Talk:Mixed connective tissue disease

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 September 2019 and 22 October 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): GisellaNewbery.

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Merger proposal

I propose that Overlap syndrome be merged into Mixed connective tissue disease. Both deal with the same ICD10 Code, but Overlap syndrome is a smaller article. Tenbergen (talk) 01:26, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

• Support a content merge. However, rather than the normal practice of creating a redirect following the merge, I'm going to suggest that the overlap syndrome page be turned into a WP:CONCEPTDAB page to cover "all" overlap syndromes; including: mixed connective tissue disease, polyangiitis overlap syndrome, autoimmune hepatitis + primary biliary cirrhosis,[1] Asthma-COPD,[2] COPD-OSA.[3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Little pob (talk • contribs) 10:12, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose a content merge. I essentially agree with Little pob but want to make it clear this shouldn't be a redirect. The term "overlap syndrome" is also regularly used in other medical fields. I have amended the article to reflect the use of "Overlap syndrome" in cardiology but will leave it open to others to add examples of the use of this term in other fields such as those mentioned by Little pob e.g. COPD / asthma etc. PeaBrainC (talk) 08:56, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose, per PeaBranC's rationale and edits, which seem to flesh out the overlap syndrome concept. If this term is not exclusively used for mixed connective tissue disease, then they should not be treated as the same topic unless it is overwhelmingly understood to describe this disease. No prejudice against creating a redirect like overlap syndrome (connective tissue). —Ost (talk) 17:43, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Sharp criteria

Is “Sharpe” somebody’s name? If so, please capitalize it. Thnx! Gobucks821 (talk) 15:54, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for noticing that! CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 20:07, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Jargon: Please clarify terms and especially their importance

This is a very useful article. It often reads like a very advanced scientific textbook rather than encyclopedia article. Regardless of the later, please explain (1) what are, and (2) the importance/relavence of these genetic factors:

U1, U1-RNP, U1-RNA (especially the difference between RNP & RNA) antibody, antigen, autoantigen, polypeptide (including definition & importance of length and residue), RNA, and the likes. Thnx!! Gobucks821 (talk) 16:13, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

First of all thank you for your edits to this article. This topic was very challenging for me to write about and I definetly struggle with readibility. I will see what changes I can make to make it easier to understand. My brain often gets very jumbled when writing bigger articles which results in some Jargon. If you have any other tips on how to make it read less like a textbook I would appreciate the input. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 20:09, 3 August 2024 (UTC)