User talk:Isacab0613#Coconut oil
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Coconut oil
Hello Isacab0613, and welcome to Wikipedia editing. For any human health-related topics, the sources need to be of high quality as described by WP:MEDRS. Please read it. The essay by Mary Newport you provided is not a secondary source; it's just her personal interpretation not supported anywhere in the MEDRS literature. Don't be discouraged by reversion of your edits; you'll get the hang of it by reviewing and applying the guidelines for sourcing. Best of luck with editing. --Zefr (talk) 17:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
:Please do not use a single report as a source of fact. If you read through WP:MEDRS, you will see the quality of medical sourcing needed to enter content for the encyclopedia. Thanks. --Zefr (talk) 16:05, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
::Specifically, the source needs are specifically described in WP:MEDASSESS within MEDRS, showing that individual studies like those you are citing in coconut oil (or case reports) are inadequate; please read and follow this guideline. Thanks. --Zefr (talk) 17:08, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
:::Isacab0613: Healthy Oils: Fact versus Fiction appears to be an opinion book not subjected to peer-review or multiple expert opinion or review according to WP:MEDRS which requires "scientific consensus" and high "evidence quality". A single-person study of her husband by Dr. Newport would not qualify under these descriptions.
:::Feeding Healthy Beagles Medium-Chain Triglycerides... etc. is obviously an animal study best defined as basic research and pre-human for evidence, again not qualifying by the standards of source quality defined by WP:MEDRS under WP:MEDANIMAL. --Zefr (talk) 16:49, 22 April 2016 (UTC)