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American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association edit

 

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I have permission from Virginia Ladd, President of AARDA, to use the content. However, I do not think I can get anything formal from her for several weeks. If the content can be left on wikipedia it would be great. Ironically I am not sure if the site referred to in your note, http://www.purchase.org/charity/show/id/35/, has any permission to use the content on our website. Where do they say they have a copyright? It is not their material. It is ironic that we are suffering consequences because they stole our material and posted it on their website. I do not know anything about them - they may be legitimate, but they do not hold a copyright for this material - it is from the AARDA website and it belongs to us.

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Noel Rose edit

Go right ahead with Noel Rose. Happy editing, Tom Harrison Talk 16:28, 12 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

List of autoimmune diseases qualifiers edit

The use of Y and N as qualifiers in the List of autoimmune diseases is unfortunate given their yes/no significance in English (which partially opposes the formerly-was/was-not-before meaning in the current iteration of the article). Since you (apparently) initiated the change, it would be great if you could lead an update to more readily understood (really, not misunderstood) symbols (I know this is a bit of an ask, but seeing `Y' as a special endorsement and `N' as an implicit repudiation is quite jarring!). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:8E57:3800:A78A:90E:ED25:490B (talk) 20:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

I agree - the "Y"/"N" characterization is not helpful. I only kept it because the previous list used it and I wanted to retain the historical data as much as possible since I had changed the format extensively. This table needs to be updated. I will see if I can go through, remove this older characterization, and put something more meaningful in.Aaron Abend (talk) 12:58, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply