User talk:BortolinRC

Hello, BortolinRC, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place  on this page and someone will drop by to help. Red Director (talk) 00:58, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
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March 2019
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Guarana, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. ''Please review WP:MEDRS and WP:MEDANIMAL. High-quality reviews are needed to support medical content. The sources you added are primary research, and the content suggested "promise" and promotion; WP:PROMO. '' Zefr (talk) 18:39, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Why was my citation unreliable if the citations were 3 scientific articles published in reputable journals? BortolinRC (talk) 01:28, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello. Just a note first: we sign a talk page comment at the end. I appreciate your attempt to contribute to Wikipedia. Your edit intended to give evidence from lab studies that guarana has properties beneficial to health. Lab studies are the beginning of research, something called "primary research" (see WP:PRIMARY). For medical content on Wikipedia, we have a high standard for sources which must be reviews of many research publications - especially those on completed high-quality clinical research - and written by experts, as described in WP:MEDRS. If you read through that guide and watch this video tutorial, you'll see what I mean. In simple terms, we need much stronger sources to confirm if guarana has health effects. The high-quality evidence from clinical research just doesn't exist yet. Good luck! --Zefr (talk) 02:44, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

BortolinRC (talk) 03:36, 16 March 2019 (UTC)So, should not scientific research on health conducted on animals be cited on wikipedia? How do I cite this type of scientific study?
 * Correct, no animal research for medical content on Wikipedia unless, in some circumstances, discussing basic pharmacology which is difficult and rare to do in humans. Read WP:MEDASSESS and see the pyramids of evidence quality where animal research is at the bottom (left pyramid). Most editors here do not want animal research to suggest human responses, and generally revert lab research. Better to rely on reviews of clinical studies. --Zefr (talk) 04:28, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

BortolinRC (talk) 04:40, 16 March 2019 (UTC) Ok. Thank you for the explanation.