User talk:Pinetop18

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Atorvastatin[edit]

Just dropping a line to expain why I removed your addition on atorvastatin. Individual drug interactions are usually not encyclopedic, and even if they are then not to the level of detail you introduced. Also, please be aware of our medical sources guideline. JFW | T@lk 19:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reinsertion of such information does not "Meets guidelines" - go read official policy (which trumps guidelines) of WP:NOTMANUAL, specifically section "1 Instruction manuals" and "4 Textbooks and annotated texts". Relevant guideline is Wikipedia:MEDMOS#Drugs which observes "Try to avoid cloning drug formularies such as the BNF and online resources like RxList and Drugs.com. Extract the pertinent information rather than just dumping low-level facts in a big list. For example, a long list of side effects is largely useless without some idea of which are common or serious" David Ruben ^Talk 23:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Qualification - much of the information was not specific to Atorvastatin, but applicable to Statins in general, perhaps expand up that main article's section on drug interactions for the class (indeed any notable differences between the statin members might be interesting) David Ruben ^Talk 00:55, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]