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Hello Andrew73. I am a student in this graduate-level course. My project is to work to hopefully get an article to good article status, and I have chosen mTORC1 as my article. I am at the phase where I am supposed to elicit responses and saw that you have previously made some edits to the mTOR wikipedia page. If you have any input to the article, that would be great. If not, that is okay as well. Flemingrjf (talk) 04:14, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Undetected Tojo sockpuppets

Hi Andrew, two suspected Tojo sockpuppets seem to have been making edits to Parkinson's disease for almost a week now.

• Al Rasheed (talk • contribs)
• Wael El Kabbany (talk • contribs)

Wael has been banned as he outed himself at m:Talk:Spam_blacklist#viartis.net_2, but I don't have enough evidence to have Al banned quite yet. Could you please double check the validity of their edits please. --  Netsnipe  ^(Talk)  13:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I've been aware that he's been editing from a different ISP based in the Middle East. The edits have been reasonable so far, but of course, need to be vigilant. Andrew73 15:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey

I see you added a picture under the Centerport info page.

I assume you are from Centerport, New york, as am I. Welcome to Wikipedia!

WP:MED

Hi,

the main page of WikiProject Medicine has just been redesigned, comments are welcome! Please consider listing yourself as a participant.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

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		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Andrew73 is always working, which is impressive. He's very dedicated to Wikipedia, and his enthusiasm for his tasks is indefatigable.

		The Gold Barnstar
		Due to being so superduper special, Andrew73 gets a Gold Barnstar! w00T!

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For meritorious combat against the evil General Tojo

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		You might only be a trainee hemotologist now, but don't worry little dude, you'll make it some day!

		The Barnstar of Humour
		For seeing the humor in the fact that all these people are spending their time making fun of your small size, Andrew73, you get the Barnstar of Humour!

		The Hip Hop Award
		I, General Tojo, award the Hip Hop Award to Andrew73 for being a true player!

Here's a real one to replace all those phony ones thrown at you at by Tojo and co.

 Actually none of these are from Tojo nor anyone with any connection to him (says someone who got banned for apparently being a Tojo sockpuppet)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Awarded to Andrew73 for his tireless vigilance against General Tojo's constant abuse on Parkinson's disease by  Netsnipe  ►  on 17:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC).

Commercial Links

Dear Mdwyer, Dirk Beestra, and others,

Thank you very much for providing Dr. Doyle (AKA DrBird or 71.245.157.18) an explanation of your intentions re commercial links on Wikipedia, which I have now reviewed.

Wikipedia is a valuable Web resource, and our firm takes very seriously the need for the Wikipedia site to objectively serve the needs of its primary audience.

I would like to offer some comments here that are intended to be constructive for all concerned.

A. Level Playing Field. I am sure you would agree that there should be a level playing field for all parties on Wikipedia. If commercial links are permitted for any firms, then such links should be permitted for all firms. If commercial links are denied to some firms, than all firms should be denied such links.

B. Factual Errors. Though I understand the concept underlying your attempts to distinguish "discoverers" and/or "manufacturers" from mere "resellers" regarding biochemical reagents such as Geldanamycin, Leptomycin B, Sirolimus and Tacrolimus, etc., please note that you have not been successful at distinguishing these correctly.

C. Regarding "discovery":

--Geldanamcyin was discovered 36 years ago by the former Upjohn Company (Kalamazoo, MI) in cultures of a fungus from a Kalamazoo soil sample: J. Antibiotics, Vol. 23, pp. 442-447 (1970)

--Leptomycin B was discovered twice, independently, by Japanese workers [J. Antibiot., Vol. 36, pp. 639-645 (1983)] and at about the same time by the former Warner-Lambert Company, as subsequently reported [U.S. Patent No. 4,771,070]. This patent was applied for in 1986, and the actual work was probably carried out several years earlier.

--Sirolimus (a.k.a Rapamycin) was discovered in 1975 by Ayerst Research Laboratories (Montreal) in a soil fungus from Easter Island: J. Antibiot., Vol. 28, pp. 721-726 (1975).

--Tacrolimus (a.k.a. FK-506) was discovered by the Fujisawa Company, as reported in Euro. Patent No. EP184162 and J. Antibiot., Vol. 40, pp. 1249ff (1987).

