Scope

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The scope of this project includes all articles directly pertaining to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and may include additional similar, identical, or related illnesses.

Goals

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The primary purpose of this wikiproject is to support, expand, and maintain articles pertaining to ME/CFS and other illnesses that may ultimately be clinically indistinguishable from it.

Awareness of this requirement became clear in the process of dividing the unwieldy Chronic fatigue syndrome article into a dozen more manageably sized articles, which needed a centralized point for discussion and coordination, plus other pages already extant that were not uniformly known about by the editors.


Present Activities

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Article Construction

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Wikiproject Initialization

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Project name

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There are multiple proposed names for this Wikiproject so far, each with potential issues. Consensus is presently lacking, which prevents creation of a permanent location for this wikiproject.

  • ME Project -- Will have name collisions with Middle Earth, although fewer than initially feared. Some of their redirects may need to be changed to make room for us if we go with our original proposed name after all
  • PI Project -- Post Infectious -- are all post-infectious diseases potentially just special cases of ME, or do we risk gaining things outside of our presently intended scope?
  • ME/CFS Project -- Has a slash in the name which can cause technical annoyances with Mediawiki, although it would clearly keep CFS included in our scope even if ME and CFS became clearly separated. We also are already dealing with the technical annoyances elsewhere
  • Nightingale Project -- Honors Florence Nightingale but may be both too obscure and implicative of a POV and association with Dr Hyde's organization
  • Royal Free Project -- Benefits of Nightingale without the association and POV issues; may be too obscure for some users
  • ME&CFS Project -- Like "ME/CFS Project", it indicates that ME and CFS are seperate but related issues, unfortunately becomes "ME%26CFS Project" in a URL.
  • ME-CFS Project -- Similar to "ME/CFS Project" and "ME&CFS Project", but could avoid technical annoyances? However, the dash is often barely visible.
  • ME_CFS Project -- Similar to others, and the underscore doesn't show up when the text is rendered so it looks like "ME CFS Project".
  • MEandCFS Project -- Similar to others, but may look odd?
  • ME CFS Knowledge Project -- Similar to others, just space between ME and CFS, incorporates a compatibility with CDC Awareness Program that Jagra suggested. Awareness probably a word to avoid due to possible interpretation of advocacy on Wikipedia. But then knowledge is redundant as it is expected from an encyclopedia!
  • ME and CFS Database A bit dry? needs a play on words to be catchy
  • ME and CFS (I can't remember the word right now) When you look at the list of other medical wikiprojects heremaybe that's all that is needed?

Other names have been proposed. If you have proposed a name not listed above, please add it.

Logo/Mascot

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A custom graphic is presently being used for the tag templates, but what options can we think of?

Blue Awareness Ribbon
  Florence Nightingale
  Royal Free Hospital
  Create a new piece of artwork -- feedback on this design is requested.

Completed tasks and projects

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Central article split

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Split Chronic Fatigue Syndrome into 12 separate articles.

Progress
Meter                        

Cleanup alerts

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April 2008

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Requested sources

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  • Sources for outbreaks (or clusters) after 1990


Breaking research

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Paste article and research news links here that may be of interest to project editors

  • Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta recently launched the most comprehensive population-based clinical study to date of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The study includes about 90 patients from Atlanta who will participate in the three-day in-patient clinical trial.
"We believe this research will lead us to a better understanding of the causes of CFS, both from a psychological and biological standpoint," says Andrew Miller, M.D., Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory and Emory principal investigator of the study.[1] Ward20 (talk) 20:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


Top priority articles

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Proposed activities

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(insert strong ideas here or start a discussion in talk)

Proposed articles

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  • ME/CFS classification -- a history of the ICD classification of ME. Integrated into ME/CFS history after all
  • IACFS/ME -- the international organization of ME/CFS researchers and clinicians
  • Peter Behan -- prominent ME researcher
  • Kenny DeMeirleir - prominent ME/CFS researcher
  • John Kerr (CFS researcher) -- prominent CFS researcher
  • Myalgic encephalomyelitis -- This needs a lengthy discussion; talk page for the redirect is already listed under highly appropriate adoption candidates
  • ME/CFS diets (longer term project in sandbox)
  • ME/CFS organizations -- A place for a comprehensive list, at least until it's time to subdivide it
  • ME/CFS misdiagnosis -- need indirectly indicated by an anonymous user
  • ME/CFS symptom list -- Have not yet seen a comprahensive list of all possible symptoms for the condition, or differential symptoms between different criteria or nomenclature

Articles to possibly adopt

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Highly appropriate candidates

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Maybe to Mid priority candidates

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Iffy potential adoption candidates

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Unchecked articles linking to ME/CFS

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Notable patients and alleged patients

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Moved to Talk:Notable sufferers from Chronic fatigue syndrome

Wrongly linking to ME/CFS

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Cultural References

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Researchers, activists, et c.

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Templates

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ME/CFS core articles template

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Project template

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  This article is within the scope of WikiProject Damn Disease, which aims to maintain and coordinate all articles pertaining to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and illnesses that may prove to be clinically indistinguishable from it. Please visit the project talk page for suggestions and ideas on how you can improve this and other articles.

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