OkinawaDiet1

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, OkinawaDiet1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Okinawa diet, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Zefr (talk) 21:26, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Zefr,

I don't know if the above message is automated or in response to my revisions, but I have no conflict of interest for the topic I've edited, and I don't plan on editing any topics in which I may have any conflicts of interest. Furthermore, I named myself OkinawaDiet1 simply because I wanted to create an account to edit the Okinawa diet page.

I hope you reconsider my revisions, as I believe they do indeed improve the section both in clarity and accuracy. I explained my reasoning in Talk:Okinawa_diet under the title "Revision of 'Indigenous islanders' diet'".

Thank you! OkinawaDiet1 (talk) 21:39, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I sent you the COI notice because your username implies a focused interest just on this topic, which may indicate non-neutrality. I don't have access to the full 2007 Willcox article or book, but - in rereading your edits vs. the previous version - your edits contained unsourced comments and did not impress as clarifying the article for the general user.

There is a 2014 review on the diet by Willcox here, including a large section on sweet potato consumption. Despite being a long, detailed article, I didn't find this review useful enough to add it to the Okinawa diet article. The 2014 paper contains misinformation, such as the discussion on "Food is medicine", containing a lot of baseless conjecture. You may find the comparisons to other diets worthy to include. Zefr (talk) 00:48, 24 March 2023 (UTC)