Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject! edit
Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED).
We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:
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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) 00:49, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
June 2018 edit
Hello, I'm Zefr. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Turmeric, 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 the guide for medical topic sourcing at WP:MEDRS. Your suggested literature for the Turmeric article was not of sufficient high-quality reviews, indicated in MEDRS. Zefr (talk) 00:51, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- Also, your Talk edit here reflects the poor quality of sources, none of which is a systematic review or meta-analysis of completed clinical trials published in a leading medical journa with a significant impact factor -- that's the quality of a source needed for medical articles in the encyclopedia. Good luck! --Zefr (talk) 01:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)