User talk:MiroSali

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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Zefr (talk) 14:58, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

November 2019
Hello, I'm Zefr. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Sugar, but you didn't provide reliable sources. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources.

''You need more practice in your sandbox and receiving help from WP:TEAHOUSE for your composition and sourcing. Sugar is an ingredient affecting human health when consumed in excess, requiring high-quality sources as described in WP:MEDREV. Healthline is not an acceptable source for Wikipedia. There are already extensive articles on sugar substitutes, so your long sections on other sweeteners are WP:OFFTOPIC.

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations. (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them.) WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN.


 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which has a button "Cite" click on it
 * 2) Then click on "Automatic" or "Manual"
 * 3) For Manual: Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details, then click "Insert"
 * 4) For Automatic: Paste the URL or PMID/PMC and click "Generate" and if the article is available on PubMed Central, Citoid will populate a citation which can be inserted by clicking "Insert"

We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. '' Zefr (talk) 15:04, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

edit sugar article
Does it mean that everything that I've edited has unreliable sources or just Healthline source was unreliable. In regards other sweeteners. It was marked as off topic. Does it mean that it should have been in different article rather than sugar?

Sorry I'm new here. This is part of school assignment.

Thank you for any advice. MiroSali (talk) 20:17, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Don't be concerned about having your edit reverted. Wikipedia strives to provide factual information concisely, and controversial topics like sugar consumption tend to have many editors reviewing them. Concerning your edit here, your content and sources are about the topic, Sugar substitutes, as shown in the sugar article version before your edit, where the link to artificial sweeteners provides the user access. There was too much off-topic detail in your edit for the sugar article. You'll have to check the sugar substitute article and its source quality to see if your sources improve the information. Generally for science articles, source quality can be judged according to the WP:SCIRS guide under 'Basic advice', and for human health, nutrition, or medicine, it's WP:MEDRS. These are challenging encyclopedia topics for students, mainly because Wikipedia expects its editors to have prior knowledge or 'competence' - WP:CIR. --Zefr (talk) 02:06, 18 November 2019 (UTC)