D. Regarding "manufacturing": there are about 75 purveyors worldwide, including our firm, LC Laboratories, that sell products of this type. Some, such as Sigma and Calbiochem, sell tens of thousands of such products, a small percentage of which they manufacture themselves. Some, such as AG Scientific, have essentially no manufacturing capability whatsoever; they are only repackagers and resellers.

Here at LC Laboratories we manufacture essentially all of our very small list of products (about 100) ourselves. Even for those very few products that we buy and resell, we take on inherent responsibility for the product by conducting substantial purity and quality testing ourselves; this is necessary and is a substantial benefit to our customers because the sources of such compounds (various Asian countries, for example) are often highly questionable regarding quality. To the best of my knowledge, AG Scientific does not carry out any quality testing itself on the products it resells. To confirm this you would need to contact Mr. A.G. "Chip" Lindgren, the founder of AG Scientific.

E. Regarding "reselling": as noted to some extent in the previous paragraph, it is not a given that "reselling" is a trivial activity. There are literally thousands of sources of biochemical reagent sources around the world -- small academic labs, scientists literally making things in their cellars or garages, small primary manufacturers like LC Laboratories, larger primary manufacturers such as Sigma's RBI division, etc.

I would like to emphasize that even the resellers are providing essential services and value to the 180,000-odd biomedical researchers around the world. By collecting many important compounds into a single catalog or Web source, even pure resellers such as AG Scientific are providing valuable efficiency to its customers, enabling them to quickly locate and obtain reagents for their studies.

F. More about "discoverers": I can assure you that exactly zero of the "small-molecule" reagents sold by the ca. 75 biochemical vendors alluded to above, reagents such as the four I have already listed, or the 100-odd in the LC Labs catalog, or the many thousands of small-molecule products in Sigma's or Calbiochem's catalog, were discovered by these vendors. Again for emphasis: NONE. Compounds of these types are discovered by drug companies and, to a very much smaller extent, by academic laboratories.

[Sooner or later LC Labs will become an exception -- we will begin selling some compounds that we have discovered ourselves. Unlike other biochemical vendors, we also do pharmaceutical discovery research. LC Labs is a division of PKC Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and we are close to releasing some of our non-clinical, proprietary compounds to the research reagent marketplace, to enable other researchers to benefit from our discoveries (US Patent Nos. 5,643,948, 5,716,968, 5,750,568, 5,886,017, 5,886,019, 5,891,870, 5,891,906, 5,955,501, 5,962,498, 6,043,270, 6,080,784, etc. & foreign equivalents)].

G. LC Labs in particular: by trying to selectively block our commercial links on Wikipedia, you are strongly dis-serving biomedical researchers. As our home page notes, we are the highest-quality, lowest-priced supplier of every product in our product list (there might be 1-3 exceptions in certain currencies). In some cases our prices get down to 1/50th or 1/100th of those charged by firms like AG Scientific or Fermentek. You can verify these claims for yourself; we provide price comparison tables for all of our products vs. our competitors: http://www.lclabs.com/PriceComparisons.php4 See sirolimus (rapamycin) in particular: http://www.lclabs.com/PrC/R-5000prcompUS.php4

H. To wrap things up here: I and our IT team are strongly committed to the level playing field concept. On Wikipedia, for us this is something of a self-appointed role, much as your role of "link-remover" based on factual errors appears to have been a self-appointed role.

We will leave it to you to decide where you think this situation ought to go. If you think commercial links should be allowed for the important biomedical research reagents in question here, then we will insist that ours be allowed and will take all necessary steps to achieve that. If you decide "no commercial links", then we will assist you by automating the removal of all of same from the relevant Wikipedia entries, because we absolutely will not accept any discrimination between firms on any basis.

In closing, let me again thank you for stepping forward with an explanation of your viewpoint; I hope my offering here in return is received in the constructive way that it is intended. My associates and I look forward to resolving this particular topic to everyone's satisfaction.

