Search Results: Wikipedia:MEDASSESS


Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 17:23:45

(MEDical Reliable Source) sourcing is definitely required here (see WP:MEDASSESS). The pills were invented by Dr Archibald Foster and released onto the...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vitamin A2
Minggu, 2025-12-14 11:38:43

quality of evidence for biological mechanisms, failing WP:SCIASSESS and WP:MEDASSESS, and 4) it has had no substantive edits since 2019, indicating it is a...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Referencing case studies for MEDRS
Minggu, 2020-02-16 09:44:20

study on a small number of subjects", not qualifying for WP:MEDSCI and WP:MEDASSESS. A Cochrane review reference, at that time 14 years old, passed muster...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vitamin A5
Minggu, 2025-12-14 11:38:46

lowest quality of evidence for biological mechanisms, WP:SCIASSESS and WP:MEDASSESS, 2) sources mainly from one research group (within which Wham2019 appears...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fasting and longevity
Rabu, 2025-12-17 23:51:54

above "diet and longevity" articles has sources strong enough to meet WP:MEDASSESS, indicating there would be few good-quality sources in such an article...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 208
Senin, 2022-05-30 21:08:20

these should not be used because they don't meet WP:MEDASSESS. My position is that WP:MEDASSESS only applies to medical claims. This point is not a medical...

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Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-08-23/Chiropractic
Kamis, 2026-04-16 00:23:32

it, of course. However, QuackGuru responded yet again with MEDRS and MEDASSESS, saying that the references were not good enough. I tried once again to...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive881
Senin, 2026-05-04 20:57:34

study each was and how many participants they included? In fact at WP:MEDASSESS--right in the WP:MEDRS guideline itself--Wikipedia provides a hierarchy...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 325
Minggu, 2022-05-01 12:28:11

(talk) 13:43, 22 January 2021 (UTC) Thanks for linking to the Wikipedia:MEDASSESS page. I hadn't been familiar with that Wikipedia guideline, but it directly...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 156
Sabtu, 2024-10-19 20:31:20

Council but not yet accepted by WP as sufficiently reviewed. Quoting WP:MEDASSESS or WP:NOTADVICE may enable WP to protect itself against negligence suits...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 172
Selasa, 2022-06-14 19:29:22

there are exceptions. -- Otr500 (talk) 06:55, 21 March 2022 (UTC) WP:MEDASSESS and WP:MEDINVITRO generally discourage the use of animal and in vitro...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 357
Jumat, 2023-12-01 17:02:50

(UTC) Second thought. Alternately, we might codify your reasoning into WP:MEDASSESS. Something like "if a review is obviously based on too few studies, or...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 244
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:20:29

anybody?). Nevertheless, that still doesn't mean we should exclude it - WP:MEDASSESS simply says that we should give due weight to it, and favour "more reliable"...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 November 4
Minggu, 2021-11-28 15:44:21

lowest quality of evidence for biological mechanisms, WP:SCIASSESS and WP:MEDASSESS, 2) sources mainly from one research group (within which Wham2019 appears...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 391
Rabu, 2022-12-21 11:12:42

correct myself here after considering Crossroads' note below. Per WP:MEDASSESS a governmental agency-issued practice guideline is indeed a secondary...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 November 6
Jumat, 2021-11-19 06:53:25

quality of evidence for biological mechanisms, failing WP:SCIASSESS and WP:MEDASSESS, and 4) it has had no substantive edits since 2019, indicating it is a...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 90
Rabu, 2023-03-08 17:42:21

misleading statement and at worst simply got it wrong. Please note that WP:MEDASSESS which covers WP:DUE is also covered under WP:RS: "Views that are held...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 86
Minggu, 2024-10-20 08:49:55

generally fall below the minimum requirements of reliable medical sources. WP:MEDASSESS Fladrif (talk) 01:54, 6 January 2011 (UTC) I think that may miss the point...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 100
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 01:14:23

conclusion the author gives makes my skin crawl. It's also exactly what WP:MEDASSESS prohibits: "...editors should determine the quality of the type of study...

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Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 92
Rabu, 2026-02-11 07:25:58

than comprehensive reviews, which is reflected in the images under WP:MEDASSESS. I would also like to point out that Chaibi is not a full-time researcher...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 256
Sabtu, 2021-04-24 18:39:14

though obviously it's not as good as those with formal peer review (WP:MEDASSESS). (As for what kind of opinion it's MEDRS, WP:PARITY applies.) --Middle...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 383
Minggu, 2023-12-24 10:31:09

of dietary clinical research, as represented in the left pyramid of WP:MEDASSESS. Observational dietary studies, cohort dietary studies, and even individual...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Beta-Hydroxy beta-methylbutyric acid/archive1
Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:56:15

pretty darn unimpeachable with regard to their type per MEDRS, and per MEDASSESS we cannot go second guessing what they say. I am dismayed by what they...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 223
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:44:41

sourcing, as they are integrated into the pinnacle for sourcing in the WP:MEDASSESS pyramids shown here. Turning to the issue of mercury levels in HFCS -...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 369
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 05:25:52

but there should not be valid alternatives. See WP:MEDANIMAL and WP:MEDASSESS. — Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 13:54, 23 January 2022 (UTC) Novem Linguae and...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 142
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:47:00

anywhere near "expert opinion" to qualify for even the lowest rung on the WP:MEDASSESS scale of "expert opinion." This is not a WP:MEDRS-compliant reliable source...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 72
Sabtu, 2025-01-11 05:40:26

article's introduction. Familiarity with WP:NPOV, WP:ASF, WP:MEDRS, and WP:MEDASSESS would be helpful. Thanks! Ocaasi (talk) 09:44, 9 August 2010 (UTC) I've...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 430
Rabu, 2024-03-20 23:51:17

("Evaluation of curcumin for dermatologic conditions"). WP:MEDASSESS: It's a systematic review, and MEDASSESS says "editors should rely on high-level evidence,...

