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@ Diannaa: Thank you for pointing this out and removing it. I am certainly no expert on copyright, and so I have a question for you about this: The ICD-11 seems to be under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 according to [1] which is non-free according to WP:F but would seem to meet all 10 criteria listed at WP:NFCCP, except minimal usage which is unclear to me. For example since I have no control over how long a diagnosis listed in the DSM or ICD is, the inclusion based on a certain character limit or a fixed number of words would lead to an inconsistency of coverage across articles. More importantly, copying the DSM and ICD verbatim is a practice that I haven't seen copyright violations flagged for before, with many of the articles I've worked on having them verbatim; should these be removed? Here are a few examples of that which have been around for some time: Schizoid personality disorder Borderline personality disorder Conduct disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder also has close paraphrasing. To what extent is that not copyright violation? I'm also not ruling out that better paraphrasing of this could be done on-wiki.
Would you happen to know if there has been a larger scale discussion/consensus about this? Darcyisverycute ( talk) 00:58, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Non-free content needs to be compatibly licensed to be copied verbatim. Attribution is required. For info on how to do attribution, see Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Copying material from free sources.
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  • Everything at Wikipedia is done via discussions and consensus. Our policies as written are the products of discussions and consensus. — Diannaa ( talk) 01:45, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
    Thanks for your reply. The publishers of the DSM have specifically told Wikipedia that they don't want their content copied to our website. Is this public? Can I link to some specific policy or discussion archive in edit summaries if I'm changing this? Since I wasn't aware the DSM said that, I imagine other editors wouldn't be either. Especially with the ADHD article being a GA and it didn't get flagged in the review here. Also curious in what year the DSM told Wikipedia not to do that.
    When you say CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 is not a compatible license. do you meen incompatible to be included under NFCCP because of the non-commercial part? Do you know of any correspondence from the WHO about including their verbatim definitions of mental illness? Similarly, any prior links to discussions on this would be much appreciated. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 03:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
I remember seeing that we're not allowed to quote from the DSM but it was several years ago, possibly as many as ten years ago. It is likely in the Wikiproject Medicine talk page archives. "Not a compatible license" means that we can't copy it here like we can public domain content or compatibly licensed content. Please see Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else? for more information. This is not the same thing as fair use, which is copying material while acknowledging the source. Wikipedia:Non-free content covers this topic. In general, copying text from sources that are not compatibly licensed or in the public domain is not allowed, outside of short quotations. Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use policy does not allow us to copy material from copyright sources (or content that's not compatibly licensed) when there's a freely licensed alternative available. In this case the freely licensed material is prose that we write ourselves. Correspondence with the WHO is pretty far outside my wheelhouse as a volunteer editor who works on Wikipedia in my spare time. If such correspondence exists, it would be between the WHO and the Foundation, and I have no knowledge as to whether it exists or not. The WHO licenses their material under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license, which is not a compatible license, because it does not allow commercial use, and our license does. — Diannaa ( talk) 03:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you again for the reply. I've spent the better part of two days reading about this in the WikiProject Medicine archives, and found three particularly relevant things, which no surprise you were involved in along with SandyGeorgia:
(1) in 2013: DSM specifically asked us not to use their criteria a while ago. It seems you are right that it was probably over 10 years ago.
(2) in 2014: v:Helping Give Away Psychological Science students were given a handout saying against verbatim copying from the DSM.
(3) in 2020: About potentially getting WMF to change their license which doesn't seem to have changed at all for the ICD-11 and still presents an issue. I Don't anticipate that individual editors have the heft to persuade the WHO, but perhaps we could persuade the Foundation to take this on.
I'm in the process of collecting a bigger list of articles which currently have verbatim ICD/DSM sections to change. So I have a question: what is the best way to handle this? Here are the ideas I have:
  • Posting all the articles to WP:CP
  • Removing the content in each article and replacing it with paraphrasing in the same edit
  • Removing the content and replacing it with paraphrasing in separate edits
  • Post on each individual article's talk pages, or leave a message in the edit summary mentioning the DSM/ICD can't be quoted this way
  • Post about it on a WikiProject talk page and then maybe also linking to that from the article talk pages and/or the edit summary
I would also think that revision deletion wouldn't make sense to do for most or all of the articles since in my experience the DSM/ICD sections tend to be one of the first added in the article. Only asking about this since Wikipedia:Text copyright violations 101 doesn't talk about groups of articles with similar problems.
