Machinezoned

Although some prefer welcoming newcomers with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. You may have connection to whattheplants.in as an email address machinezoned@gmail.com shows up on its "Contact us" subpage. Please don't promote your website here by replacing references with your spam links. NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 12:57, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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March 2023

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Gooseberry, you may be blocked from editing. Your content is a fabrication with no WP:MEDRS sources. There is no evidence eating gooseberries has any effect on health. Zefr (talk) 18:00, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Please check a few articles and rethink your statement. No evidence ? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21317655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6926135/#sec5title https://www.drbrahma.com/amla-top-10-scientific-research-on-health-benefits-of-amla-indian-gooseberry/ Please do your research well before posting such statements. Machinezoned (talk) 02:40, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

For encyclopedia topics concerning human health and diseases, we use WP:MEDRS reviews, a quality which your sources don't have. Also, don't cite sources connected to Ayurveda, which is quackery. Zefr (talk) 05:15, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Whats your source for the quackery statement ? don't post things without source else you will be blocked. Machinezoned (talk) 07:12, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Here, here, and here among countless other examples you can Google yourself. Zefr (talk) 21:25, 26 March 2023 (UTC)