Sincerely,

Paul E. Driedger, Ph.D. General Manager of LC Laboratories; President of PKC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Milk fetishism

Hello "Andrew73". You made some comments/critics at the Milk fetishism page and therefore this might be interesting for You: After a longer discussion in 3 or 4 adult lactation (Yahoo) groups and some research we want to reorganize and rewrite the "Milk fetishism" article completely and to move it to the lemma Erotic Lactation. The substantiations You can find in the article discussions. For me personally it was important, to get more systematic, minor speculations and more empirism ;-) Feel free to place comments or corrections or expansions Bye, --Fritz Bollmann 08:20, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Orthomed & vitamin E

I'm back for interrogation ;>.--TheNautilus 09:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

discussion of BCCA appropriateness is a pull tab on "vitamin" A^ccutane diff--TheNautilus 10:12, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

First Clinical Syndrome

Please note that this is a distinct entity. The reasons for the need for a separate article has been explained in the talk pages. Please discuss in the talk pages before suggesting a merge.  Doctor Bruno  17:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I've elaborated further here [1]. Andrew73 19:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

A sedan is a specific type of car, in the same way that a convertible is a specific type of car. A laser printer is specific type of printer. In the same way, First Clinical Syndrome is seen ONLY in First Clinical Years. If some one else (not in first clinical) suffers, it is NOT first Clinical Syndrome. A lump in the neck, whether you in India or in the U.S., both raises the same possible hypochondria concerns. But when raises hypochondria concerns in the first clinical year, we call that as First Clinical Syndrome. When that raises hypochondria during other time, it is NOT first clinical syndrome, but Medical Student Syndrome.

To Summarise

• Medical Student Syndrome can be seen in any country
• First Clinical Syndrome is seen in India
• Medical Student Syndrome can be seen during any time
• First Clinical Syndrome is seen during First Clinical Year.

All cases of First Clinical Syndrome are cases of Medical Syndrome (all sedans are cars and all laser printers are printers), but NOT ALL cases of Medical Student Syndrome are cases of First Clinical Syndrome (not all cars are sedans and not all printers are laser printers).

So, We can merge this only when you are merging Laser Printer with Printer and Sedan with car. I am not making a point, but just trying to give you an example.

If you have further doubts, please ask  Doctor Bruno  19:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I've replied here [2]

No Need to push further. If we push further will will end up in saying that we don't need articles for Laser Printer as it is a subset of Printer and Sedan as it is a subset of Car. I think I have given enough examples. Any how, a Sedan is a specific type of Car, a laser printer is a specific type of printer and First Clinical Syndrome is a specific type of Hypochondriasis and hence a special article is needed. If you feel that those examples are off the mark, let me give examples from medicine itself. Since Medical Student Syndrome is a subset of hypochondria and since Cyberchondria also is a subset of hypochondria can we merge both these along with hypochondria. Why it did not occur to you that cyberchondria should be merged with hypochondria when the former is a subset of the latter. They all deserve their own article. I am sure that you will agree with me that "Medical Student Syndrome", "First Clinical Syndrome" and "Cyberchondria" need separate articles. Please take a look at Brain_fag, Fan_death, Windigo where we have articles based on such entities which are limited to one small community. Culture-Bound_Syndrome and Genital_retraction_syndrome#Southeast_Asia:_Koro provide more insights. This should be treated like that only. If you still cannot understand I think I have to improve my communication skills. Doctor Bruno  00:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a matter of where you draw the line. However, if I may indulge a litte, I bet the viewpoint I propose is the more typical viewpoint. Furthermore, if I may appeal to google, there are 527 entries for "medical student syndrome." On the other hand, there's only one (or two) listings for "first clinical syndrome." The other listings do not refer to the specific entity of "first clinical syndrome." (In contrast, "cyberchondria" has over 10,000 listings.) Andrew73 00:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

David Ruben RfA

Andrew73, thank you for your support in my RfA which passed on 13th December 2006 with a tally of 49/10/5. I am delighted by the result and a little daunted by the scope of the additional tools; I shall be cautious in my use of them. I am well aware that becoming an Admin is not just about a successful nomination, but a continuing process of gaining further experience; for this I shall welcome your feedback. Again, many thanks for supporting my RfA. :-) David Ruben 01:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Request for input on Hawthorne effect