Side note: You and @ SandyGeorgia are amazing editors. For me it feels like since deciding to pick up editing I've spent 80% of my on-wiki time reading policies and so so many archives. I still feel slow at writing content and understanding policy, especially the copyright parts. Don't know how you do it. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 08:36, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words, and thank you so much for taking the time to do the research to confirm what I said about the DSM. I took a cursory look using the search feature and found some clues (such as this discussion) but didn't have the time to do the work on it that you did, as most of my editing time is spent working the queue at CopyPatrol. The main problem with us copying the DSM is of course that if we reproduce all their diagnostic criteria here where people can access them for free, there's no reason for folks to buy the books, which are expensive even by medical-book standards.
Regarding next steps: Posting at WP:CP would likely result in the content being removed in its entirety, as the people working that page are super busy and are under no obligation to perform re-writes. So re-writing the material in your own words would be the best alternative, if you have the skills to do that. Removing the content in each article and replacing it with paraphrasing in the same edit would work best, as it is easier for people to review your changes. A suggestion: Start with articles where you are least likely to meet with resistance, and always post on the talk page to clarify what you've done and why. There's technically no need to post to talk first if you are removing copyvio, as consensus is not required for its removal, and you have the policy to back you up that it has to go. But I am sure you will get a feel for which cases and which editors might like a bit of notice. Please also consider posting at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine when you are ready to get started and tell them your plans, maybe with a list of a handful of articles you intend to do first. Thanks again for your interest in helping with copyright cleanup. Cheers, — Diannaa ( talk) 13:23, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks from me as well for the kind words. I would like to be a better position to help out with this project, but regret that I am not due to some serious real life issuess. Please do not hesitate to ping me if I can be of any limited help, but understand I may not be in a position to respond. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:33, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
PS, unsure if you have found these helpful links?
Thanks so much Sandy for locating the posts where the actual takedown request is mentioned. I will bookmark that page in case I need it in the future. — Diannaa ( talk) 20:59, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks SandyGeorgia for the DSM complaint ticket link. I agree with the pragmatic ideas raised there; many of the diagnoses which require eg. 5 of 8 criteria, are difficult to paraphrase preserving that information - looking again at ADHD I think the paraphrasing they did there is probably the best that's possible without changing the meaning of the original text.
Also, I have to agree that Wikipedia seems in practice, at least right now, not substantially different to countless publications which copy DSM and ICD criteria verbatim and I have to question in many of those cases if permission was obtained, and why in psychology the copyright enforcement seems to be far more lax than other areas. Systemically paraphrasing all the current copied diagnosis criteria is going to be a lot of work and I am willing to try (I think I have the skills to do that, at least for some articles).
Here is my current list: User:Darcyisverycute/DSM and ICD related articles that need criteria paraphrasing. It is apparent to me the US focus on how Wikipedia often only includes the DSM criteria and not the ICD criteria, which I will hopefully improve, although the ICD does tend to be more brief about mental disorders. Some of these are fairly contentious topics but I think in most of them paraphrasing will be pretty non-controversial.
