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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Bruxton (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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Fasting and longevity

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Moved to mainspace by Bruxton (talk). Self-nominated at 18:34, 14 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Fasting and longevity; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Drive by comment The article appears to rely heavily on individual studies (a primary source), against the guidelines of WP:MEDRS (see also replication crisis). While Fontana & Partridge (2015) is a literature review that was widely cited, the remainder of the studies appear to be individual studies with low impacts. :3 F4U (they/it) 08:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
@Freedom4U: Thank you for the link to WP:MEDRS I have understood your point. I have tried to find a variety of studies to maintain neutrality and have only described conclusions made by the sources. There are many available secondary sources which discuss the results of the included studies which I can add. Several studies were undertaken 2021-2022 so those will likely not have secondary analysis. Bruxton (talk) 16:41, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
  • This article is not well sourced and relies on animal studies. It cannot be used to make any claims about fasting in humans. CarlFromVienna (talk) 08:23, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
  • - 1) This article reads and is cited like it was written at the level of a high school biology class. 2) The sources are cherry-picked, primary research with misleading conclusions derived from early-stage, unconfirmed animal studies. See WP:MEDMOS, Trivia and Wikipedia is not a medical primary resource. 3) The lead sentence reveals that the article is speculative, and therefore unencyclopedic. 4) The Background section was misinformation from each sentence, so has been removed. 5) The Studies section was a high school-like recitation of individual experiments with no review citations and considerable offtopic content, thereby not fulfilling WP:MEDSCI, so has been removed. 6) None of the references is usable in an article representing a human condition, so all have been removed, and a medical citations banner provided. 7) The references were not formatted to be within the text line; see WP:INCITE. 8) The See also topics were offtopic for longevity, so have been removed. 9) The External links were not MEDRS-based, so were removed. 10) The writing quality, syntax or spelling in some cases, and use of punctation were illiterate. 11) The article remaining is a stub that may be developed with attention to MEDRS reviews, but otherwise is a candidate for deletion. Zefr (talk) 18:02, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
@Zefr: Scathing. And you more than stubbed this. You removed the entire article including every reference. It is hard to have a rationale conversation with an editor who says such things about another volunteer's efforts. I am going to withdraw this DYK nomination and try to decide how to move forward. As you know WP:INCITE is a guideline and there are many citation and reference styles. This inline citation style is the one I have used since I began editing here. Please continue any comments you may have on the article's talk page. Bruxton (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
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