Hello, Andrew,

I've been editing the Hawthorne effect article lately, and I'm getting to the point where I'd like to delete much of the content from Steve Draper's webpage. It looks like you're the one who added it back in November 2005. If so, would you mind looking at the talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hawthorne_effect) and see if you see any reason why I shouldn't reorganize as proposed? Thanks. Dblomgren 04:15, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Epinephrine

Hey there, doc. I'd love to hear from you again on Talk:Epinephrine. I know it's probably frustrating, but your input would really help to build consensus. Thanks, David Iberri (talk) 04:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Interstitial lung disease vs. diffuse parenchymal lung disease

Hello, Andrew. Would you like to comment here? Axl 23:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Er, actually I wanted you to comment on your decision to move 'diffuse parenchymal lung disease' to 'interstitial lung disease' (as per the title of this subsection on your talk page). ;-) Axl 10:56, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Graves disease

Thanks, as always, for your good work and copy-editing of the rest of Graves disease. Whilst I'll accept that some areas in non-english speaking europe know the disease by Basedow’s name, you re-added that also known as "Graves-Basedow disease" - but who knows it by this joint term ? David Ruben ^Talk 04:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

If you pubmed for "Graves-Basedow disease" you actually do come up with some listings...all in journals in foreign languages. Andrew73 15:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah - duh, silly of me not to have looked before asking :-) Thanks David Ruben ^Talk 17:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

DSM cautionary statement RfC

WikiThanks

Hi. I wanted to give you my very belated thanks for your reply to the RfC for DSM cautionary statement in May 2006. I actually began a very long wikibreak right around when the debate about the cautionary statement page was taking place (and largely because of it), so I didn't see it at the time. Thanks for your attention to a complicated and trying matter. Happy editing! –Sommers ^(Talk) 04:31, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

MMR Vaccine

Please see the edit history of MMR Vaccine as soon as you have time. I can't revert to my own most recent revision, and IMO the POV war has begun again. Heathhunnicutt 17:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't sure which edit you were referring to, as your last edit was nearly a month ago. Andrew73 17:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

The three most recent edits, which include adding links to the "MMR Controversy" page and adding a "Bowel Disorder association" section. To me, they seem anti-vaccinationist as we have seen hit that article before. Heathhunnicutt 23:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

Dear Dr. Andrew,

We're both MD's. What do you think of making contributions to something else in wikipedia (besides medical topics)? Earlier today, I made a comment about the John Edwards (running for president).

There seems to be a fight going on there about Mrs. Edwards' cancer. John Edwards said (and I paraphrase) that the cancer is "completely treatable" and likened it to diabetes (probably because both are not curable, but treatable).

Some argue that Edwards is being deceptive and putting too much of a spin. There was a mention that being misleading is potentially harmful to the public because someone else with breast cancer might misunderstand and think that her prognosis is good. They even wanted to put grim prognosis numbers. Some others thought that "original research" and "soapboxing" is not permitted in wikipedia and they wanted to put just the info from the glossy Edwards press reports.

I take a neutral stance in between.

The problem I see is that is it potentially bad to write about this type of comment? Some doctors in wikipedia stick to medicine but others do not. I don't want to get into a fight between a bunch of Democrats and Republicans. What's your experience making edits like Anna Nicole Smith and other non-medical stuff? What I wrote--is it a reasonable compromise of the waring sides?

Best regards, Frank (Doc United States) Here's the link [3] My part is near or at the bottom called "A Response from a Physician"Doc United States 22:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I pretty much agree with what you've written. I'm not sure if there's that much more to add on my end. Andrew73 12:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

FYI, the user who called himself "Doc United States" has been identified through Checkuser as merely one of numerous sock puppets of User:Dereks1x, who created a false identity as a doctor to gain advantage in the editing dispute. His account has been indefinitely blocked, and I'm striking out his comment above as it was done in evasion of Dereks1x's block and is a fraudulent identity. Tvoz |talk 19:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Nice reference you added to the Phenothiazine article Andrew73

^ Whitaker R (2004). "The case against antipsychotic drugs: a 50-year record of doing more harm than good". Med. Hypotheses 62 (1): 5-13. PMID 14728997.

