User talk:Doc James/Archive 90

Popular Medicine Pages

Is this still being followed by Andrew West? I've noticed it normally turn over around the 10th of the month or so and it's still displaying December's top articles. Was this abandoned? TylerDurden8823 (talk) 07:23, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

You mean this [1] User:TylerDurden8823? Yes I see we do not have January data yet. I have been following these numbers for many years. They are not done by Andrew West but by User:Mr.Z-man. As they do not contain mobile they have become less useful over time. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:16, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that's the page I'm referring to in my original post. I do understand about their limitations due to not incorporating mobile views (any way we can incorporate that data Zman?). Even if it's limited, it would be nice to see the January data. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 01:24, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Maybe User:West.andrew.g could help update Mr.Z's tool? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:10, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

I produce User:West.andrew.g/Popular_medical_pages weekly. I include mobile data. I know nothing of Mr. Z's tool. West.andrew.g (talk) 19:03, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

User:West.andrew.g Mr.Z tool is similar. It produces monthly totals views of all medical articles in EN. But it does not include mobile. I have been following the trend in monthly readership for years. How much more work would it be for you to generate that value as well? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

I agree that this would be very valuable information for us given the persistent increase we have seen in mobile page views. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 02:17, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

West.andrew.g how are things going with this? TylerDurden8823 (talk) 02:45, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Cure Award

Hi Doc James, thank you very much to the project medicine for my second Cure Award! Among the german editors in the list, the rollbackers (we have a "flagged revisions" system) and the correctors lead the statistics, followed by medical authors. Now, is there a possibility to determine cumulative edit sizes, or to determine average edit size and multiply it with the edit count? Cheers, --Ghilt (talk) 10:06, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback User:Ghilt. We calculated total bytes added and total bytes remved for 2013 here and could likely do this for 2015. We could look at trying some weighted average of both number of edits and bytes of edits. Those who revert large chunks of removed content however would still rank very highly. I am not sure of a perfect measure and happy to hear suggestions :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:28, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, is there a possibility to filter reverts from other edits? --Ghilt (talk) 20:05, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Maybe. I can ask. Agree that would improve the data. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Cool, thanks, --Ghilt (talk) 08:13, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Is this spam?

Hi, Doc James.

Can you take a look at these editions? I think that they are spam. I just have reverted one in diabetes mellitus type 1.

Best regards. --BallenaBlanca (talk) 12:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Not really any need to waste time looking at them -- all the edits by that account are blatant spam, but all have been reverted and the editor has been warned not to do this. Looie496 (talk) 15:39, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Perfect. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:29, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Cure award given me

I just noted the medical 'Cure Award' given me by you and the wikimedia medical team. I would have been a much less able contributor without your supervision of me. I am proficient in composition, and usually seek to contribute only topics I have at least for the moment, detailed information about, owing to research. I'm not a medical professional, just an enthusiastic amateur. Thanks for your support!Sbalfour (talk) 18:22, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

User:Sbalfour thanks again for being with us :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:29, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Just the guy

I tried pinging you just now but am not sure I got through to the right page. Please could you have a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guy ropes, where we could use an expert opinion. Thanks. Andrew D. (talk) 15:45, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Guy ropes are these things [2]

These muscles are "acting" like them.[3] They are not called "guy ropes" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:02, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Fibromyalgia

I had removed the image (File:Tender points fibromyalgia svg.svg) from infobox because I put it in the diagnosis section. In the diagnosis section also exists another new image that I created (File:Widespread Pain Index Areas.svg). Today won the 2010 criteria for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia, so I had removed the image from infobox. --Jmarchn (talk) 23:55, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

What image should we put in the infobox User:Jmarchn? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:21, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I think no images is required in the infobox.Jmarchn (talk) 08:40, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Typically we put an image in the infobox. I am not sure what is wrong with this one? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:18, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

sudden Infant Death Syndromea

Hello there new studies about breastfeeding Federal University of Pelotas and the edge of the bed, no bedside no substance in bed is better and http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(15)01284-6/abstract to sleep in his own bed in the parents' bedroom, I'm from Germany but I think you find it so in english, Kind Regrds Ingo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Funkycameo (talk • contribs) 12:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Sudden infant death syndrome