Will make a post to WikiProject Medicine. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 08:16, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Everything in psychology articles is far more lax; they are usually a mess, and there are few qualified editors in that area :) :) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:32, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
PS, I've looked at your list now ... take great care in the gender dysphoria area, as those are hotbeds of controversy and are subject to discretionary (arbcom) sanctions ... in those articles, you might announce on article talk first what your concerns and intended improvements are. The rest are just the typical psych article Wikipedia messes, where Wikipedia suffers from POV pushing, COI editing (publishers trying to include their own primary research), and not enough qualified eyes to review and fix. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:33, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
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Please look over the draft at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles#RFC on changing MEDLANG and let me know what you think (I'm subscribed to this section, so you can reply here if you want). If it looks like a plausible question to you, then I could start it soon. If you think it's a disastrous question, then please let me know ASAP. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:05, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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Regarding your draft, I think it is well phrased to resolve the issue that arised at ANI and similar issues for alcohol related terms. So I do think it is a plausible question. The words as words italicisation is spot on. The only thing I would suggest to maybe change is the list being drunk, drinking more than the average person, high-risk drinking, any alcohol consumed during pregnancy, drinking before driving, underage drinking, binge drinking, heavy alcohol use, etc. Drinking and driving is a crime in many jurisdictions, so I would think WP:BLPCRIME applies to their usage in the article. Underage drinking is also often a crime although I believe the blame falls on the person supplying the alcohol, I think BLPCRIME is still relevant. For drinking alcohol during pregnancy, I am not sure if that one is a crime in which jurisdictions currently. But the other examples are not terms for crimes. I would add a sentence to indicate the ones that are not crimes or medical disorders can be used in articles if sourced and the sourcing does not need to be as strict for medical disorders or crimes. So I suggest adding "Using non-medical terms other than alcohol abuse which are words for crimes should also be consistent with the people accused of crime policy for biographies of living persons".
I suppose I was more inclined for a generic approach that would give future RfCs/discussions more guiding precedent. The line of thinking with WP:BLPCRIME suggests it's conceivable to propose a similar policy for mental illness; for any disorder in any edition of the DSM or ICD which has a known stigma attributable to reliable sources, claiming someone has that disorder requires there be reliable source indicating a diagnosis was made consistent with the qualification requirements of the country/state. Of course this is less strong than a legal conviction but many mental health and criminal convictions are similar so as to both hold large stigma. Correct me if I'm wrong that no such policy currently exists. In any case, that should not hold you back from starting the well-formed RfC you have drafted.
Also, I did notice your ping at "Language around migraine", I didn't reply purely because I couldn't think of anything useful to add. Hoping I'll be able to go back to spending more time on-wiki soon. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 01:39, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Wrt BLPCRIME issues, what I'd like to achieve is "Don't say alcohol abuse when you mean drunk driving". I'm not sure that your suggested sentence will be understood that way. "Using non-medical terms other than alcohol abuse which are words for crimes..." sounds like alcohol abuse is being recommended in that situation. For our purposes, it might be sufficient to just mention BLPCRIME.
On the broader concept, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Avoid victimization and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Avoid gossip and feedback loops would apply, though nothing in the policy explicitly mentions mental health or stigmatized conditions (e.g., sexually transmitted infections). Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles#Images mentions identifying individuals, but that's mostly aimed at disease-related articles, rather than an editor who wants to write something like "His son was diagnosed with bipolar as a teenager" in the ==Personal life== section of a BLP.
I'm not sure we could get a strong statement adopted. We'd have the "don't censor me" folks plus the "privacy causes stigma" folks, and between the two, it might be difficult to form a consensus to make any change. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 02:24, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
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Did you ever find answers for these questions I'm not saying I would know how to answer them but I saw the questions in the archives and there was no response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:23, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

@ Vchimpanzee - thank you for asking, actually, this surprises me a bit because I just happened to look over that old question too a few days ago! In the time since, I learned about Citoid, which is the code to interface with the user to generate citation in Visual editor, and as part of Wikimania 2022 I wrote some Zotero translator code, which is what Citoid uses as a backend. I remember being so surprised to learn that Zotero translators are used by Wikipedia, because I've used Zotero a lot longer than I've edited Wikipedia. I was this close to applying for an Outreachy WMF internship to try doing work on Citoid...
