User talk:Tilly4ChampionPetfoods
August 2023
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Cullen328 (talk) 21:12, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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I've fixed the placement and format of your request(the template must be copied and placed outside the notice before you fill it in). Would you commit to reading conflict of interest and paid editing? I'm just looking for a commitment, you may actually do it once renamed. 331dot (talk) 12:50, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- I have read the conflict of interests guidelines. I do not plan on making any edits myself, just suggesting them with acknowledgment to my conflict on interests. I would appreciate it if you could please help me unblock my user. Tilly4ChampionPetfoods (talk) 08:52, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Suggested text from the FDA report
Quoting large amounts of text is always the best strategy when it comes to government reports. Governments use very wordy language, so it behooves you to include as much of it as possible to eliminate ambiguity. Since nothing the government produces can be copyrighted, you can cut and paste as much as you like. When it comes to one government report, the FDA report from 2022 that you've mentioned in a lot of your recent edit requests, your best bet is to follow this strategy. Here is my example proposed text for articles covering this topic In 2022, the FDA released a follow up report which superceded the 2019 research. The follow-up report stated the following:
Most of the diets associated with the reports of non-hereditary DCM have legume seed ingredients, also called "pulses" (e.g., peas, lentils, etc.), high in their ingredient lists ... these include both "grain-free" and grain-containing formulations. Legumes, including pulse ingredients, have been used in pet foods for many years, with no evidence to indicate they are inherently dangerous, but analysis of data reported to the Center for Veterinary Medicine indicates that pulse ingredients are used in many "grain-free" diets in greater proportion than in most grain-containing formulas. FDA has asked pet food manufacturers to provide diet formulations so we can further understand the proportions of ingredients in commercially-available diets and possible relationships with non-hereditary DCM. The FDA does not know the specific connection between these diets and cases of non-hereditary DCM and is continuing to explore the role of genetics, underlying medical conditions, and/or other factors.[1]
As you can see, the most salient points from that FDA report are included in the text that I've quoted. If you look closely, you will also see the text that you proposed The FDA does not know the specific connection between these diets and cases of non-hereditary DCM
I placed that text amongst the quoted text that I chose. If your text had been placed by itself, It would have communicated very little to the reader. Ambiguously short statements, when placed on their own, become opaque and reveal little substantial information. Your proposed text highlighted what was for the FDA a negative — that they did not know the specific connection. Mentioning this by itself could easily lead a reader to believe the following:
Well, that's the end of the story. If the FDA does not know the specific connection, then they'll probably never know, or there wasn't a connection to even begin with"
If a reader comes away with that assumption, then they've really missed the boat, and what a disservice we would be doing to them if they did. You and I both know that the FDA report says much more, and goes out of its way to state how additional information needs to be provided by pet food manufacturers and collected to fill in gaps. Look how the quoted text that you chose earlier now flourishes after I placed it along with its brother and sister sentences from the report. I'm hoping you'll keep this in mind for future edit requests on this particular topic. 
Regards, Spintendo 12:42, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
- ^ "Questions & Answers: FDA's Work on Potential Causes of Non-Hereditary DCM in Dogs". Food and Drug Administration. FDA. 2023-07-26. Retrieved 2023-10-22.