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To give you an idea of what I'm thinking, the video on cholera has 16 images. I took a swing at starting a video on Indian Peace Commission as seen here. I'm not even through the first section, and I'm at 29 images. So I'm looking at probably 150-200 images for the full article. To my mind, that's the kindof thing that takes full advantage of the format, but it's completely impossible to manually manage attribution for 150 images. GMG talk 15:30, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
First off, doggone User:BD2412. Nice presentation. Back to James, an on-wiki description normally would not suffice. This should be incorporated in the disclaimer at the bottom of the interface itself. Shouldn't be terrible difficult to do. GMG talk 00:24, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
User:GreenMeansGo does the footer now work for you with respect to teh software license? [2] Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 07:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Hey Doc James about five months ago Guy Macon raised the issue of Captchas and the systemic discrimination they promote against the blind on your talk page. He said in 5 months if nothing had been done he'd be back. Well someone had been working on it an low and behold the project of fixing Captcha has been abandoned again. I've left a message on the ED of the Foundation's meta talk page but don't think I'll be getting anything more than the usual "put it on a wish list" response I've gotten in the past from Foundation staff. I know you are on the board and the board said they'd prioritize accessibility but that plan is a 3 to 5 year plan. Sorry if this comes off as a bit harsh but it seems like the WMF just doesn't care about the blind and is fine continuing systemic discrimination against the visually impaired. Can you point me in the right direction of how to raise this or where to go with it so that it finally gets addressed. I love this community but it literally hurts me thinking that we are so complacent with ignoring this issue. Regards, -- Cameron11598 (Talk) 05:07, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I've noticed that you were among the active authors of Folate deficiency and I thought that it might interest you. I quote:
Diffuse inflammatory or degenerative diseases of the small intestine, such as Crohn disease, celiac disease, chronic enteritis or entero-enteric fistulae, may reduce the activity of pteroyl polyglutamase (PPGH), a specific hydrolase required for folate absorption, and thereby leading to folate deficiency.
I found no description of this "pteroyl polyglutamase (PPGH)" enzyme on the web. Maybe I was not looking properly, but maybe it's a malicious edit, who knows. -- CopperKettle 18:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Just thought you might like to know, if you haven't already seen it already, that you've been mentioned in a WIRED article on the 2019-20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Cheers!
You are invited to join the discussion at
User talk:Dekimasu#corona thingy. —usernamekiran
(talk)
13:24, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
quote == Urgent "spread" update, please... == Per https://meaww.com/coronavirus-wuhan-virus-can-survive-on-inanimate-objects-for-up-to-nine-days-any-surface-patient, the virus can survive on surfaces for 4 to 9 days depending upon temperature and humidity. I can't seem to update the info. unquote Sorry to bother you, but this seems urgent info. Cheers! Shir-El too 10:10, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi
"over 90% of all leukemias are diagnosed in adults"--this is based on cancer statitics in the US. Cll is the most common form of adult leukemia in the western world, including the US.
thanks~
Hi,from reading the source I don't think the 10% is referring to the global survival rate, that's why I removed it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930964/ "more than half of radically resected gastric cancer patients relapse locally or with distant metastases, or receive the diagnosis of gastric cancer when tumor is disseminated; therefore, median survival rarely exceeds 12 mo, and in metastatic setting, 5-years survival is less than 10%. "
METASTATIC DISEASE In Western countries about two thirds of gastric cancer patients are diagnosed with locally advanced or metastatic disease. Median survival for these patients is around 10 mo, and less than 10% survive at 5 years. Furthermore, even after curative resection, about 50%-60% of patients relapse locally or with distant metastases"
thanks~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikitruth1993 ( talk • contribs) 11:41, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
I think the WHO lost control of the narrative of the name when even myself as a public health trainee started forgetting to use the determiner "the" when referring to "the coronavirus". But I think it was a stroke of marketing genius calling it COVID-19. As you know that leads to wiki confusion however... Wiki consensus is a lesson to be studied, but for now I truly hope there's a quick change! If you have any interest in my proposal I would spend a fair to large amount of time with yourself or any contributor determining consensus and making the page. Cheers, have a good day! -- Almaty ( talk) 04:25, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Doc James! New to here. I respect your profession & have read some of the articles you have contributed to. Just wanna have a chitchat. Do you know why the World Health Organization dropped the words "respiratory syndrome" for the disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus? Sounds pretty inconsistent to SARS and MERS. The same happened to Ebola as well, from "Hemorrhagic Fever" to "Virus Disease". It seems like they want all diseases to be more easily pronounced by laymen?
