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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:55, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Assignment # 3

Hello, another Wikipedia editor has made quite a few modifications to your chosen article Peanut allergy. Please review these changes before you post your suggestions on the talk page for assignment #3. Recent changes can be viewed by clicking the "View History" tab on the article. You can review the new edits by clicking the dots to compare the edits. Please make sure that your suggestions do not conflict with the new version of the article. If you have any questions, please let me know. JenOttawa (talk) 13:54, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Create new section in Talk

@Nasztalos: I suggest that one of the student group create a new section in the Talk for Peanut Allergy, perhaps "Moving content to article". There, each student can briefly mention what sections of the article have new content. To a degree, this duplicates what the students are putting into the Edit summary space. But it would create a new place in Talk for discussion of the changes, rather than adding to the already very long Proposed changes section. David notMD (talk) 18:53, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

@David notMD:, thank you for the suggestion. I see that this will make our edits easier to track by the community. I have brought it up to my group to consider, but I don't see it being a problem. Nasztalos (talk) 18:48, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

I have added the section to the talk page and my group members will add in information about their edits shortly. - Nasztalos (talk) 23:27, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

@David notMD:, as suggested below by JenOttawa, this section will now be located on my talk page, rather than the Peanut Allergy talk page. - Nasztalos (talk) 01:24, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Your edits on the talk page

@Willwu22 and Nasztalos: I have pasted this here from the talk page of your article. Once your edits go live, you do not need to summarize them again on the actual talk page. If you group would like to organize them, you can do it here or on one of your talk pages. Wikipedians can see exactly what you did by clicking the "history" tab of your article, and those watching this wikipedia article will do so and review your edit. Great work so far adding content! It is great to see this article improving. If you need help with anything, please do not hesitate to let me know. JenOttawa (talk) 01:12, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Moving content to article

This section is for discussing changes made to the Peanut Allergy article by our student group, originally posted above under "Proposed Edits" on the Peanut Allergy talk page.

1. Added section entitled "Prognosis". Here, I included information on the natural history of one's allergy to peanuts, as well as recommended allergy re-evaluation guidelines. My edit was made more concise by Doc James, and I then edited his grammar. - Nasztalos (talk) 23:23, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

2. Added two sentences under "Society and Culture". These sentences address the perceived prevalence of peanut allergy vs the actual prevalence of peanut allergy. @DavidnotMD collaborated in refining this edit for appropriate sourcing. --Willwu22 (talk) 01:07, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

3. Added specific details regarding age of first exposure and decrease in risk to first sentence of timing of exposure section. MikeChristie94! (talk) 15:50, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

4. Replaced first sentence (a primary source) under Diet During Pregnancy with a sentence that has a Canadian Pediatric Society guideline as the source as per discussion on the talk page. Ben893 (talk) 01:18, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

5. Under epidemiology, added "In Western countries, the incidence of peanut allergy is between 1-3%.[14] There has been a sudden increase in number of cases in the early 21st century.[14]"Bethany.ricker (talk) 00:23, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Upgrading to B-class?

Not for you to decide, but this article is currently rated C-class on the WikiProject Medicine quality scale. You can see this at the top of the article's Talk. (All of the class selections were C-class or the lower rating of "Start" at the beginning.) One of the experienced editors may decide the Peanut allergy revisions warrant a change to B-class. Or not. My opinion is not there yet, even with your group's additions and subtractions. I recently moved Egg allergy from C-class to Good Article. That involved taking the article from 13,000 to 40,000 bytes, adding 25 references, and having my nomination peer-reviewed. My point here is that healthcare professionals should check rating whenever looking at an article. Oh, and the criteria can change over time. Vitamin C reached Good Article in 2007, then was delisted in 2010. I am currently in peer-review stage of getting it back to GA. David notMD (talk) 20:11, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for the insight! Nasztalos (talk) 22:27, 21 November 2017 (UTC)