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Hello, Agnewd, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Alternative medicine

Hi. I noticed that you made an edit to the alternative medicine article, and your edit was reverted. Because they've had such a contentious history on Wikipedia, articles related to complementary and alternative medicine are subject to Discretionary sanctions, which you can read about at that link. This makes them difficult articles for new editors to work on.

Your additions to the article were unsourced. That's a problem anywhere in Wikipedia, but it's especially problematic in controversial areas. Since this is a medical topic, there are special sourcing requirements, among them the fact that you should be relying on recent sources (no more than 5 years old) whenever they are available.

Finally, there's the issue of appropriate weight. You should rarely be writing about about individual research studies, and you should almost never report on things like sample sizes and response rates. These aren't the kind of thing that an encyclopedia article covers. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)