User talk:PaloDuroGoodnight

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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) 22:44, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Peppermint, 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 for the source quality needed on medical topics. Zefr (talk) 22:46, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Peppermint edit
On my talk page, you said: "Thank you for your feedback on the recent edits to the Peppermint page. We are attempting to do a number of updates to add helpful content on peppermint and other related topics. After reviewing the page regarding citing sources for medical content, we wanted to ask if there was a particular article or reference cited that was a concern? On the two paragraphs removed, the first paragraph was based entirely on content from a published recent textbook (Principles and Practices of Phytotherapy) with additional supporting journal articles cited to add further credibility. The second paragraph was merely factual information on medicinal preparations that contain forms of peppermint with two articles cited as verification. Do you have any suggestions for how these edits could be modified to be acceptable? Many thanks."
 * First, you refer to "we" in the above statement. Let me point out that user names on Wikipedia are intended to be for one person, not a group per the policy WP:NOSHARING. Please read that guide, resolve your user name(s) individually, and do not continue to edit as a group or you will be reported to an administrator. Second, much of your edit here relied on herbalism (phytotherapy or traditional medicine) sources and supposed health effects, which are unacceptable in the encyclopedia because they are pseudoscience and unprovable. The herbalism article explains this here. Other sources you used include studies on mice, which are also not usable because they are at such an early stage of research and remain unconfirmed. As pointed out in your welcome message above, medical topics on Wikipedia are to be sourced with systematic reviews of completed high-quality clinical trials published in journals with high impact factors; see WP:MEDASSESS. As presented in the the article's current research section, the overall level of clinical support for using peppermint for any clinical condition is weak, and the section accordingly should remain as modest as it is. I am following your talk page, so you can respond here if you wish. --Zefr (talk) 04:13, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Feedback
Thank you again for your feedback. I wanted to clarify "we" which referred to my colleagues who I am collaborating with prior to the edits. At this time, I am the only one entering edits. However if this were to change in the future, additional users would have their own user ID and password. PaloDuroGoodnight (talk) 01:00, 14 January 2019 (UTC)