User talk:JenOttawa

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for all the excellent work you are doing :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:24, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For taking care of vandalism. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Invisible Barnstar
For all the behind the scenes supervision you provided to the medical students at Queen's University (Ontario, Canada) on the 16 medicine-related articles they undertook to improve. David notMD (talk) 13:06, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi David notMD, Thank you for the kind note and Barn Star. I greatly appreciate all the time you took to help with the project as well! JenOttawa (talk) 03:43, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the encouragement and leadership Doc James! JenOttawa (talk) 01:52, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello TonyBallioni, thank you for the message. I will definitely need this in September.JenOttawa (talk) 00:00, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

developing training programs for new editors

a short video
a document formatted to print to paper

I read over the training program you are developing at User:JenOttawa/Introduction to Medical Editing: Cheat Sheet. This looks great!

The major challenge here is that since 2001 Wikipedia has established no popular or broadly praised online training system. At various times various groups have invested hundreds of thousands of US$ in trying to design a process. Countless volunteer hours have gone into this. Some processes are more popular but nothing is an obvious recommendation.

Your guide is the most practical and direct explanation that I have seen to target academic writers with an invitation and instructions to edit Wikipedia. It seems good and it seems fine to share.

I see that this guide includes a link to the dashboard training. I am also here sharing a video and a document. What these three other training materials have in common is that they offer little practical advice and instead express abstract concepts and do some socializing. Personally, when I do Wikipedia outreach, I emphasize how new Wikipedia editors should learn to talk about Wikipedia with other people on and off-wiki, and de-emphasize understanding technical aspects of Wikipedia. My system has a lot of faults, and although I have presented it to hundreds of people, I cannot say that it has any better outcome than other ideas in circulation. My theory is that if people feel good about editing Wikipedia then they will overcome technical barriers. Alternatively, if they only learn the technical process, then they may not come to feel good about editing until and unless they later have some social experiences. If a person's time is scarce then at least sometimes guiding them to a positive perspective quickly can be a more effective start than giving them a skill set without social context.

I am not sure which way is the right way! Almost all training programs attempt their own system. Yours is off to a more developed start than many other programs reach in their finished state. If I were to suggest any changes it would be what I recommend for almost any writing - make it shorter and make it even easier to understand. It is already very good. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:29, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi @Xaosflux:, thank you for helping with this request. Happy editing to you as well :) JenOttawa (talk) 00:57, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear @Chetsford: thank you for helping with this and for granting me this privilege. I appreciate your assistance. Have a great day and happy editing! JenOttawa (talk) 16:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Marlyhanna

Please see my comments to one of your participants. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:28, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the note and for catching this @Chris troutman:. I have emailed the Cochrane Group to try and reach out to this volunteer. I also explained how a protected page works and that requests can be placed on the individual article talk pages. Have a great day! JenOttawa (talk) 14:42, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Your WikiJMed nomination of Leprosy

Hello, The Leprosy article has been imported to v:WikiJournal_Preprints/Leprosy. Whenever you're ready to proceed:

  1. Fill in the "article info" template at the top (often easiest in VisualEditor)
  2. When you're ready to submit it, just fill in the authorship declaration form

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 04:55, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help @Evolution and evolvability:. We had not intended to submit the Society and culture section as we did review or improve. How do you suggest to proceed? I will start to fill out the authorship template. Your help is greatly appreciated. JenOttawa (talk) 22:43, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No problem at all, just remove that section from the copy over at v:WikiJournal_Preprints/Leprosy and it'll be omitted from the peer review. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 04:21, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Just noticed my incorrect section title on this - I've edited it from 'WikiJSci' to 'WikiJMed', but feel free to revert if you prefer to retain the way I originally wrote it! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 03:45, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @Evolution and evolvability: Thank you for helping with this. I agree that it was meant for WikiJournal of Medicine.JenOttawa (talk) 14:23, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear @Wylie39: thank you for noticing this. Please do delete right away. This was an error on my part!!! I appreciate your help and your notice. JenOttawa (talk) 20:30, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Paolocmartin

Hi Jen - ProcrasinatingReader bought Paolocmartin (talk · contribs)'s contributions to my attention - It seems they're associated with your project.

I'm a bit concerned about contributions like this, this, and this which whist relevant to your project have been created in inappropriate locations.

It seems the contributor is simply inexperienced with Wikipedia, and is "leaping without looking", so to speak. Is this something that could be handled internally within your project? I'm concerned the editor may end up blocked if they keep creating articles / pages in inappropriate locations, since it's quite a lot of work for other editors to go through and tidy things up.

Please get in touch here, through my talk page, or through Special:EmailUser if there's anything I can do to help.

