User talk:VeritasKing

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March 2018
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Mannatech. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Zefr (talk) 15:12, 1 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks zefr. I also cited the US Patent Office. VeritasKing (talk) 15:16, 1 March 2018 (UTC) I believe the Mannatech article in its current form also violates NPOV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view. It appears the author discusses no Verified Peer Reviewed Science in this article. VeritasKing (talk) 15:21, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The science you refer to is work-in-progress or WP:PRIMARY, i.e., unencyclopedic, as Wikipedia is not a journal for reporting preliminary research, but rather a source for widely-recognized facts. Similarly, the patent information is not a strong secondary source; it's more promotional info for the company and WP:PEACOCK than it is as a source of higher quality, such as a systematic review or meta-analysis of completed, high-quality clinical trials. This is better explained in WP:MEDRS. --Zefr (talk) 15:32, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Zefr. Will look for and cite studies that you're happy with. Do you feel the article is compliant with NPOV?VeritasKing (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, the article has been well-vetted by senior editors over the past year. --Zefr (talk) 15:42, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

This citation #3 https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/glyconutrients does not appear to meet your standards of Systematic Peer Review Zefr.VeritasKing (talk) 15:45, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Ambrotose has been falsely promoted as an anti-cancer agent (many news sources like this), so it is appropriate to include a position statement by a world-class cancer center like MSKCC. --Zefr (talk) 16:00, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing/COI
Hello VeritasKing. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:VeritasKing. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 19:52, 1 March 2018 (UTC)