Talk:Infodemiology

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Request for deletion

This article seems to have two major issues. First, a Google search for "Infodemiology" only seems to list this wikipedia article and a bunch of papers and talks by one person, Gunther_Eysenbach. Second, it appears that most of this article was also written by Eysenbach and the article seems to be more of a biography and/or promotion of him more than actually discussing Infodemiology.

130.203.123.188 (talk) 14:42, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, but it need not be deleted, just merged back into the bio article. Both infoveillance and infodemiology could be merged. The Gunther Eysenbach article could be proposed for deletion also; it seems like a self-serving vanity piece written by the subject. ~Amatulić (talk) 07:02, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I admit that I (Gunther Eysenbach) wrote the initial stub in 2006, and the article was immediately deleted. Today, a Google search should show you that meanwhile there are nearly 10.000 articles with the term infodemiology on the web, and they are certainly not all written by me (I am productive, but not THAT productive). I guess according to your notability guidelines it is now warranted to have this page, but it wasn't me who recreated / revived this page. I agree that the work of others should be added here (eg. http://www.jmir.org/themes/69), and I would love to do it, but given the stringent COI policy I won't touch the article at all, even though I am certainly qualified to do so. In fact, the policy of Wikipedia is very off-putting to academics like myself. If we edit anything where we think we are qualified to comment on because we have done research in the area, we are accused of being conflicted. Therefore, I haven't edited anything in Wikipedia for years. So do what you want - delete it again if you want... I also have zero objections if you delete the Gunther Eysenbach page (again, Google shows my name only 123.000 times, so it must be a "vanity" page of somebody who isn't notable) --Eysen (talk) 07:30, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Some undergraduate 'pulls rank' on the scholar and lifetime academic researcher. MaynardClark (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

I think that the article requires a 'criticism' section of the implementation of (so called) 'infodemiology' (how factual and balanced is such 'health communications'?). MaynardClark (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]