I look forward to reading it sometime soon. Dr CareBear 08:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Arrrr... Medical Hypotheses again... its Wikipedia-specific impact factor must exceed that of the NEJM by now. MastCell ^Talk 20:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes I'm sure there's fodder for every possible hypothesis in that journal. In any event, I think for the phenothiazine article, it did provide some documentation for its historical development. Andrew73 20:44, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I completely agree. It was more of a knee-jerk, gut reaction than a well-thought-out objection. Please excuse me. :) Come to think of it, I should look into getting published there... MastCell ^Talk 20:49, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Redwing

Hi, please note that it is a long-standing convention on Wikipedia that bird species are capitalised, thanks, Jimfbleak 05:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Epinephrine

Changes by 90.200.228.98 and 211.21.117.45 in Epinephrine were not vandalism. They were just trying to fix display problems. Don't forget to assume good faith. Errorneous 16:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Images for various drugs

Hi, I've noticed that you're removed images for such articles as diazepam, fluphenazine, and trifluoperazine and subsequently flagged them for deletion. I've restored these images to the articles, since they provide some historical context. These drugs were more widely used in the 80s (though diazepam continues to be used widely today), and the images give a flavor for the time period that they were widely used. Andrew73 03:06, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. It's questionable whether or not these images meet the non-free content criteria, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pharmacology#Advertisements. They would seem to fail 3a, minimal use, 3b, low resolution, 8, significance, and 10, use rationale. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 05:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

MCOTW

JFW | T@lk 11:20, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!

I just wanted to thank you for the effort you put into making St_Christopher_Iba_Mar_Diop_College_of_Medicine a fair and balanced article. Lord knows it needed it. MDToBe 18:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Trademark symbols

Thanks! —Chowbok ☠ 14:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Neutra Phos

I saw your comment at Talk:Neutra Phos. Feel free to remove the proposed deletion that I added if you think the article should be kept. What do you think of moving the article to something like phosphate supplement and broadening it to be more than just about one brand name product? -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Good suggestion. As far as I know, however, Neutra Phos is the main phosphate supplement that's out there. Andrew73 (talk) 02:30, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Survey request

Hi,
I need your help. I am working on a research project at Boston College, studying creation of medical information on Wikipedia. You are being contacted, because you have been identified as an important contributor to one or more articles.

Would you will be willing to answer a few questions about your experience? We've done considerable background research, but we would also like to gather the insight of the actual editors. Details about the project can be found at the user page of the project leader, geraldckane. Survey questions can be found at geraldckane/medsurvey. Your privacy and confidentiality will be strictly protected!

The questions should only take a few minutes. I hope you will be willing to complete the survey, as we do value your insight. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Professor Kane if you have any questions.

Thank You, Sam4bc (talk) 15:58, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Cardiology task force

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GA reassessment of Heparin

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Main page appearance

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Parkinson's disease is an age-related degenerative disorder of the human brain. It rarely arises before the age of 40, but afflicts more than 1% of people over 60 and 4% of people over 80. The most obvious symptoms are movement-related, including shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking gait. Cognitive, sensory, sleep and emotional problems may also occur, especially in the later stages. The most noticeable symptoms are brought about by the death of brain cells that produce the chemical dopamine. Some cases are caused by genetic factors, but for most cases the causes are not known. Diagnosis is based on assessment of symptoms. In spite of extensive scientific research, no cure has yet been found. Modern treatments are effective at managing the early motor symptoms of the disease, mainly through the use of levodopa and dopamine agonists. In the later stages, however, these treatments gradually lose their effectiveness. The disease is named after British apothecary James Parkinson, and his birthday, April 11, has been designated Parkinson's Disease Day. (more...)

Request for attention - Christopher Busby

Hi. I noticed your interest in oncology and hematology. Perhaps you can help me with the above BLP. See [4]. Even referring this to another, more appropriate, editor would be greatly appreciated. Yakushima (talk) 14:12, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

AfD you should know about

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clinical trials with surprising outcomes. Fences&Windows 19:43, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Please join a discussion

Please join a discussion ("Wikipedia and its relationship to the outside world") about medical ELs and related issues. You may want to follow the links provided to learn more if you are so inclined. Thank you in advance. Presto54 (talk) 07:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Apology

I want to apologize for my language here that I struck out.