Thanks in advance,

-- a they/them | argue | contribs 21:01, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Alfie:, Thank for you flagging me here. I have a feeling that this editor had intended to create a project page and accidentally used English Wikipedia Mainspace. I will reach out immediately and help them create a project page. Thank you again for reaching out! JenOttawa (talk) 22:50, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Absolutely no worries - they seem to be getting it now, glad you're on top of it. Cheers, -- a they/them | argue | contribs 22:51, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Alfie: You are quick! I will email them directly. Thank you again so much for your patience!JenOttawa (talk) 22:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Leprosy pre-print in WikiJMed

Hi Jen - can you take a look at the pre-print? There is one review in which you may want to start addressing and we continue to see more. Also, can you check your ORICID? It takes me to a person of the same name who is a nurse in Australia! Rwatson1955 (talk) 15:24, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Rwatson1955: thank you for noticing my ORCID error! That nurse with the same name looks very talented, but I am not her ;) We feel honoured to have the Leprosy article reviewed by such an expert and we look forward to improving our submission and the current Wikipedia article. We are addressing these improvement suggestions and I will post on the talk page as soon as we are ready to improve the article. Thank you for your help here! JenOttawa (talk) 02:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MED Newsletter - August 2020

Issue 3—August 2020


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Despite continued tumult in the real world, the show–and the newsletter–must go on at WP:MED. As always your comments, concerns, and ideas are welcome at the newsletter talk page (and at WT:MED). Here is what's happening this month:

Newly recognized content

Buruli ulcer nom. Ajpolino, reviewed by Tom (LT)
Pantothenic acid nom. David notMD, reviewed by HaEr48








Nominated for review

Parkinson's disease At featured article review. Discussion here
Prostate nom. Tom (LT), under review by Dunkleosteus77
Niacin nom. David notMD, under review by Ajpolino
Willis J. Potts nom. Larry Hockett
Dimple nom. MonkeyStolen234
Atul Gawande nom. Vrrajkum, under review by BennyOnTheLoose
Louise Bourgeois Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Ureter nom. Tom (LT), under review by Dunkeosteus77
Anatomical terms of location nom. Tom (LT)
Antibiotic sensitivity testing nom. Tom (LT)

News from around the site

  • If you've got the time, please review a GA nomination (criteria/instructions). Nominations currently sit two months before review. Let's aim for a month or less.
  • Starting July 3rd, the WMF's "Wikipedia" social media accounts will highlight an "article of the week". If you've got the bandwidth, you can watchlist Social media/Article of the week (on meta) where they'll post the article around a day ahead of time for us to clean up. You can also suggest articles to highlight.
  • A new sister project has been approved by the WMF Board: Abstract Wikipedia.

Discussions of interest

  • Several medicine-related FAs promoted 5+ years ago could use a review and update. An effort to organize our efforts is at WT:MED.
  • A large university class is working on medicine-related articles this month. They're largely focused on articles with maintenance tags. The students are working in small groups and posting their goals at each talk page. Consider watchlisting some of the assigned articles and helping the students (and us regulars) have a positive experience.
  • Tom (LT) is spearheading an effort to clean up and organize medicine-related templates, resulting in many active TfD discussions. See a list of active TfDs at WP:MED/Article alerts.

For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!

Under the Wikimedia Research Spotlight

Number of academic papers focused on Wikipedia's health content each year

This month's Wikimedia Research Showcase was on the topic "Medical knowledge on Wikipedia". It featured two presentations from invited academics (link).

First, Denise Smith (Mcbrarian) at McMaster and Western Universities received a WMF grant to review the academic literature on "Wikipedia as a health resource". She found 89 papers on the topic, most of which aim to assess our health content's accuracy, comprehensiveness, or readability. Findings vary, but are complicated by poor comparators (e.g. Wikipedia vs. a surgery textbook), the fluidity of content (research becomes dated quickly), and attempts to generalize to "health content" with no discussion of how our content is a patchwork of articles in vastly different states. The remaining papers fall into one of three categories: the use of Wikipedia as (1) a general medical resource, (2) a tool for health education, or (3) a tool for research. Interesting papers in each group, but I'll leave further exploration to the reader. There's a general trend of more papers on this topic over time; Smith is hopeful the stigma towards Wikipedia in academia and healthcare could be eroding. With any luck, her review will help orient academics as they consider studying our content. For more, see her paper in PLoS ONE.

Second, Giovanni Colavizza at the University of Amsterdam sought to assess the reliability and comprehensiveness of our covid-19 coverage by studying our citations. He collected the ~3k citations in our covid articles and compared them to the ~160k total papers on covid/coronaviruses. He found we disproportionately cite articles in more reputable journals, as well as articles that are highly cited, mentioned on Twitter, downloaded on Mendeley, etc. We disfavor citing preprints. To investigate the comprehensiveness of our citations across topics, he used the titles and abstracts of all covid papers to cluster them into five broad topical groups. He finds our citations to each group largely match its proportion in the total literature, with some exceptions (we overcite molecular biology and epidemics papers relative to their proportion in the literature, and undercite clinical medicine and public health papers). One might assume this means our coverage of covid-19 is fairly balanced to the broad topics of the literature. For more, see Colavizza's slide deck and biorxiv preprint.