Hello there new studies about breastfeeding Federal University of Pelotas and the edge of the bed, no bedside no substance in bed is better and http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(15)01284-6/abstract to sleep in his own bed in the parents' bedroom, I'm from Germany but I think you find it so in english — Preceding unsigned comment added by Funkycameo (talk • contribs) 12:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

This paper is a primary source [4]. Better for use to wait for a secondary source. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

RPL-554

same page! i was going to clean that up and ec-ed with you. i'll stand back. Jytdog (talk) 18:07, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

No please you go ahead. It is more of a research substance. User:Jytdog Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:11, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

yep, not medicine yet. Jytdog (talk) 18:14, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation

	Hello, Doc James. You are invited to join WikiProject Food and drink, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of food, drink and cuisine topics. Please check out the project, and if interested feel free to join by adding your name to the member list. North America1000 20:55, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Not really my topic area but thanks :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:34, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

FCA Policy Breifing

Hi, James.

Thanks for fixing some of my lousy mistakes - I appreciate the time you invest.

I wanted to point out that the FCA Policy Briefing states that there appears to be widespread agreement that "e-cigarettes are almost certainly considerably less hazardous for individuals than cigarettes." Their position should be presented as is.

I'd like to clarify that I have no conflicts of interests. I'm an anti-smoking researcher/advocate. My contribution history attests to adding information on on smoking's hazards and nicotine's psychological detriments years ago. I think the research shows that e-cigs are undoubtedly much less harmful than tobacco cigarettes, which deliver >7,000 chemicals - Wikipedia should be more balanced. Zvi Zig (talk • contribs) —Preceding undated comment added 19:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay I put it in quotes. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:40, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zvi Zig (talk • contribs) 19:48, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

References

I thank you for the trust you have placed in me

Hi Doc James. I am very happy to have received your message of recognition and I really thank you very much. I joined the Med Foundation Project Wik but, besides that I do not have much time, I do not know how I could collaborate in Spanish. I thank you once again for the trust you have placed in me. Greetings. PD: excuse my bad English --1mssg (talk) 04:18, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

User:1mssg we are working on a large project as described here. Basically we are working to improve the leads of the English articles and translate them into as many other languages as possible. For example these are missing in Spanish.[5] Have you used the Content Translation tool before? It works really well. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:53, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

When I finished I will try to see that

Hi, Doc James. Right now I am trying to improve the translation of Meningitis and add text and references. When I finished it I will try to analyze untranslated articles that you mention me. Regards--1mssg (talk) 07:39, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay. Let me know if you need help. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:20, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

edit request: Heart strain/heart failure

Hi Doc James. I am currently at an altitude of 7000 feet and after modest exercise have felt a strained, mildly painful "pulling/tweaking" sensation in the left chest region all afternoon, presumably caused by the heart working in low oxygen conditions. So out of curiosity, I searched in Wikipedia for "Heart strain" and was immediately redirected to Heart failure. Now, the Heart Failure article does not include the word "strain" at all. Neither does it include the word "pain" in the symptoms sections. I therefore conclude that heart strain/heart failure is a painless condition according to Wikipedia. That being so, could you please specify this explicitly somewhere at the beginning of the article, for example like this: "Heart strain, also known as heart failure, is painless despite its name. If you are interested in heart PAIN, or chest pain, you should consult the Wikipedia article XYZ". Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.198.141.176 (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

You are thinking of angina Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:11, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay found a ref and added the fact that CP does not typically occur. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, that is entirely counterintuitive and therefore VERY helpful. Meanwhile I have read the angina article (does not mention "altitude angina" - but perhaps that kind of condition exists only in my imagination). What would now prevent people from making the same mistake as me is a line at the top of the Heart failure article saying something like "This article is about heart strain in the sense of heart failure. For the sense of "strained sensation in the heart", see Angina". Would you oblige? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.198.141.176 (talk) 18:44, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