Anyway-- I did not repost the issue at the technical village pump, but I did figure out that the issue was with the translators Citoid uses, and it is basically most of them. This is because Zotero uses a different internal format for storing dates than Wikipeida's citation templates expect. For example, if you see this file: [2], at lines 262 and 302 in the test cases, the DOI internal storage format which Zotero uses, is actually the same as Zotero - in this case Wikipedia is the offender for not accepting the date standard in its cite templates. So as far as I can tell, there are three ways to fix this:
1. Add code internal to Citoid which converts the date from this format to Wikipedia's expected format. I think this is the best option. Actually, I try to have a look into it now at [3] but obviously there is something wrong with my Gerrit account because I cannot clone it. Honestly, it would probably take me a few hours to report and fix in the learning process of using Gerrit (at least for enwiki only), and I feel like I should do that, that it would be worthwhile. I guess it feels a bit like 'everything at once' with so many things to work on/fix. It would take quite a lot of validation to get this working correctly for other language wikis too, though.
2. Manually change each translator in WMF's forked version of Zotero's translators, to use the Wiki citation format. This seems like a bad idea / overengineered because I see this being a lot of work.
3. Request onwiki that the citation templates be updated to accept multiple formats for the 'date' field, presumably only in the YYYY-MM-DD format that Zotero produces. The drawback of this is that some raw templates may incorrectly have their date format interpreted, for example, if someone was not paying attention to the tooltip and put the format YYYY-DD-MM in the cite template code instead, some work would be involved to validate that. It is possible that WMF would prefer this for Citoid, because I don't know what other language wikis do, they might have done local patches to their MediaWiki setup to fix it, but it's unlikely.
The issue should probably be posted here on Phabricator. If you haven't asked elsewhere in the technical village pump yet, I can try and pick this up again. I remember making a Phabricator account and then never using it -- Oops Real Life Moment. If Only My Real Life Could Be Working For WMF. I suppose it doesn't have to be just a dream... Darcyisverycute ( talk) 08:45, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm way behind reading the archives, but every now and then I am able to help someone. Glad to know you are still pursuing this.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:31, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

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Me too, actually (although I disagree on the policy issue). Of course it's hard to know for sure, but I think the argument to the contrary leaves a lot to be desired, and I look forward to it being investigated with actual rigor... jp× g 🗯️ 00:30, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know :) Hard to have unpopular opinions, and I've rarely participated in RfCs but I hope my contribution is useful for the discussion. I've actually been meaning to publish a few papers about it -- my PhD has kind of taken priority this year, but it might interest you to read some of my research as it is now: [4] Darcyisverycute ( talk) 01:31, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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@ Diannaa: Thank you for pointing this out and removing it. I am certainly no expert on copyright, and so I have a question for you about this: The ICD-11 seems to be under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 according to [1] which is non-free according to WP:F but would seem to meet all 10 criteria listed at WP:NFCCP, except minimal usage which is unclear to me. For example since I have no control over how long a diagnosis listed in the DSM or ICD is, the inclusion based on a certain character limit or a fixed number of words would lead to an inconsistency of coverage across articles. More importantly, copying the DSM and ICD verbatim is a practice that I haven't seen copyright violations flagged for before, with many of the articles I've worked on having them verbatim; should these be removed? Here are a few examples of that which have been around for some time: Schizoid personality disorder Borderline personality disorder Conduct disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder also has close paraphrasing. To what extent is that not copyright violation? I'm also not ruling out that better paraphrasing of this could be done on-wiki.
Would you happen to know if there has been a larger scale discussion/consensus about this? Darcyisverycute ( talk) 00:58, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
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  • Everything at Wikipedia is done via discussions and consensus. Our policies as written are the products of discussions and consensus. — Diannaa ( talk) 01:45, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
    Thanks for your reply. The publishers of the DSM have specifically told Wikipedia that they don't want their content copied to our website. Is this public? Can I link to some specific policy or discussion archive in edit summaries if I'm changing this? Since I wasn't aware the DSM said that, I imagine other editors wouldn't be either. Especially with the ADHD article being a GA and it didn't get flagged in the review here. Also curious in what year the DSM told Wikipedia not to do that.
    When you say CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 is not a compatible license. do you meen incompatible to be included under NFCCP because of the non-commercial part? Do you know of any correspondence from the WHO about including their verbatim definitions of mental illness? Similarly, any prior links to discussions on this would be much appreciated. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 03:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
I remember seeing that we're not allowed to quote from the DSM but it was several years ago, possibly as many as ten years ago. It is likely in the Wikiproject Medicine talk page archives. "Not a compatible license" means that we can't copy it here like we can public domain content or compatibly licensed content. Please see Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else? for more information. This is not the same thing as fair use, which is copying material while acknowledging the source. Wikipedia:Non-free content covers this topic. In general, copying text from sources that are not compatibly licensed or in the public domain is not allowed, outside of short quotations. Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use policy does not allow us to copy material from copyright sources (or content that's not compatibly licensed) when there's a freely licensed alternative available. In this case the freely licensed material is prose that we write ourselves. Correspondence with the WHO is pretty far outside my wheelhouse as a volunteer editor who works on Wikipedia in my spare time. If such correspondence exists, it would be between the WHO and the Foundation, and I have no knowledge as to whether it exists or not. The WHO licenses their material under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license, which is not a compatible license, because it does not allow commercial use, and our license does. — Diannaa ( talk) 03:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you again for the reply. I've spent the better part of two days reading about this in the WikiProject Medicine archives, and found three particularly relevant things, which no surprise you were involved in along with SandyGeorgia:
(1) in 2013: DSM specifically asked us not to use their criteria a while ago. It seems you are right that it was probably over 10 years ago.
(2) in 2014: v:Helping Give Away Psychological Science students were given a handout saying against verbatim copying from the DSM.
(3) in 2020: About potentially getting WMF to change their license which doesn't seem to have changed at all for the ICD-11 and still presents an issue. I Don't anticipate that individual editors have the heft to persuade the WHO, but perhaps we could persuade the Foundation to take this on.
I'm in the process of collecting a bigger list of articles which currently have verbatim ICD/DSM sections to change. So I have a question: what is the best way to handle this? Here are the ideas I have:
  • Posting all the articles to WP:CP
  • Removing the content in each article and replacing it with paraphrasing in the same edit
  • Removing the content and replacing it with paraphrasing in separate edits
  • Post on each individual article's talk pages, or leave a message in the edit summary mentioning the DSM/ICD can't be quoted this way
  • Post about it on a WikiProject talk page and then maybe also linking to that from the article talk pages and/or the edit summary
I would also think that revision deletion wouldn't make sense to do for most or all of the articles since in my experience the DSM/ICD sections tend to be one of the first added in the article. Only asking about this since Wikipedia:Text copyright violations 101 doesn't talk about groups of articles with similar problems.
Side note: You and @ SandyGeorgia are amazing editors. For me it feels like since deciding to pick up editing I've spent 80% of my on-wiki time reading policies and so so many archives. I still feel slow at writing content and understanding policy, especially the copyright parts. Don't know how you do it. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 08:36, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words, and thank you so much for taking the time to do the research to confirm what I said about the DSM. I took a cursory look using the search feature and found some clues (such as this discussion) but didn't have the time to do the work on it that you did, as most of my editing time is spent working the queue at CopyPatrol. The main problem with us copying the DSM is of course that if we reproduce all their diagnostic criteria here where people can access them for free, there's no reason for folks to buy the books, which are expensive even by medical-book standards.
Regarding next steps: Posting at WP:CP would likely result in the content being removed in its entirety, as the people working that page are super busy and are under no obligation to perform re-writes. So re-writing the material in your own words would be the best alternative, if you have the skills to do that. Removing the content in each article and replacing it with paraphrasing in the same edit would work best, as it is easier for people to review your changes. A suggestion: Start with articles where you are least likely to meet with resistance, and always post on the talk page to clarify what you've done and why. There's technically no need to post to talk first if you are removing copyvio, as consensus is not required for its removal, and you have the policy to back you up that it has to go. But I am sure you will get a feel for which cases and which editors might like a bit of notice. Please also consider posting at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine when you are ready to get started and tell them your plans, maybe with a list of a handful of articles you intend to do first. Thanks again for your interest in helping with copyright cleanup. Cheers, — Diannaa ( talk) 13:23, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks from me as well for the kind words. I would like to be a better position to help out with this project, but regret that I am not due to some serious real life issuess. Please do not hesitate to ping me if I can be of any limited help, but understand I may not be in a position to respond. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:33, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks so much Sandy for locating the posts where the actual takedown request is mentioned. I will bookmark that page in case I need it in the future. — Diannaa ( talk) 20:59, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks SandyGeorgia for the DSM complaint ticket link. I agree with the pragmatic ideas raised there; many of the diagnoses which require eg. 5 of 8 criteria, are difficult to paraphrase preserving that information - looking again at ADHD I think the paraphrasing they did there is probably the best that's possible without changing the meaning of the original text.
Also, I have to agree that Wikipedia seems in practice, at least right now, not substantially different to countless publications which copy DSM and ICD criteria verbatim and I have to question in many of those cases if permission was obtained, and why in psychology the copyright enforcement seems to be far more lax than other areas. Systemically paraphrasing all the current copied diagnosis criteria is going to be a lot of work and I am willing to try (I think I have the skills to do that, at least for some articles).
Here is my current list: User:Darcyisverycute/DSM and ICD related articles that need criteria paraphrasing. It is apparent to me the US focus on how Wikipedia often only includes the DSM criteria and not the ICD criteria, which I will hopefully improve, although the ICD does tend to be more brief about mental disorders. Some of these are fairly contentious topics but I think in most of them paraphrasing will be pretty non-controversial.
Will make a post to WikiProject Medicine. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 08:16, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Everything in psychology articles is far more lax; they are usually a mess, and there are few qualified editors in that area :) :) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:32, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
PS, I've looked at your list now ... take great care in the gender dysphoria area, as those are hotbeds of controversy and are subject to discretionary (arbcom) sanctions ... in those articles, you might announce on article talk first what your concerns and intended improvements are. The rest are just the typical psych article Wikipedia messes, where Wikipedia suffers from POV pushing, COI editing (publishers trying to include their own primary research), and not enough qualified eyes to review and fix. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:33, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
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I've had a block for Wikispace but you can go ahead and remove the unreliably-sourced portions. I didn't know about that. Thank you for your mention. Altanner1991 ( talk) 16:29, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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Please look over the draft at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles#RFC on changing MEDLANG and let me know what you think (I'm subscribed to this section, so you can reply here if you want). If it looks like a plausible question to you, then I could start it soon. If you think it's a disastrous question, then please let me know ASAP. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:05, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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Regarding your draft, I think it is well phrased to resolve the issue that arised at ANI and similar issues for alcohol related terms. So I do think it is a plausible question. The words as words italicisation is spot on. The only thing I would suggest to maybe change is the list being drunk, drinking more than the average person, high-risk drinking, any alcohol consumed during pregnancy, drinking before driving, underage drinking, binge drinking, heavy alcohol use, etc. Drinking and driving is a crime in many jurisdictions, so I would think WP:BLPCRIME applies to their usage in the article. Underage drinking is also often a crime although I believe the blame falls on the person supplying the alcohol, I think BLPCRIME is still relevant. For drinking alcohol during pregnancy, I am not sure if that one is a crime in which jurisdictions currently. But the other examples are not terms for crimes. I would add a sentence to indicate the ones that are not crimes or medical disorders can be used in articles if sourced and the sourcing does not need to be as strict for medical disorders or crimes. So I suggest adding "Using non-medical terms other than alcohol abuse which are words for crimes should also be consistent with the people accused of crime policy for biographies of living persons".
I suppose I was more inclined for a generic approach that would give future RfCs/discussions more guiding precedent. The line of thinking with WP:BLPCRIME suggests it's conceivable to propose a similar policy for mental illness; for any disorder in any edition of the DSM or ICD which has a known stigma attributable to reliable sources, claiming someone has that disorder requires there be reliable source indicating a diagnosis was made consistent with the qualification requirements of the country/state. Of course this is less strong than a legal conviction but many mental health and criminal convictions are similar so as to both hold large stigma. Correct me if I'm wrong that no such policy currently exists. In any case, that should not hold you back from starting the well-formed RfC you have drafted.