For the time/interest constrained, see summaries from the authors and from WhatamIdoing.

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Ajpolino (talk) 20:51, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Drugs in Preganancy

Thank you for your edits on the drugs in pregnancy article. I think that the section for medications containing opioids should be integrated in the opioids section under recreational drugs instead. 8.3.20 Jx130 (talk) 16:33, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good point @Jx130: I agree and noticed that there was some repeat. I left it for now so that both uses of opioids (illicit and prescription) were accounted for in the article. Any additional improvements that you make would be great! Could we mention opioids in pain control section and then link to the recreational drugs section, for example? Thank you for touching base JenOttawa (talk) 16:49, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good! I mentioned opioids in the pain control section and linked opioids back to the recreational drugs section. 8.3.20 Jx130 (talk) 17:25, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Jx130:Looks terrific so far! Thanks! If anyone in your class wants to take a go at writing a Lead for this article, info on what should go in the lead is shared in WP:MEDMOS (med manual of style). Thanks again.JenOttawa (talk) 17:27, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter – September 2020

Issue 4—September 2020


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Greetings! A relatively quiet month yields a shorter newsletter. The featured section is taking the month off, but please continue to drop comments and ideas at the newsletter talk page. Here is what's happening this month:

Newly recognized content

Willis J. Potts nom. Larry Hockett, reviewed by Ajpolino
Niacin nom. David notMD, reviewed by Ajpolino
Prostate nom. Tom (LT), reviewed by Dunkleosteus77
Ureter nom. Tom (LT), reviewed by Dunkeosteus77






Nominated for review

Complete blood count nom. Spicy
Parkinson's disease at featured article review. Discussion here
Anatomical terms of location nom. Tom (LT)
Antibiotic sensitivity testing nom. Tom (LT), under review by Larry Hockett
Endell Street Military Hospital nom. G. Moore and Dormskirk
Marie Wittman nom. Pi.1415926535, under review by The Most Comfortable Chair
Horace Smithy nom. Larry Hockett
Charles Bingham Penrose nom. Larry Hockett
Louise Bourgeois Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Injector pen nom. Berchanhimez

News from around the site

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Discussions of interest

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Ajpolino (talk) 02:36, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

common cold

Hi Jen, I’m a neutral party when it comes to COVID so I tend to convey information from both sides to educate each party using as much humility and understanding as possible.

In the common cold page, it references face masks as showing some effectiveness at preventing transmission referencing “Eccles p. 209“ but I have been unable to locate this source. So you know how the original research can be examined?

Thank you for your time. And if you aren’t able to reach back, I understand you have much bigger fish to fry!

Thanks for reaching out. I replied on your talk page. JenOttawa (talk) 14:50, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Old Project Page Clean up

Hi Jen! There is an old project page from way back when we started this engagement, Evidence_based_content_for_medical_articles_on_Wikipedia. Should we merge any relevant content and remove the duplicate page? Manum56 (talk) 15:57, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - October 2020

Issue 5—October 2020


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Greetings! This month celebrates our second (I think) new medicine FA in 2020, a handful of newly reviewed GAs, and of course another month without major on-wiki disaster. The newsletter's featured section is off again, but please continue to drop comments and ideas at the newsletter talk page. Here is what's new this month:

Newly recognized content

Complete blood count nom. Spicy, his first FA!
Beulah Ream Allen nom. SusunW, reviewed by Esculenta
Antibiotic sensitivity testing nom. Tom (LT), reviewed by Larry Hockett and Spicy
Marie Wittman nom. Pi.1415926535, reviewed by The Most Comfortable Chair
Injector pen nom. Berchanhimez, reviewed by Tom (LT)









Nominated for review

Parkinson's disease now a featured article removal candidate. Discussion here
Anatomical terms of location nom. Tom (LT), under review by ArnabSaha
Endell Street Military Hospital nom. G. Moore and Dormskirk, under review by Amitchell125
Horace Smithy nom. Larry Hockett
Charles Bingham Penrose nom. Larry Hockett
Louise Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Ulcerative colitis nom. Rytyho usa, under review by Tom (LT)
Transmission of COVID-19 nom. Investigatory
Seminal vesicles nom. Tom (LT)
Vitamin K nom. David notMD
Intravenous therapy nom. Berchanhimez
Intramuscular injection nom. Berchanhimez
Homeopathy nom. Aircorn

News from around the site

Discussions of interest

For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!

