Talk:Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial

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Why an article on one clinical trial?

Why an article on one clinical trial? Also, ref #7 (the quote about results) is dead. Possible replacement is PMID 30415629 "Supplementation with vitamin D did not result in a lower incidence of invasive cancer or cardiovascular events than placebo." Other articles PMID: 31733345, 35082139, 38272846, 37378490, 32492153. David notMD (talk) 12:45, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@David notMD I honestly don't know why this article exists. I'd argue it does not meet WP:GNG as there isn't much coverage of it. It makes sense to have pages on huge, practice changing studies but not on some random study. If this is even relevant info it could be merged over to Vitamin D (I know you're currently working on that article so you'd probably know best wether it is relevant or not) or Omega-3. Seeing as the majority of the sources are either from the study itself or from the website for the study I'd say the sources aren't independant of the subject which would mean this article doesn't show notability. I haven't looked for other sources but I'd encourage you to either merge the article or if there is no appropriate place to merge, take this article to WP:AFD. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 04:28, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IntentionallyDense Wikipedia tolerates articles about individual clinical trials, but per WP:MEDRS is against individual trials being used at references. Hence no use of text and refs to merge into Vitamin D, except, perhaps as External links. You are right in that the existing refs and the PMIDs I listed are about results of the trial, hence primary - not secondary - references. For same reasons Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial may need to be limited. David notMD (talk) 04:42, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]