicion of the condition.
• Modality of choice, or whether alternative modalities are indicated if the article is already modality-specific.
• How soon the investigation should be done

• Quality checking
• Findings, including:

• Diagnostic confirmation, preferably including specific signs of the disease
• Further evaluation, with important concomitant findings when the disease is known, such as staging of cancers.

• Report

Cases

Case descriptions should be written entirely in the description page of the uploaded image. When a case has more than 2 or 3 images, the case description should be written in a template that is transcluded into each image description page, so that further edits to the description simultaneously appears for all images:

• Write Template: in the search bar at top, followed by the title of the case and , description. For example:
  Template:26 year old woman with ectopic pregnancy, description
• Search for this term, and on the next page, click on the title as marked in red to start the article
• Write the case description on the page and save
• Write the same title, surrounded by two curly brackets on each side, into each image description, such as:
  {{Template:26 year old woman with ectopic pregnancy, description}}
• Further edits to the text are than made by searching for the template title in the search bar at top (without the curly brackets).

Technical description of templates in MediaWiki: MediaWiki: Help: Templates

See also

• Radlines:About
• Radlines:Copyright