User talk:Zjurkowski24
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Reliable sources[edit]
Hi - and welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate that you're new to editing, so please don't take this as unfriendly, I just wanted to explain why I reverted your addition to Health food. There are a couple of reasons:
- First, the sentence which preceded your addition was
In conditions of malnutrition, ready-to-use therapeutic foods have been used successfully to improve the health of malnourished children.
, and it was sourced to a Cochrane systematic review (very reliable). Your addition,Some examples are berries, oats, turmeric, coconut oil.
, seems to imply that these were some of the foods used successfully to improve the health of malnourished children - but it was supported not by evidence from that Cochrane review, but to a totally unrelated website - maybe some of them were, maybe they weren't, we don't know. WP:SYNTH is worth reading on this point. - Second, the source you used to support the content was exceedingly unreliable. It's a commercial website, operated by a private company, with a web shop and everything. We would not rely on a site like that for any assertion of fact, as it fails RS, the normal test for reliable sources; crucially though, implying that certain foods have therapeutic benefits would fall into the biomedical information field, and so would require sourcing of the level described at WP:MEDRS.
I hope that's clear - let me know if you have any questions about this, and again, welcome. Best GirthSummit (blether) 15:52, 31 August 2020 (UTC)