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Vitamin C

Please don't spam lots of articles with 50 year out of date data located on web sites pushing an agenda. Perhaps the data belongs somewhere on wikipedia. I'd be happy to work with you in identifying what can be said about vitamin C and where. The obvious first place would be an article on vitamin C. For what can go in wikipedia at all see WP:WWIN to start with. Google to find up to date research data on vitamin C if you intend to present this as anything other than an historical curiosity. Cheers. WAS 4.250 05:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the discussion, but I don't understand your point. The use of Vitamin C to treat polio is part of the history of polio as well as Vitamin C. I would assume human physiology has not changed much in the last 50 years, so these articles are still valid in my mind. The fact that there hasn't been much follow-up in the medical community in the intervening time doesn't decrease the relevance, but in fact may actually increase it. Yes, if nothing else, it is a historical curiosity ... directly related to polio, which is why I put it there. How would someone researching polio find it more easily? Also, how is referencing legitimate and relevant information considered spamming? -unsigned by WetBandit (moved here from my talk page WAS 4.250 06:01, 24 March 2006 (UTC))

Please sign your talk page edits. The instructions for how to do that on on your talk page. WAS 4.250 05:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Please stop spamming Vit C data everywhere. First try placing it on the vit C site where Wikipedians who know about vit c can talk to you about the validity of your data. Talk to them at the talk page for the article if they delete and you disagree. WAS 4.250 05:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Now, about polio... you need better evidence of vit c impotance in the history of polio than a site dedicated to vit c (etc). an unbiased site. WAS 4.250 05:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your patience with my inexperience. Regarding your criticism, Southern Medicine & Surgery is not a site dedicated to vitamin c. And ... why would this information not be an interesting part of the history of polio? What do you mean by "better evidence"? Two medical doctors claim to have cured polio, one published twice in a peer-reviewed journal, and there is apparently no proper evidence to deny their claims. That's the gist of the text that you removed without any references of your own. I think that's the main problem here -- addition of text requires references, but deletion does not. You haven't shown me that this information is not interesting and relevant to the history of polio. In my mind, obscurity isn't synonymous with irrelevance. WetBandit 14:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability to understand what is required for references. See Wikipedia:Trivia and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view for importance/noteability/balance. Your sources are orthomed and seanet both unreliable as sources of unbiased data on vitamin C. WAS 4.250 15:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

You are revert waring. Talk. Don't war.

Do not revert any single page in whole or in part more than three times in 24 hours. (Or else an Administrator may suspend your account.) Reverting 3 times in every 24 hour period is also not allowed since the point is not to have edit wars. Please read Wikipedia:Three-revert rule. WAS 4.250 15:16, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. I see you have some interesting points, and so I have some learning to do. However, I wouldn't have originally considered this a "war" because you were not modifying the edits, but simply removing them without any discussion. It's been a while since my last English class, so I think I have some brushing up to do on my citations, as well as the Wikipedia-ways of course. I'm glad that you and User:Jfdwolff helping me with my potential contributions. WetBandit 16:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers is a guideline. We want people to join and help out. I hope the place grows on you and you decide to contribute on things in addition to Vitamin C. Cheers. WAS 4.250 17:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)