User talk:IHoversten
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[edit]Hello, IHoversten, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; 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) 17:50, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
You have an overdue training assignment.
[edit]Please complete the assigned training modules. --Cotne002 (talk) 15:02, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
Chlorophyll a
[edit]Hi. I removed the section you added on the medicinal applications of chlorophyll a because they conflict with Wikipedia's standards for medical information. For human health-related topics, there are more stringent sourcing requirements than most articles on Wikipedia. For starters, I recommend that you take the Editing health and psychology topics training module. You can also check out the sourcing guidelines for these articles.
When it comes to the specific edits you made to the article, my first concern is where you placed the information. Chlorophyll a is primarily a molecule involved in photosynthesis, so information related to its chemical structure, role in photosynthesis, and distribution in nature are the most important bits of information, and should be first. In addition, the coverage of the topic in the article should be proportional to the way its treated in the literature, so information about any potential medicinal applications shouldn't dominate the article.
As far as the specific content goes, medical information should generally be based on recent (within the last 5 years) review articles, not on individual studies. And you should be clear about the difference between in vitro bioactivity (which is what the Subramoniam et al. article is about) and medical applications. In particular, you need to be very careful with a statement like have been proven to be anti-inflammatory agents
. "Proof", after all, is a very high standard, and a single study showing in vitro bioactivity is nothing like "proof". Similarly, you can't say something like Its use lies in its ability to inhibit joint swelling and hyperalgesia in patients
when you're citing a source that just talks about a potential mechanism that explains the anti-inflammatory activities of these CRCs
.
It is extremely important to get this right when writing Wikipedia articles.
Beyond that, you shouldn't be talking about the design or results of individual studies in an article like this. And the section on Westcott just doesn't belong here. It's disproven, and it ancient history. Dedicating a whole paragraph to this in the chlorophyll a article puts undue weight on Westcott and his theories. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:05, 9 May 2022 (UTC)