IMO the line at the end of the first paragraph to look at chest pain which is what it appears you are describing is sufficient. By the way you should get checked out by a health care providor. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, tomorrow down in the valley I will mention it to the doctor (who is my spouse - but I anticipate I will be told to stop whining...). I now take your point that your chest pain link ultimately leads the reader to angina. However I managed to overlook the chest pain link completely at first and second reading. And I think that is because chest pain is so deceptively simple a word and does not have the heart connotation (when I hear chest pain I think more of lungs and pneumonia.) At the risk of overstaying my welcome, perhaps a slight pointer like this might help the reader (note also my stylistic change of your sentence): "Chest pain SUCH AS ANGINA PECTORIS is not a typical symptom of heart failure." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.198.141.176 (talk) 19:41, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes chest pain can be due to a lot of causes including insufficient blood flow to the heart which is angina. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:53, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Muchas gracias, Doctore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.198.141.176 (talk) 20:07, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Hemorrhoid

I'm surprised the article title is at the unusual singular form rather than the plural, yet the plural form is used throughout. While our naming guideline, WP:PLURAL, does suggest we use singular form, it does allow the plural form when it is standard, such as with fireworks. Which title do you feel is the more appropriate? SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 00:27, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

No strong feelings. Happy with what the grammar people say. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:28, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Psoriasis

Hi James, I noticed you reverted the edit on psoriasis. Although it's limited, it does look like there has been discussion on the talk page (including from JFW) to remove the image (not because it is gratuitous but because it may not be representative of actual penile psoriasis and may just be unnecessary). If you recall, a similar discussion took place not too long ago on Wikiproject Medicine's talk page that trailed off but didn't seem to make a compelling case for keeping it. Perhaps further discussion is warranted on the psoriasis talk page if you feel strongly it should be included. LMK! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 02:44, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

User:TylerDurden8823 ah thanks. I though its removal was an error. Removed it. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:46, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I was just reviewing the original Wikiproject discussion here [6]. Most of the community appeared to accept the image though it was never entirely settled whether the image is truly representative or not. Thoughts? We don't have additional pictures on Wikimedia commons that are better to my knowledge. Perhaps the issue is worthy of further discussion on the Wikiproject and psoriasis talk pages. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 02:49, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I have no strong opinion. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:52, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Neither do I really, just going by (what I presume to be) the limited consensus via talk page. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 03:47, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

"In the wrong spot"

Hi, can you please explain in more detail your edit in [7]? --Beneficii (talk) 03:31, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

These templates go at the end [8]

And one does not put in a see also section terms already linked in the article. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. --Beneficii (talk) 03:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Purpuric rash

Dear Dr James: a user added purpuric rash as a synonym of meningococcemia in the article that I rewrote some time ago. I think the purpuric (or petechial) rash is a manifestation of the disease and not the disease or its synonym. What do you think? Thanks and regards. PS: please excuse my bad English.--1mssg (talk) 00:12, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes agree with you. It is not a synonym for meningococcemia simple a description of a type of rash. Where was that / on what page? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:17, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Hepatitis A and B Vaccine links

Hi Doc James,

I noticed that you made some edits to the Hepatitis Prevention article - thank you!

I had previously linked to some of the vaccine wikipedia pages, but they seem to be gone now. Did you make these edits? If so, can I ask why?

As a new member, I'm having a difficult time interpreting the view history section, so I was just curious.

Thanks again for all your help!

Aliciadcadams (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Welcome User:Aliciadcadams. We do not put links in headings typically if that is what you mean. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:04, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Just noticed another problem. As text is being copied and pasted around a bunch of references are using the same tags. Thus you see the error messages in the references section. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:05, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Provided some links. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:07, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, I was unaware of that rule. I also see your point regarding errors in the references section - I think this is due to new edits that used similar sources as mine. I will discuss with my classmates. Thanks again! Aliciadcadams (talk) 22:15, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Also User:Aliciadcadams refs go right after the punctuation on Wikipedia. Rather than before and rather than a space first. Let me know if you have further questions. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:16, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

When are you going to stop edit warring schistosomiasis?

Your recent editing history at Schistosomiasis shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. 70.124.133.228 (talk) 22:21, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes thanks for the heads up. But please join the discussion on the talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:16, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

How many times have you reverted? 70.124.133.228 (talk) 05:44, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Meningococcal disease

Hi, Doc James. It´s the Spanish page and this is the English page. Thanks for all and regards.--1mssg (talk) 16:37, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Ah yes I see it here "púrpura fulminante". My spanish is not good enough to get involved with that. I guess the question is what do Spanish sources use? If it is not referenced then remove it. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:34, 10 March 2016 (UTC)