InduniWickramasinghe

Hi Indy! This is Allie practicing on leaving a comment in someone's talk page. AlejandraGonzalez (talk) 17:55, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, InduniWickramasinghe, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; 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) 19:02, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Response

Hi! On my talk page you wrote that you needed help with finalizing and publishing your article. It actually looks like Ian (Wiki Ed) is the Wikipedia Expert with your class, so he would be the best person to check with. Offhand though, here are my thoughts:

I saw that you used studies as sources to back up claims. These are primary sources for any of the research or claims created by its authors, who are almost always the same ones who conducted the research as well. Here's the definition per the medical reliable sources page:

A primary source in medicine is one in which the authors directly participated in the research or documented their personal experiences. They examined the patients, injected the rats, ran the experiments, or at least supervised those who did. Many, but not all, papers published in medical journals are primary sources for facts about the research and discoveries made.

Per the policies of neutral point of view, no original research, and verifiability, Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, independent, published secondary or tertiary sources. For biomedical content, primary sources should generally not be used. This is because primary biomedical literature is exploratory and often not reliable, and any given primary source may be contradicted by another. The Wikipedia community relies on guidance of expert reviews, and statements by major medical and scientific bodies. Text that relies on primary sources should usually have minimal undue weight, only be used to describe conclusions made by the source, and must describe these findings clearly so that all editors even those without specialist knowledge can check sources. Primary sources should never be cited in support of a conclusion that is not clearly made by the authors (see WP:Synthesis).

I didn't check all of the sources, but I saw enough to be concerned about this. This poses an issue of reliability per the above text, but it also poses one of notability - since they're primary, they can't really establish notability for the subject at hand.

Ian can give you some more information on this end. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:26, 27 November 2019 (UTC)