User talk:Mylittlecoffees

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Hello, Mylittlecoffees, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Functional medicine does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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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 have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Girth Summit  (blether) 17:47, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Something else to read through is WP:CTOP. The article Functional medicine is part of the complementary and alternative medicine topic area, which is covered by a particular set of rules governing contentious topics. It's a difficult area to navigate for new editors who are not familiar with how things work. There's a lot to unpack, much of it covered by the links above, but here is one important point: we do not defer to how the Institute for Functional Medicine describes Functional Medicine, we rely on independent, reliable sources. Please propose changes to that article on its talk page, along with the sources you wish to use, so that other editors can review them. Thank you. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:52, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... I got a message stating that my edits to the Functional Medicine page did not abide by Wikipedia's NPOV policy. However, I believe that the Functional Medicine page as is (before my edits) represent a highly negative and biased view of Functional Medicine without considering its benefits. It also does not offer a neutral explanation for how functional medicine treats chronic illness.

Could someone explain to me why my edits - which simply just defined what functional medicine is - did not abide by the Wikipedia NPOV policy? Mylittlecoffees (talk) 17:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * You should be discussing this question on the talk page. Described as "in-universe" by the person who reverted your edits, you are using as a reference a site that advocates for a particular point of view of functional medicine.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 17:59, 24 August 2023 (UTC)