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Vitamin has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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October 16, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
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Choline

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Vitamin J redirected to Choline until I just now changed it to redirect to the obsolete name chart at Vitamin#Naming. That chart lists Catechol and Flavin for Vitamin J, but not choline. Should choline be added, or was that simply a long-standing error? I'm having trouble separating reliable web sources from AI slop. One reliable source I could find was . It just says "Finally, vitamin J: Beneficial to guinea pigs but unneeded by people, it didn’t make the cut." and does say which compound that refers to. I couldn't find anything about guinea pigs on the three compound articles. -- Beland (talk) 20:49, 25 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Government Regulation

Latest comment: 8 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article refers to "Title 21, part III" when it intends to refer to part "111" - the section of the Code of Federal Regulations relating to current Good Manufacturing Practice for dietary supplements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2025-34015-53 (talk) 17:04, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Improving top-importance medicine articles: Join the Vital Signs campaign 2026

Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The goal of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026 campaign is to bring all 101 top-importance articles—including this one—up to at least B-class quality. Many of these articles are widely read but overdue for review, so even small improvements can have a big impact.

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To reach B class, articles should have: suitable referencing, reasonable coverage, a clear structure, good prose, helpful illustrations, and be understandable to a broad audience. Contributions of any size are appreciated. Femke (talk) 16:00, 20 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

"controversial cancer treatment laetrile"

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Not exactly "controversial" is it? wikis own article on amygdalin says "Scientific study has found them to not only be clinically ineffective in treating cancer but also dangerous due to the considerable poisoning risks.[3] The promotion of laetrile to treat cancer has been described in the medical literature as a canonical example of quackery[4][5]" Suggest change to something like "ineffective cancer treatment" ~2026-11424-16 (talk) 23:16, 20 February 2026 (UTC)Reply