NO, I DID NOT! This is the second message I've received about edits made with my name that I did NOT do! See the end of Copied from ProjectMedical talkpage.... Who do I take this up with??? BTW no one has access to my computer or password, I shut it down when not using it and I don't use a mobile. Do you have any idea what gives? This started after the discussion with User talk:SpicyMilkBoy Cheers! Shir-El too 17:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on
edit warring. Thank you.
MJV479 (
talk)
16:10, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. I apologize for seemingly flooding your talk page with notices but I believe what you did was not right. You did what I believe was a poor handling of the situation.
MJV479 (
talk)
16:38, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
https://www.health.harvard.edu/
But i believe that this website would be sufficient for non medical wiki citations?-- Disoff ( talk) 03:03, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
and on a preliminary glance, i noticed that the Major_depressive_disorder page did not list some of the info on harvard's page.
In particular, the harvard page said: "It can also lower your cognitive flexibility (the ability to adapt your goals and strategies to changing situations) and executive functioning (the ability to take all the steps to get something done)."
Whereas ctrl+F on Major_depressive_disorder indicates that there is no specific mention of cognitive flexibility decrease. The MDD article also says: "Older depressed people may have cognitive symptoms of recent onset, such as forgetfulness,[25] and a more noticeable slowing of movements.[30]" while the harvard article doesn't specify age ranges.-- Disoff ( talk) 01:39, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
As I understand it (and I'm novice but not naive) your reasons for an edit must be stated. The fact that you deleted another contribution at the same time that you "updated a reference" and changed it's preceding wording is questionable, i.m.o.
Additionally, I must have failed to see where the electronic cigarette article was noted as a health or medical article, but if it is and you are implying by the note you left on my Talk page that the additional paragraph and reference (in a different section than the "updated" ref change you made) was not a "high-quality" source, then it would have been proper to note that, rather than omit mentioning it.
I see by the Electronic Cigarette edit history that between you and QuackGuru (who for all I know may be the same person) are the defacto editor-owners of most of the article. And, it's a total literary and organizational disaster, with NPOV issues.
Calling it a medical article for the sake of obfuscation when undoing citations is disingenuous, at best. I'm a retired technical writer & editor, so I'll be around quite a bit in an effort to restore my previous faith in WikiPedia, fwiw. Page monitoring against vandalism is one thing, Gatekeeping another.
Thank you for reviewing my edits on the buprenorphine and the coronavirus articles. I just wanted to introduce myself as someone who also believes in reducing misinformation out there. While I can't watch articles daily, I hope to continue contributing to medical articles. That being said, if you feel there's something that's of urgency or prime importance, please feel free to reach out to me. I'm new but love to learn on the fly. Moksha88 ( talk) 03:17, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
is it just me or is this guy shilling a bunch of entries for a particular paper/author? MartinezMD ( talk) 15:54, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi James. Thanks for your feedback. I went through the links you mentioned on my talk page, but they don't seem to provide sufficient clarity on which sources are reliable and which are not. In any case, on my talk page, I've replied to your message. I hope I'd be allowed to add facts about resting the eyes. I noticed someone had reverted your changes. Would just like to let you know that it wasn't me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navinwiki ( talk • contribs) 14:23, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Why not write to Dr. David Levy at the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center and ask him what he and his co-authors of the "reality check" paper think of our e-cig article? dl777 at georgetown dot edu. EllenCT ( talk) 22:03, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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If the main problem was the edit summary, apologies for making it sound clickbaity; I will be more careful in the future. -- SoledadKabocha ( talk) 06:02, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Just a few seconds ago I realised that you are the only admin on enwiki who is trusted with the PCR user flag. It must have required a lot of trust of the community
—usernamekiran
(talk)
21:12, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
I'm fairly sure you and I agree here -- Almaty ( talk) 14:35, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "
Page move problem". Thank you. I also botched the ping.
Ivanvector (
Talk/
Edits)
19:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Howdy, I know a designer who lost her husband to cancer 3 years ago. She just designed some worksheets for anyone to navigate the process, they are cc-licensed. More info here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90467322/this-designer-lost-her-husband-to-cancer-now-shes-helping-others-cope-through-design
I'm messaging because 1.) you probably know other editors in the medical community who specialize in this field, and they may find it useful. 2.) 'Cancer Worksheets' may be worthy of a WP article someday?
Victor Grigas ( talk) 18:36, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Have another
round on me!
--
Atsme
Talk
📧
14:28, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
I question your description of this journal being a "predatory" one. It has been in publication since the year 2000. Its impact factor of 4+ is higher than the average journal (~3). It might be useful if you could expand on why you consider this to be a predatory journal. Virion123 ( talk) 18:49, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/faq-cataract-surgery-lazy-eye.htm
https://www.bestlasik.org/0012683.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C3:4201:D70:815C:EE6F:C103:7A5F ( talk)
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Archive 160 | Archive 161 | Archive 162 | Archive 163 | Archive 164 | Archive 165 | → | Archive 170 |
To give you an idea of what I'm thinking, the video on cholera has 16 images. I took a swing at starting a video on Indian Peace Commission as seen here. I'm not even through the first section, and I'm at 29 images. So I'm looking at probably 150-200 images for the full article. To my mind, that's the kindof thing that takes full advantage of the format, but it's completely impossible to manually manage attribution for 150 images. GMG talk 15:30, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
First off, doggone User:BD2412. Nice presentation. Back to James, an on-wiki description normally would not suffice. This should be incorporated in the disclaimer at the bottom of the interface itself. Shouldn't be terrible difficult to do. GMG talk 00:24, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
User:GreenMeansGo does the footer now work for you with respect to teh software license? [2] Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 07:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
|
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests |
Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Hey Doc James about five months ago Guy Macon raised the issue of Captchas and the systemic discrimination they promote against the blind on your talk page. He said in 5 months if nothing had been done he'd be back. Well someone had been working on it an low and behold the project of fixing Captcha has been abandoned again. I've left a message on the ED of the Foundation's meta talk page but don't think I'll be getting anything more than the usual "put it on a wish list" response I've gotten in the past from Foundation staff. I know you are on the board and the board said they'd prioritize accessibility but that plan is a 3 to 5 year plan. Sorry if this comes off as a bit harsh but it seems like the WMF just doesn't care about the blind and is fine continuing systemic discrimination against the visually impaired. Can you point me in the right direction of how to raise this or where to go with it so that it finally gets addressed. I love this community but it literally hurts me thinking that we are so complacent with ignoring this issue. Regards, -- Cameron11598 (Talk) 05:07, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I've noticed that you were among the active authors of Folate deficiency and I thought that it might interest you. I quote:
Diffuse inflammatory or degenerative diseases of the small intestine, such as Crohn disease, celiac disease, chronic enteritis or entero-enteric fistulae, may reduce the activity of pteroyl polyglutamase (PPGH), a specific hydrolase required for folate absorption, and thereby leading to folate deficiency.
I found no description of this "pteroyl polyglutamase (PPGH)" enzyme on the web. Maybe I was not looking properly, but maybe it's a malicious edit, who knows. -- CopperKettle 18:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Just thought you might like to know, if you haven't already seen it already, that you've been mentioned in a WIRED article on the 2019-20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Cheers!
