Talk:Action Against Hunger

message: *Information to be removed: "As a result, the global mortality rate of severely malnourished children under the age of five has been reduced from 25% to 5%"
*Information to be inserted instead: "Early results showed that treatment with F100 has the capacity to reduce the mortality rate of severely malnourished children to below 5%, while the existing median hospital fatality rate at the time was 23.5%"
*Explanation of issue: It is not correct to state that the global mortality rate for severe malnutrition in children has been reduced to 5%. The article cited under this statistic refers to early results using F100 therapeutic milk formula but the mortality rate appears to remain much higher in developing countries even in hospitals. Research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that higher mortality rates result from insufficient staff numbers and inadequate resources, training and/or conditions in health systems in the developing world. An article published in 2009 in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition confirms however that a 5% case fatality rate (CFR) is certainly not unfeasible- WHO considers a 5% CFR to be 'Moderate', under 5% to be 'Good' and under 1% Excellent. 
*References supporting change: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083726/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761803/
Robert0382 (talk) 18:10, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Some proposed changes

message: * While the COI editor has made a declaration of a conflict of interest on their user page, they have not made the requisite financial disclosures. 
* If the COI editor receives, or expects to receive, compensation for any contribution they make, they must disclose their employer and/or client in order to comply with Wikipedia's terms of use and the policy on paid editing.
Regards,  Spintendo  21:34, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply 01-OCT-2019

message: *Information to be removed: "As a result, the global mortality rate of severely malnourished children under the age of five has been reduced from 25% to 5%"
*Information to be inserted instead: "Early results showed that treatment with F100 has the capacity to reduce the mortality rate of severely malnourished children to below 5%, with a median hospital fatality rate quoted of 23.5%"
*Explanation of issue: It is not correct to state that the global mortality rate for severe malnutrition in children has been reduced to 5%. The article cited under this statistic refers to early results using F100 therapeutic milk formula but the mortality rate appears to remain much higher in developing countries even in hospitals. Research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that higher mortality rates result from insufficient staff numbers and inadequate resources, training and/or conditions in health systems in the developing world. An article published in 2009 in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition confirms however that a 5% case fatality rate (CFR) is certainly not infeasible- WHO considers a 5% CFR to be 'Moderate', under 5% to be 'Good' and under 1% Excellent. 
*References supporting change: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083726/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761803/
* Explanation of COI: There is no financial conflict of interest. I volunteered to do a sponsored walk this year and last year, for the charity's community fundraising and also to submit some writing to the charity. I have referred potential sponsors- family and friends- to the Wikipedia page, and recently highlighted my proposed change. I am not paid by the charity either to edit Wikipedia or in any other respect. I am an ad hoc donor to the charity. 
Robert0382 (talk) 18:01, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your reply. Two sponsored walks and submitting writing to the charity (inasmuch as charities even accept written material from individuals participating in sponsored walks — do you mean like an application form?) would not constitute a conflict of interest. By that definition, a person who shops every two weeks at Costco (and thus, has a more frequent relationship) would have more of a COI than you would with this charity, and would therefore be theoretically unable to edit the Costco page. And yet, Costco shoppers are not prevented from editing that article. Those types of casual relationships and patronships that people have with businesses everyday do not rise to the level of COI. In any event, this appears to be a correction of incorrect material, which may fall under WP:COIU. If you make this change, please be sure to add the passages of text from the journal articles which verify the changes you are making. You may use the  parameter of the  template to accomplish this. As both of these journal articles are , that shouldn't be a problem quoting the text. Regards,  Spintendo  19:38, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Some proposed changes