Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject:Alternative Medicine/Reviews/Archive 1

Unlike most projects, the Wikiproject on alternative medicine contains a large number of different project pages that are designed to organize the data contained in articles about CAM. The infobox on the far right is designed to make it easier to navigate your way through the maze of different project and talk pages contained in this Wikiproject. It is suggested that your exploration of our project should start out on the main project page.

The rules are very simple here.
The rules are very simple here. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 15:10, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) If you want to edit this WikiProject, then we are asking for the simple courtesy of registering yourself as a Public Participant in this WikiProject in the main project page. Most WikiProjects follow this same practice.
 * 2) All comments made on our talk pages must be friendly.
 * 3) * Hostile comments and / or personal attacks are subject to being refactored out by any of our public participants.
 * 4) This talk page is reserved exclusively for discussions of the results of prior compliance audits of specific CAM articles.

6/01/04 - Orthomolecular medicine
This article was recently subjected to a compliance audit by the Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine. We have a master list of 20 Key Questions that are designed to measure the compliance of CAM articles to our Standards of Quality Guidelines.

Overall, this article created a negative impression. The primary problem seems to be that this article is nothing but a stub article hiding behind a lot of verbiage. Major portions of the Orthomolecular medicine viewpoint are simply not documented in this article. I got absolutely nothing out of this article other than a bunch of commonly held generalities.

Orthomolecular medicine was the first article to be audited. It was also the first to pass our audit. The answers to 4 questions indicated non-compliance to our standards of quality quidelines. This resulted in a passing grade of 80%. The Physical mode of action was determined to come from proper nutrition. -- John Gohde 05:45, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) No footnote to support the health claim that RDA is inadequate.
 * 2) No explanation of therapeutic effects.
 * 3) No listing of effective medical conditions treated.
 * 4) Did not recommend complementary treatment.