Also, I did notice your ping at "Language around migraine", I didn't reply purely because I couldn't think of anything useful to add. Hoping I'll be able to go back to spending more time on-wiki soon. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 01:39, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Wrt BLPCRIME issues, what I'd like to achieve is "Don't say alcohol abuse when you mean drunk driving". I'm not sure that your suggested sentence will be understood that way. "Using non-medical terms other than alcohol abuse which are words for crimes..." sounds like alcohol abuse is being recommended in that situation. For our purposes, it might be sufficient to just mention BLPCRIME.
On the broader concept, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Avoid victimization and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Avoid gossip and feedback loops would apply, though nothing in the policy explicitly mentions mental health or stigmatized conditions (e.g., sexually transmitted infections). Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles#Images mentions identifying individuals, but that's mostly aimed at disease-related articles, rather than an editor who wants to write something like "His son was diagnosed with bipolar as a teenager" in the ==Personal life== section of a BLP.
I'm not sure we could get a strong statement adopted. We'd have the "don't censor me" folks plus the "privacy causes stigma" folks, and between the two, it might be difficult to form a consensus to make any change. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 02:24, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
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Did you ever find answers for these questions I'm not saying I would know how to answer them but I saw the questions in the archives and there was no response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:23, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

@ Vchimpanzee - thank you for asking, actually, this surprises me a bit because I just happened to look over that old question too a few days ago! In the time since, I learned about Citoid, which is the code to interface with the user to generate citation in Visual editor, and as part of Wikimania 2022 I wrote some Zotero translator code, which is what Citoid uses as a backend. I remember being so surprised to learn that Zotero translators are used by Wikipedia, because I've used Zotero a lot longer than I've edited Wikipedia. I was this close to applying for an Outreachy WMF internship to try doing work on Citoid...
Anyway-- I did not repost the issue at the technical village pump, but I did figure out that the issue was with the translators Citoid uses, and it is basically most of them. This is because Zotero uses a different internal format for storing dates than Wikipeida's citation templates expect. For example, if you see this file: [2], at lines 262 and 302 in the test cases, the DOI internal storage format which Zotero uses, is actually the same as Zotero - in this case Wikipedia is the offender for not accepting the date standard in its cite templates. So as far as I can tell, there are three ways to fix this:
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2. Manually change each translator in WMF's forked version of Zotero's translators, to use the Wiki citation format. This seems like a bad idea / overengineered because I see this being a lot of work.
3. Request onwiki that the citation templates be updated to accept multiple formats for the 'date' field, presumably only in the YYYY-MM-DD format that Zotero produces. The drawback of this is that some raw templates may incorrectly have their date format interpreted, for example, if someone was not paying attention to the tooltip and put the format YYYY-DD-MM in the cite template code instead, some work would be involved to validate that. It is possible that WMF would prefer this for Citoid, because I don't know what other language wikis do, they might have done local patches to their MediaWiki setup to fix it, but it's unlikely.
The issue should probably be posted here on Phabricator. If you haven't asked elsewhere in the technical village pump yet, I can try and pick this up again. I remember making a Phabricator account and then never using it -- Oops Real Life Moment. If Only My Real Life Could Be Working For WMF. I suppose it doesn't have to be just a dream... Darcyisverycute ( talk) 08:45, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm way behind reading the archives, but every now and then I am able to help someone. Glad to know you are still pursuing this.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:31, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

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Me too, actually (although I disagree on the policy issue). Of course it's hard to know for sure, but I think the argument to the contrary leaves a lot to be desired, and I look forward to it being investigated with actual rigor... jp× g 🗯️ 00:30, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know :) Hard to have unpopular opinions, and I've rarely participated in RfCs but I hope my contribution is useful for the discussion. I've actually been meaning to publish a few papers about it -- my PhD has kind of taken priority this year, but it might interest you to read some of my research as it is now: [4] Darcyisverycute ( talk) 01:31, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

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