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Ajpolino (talk) 00:51, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pi bot

Hi Jen. Just to let you know that the cochrane bot didn't run as scheduled yesterday because I moved the code over to a new Raspberry Pi (provided by Wikimedia UK), but forgot to check that script. I fixed a few issues today (updating file directories, and code to python3), and it's running today, hopefully next month it will run as usual. I also fixed the code for the French Wikipedia version, so fr:Projet:Médecine/Cochrane/Bot is being updated again, but I don't know if anyone's looking at that? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:20, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Mike Peel: thank you for the update. I appreciate you helping and noticing that there was a problem with the bot. I see some updates came in, which is great for us to keep up the momentum. If there is anything that I can do to help please let me know. JenOttawa (talk) 00:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MED Newsletter - November 2020

Issue 6—November 2020


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Greetings. This month marks the return of the project's long-dormant collaboration of the month! With some luck and effort, perhaps we can keep it going. I hope you're all finding ways to remain sane during another tumultuous month. Ready or not, here is what's happening around the project:

Newly recognized content

Seminal vesicles nom. Tom (LT), reviewed by Berchanhimez
Endell Street Military Hospital nom. G. Moore and Dormskirk, reviewed by Amitchell125
Horace Smithy nom. Larry Hockett, reviewed by Ajpolino
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh nom. Andrew nyr, reviewed by HickoryOughtShirt?4
Intravenous therapy nom. Berchanhimez, reviewed by Tom (LT)
Vitamin K nom. David notMD, reviewed by Tom (LT)
Homeopathy nom. Aircorn, review by Berchanhimez

Nominated for review

Parkinson's disease now a featured article removal candidate. Discussion here
Alzheimer's disease Notice of impending featured article review is at the talk page. Anatomical terms of location nom. Tom (LT), under review by ArnabSaha and Aircorn
Charles Bingham Penrose nom. Larry Hockett
Louise Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Intramuscular injection nom. Berchanhimez
Blood culture nom. Spicy
Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia nom. Maxim Masiutin

News from around the site

Discussions of interest

For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
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Ajpolino (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear @Stwalkerster: thank you for helping with this in such a timely manner! I really appreciate your help. JenOttawa (talk) 02:58, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Recent improvements

Hi @Ozzie10aaaa: I just did a little work on this article using paraphrased evidence from the background section and (weak) conclusions from a 2019 Cochrane Review on surgery versus conservative approach. I just looked at the history and noticed all the work that you did in October! It is great. Please let me know if I have made any mistakes or if you have additional suggestions. JenOttawa (talk) 20:44, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Im answering here because the real edits are done at Wiki Med Project (the Separated shoulder article was imported to there and Im almost finished with it over there, plus Basilar skull fracture, Ankle fracture and a few others) I did a few initial edits here Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:03, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for doing all this work to improve the article! I will check it out.JenOttawa (talk) 22:10, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Student editor at mumps

A student editor recently added a few paragraphs to the article for mumps. The issue is that all of the information was either already included in the article or is US-centered. There are smaller issues as well such as reference formatting and reference duplication. Overall, the contributions lower the quality of the article in my opinion. The student is in this course, and the assignment ends on 11 December so is it okay to revert the article to its prior state after then? Velayinosu (talk) 03:15, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Velayinosu: thank you for the message. I agree that it is a fine balance- being hesitant to jump in and revert student work (unless the evidence added is incorrect, not appropriate for Wikipedia, etc). Can the contribution be tweaked for the time being? Mumps is a pretty high-impact article. I feel that all courses should have their instuctors do a final "quality control" check. I see that this is a WikiEdu supported course. I find that WikiEdu does not usually review the final edits, however, prehaps the course instructor can if we reach out? I cannot look at it this morning, but will keep it on my radar as well. Thanks for reaching out! JenOttawa (talk) 12:15, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - December 2020

Issue 7—December 2020


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Hello. I hope this newsletter finds you well. For those struggling to focus on writing articles during these tumultuous times, you are not alone. For those stuck at home with more time and energy to dedicate to the encyclopedia, all the more power to you. There is – as always – lots to do. Here is what's happening around the project:

Newly recognized content

Intramuscular injection nom. Berchanhimez, reviewed by Bibeyjj














Nominated for review

Buruli ulcer nom. Ajpolino
Anatomical terms of location nom. Tom (LT), under review by ArnabSaha and Aircorn
Charles Bingham Penrose nom. Larry Hockett
Louise Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Blood culture nom. Spicy
Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia nom. Maxim Masiutin
Friedreich's ataxia nom. Akrasia25
Fish allergy nom. David notMD, under review by Bibeyjj
Kivu Ebola epidemic nom. Ozzie10aaaa
UPMC Presbyterian nom. Andrew nyr
Crown (anatomy) nom. Bibeyjj
Alzheimer's disease Notice of impending featured article review at talk.
Management of multiple sclerosis Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Major depressive disorder Notice of impending FAR at talk.

News from around the site

Discussions of interest

For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!

A WP:MED editor pulls yet another unsourced stub from the pile, thrilled by its immense potential.

Backlog of the month
This month I'm trying out a new element of the newsletter – a backlog of the month. The WikiProject Medicine template is on the talk page of 44,944 articles, of which 18,111 have some kind of maintenance tag on them, indicating problems large or small. Each month, I'll highlight some small task to get you out of your normal editing focus and chip away at the project's massive maintenance backlogs. I'll aim for tasks that can be worked on in small chunks, perhaps on days when you can't focus on big problems, or have 15 minutes to burn at your computer.

The first backlog of the month will be the 410 medicine articles that cite no sources. These tend to be lower-traffic topics. Some just need verification that the topic actually exists, along with a quick reference. Others are best redirected to more substantial pages, or even brought to AfD. Feel free to scroll through the list for topics that interest you, or just start at the top. This feature will last as long as folks are interested enough to engage with it. If you see backlogs that would be a good fit, post them here. Thanks all, and happy referencing!

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WikiProject Medicine

Hi JenOttawa. I'm so sorry for the late reply on your message. Yes, I am focussing on Medicine-related articles in Malay Wikipedia and started WikiProject Medicine this year. I'm working on it with another user but we don't really have enough member in the team, so I'm working on them bit by bit with him. May I help you? CyberTroopers (talk) 17:16, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As for collaboration, I'm (also as User:WAqil) also one of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia member. Maybe we can start through our Wikimedia organization. Kindly email me at wafiq.wikimedia@gmail.com just in case if I mislook the notification here. Thank you for notifying me! I'm looking forward to have a collaboration with Cochrane Malaysia! CyberTroopers (talk) 18:08, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@CyberTroopers:Thank you for sharing your email address. Do you mind if I share it directly with my Malaysian collaborators? We look forward to speaking with you!JenOttawa (talk) 01:59, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Osteoporosis

I made a lot of recommendations on the Talk page of the article. Please consider reviewing/implementing, as I am not sure if the other editors who have been participating in the Talk discussions will be comfortable making large changes to the article. David notMD (talk) 11:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas JenOttawa!!
Hi JenOttawa, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all you do--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:37, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - January 2021

Issue 8—January 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


2020 is behind us at last. Off Wikipedia, the year has been trying. On Wikipedia, I hope you've found the time you spent here fulfilling and diverting. I've taken the opportunity to place a few end-of-year statistics for reflection below. If you think of any data that would be useful to find (or begin gathering) to gauge the project's success, please let me know. With that, here is what's happening around the project:

Newly recognized content

Buruli ulcer nom. Ajpolino, my first successful FAC
Anatomical terms of location nom. Tom (LT), reviewed by ArnabSaha and Aircorn
Fish allergy nom. David notMD, reviewed by Bibeyjj
Blood culture nom. Spicy, reviewed by Graham Beards
Epidural administration nom. Berchanhimez, reviewed by Bibeyjj
Charles Bingham Penrose nom. Larry Hockett, reviewed by Esculenta



Nominated for review

Louise Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia nom. Maxim Masiutin
Friedreich's ataxia nom. Akrasia25
Kivu Ebola epidemic nom. Ozzie10aaaa
UPMC Presbyterian nom. Andrew nyr
Crown (anatomy) nom. Bibeyjj, under review by MeegsC
Alzheimer's disease Notice of impending featured article review at talk.
Management of multiple sclerosis Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Major depressive disorder Notice of impending FAR at talk.

Year in Review
With 2020 now in the rear view mirror, a few numbers to give a sense of where our project is at: In 2020 we added a record number of medicine articles (i.e. articles with the WP:MED tag on their talk pages), starting the year with 41,243 and ending with 45,247. The ~4,000 new articles is well above the norm, presumably due to new covid-related articles. In terms of reviewed content, we added three featured articles (Dementia with Lewy bodies, Complete blood count, and Buruli ulcer), and lost three to the ravages of time, leaving our total at 66. We also added 42 newly reviewed good articles from 23 different nominators, bringing our total to 296. See a full list of reviewed content from 2020 here. Outside of reviewed content our contributions are more challenging to measure. I'm sure much our time was spent making small improvements, guiding new editors, removing junk from articles, and dealing with the raging global pandemic (on and off the site). I am interested in ways we can quantify and assess our project's progress going forward, so if anyone has ideas for other data we could find or collect, do let me know.

Other notes

  • The WMF's Community Wishlist Survey has ended. Results are posted here.
  • If you missed it, consider reading folks' thoughts on helping new editors at this recent WT:MED discussion.
  • After a quieter month at the Collaboration of the Month (Dexamethasone), we'll be taking this month off. The COTM will return in February. Propose and vote on nominations here.
  • Thanks to all who helped deal with last month's backlog, medicine articles that cite no sources. 28 down, 382 to go. We'll pick a new backlog next month. In the meantime, for any interested, I've posted an updated list of articles that lack sources here.

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WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - February 2021

Issue 9—February 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Happy February everyone. I hope the new year is starting to look better than the last one did. As always, if you have any ideas to improve the newsletter, please post them at the talkpage. Otherwise, here is what's happening around the project:

Newly recognized content

Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia nom. Maxim Masiutin, reviewed by Vaticidalprophet
UPMC Presbyterian nom. Andrew nyr, reviewed by HickoryOughtShirt?4









Nominated for review

Louise Boursier nom. Doug Coldwell
Friedreich's ataxia nom. Akrasia25
Kivu Ebola epidemic nom. Ozzie10aaaa
Biotin nom. David notMD, under review by HaEr48
Lurie Children's Hospital nom. Andrew nyr, under review by HickoryOughtShirt?4
Urinothorax nom. Steve M.
Imprinted brain hypothesis nom. Vaticidalprophet
Management of multiple sclerosis Currently a FA removal candidate.
Alzheimer's disease Notice of impending featured article review at talk.
Major depressive disorder Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Influenza Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Menstrual cycle Notice of impending FAR at talk.

News from around the site

  • Another discussion has closed, with consensus supporting continued use of the phrase "committed suicide" in articles.
  • The Medicine Collaboration of the Month for February is Cirrhosis. Head to Talk:Cirrhosis to coordinate our efforts. You can nominate future collaborations at WP:MCOTM.
  • This month's target maintenance backlog is "articles that need more wikilinks". Just 65 medicine pages have {{Underlinked}} on them, so hopefully we can clean them all up this month.
  • Flyer22 Frozen, longtime and prolific editor on medicine and television/film topics, has died. You can read a brief reflection on her Wikipedia work here, and leave condolences at her talk page.

Discussions of interest

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Thanks @Vermont:! JenOttawa (talk) 01:26, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Cochrane/Cochrane Review List

ow Hi JenOttawa. I was wondering on the updates and percentages in table. Is that manually done by you? The calculations and etc in the table. Looking forward for your reply. Thanks. WAqil (talk) 07:49, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @WAqil: thank you for reaching out. The percentages in the table and 52 lists of reviews to consider are updated by me, yes. We run a code that compares Cochrane Reviews published in the past 10 years with what is on different languages of Wikipedia and generates a csv table and a set of .txt files with the updated review lists. This is run quarterly. For the update list, we have an amazing volunteer who runs the Cochrane Bot for us that generates this list (and archives the "done" list). If you have any specific questions or need more information please let me know. Suggestions are always welcome too! Thanks again, JenOttawa (talk) 11:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I ran this data on Malay Wikipedia earlier this week as well to share! I there were about 90 Cochrane Reviews published in the past 10 years that are presently shared on Malay Wikipedia. JenOttawa (talk) 11:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
JenOttawa@ May I know how you fetch the data of Cochrane reviews that's in Malay Wikipedia articles? I'm working on the table in Malay version. Is it pucblicly accessible? Would be glad if it did because I have no idea on how to calculate reviews the already have in articles. WAqil (talk) 13:08, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @WAqil: I did not set up the coding myself so I would have to ask the individual who set it up. I am generating a Malay-Cochrane-Wikipedia summary table in excel and had planned to email it to the group from Cochrane Malaysia this week with an offer to provide the raw files on a quarterly basis. Do you want to touch base for a quick call to coordinate our efforts? I can send you an email!JenOttawa (talk) 13:39, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - March 2021

Issue 10—March 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Here is what's happening around the project:

Newly recognized content

17q12 microdeletion syndrome nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by Bibeyjj
Urinothorax nom. Steve M., reviewed by Bibeyjj
Lurie Children's Hospital nom. Andrew nyr, reviewed by HickoryOughtShirt?4
Biotin nom. David notMD, reviewed by HaEr48
Imprinted brain hypothesis nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by Lee Vilenski






Nominated for review

Friedreich's ataxia nom. Akrasia25
Kivu Ebola epidemic nom. Ozzie10aaaa, under review by Casliber
Diaphragmatic rupture nom. Steve M.
Mihran Kassabian nom. Larry Hockett
Sophie Jamal nom. Vaticidalprophet
Menstrual cycle Undergoing FAR, contribute at talk.
Alzheimer's disease Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Major depressive disorder Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Acute myeloid leukemia Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Influenza Notice of impending FAR at talk.
Autism Notice of impending FAR at talk.

News from around the site

  • There is an ongoing drive to review good article nominations through the month of March. Pick up a review if you have time. Instructions here.
  • The Medicine Collaboration of the Month is on temporary (perhaps) hiatus. You can still nominate future candidates at WP:MCOTM.
  • This month's target maintenance backlog is "articles with a dead link". Each typically takes around a minute to fix, so please hit one or two when you have a moment.
  • The desktop site's default "Vector" skin is being gradually modernized. Details here. Opt-in at Preferences>Skin preferences to begin getting used to the new look.

Discussions of interest

  • A large discussion is reconsidering deprecating the aliases for some citation template parameters.
  • Please look over edit-protected medicine pages to consider whether some could have protection levels safely lowered.

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WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - April 2021

Issue 11—April 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


Here is what's happening around the project:

Newly recognized content

Influenza removed from the featured article review list thanks largely to Velayinosu's work.
Friedreich's ataxia nom. Akrasia25, reviewed by Ajpolino
Kivu Ebola epidemic nom. Ozzie10aaaa, reviewed by Casliber






Nominated for review

Mihran Kassabian nom. Larry Hockett
Sophie Jamal nom. Vaticidalprophet
Northwestern Memorial Hospital nom. Andrew nyr
XXYY syndrome nom. Vaticidalprophet
CT scan nom. Iflaq
Tetrasomy Xnom. Vaticidalprophet
Menstrual cycle Undergoing FAR, contribute at talk.
Upcoming FARs: Alzheimer's disease, Major depressive disorder, Acute myeloid leukemia, Autism. Contribute to discussions at their talk pages.

News from around the site

Discussions of interest

  • Template:Authority control is getting a redesign. Contribute to the discussion here.
  • A large discussion is reconsidering deprecating the aliases for some citation template parameters.
  • Please look over edit-protected medicine pages to consider whether some could have protection levels safely lowered.

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WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - June 2021

Issue 12—June 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter


No newsletter last month means a double issue this month. Enjoy:

Newly recognized content

Menstrual cycle saved at FAR thanks to the efforts of Graham Beards and others.
Tetrasomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by JackFromReedsburg
XYYY syndrome nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by MeegsC
CT scan nom. Iflaq, reviewed by Bibeyjj
Imprinted brain hypothesis nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by Lee Vilenski
Diaphragmatic rupture nom. Aeschylus, reviewed by Bibeyjj
Pentasomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by Bibeyjj
Shellfish allergy nom. David notMD, reviewed by CommanderWaterford
Sophie Jamal nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by Premeditated Chaos
Mihran Kassabian nom. Larry Hockett, reviewed by Amitchell125
Northwestern Memorial Hospital nom. Andrew nyr, reviewed by Sammi Brie

Nominated for review

Trisomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet, under review by Epicgenius
Hepatic hydrothorax nom. Aeschylus
Tetrasomy X and Deep vein thrombosis are both listed for peer review to prepare for FAC. Please contribute.
Upcoming FARs: Alzheimer's disease, Major depressive disorder, Acute myeloid leukemia, Autism. Contribute to discussions at their talk pages.





News from around the site

Discussions of interest

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WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - July 2021

Issue 12—June 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter



Newly recognized content

Trisomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet, reviewed by Epicgenius







Nominated for review

Trisomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet
CYP4F2 nom. Maxim Masiutin
Hepatic hydrothorax nom. Aeschylus
Vitamin B6 nom. David notMD
Transmission of COVID-19 nom. Almaty
Deep vein thrombosis is listed for peer review to prepare for FAC. Please contribute.
Alzheimer's disease is at featured article review.

News from around the site

  • Lung cancer will feature on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on August 4th. Anything you can do to improve/update the article before then would be a big help to the many readers likely to see the page on that date.
  • The Books namespace will be deprecated and its contents deleted. All books have been moved to subpages of Wikipedia:Books/archive so that they can be undeleted upon request after the namespace is gone. There are around two dozen medicine-related books (14 tagged with WP:MED). If you wish to keep any, you are welcome to move it to your userspace.

Discussions of interest

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WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - August 2021

Issue 12—August 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter



Newly recognized content

Nothing this month
Please help review articles when you have time.











Nominated for review

Trisomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet
Hepatic hydrothorax nom. Aeschylus
Vitamin B6 nom. David notMD
Transmission of COVID-19 nom. Almaty, under review by Aircorn
Atul Gawande nom. BennyOnTheLoose
C. Edmund Kells nom. Larry Hockett
Clarence Lushbaugh nom. Tpdwkouaa, under review by Larry Hockett
Slipping rib syndrome nom. TheRibinator
Charles Lester Leonard nom. Larry Hockett, under review by Dracophyllum
Subglottic stenosis nom. aeschylus
Deep vein thrombosis is listed for peer review to prepare for FAC. Please contribute.
Alzheimer's disease is a featured article removal candidate.