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Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 95
Jumat, 2023-03-03 14:54:03

nonfatal AMI and 478 controls in Milan, Italy, between 1995 and 1999." WP:MEDASSESS has "case-control study" as the lowest form of reference that even qualifies...

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Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard/Archive 32
Kamis, 2020-04-16 00:16:49

Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)#Assess_evidence_quality (aka WP:MEDASSESS), which is concise and informative for a non-technical editor, but is...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 189
Jumat, 2026-01-23 22:46:01

are factually wrong (sample size) or are not relevant according to WP:MEDASSESS (i.e. funding). I am involved in flavan-3-ol research (as I have mentioned...

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Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 16
Jumat, 2025-02-28 13:24:20

article's introduction. Familiarity with WP:NPOV, WP:ASF, WP:MEDRS, and WP:MEDASSESS would be helpful. Thanks! Ocaasi (talk) 11:07, 9 August 2010 (UTC) Here's...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 186
Rabu, 2022-02-02 21:06:38

January 2022 (UTC) On a pure content level, start with WP:MEDRS and WP:MEDASSESS. Skeptical Inquirer does not meet MEDRS criteria. SFR also raises the...

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Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 90
Senin, 2023-03-13 11:38:45

have to ascertain the medical/scientific consensus per WP:MEDSCI and WP:MEDASSESS. Frontiers journals do have a lower degree of reliability in general,...

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Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 52
Sabtu, 2023-04-15 00:25:41

Jytdog (talk) 02:54, 11 September 2016 (UTC) I'd say WP:MEDASSESS speaks more to the issue that the type of study and statistical design...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/October 2016
Minggu, 2016-10-30 12:56:26

pretty darn unimpeachable with regard to their type per MEDRS, and per MEDASSESS we cannot go second guessing what they say. I am dismayed by what they...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 28
Jumat, 2023-02-10 01:46:55

of policy you're thinking of, Tom? As for the overall quality, from WP:MEDASSESS: "The best evidence comes primarily from meta-analyses of randomized controlled...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Neurocysticercosis/archive1
Sabtu, 2025-05-03 13:31:01

content going forward -- not only might we need more careful attention WP:MEDASSESS, we may have to deal with more misreporting in the laypress in addition...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 464
Sabtu, 2025-07-05 03:58:35

here. They are not the publication venue for completed research - the WP:MEDASSESS sources of journals, books or clinical organizations - but rather their...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 409
Selasa, 2026-03-24 01:01:41

where a better MEDRS source isn't readily available. This is where WP:MEDASSESS and WP:MEDORG sources are needed; reviewing them proves that Healthline...

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Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 99
Minggu, 2024-05-19 00:11:35

should examine to which level it satisfies quality guidelines like WP:MEDASSESS and at least be able explain to the readers if e.g. these are all just...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 433
Senin, 2024-10-14 21:32:28

when the claims they are making are extraordinary. See WP:MEDSCI, WP:MEDASSESS, and WP:MEDPOP. There is no justification to list such sources under the...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 March 19
Selasa, 2023-03-28 08:53:24

above "diet and longevity" articles has sources strong enough to meet WP:MEDASSESS, indicating there would be few good-quality sources in such an article...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 471
Sabtu, 2025-03-29 00:28:38

preliminary information at the lowest level of evidence-quality - see WP:MEDASSESS, bottom of left pyramid. The article needs better review sources." But...

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Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 97
Selasa, 2024-05-21 23:14:20

2023 (UTC) You have a point regarding the expert opinion letter, per WP:MEDASSESS, Low-level evidence (such as case reports or series) or non-evidence (such...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 485
Kamis, 2025-09-25 22:01:27

for whatever statement you want and contradict better MEDRS with it" WP:MEDASSESS: Even in reputable medical journals, different papers are not given equal...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 453
Jumat, 2024-10-25 00:17:44

journal – nothing special, but not so low as to be concerning.[20] WP:MEDASSESS: Reviews, including narrative reviews, are a good type of source. WP:MEDDATE:...

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Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 108
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:09:59

Groups; it'd almost be like citing Nazi human experimentation." (BTW, WP:MEDASSESS explicitly says that funders are not a reason to prefer weaker source...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 189
Kamis, 2024-07-25 13:14:03

(internationally and domestically). Similarly, in the same way that WP:MEDASSESS explains the difference between different kinds of medical papers, a WP:LAWASSESS...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 230
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:09:46

(with low subject numbers) published 11-15 years ago, and ignoring WP:MEDASSESS. At Talk:Theanine, Reflecktor has not addressed the deficiencies of the...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive354
Sabtu, 2025-06-07 11:34:17

working in good faith to improve the encyclopaedia, as they see it. WP:MEDASSESS warns editors of rejecting (or disparaging) higher level sources in favour...

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