User talk:Zizzs

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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) 03:47, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

August 2018
Hello, I'm Zefr. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Exercise, but you didn't provide a reliable source. 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''Please review WP:MEDRS. We don't use primary research for medical topics. '' Zefr (talk) 03:48, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comment on my talk page. This review covers early-stage studies, as shown in the Reference section, which means it's a review of preliminary research, i.e., still a primary source. The whole discussion reverted here shows primary research and conjecture about mechanisms, WP:PRIMARY, and discussion about what positive benefits exercise may have on people with cancer, indicating further research and some future clarification are needed, WP:CRYSTAL. The whole section was unencyclopedic. --Zefr (talk) 15:13, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * You said: "there are quite a few reviews on progress in clinical trials... I think a revision rather than complete wipeout would prove more beneficial... How do you define which is which?
 * Research in progress is preliminary research, which I feel is not worth discussing. For an encyclopedia, we need reviews of completed high-quality clinical research, for which there is none pertaining to exercise, in my review of literature. The guide for this is WP:MEDASSESS. You can state here on your page (I'm following) to discuss this further, or place a question on the Exercise talk page to allow other editors to chip in. --Zefr (talk) 20:46, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

I do understand what you're saying. On the other hand, I feel like research is a perpetual revolving door and as such every matter should be discussed adequately. In this stuation I think a brief mention to the subject would be just enough because not only does the lay person read wikipedia, but academia students too, who might be looking for small bits of information and a starting point for some work of their own. This being said, this is just my opinion and my way of seeing things, evidently others might think differently. Zizzs (talk) 21:36, 4 August 2018 (UTC)