I did not read the titles of the articles. Since the afd is about to close, I also asked on the afd why did you not include it. I'm asking you here on the talk page as well because the afd is about to close, and any rationale on your comment would be helpful. Thank youCurb Chain (talk) 11:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Hi Andrew73, regarding your efforts to maintain the Surprising Trials page, it occurs to me that an article in a peer-reviewed journal would silence the critics. I'm a scientist working in an academic clinical trials group in London, would you (and others?) be interested in writing such an article? Norman21 (talk) 16:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Clinical trials with surprising outcomes

Thank you for preserving an archive of "Clinical trials with surprising outcomes".

As a non-medical scientist, I had the view that clinical trials are necessary but tedious – they can show that drug X is slightly better than drug Y, or than a placebo, but they never really find anything interesting. The trials you list show otherwise. It's a shame that the article was removed from Wikipedia. Maproom (talk) 16:13, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

New medical organization

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 21:16, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 14:38, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

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BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

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CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
  Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
  (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
• Arabic
  The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.

Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [7]

News in short

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To come

• Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
• Proofreading drives

Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

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File source problem with File:Mass General Hospital.jpg

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:09, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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File:Harborfields.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Harborfields.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:33, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, an open access peer reviewed journal with no charges, invites you to participate

Hi

Did you know about Wikiversity Journal of Medicine? It is an open access, peer reviewed medical journal, with no publication charges. You can find more about it by reading the article on The Signpost featuring this journal.

We welcome you to have a look the journal. Feel free to participate.

You can participate in any one or more of the following ways:

• Publish an article to the journal.
• Sign up as a peer reviewer of potential upcoming articles. If you do not have expertise in these subjects, you can help in finding peer reviewers for current submissions.
• Sign up as an editor, and help out in open tasks.
• Outreach to potential contributors, with can include (but is not limited to) scholars and health professionals. In any mention of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, there may be a reference to this Contribute-page. Example presentation about the journal.
• Add a post-publication review of an existing publication. If errors are found, there are guidelines for editing published works.
• Apply to become the treasurer of the journal
• Join the editorial board.
• Share your ideas of what the journal would be like in the future as separate Wikimedia project.
• Donate to Wikimedia Foundation.
• Translate journal pages into other languages. Wikiversity currently exists in the following other languages
  • Ceština, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 한국어, Português, Slovenšcina, Suomi, Svenska, Ελληνικά, Русский, العربية, 日本語
• Technical work like template designing for the journal.
• Sign up to get emails related to the journal, which are sent to updateswijoumed.org. If you want to receive these emails too, state your interest at the talk page, or contact the Editor-in-chief at haggstrom.mikaelwikiversityjournal.org.
• Spread the word to anyone who could be interested or could benefit from it.

The future of this journal as a separate Wikimedia project is under discussion and the name can be changed suitably. Currently a voting for the same is underway. Please cast your vote in the name you find most suitable. We would be glad to receive further suggestions from you. It is also acceptable to mention your votes in the wide-reachwikiversityjournal.org email list. Please note that the voting closes on 16th August, 2016, unless protracted by consensus, due to any reason.

Diptanshu^Talk 13:20, 11 August 2016 (UTC) -on behalf of the Editorial Board, Wikiversity Journal of Medicine.

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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

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Aromatase inhibitor: effect upon premenopausal women

The Wikipedia entry on aromatase inhibitors states that the use of aromatase inhibitors by premenopausal patients is not only ineffective, but could, moreover, also be counterproductive. The article does not, however, reference sources to support that assertion. Reviewing the editorial history of the article, I see that the claim of AIs' counterproductivity for premenopausal patients appears to have first appeared in Wikipedia in an October 2005 edit you made to the article. I wonder whether there are sources to which you could direct me that describe any studies of the effect of AIs in premenopausal patients. I would much appreciate any citations you can pass along. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CaliCal0035 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

"C. diff" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect C. diff and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 14#C. diff until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Mdewman6 (talk) 01:31, 14 September 2022 (UTC)