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Your Opinion.

Consider it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Brahma_Kamal Thanks.

Your Opinion.

Consider it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Brahma_Kamal Thanks.[[User talk:ayanosh|T]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/ayanosh|M]] (talk) 18:27, 1 April 2012 (UTC)ayanosh

From user Jshapely

Dear reviewer,

thank you very much for your suggestions on the article I wrote on Alessandro Liberati. To address your concerns about his notability:

he is especially known as one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of over 28,000 volunteers in more than 100 countries formed to organize research information about health care interventions in a systematic way, to aid well informed health care decisions (see also the description available in Wikipedia about the Collaboration). To date, more than 5000 “systematic reviews” on specific topics have been published in the Cochrane Library. Due to its relevance, widely acknowledged by clinicians, health care researchers and policymakers, the Cochrane Collaboration has a seat on the World Health Assembly to provide inputs on resolutions of the World Health Organization. The founder role of Liberati has been acknowledged by Sir Iain Chalmers , who is himself acknowledged as one of the founders of the Collaboration in 1993 (see his profile in Wikipedia). The Italian Cochrane Centre was one of the first to be established (in 1994). Other people have their profile on Wikipedia mainly because of their role in the Collaboration (aside from Iain Chalmers, see also Dave Sackett and Chris Silagy). The relevant role of Liberati in the Collaboration can be also better understood by reading the countless acknowledgements in the farewell page and in the memory book posted on the Cochrane website. As for his published work (one of the relevant features indicated in the Wikipedia notability guidelines for academics) he is author of more than 200 papers published in peer reviewed and indexed journals, as it can be easily verified in Pubmed or in Google Scholar; some of these papers represent highly cited academic work, especially on how to report results of meta analyses and systematic reviews. As for other characteristics which can be worth highlighting (also according to the Wikipedia guidelines), he was on editorial boards of prestigious and selective academic journals, such as the Annals of Internal Medicine (house organ of the American College of Physicians) and the British Medical Journal (of the British Medical Association). Last but not the least, several obituary articles followed his death on specialized medical journals; among these, I would like to highlight the one on The Lancet (which is, according to the Journal Citation Index, the second general medical journal for number of citations) and the one on the British Medical Journal All these things I tried to make explicit in my article, supporting them with several citations for verifiability (a few of which also available online). I understand your point that my article may appear as a tribute to a recently dead person. As for neutral point of view, I didn’t find testimonies contrary to the good reputation I reported for Liberati. To limit the “tribute feeling” that the article may transmit, I cut the last two paragraphs (on his work in Italy and on his networking role).

Hoping that this may help support the new submission, I send you my best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jshapely (talk • contribs) 22:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Jshapely, I do not think anyone has contested the notability of your subject, simply the general tone of the article.  Theoretically the Wikipedia should just report facts.  You may have looked at WP:NPOV.  Also related is WP:PEACOCK.  Let me look over your article this week end.  I have marked it as under review.  If I feel comfortable with the article, I will approve it for you.  If I am not so comfortable, I will try to touch up any problems, and have another reviewer look at it.  Thanks for your efforts.  :- ) DCS 00:58, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

--Jshapely (talk) 21:55, 9 April 2012 (UTC) Thank you very much for your work and courtesy! I made just few changes (especially looked at the numbering of references). Hope that all these efforts (including yours) will be rewarded :)

Thanks again, Jshapely

--Jshapely (talk) 20:29, 11 April 2012 (UTC) Dear Dcshank, just wanted to say that, in order to address the NPOV issue in the Alessandro Liberati draft article, I added some brackets to highlight that I didn't express my personal opinions but reported what somebody else had written. I did this for open access material (freely available on the web, not in journals requiring subscriptions)

I write this note to you since you've been the last reviewer for this article. Thank you very much

Jshapely (a newcomer in Wikipedia)

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Hi. You just left a message at User talk:HollywoodLandPublicRelations and they were blocked for spam/username vio. Secretlondon (talk) 20:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, I had to put it somewhere.  :- ) DCS 20:09, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

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