You are invited to join the discussion at
User talk:Dekimasu#corona thingy. —usernamekiran
(talk)
13:24, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
quote == Urgent "spread" update, please... == Per https://meaww.com/coronavirus-wuhan-virus-can-survive-on-inanimate-objects-for-up-to-nine-days-any-surface-patient, the virus can survive on surfaces for 4 to 9 days depending upon temperature and humidity. I can't seem to update the info. unquote Sorry to bother you, but this seems urgent info. Cheers! Shir-El too 10:10, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi
"over 90% of all leukemias are diagnosed in adults"--this is based on cancer statitics in the US. Cll is the most common form of adult leukemia in the western world, including the US.
thanks~
Hi,from reading the source I don't think the 10% is referring to the global survival rate, that's why I removed it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930964/ "more than half of radically resected gastric cancer patients relapse locally or with distant metastases, or receive the diagnosis of gastric cancer when tumor is disseminated; therefore, median survival rarely exceeds 12 mo, and in metastatic setting, 5-years survival is less than 10%. "
METASTATIC DISEASE In Western countries about two thirds of gastric cancer patients are diagnosed with locally advanced or metastatic disease. Median survival for these patients is around 10 mo, and less than 10% survive at 5 years. Furthermore, even after curative resection, about 50%-60% of patients relapse locally or with distant metastases"
thanks~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikitruth1993 ( talk • contribs) 11:41, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
I think the WHO lost control of the narrative of the name when even myself as a public health trainee started forgetting to use the determiner "the" when referring to "the coronavirus". But I think it was a stroke of marketing genius calling it COVID-19. As you know that leads to wiki confusion however... Wiki consensus is a lesson to be studied, but for now I truly hope there's a quick change! If you have any interest in my proposal I would spend a fair to large amount of time with yourself or any contributor determining consensus and making the page. Cheers, have a good day! -- Almaty ( talk) 04:25, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Doc James! New to here. I respect your profession & have read some of the articles you have contributed to. Just wanna have a chitchat. Do you know why the World Health Organization dropped the words "respiratory syndrome" for the disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus? Sounds pretty inconsistent to SARS and MERS. The same happened to Ebola as well, from "Hemorrhagic Fever" to "Virus Disease". It seems like they want all diseases to be more easily pronounced by laymen?
NO, I DID NOT! This is the second message I've received about edits made with my name that I did NOT do! See the end of Copied from ProjectMedical talkpage.... Who do I take this up with??? BTW no one has access to my computer or password, I shut it down when not using it and I don't use a mobile. Do you have any idea what gives? This started after the discussion with User talk:SpicyMilkBoy Cheers! Shir-El too 17:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on
edit warring. Thank you.
MJV479 (
talk)
16:10, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. I apologize for seemingly flooding your talk page with notices but I believe what you did was not right. You did what I believe was a poor handling of the situation.
MJV479 (
talk)
16:38, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
https://www.health.harvard.edu/
But i believe that this website would be sufficient for non medical wiki citations?-- Disoff ( talk) 03:03, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
and on a preliminary glance, i noticed that the Major_depressive_disorder page did not list some of the info on harvard's page.
In particular, the harvard page said: "It can also lower your cognitive flexibility (the ability to adapt your goals and strategies to changing situations) and executive functioning (the ability to take all the steps to get something done)."
Whereas ctrl+F on Major_depressive_disorder indicates that there is no specific mention of cognitive flexibility decrease. The MDD article also says: "Older depressed people may have cognitive symptoms of recent onset, such as forgetfulness,[25] and a more noticeable slowing of movements.[30]" while the harvard article doesn't specify age ranges.-- Disoff ( talk) 01:39, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
As I understand it (and I'm novice but not naive) your reasons for an edit must be stated. The fact that you deleted another contribution at the same time that you "updated a reference" and changed it's preceding wording is questionable, i.m.o.
Additionally, I must have failed to see where the electronic cigarette article was noted as a health or medical article, but if it is and you are implying by the note you left on my Talk page that the additional paragraph and reference (in a different section than the "updated" ref change you made) was not a "high-quality" source, then it would have been proper to note that, rather than omit mentioning it.
I see by the Electronic Cigarette edit history that between you and QuackGuru (who for all I know may be the same person) are the defacto editor-owners of most of the article. And, it's a total literary and organizational disaster, with NPOV issues.
Calling it a medical article for the sake of obfuscation when undoing citations is disingenuous, at best. I'm a retired technical writer & editor, so I'll be around quite a bit in an effort to restore my previous faith in WikiPedia, fwiw. Page monitoring against vandalism is one thing, Gatekeeping another.
Thank you for reviewing my edits on the buprenorphine and the coronavirus articles. I just wanted to introduce myself as someone who also believes in reducing misinformation out there. While I can't watch articles daily, I hope to continue contributing to medical articles. That being said, if you feel there's something that's of urgency or prime importance, please feel free to reach out to me. I'm new but love to learn on the fly. Moksha88 ( talk) 03:17, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
is it just me or is this guy shilling a bunch of entries for a particular paper/author? MartinezMD ( talk) 15:54, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi James. Thanks for your feedback. I went through the links you mentioned on my talk page, but they don't seem to provide sufficient clarity on which sources are reliable and which are not. In any case, on my talk page, I've replied to your message. I hope I'd be allowed to add facts about resting the eyes. I noticed someone had reverted your changes. Would just like to let you know that it wasn't me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navinwiki ( talk • contribs) 14:23, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Why not write to Dr. David Levy at the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center and ask him what he and his co-authors of the "reality check" paper think of our e-cig article? dl777 at georgetown dot edu. EllenCT ( talk) 22:03, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
The text of {{
R from modification}}
states:
Please note that there are are many more specific templates. Please use {{ R from alternative spelling}} for...
The text of {{
R from alternative spelling}}
states (emphasis mine):
At present, {{ R from alternative hyphenation}}, {{ R from alternative punctuation}}, and {{ R from alternative spacing}} all redirect to this template and feed into the same maintenance category. This is likely to change in the future, so please use the more specific template names.
What part of this did I misunderstand? Are all template redirects discouraged by some guideline documented elsewhere? Or perhaps was this not technically "hyphenation," and therefore I should have used {{
R from alternative punctuation}}
?
If the main problem was the edit summary, apologies for making it sound clickbaity; I will be more careful in the future. -- SoledadKabocha ( talk) 06:02, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Just a few seconds ago I realised that you are the only admin on enwiki who is trusted with the PCR user flag. It must have required a lot of trust of the community
—usernamekiran
(talk)
21:12, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
I'm fairly sure you and I agree here -- Almaty ( talk) 14:35, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "
Page move problem". Thank you. I also botched the ping.
Ivanvector (
Talk/
Edits)
19:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Howdy, I know a designer who lost her husband to cancer 3 years ago. She just designed some worksheets for anyone to navigate the process, they are cc-licensed. More info here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90467322/this-designer-lost-her-husband-to-cancer-now-shes-helping-others-cope-through-design
I'm messaging because 1.) you probably know other editors in the medical community who specialize in this field, and they may find it useful. 2.) 'Cancer Worksheets' may be worthy of a WP article someday?
Victor Grigas ( talk) 18:36, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Have another
round on me!
--
Atsme
Talk
📧
14:28, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
I question your description of this journal being a "predatory" one. It has been in publication since the year 2000. Its impact factor of 4+ is higher than the average journal (~3). It might be useful if you could expand on why you consider this to be a predatory journal. Virion123 ( talk) 18:49, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/faq-cataract-surgery-lazy-eye.htm
https://www.bestlasik.org/0012683.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C3:4201:D70:815C:EE6F:C103:7A5F ( talk)