User talk:Mfreeb

Welcome!
Hello, Mfreeb, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Medical information on Wikipedia
Hi. Your additions to the Saussurea costus article has a few problems that need fixing. To begin with, there's this:

Biomedical information on Wikipedia must be supported by high-quality sources, as you may recall from this training slide. That means recent review articles. This is important because there are a lot of people who believe what they read on the internet, and are willing to try things they read. If someone followed your advice and used Saussurea costus to treat an infection, you might be liable for any negative outcomes, as might Wikipedia. So make sure you follow the rules.

In addition, information on Wikipedia needs to be sourced to the best available sources. When I look at www.toddcaldecott.com or www.pfaf.org, I don't see any reason to consider either source reliabl. You should be working, as much as possible, from scholarly sources, peer-reviewed sources. Not random things you find on the internet. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:45, 11 December 2017 (UTC)