News from around the site

Discussions of interest

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WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - September 2021

Issue 15—September 2021


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter



Newly recognized content

Charles Lester Leonard nom. Larry Hockett, reviewed by Dracophyllum
Clarence Lushbaugh nom. Tpdwkouaa, reviewed by Larry Hockett
Elmer Ernest Southard nom. EricEnfermero, reviewed by Khazar2







Nominated for review

Trisomy X nom. Vaticidalprophet
Atul Gawande nom. BennyOnTheLoose
C. Edmund Kells nom. Larry Hockett, under review by AryKun
Slipping rib syndrome nom. TheRibinator
Body image disturbance nom. Srobodao84
Vitamin B6 nom. David notMD
Deep vein thrombosis is listed for peer review to prepare for FAC. Please contribute.
Body image disturbance is listed for peer review. Please contribute.

News from around the site

  • Vaticidalprophet, our reigning expert on chromosomal disorders, has retired (temporarily, we hope)

Discussions of interest

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JenOttawa has made over 10,000 edits since she began in 2016 with more than half to mainspace. As an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, she efficiently edits varied medical articles such as Leprosy, Asthma, Concussion and COPD which speak to her interest in communicating evidence-based medical approaches. She actively recruits, connects and shepherds new editors and always works toward the best interests of WikiPedia. JenOttawa is another great example of the type of collaborative and friendly editors needed by Wikipedia.

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Moving this to my talk

Thanks for the "thank you" note re my "Malaria Talk" page comments, Jen! (You could delete this reply when you have read it so that it doesn't mess up your "Talk" page!) IdleMan (talk) 13:44, 25 July 2023 (UTC) JenOttawa (talk) 13:58, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note @IdleMan:. If you have a chance to collect those references, post them on the Malaria talk page and I can try to help go through them one by one. Have a great week! JenOttawa (talk) 14:00, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just an "observation": the organism that causes malaria is a parasite (as opposed to a virus). Have a good forthcoming weekend. IdleMan (talk) 01:26, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
eek! @IdleMan: Thanks for noticing this mistake!JenOttawa (talk) 01:30, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
OK. IdleMan (talk) 02:11, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Vitamin E nominated for GA

I recently nominated Vitamin E for GA, so any look-at/improvments you might do prior to the start of the GA review would be appreciated. David notMD (talk) 15:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is great to hear from you! What is your time frame for this work?I just made a few minor adjustments to B6 to try to improve clarity in the lead. I know that you do an amazing job with many of these articles! JenOttawa (talk) 15:26, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again @David notMD: do you mind reviewing this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vitamin_E&diff=1252262578&oldid=1251525633 JenOttawa (talk) 15:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@David notMD: I need to log off for the day. Let me know how I did with the reference citing, I am horrible at GAs for this reason. I find the lead very technical. Is a criteria of FA to have it in clear language for people without a background in med/science? If so I could help with some clear language adjustments in a few days. Have a great rest of your weekend in the meantime :) JenOttawa (talk) 15:38, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I moved the sentence to first sentence. The article already had Office Dietary Supplements as a ref. David notMD (talk) 02:21, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @David notMD:. Looking great. How was the order of the sections chosen? For GAs do we usually follow MED:MOS? If so, would this be a 'drug, tx, device' or is this a bit of a hybrid because it is about a vitamin? In that case medical uses/contrindications moved up? I think that the medical uses could do with a really well written summary and then the information that is presently shared could be combined into themes and shared more effectively. I am not sure that I have the capacity to tackle right now. Let me know what you think about this idea. I will wait to hear back. JenOttawa (talk) 17:21, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Over years, I favored having sections in same order across all the vitamin articles. I will eyeball the article with your suggestions in mind. For background, I had nominated this back in 2022 but then abandoned the GA because of the extensive comments from the reviewer. This fall, i began to address those comments and then recently resubmitted. David notMD (talk) 23:34, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good! I took a stab at a summary paragraph. Feel free to revert and re work or make as many changes as you think are best! I am signing off for the night.@David notMD: JenOttawa (talk) 01:06, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Again, the article already has the Health Professionals version of Office of Dietary Supplements (ref #3) so please do not add the ODS Consumers version. David notMD (talk) 10:46, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I am a fourth-year medical student participating in the WikiProject Medicine course at UCSF. I noticed that you recently made some edits to the "Retinal Detachment" article, which I am also planning to update. I’ve shared my analysis and proposed changes in the talk section of the article, and I would greatly appreciate it if you could review them when you have the opportunity, given your expertise and experience with this article. Thank you! Ss444431 (talk) 19:43, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ss444431 thank you so much for the message. I just checked out the talk page for your plan on Retinal detachment. It is hard for me to provide feedback as I have not seen the sources that you are planning to use. If you provide a few examples of suggestions for improvements (ie paraphrased information from high quality secondary sources such as review articles) it would be helpful for me and I can provide more specific feedback. I am not in the field to be able to identify gaps in the article. If you have any other questions or ideas please reach out at anytime! Good luck with your project. It is great to see these articles being kept up to date by people in the medical fields.JenOttawa (talk) 21:27, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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