User talk:SarMarTay

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Citation flagging

Hi, I noticed your contributions to the irritable bowel syndrome article. I hope I am not going to come across as annoying but I must ask you to stop flagging large numbers of sources as primary sources and adding lots of citation needed tags. Some of your actions may have merit but you seemed to be flagging multiple secondary sources as primary sources including one which even in the text described it as a meta-analysis by Cochrane Review, which infact is one of the highest quality secondary sources for medicine related articles. It is true that wikipedians should give preference to secondary sources but we should not flag every primary source as being a primary source unless it is disputed say on an article talk page as part of a content dispute; we don't need to notify the reader to each source and its quality, that is for editorial judgement, as well as policies such as WP:CONSENSUS, WP:MEDRS, WP:RS, WP:WEIGHT and WP:NPOV to determine. Can I ask you to read WP:MEDRS and WP:RS so that you understand what is a secondary source and primary source? Thanks. :)--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 15:07, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

I am not sure if you have the irritable bowel syndrome article watch listed or not but I have left a reply there as well. I think I have figured out where you are going wrong. I hope that you take this as constructive criticism.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 15:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC)