Talk:Robinow syndrome

Robinow syndrome was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 24, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
October 25, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 23, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Robinow syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder whose facial deformities were described by Meinhard Robinow with the term fetal facies, due to the resemblance of some patients' faces to that of a fetus?

Current status: Delisted good article

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synonyms

Problem with many syndromes is that they are known under various synonyms, and listing them all in the beginning of the article may not be very attractive. In several articles (e.g. Adiposogenital Dystrophy), for lay-out reasons, I listed these under a separate header. Maybe this article would look better too with a separate "synonyms" section? --Steven Fruitsmaak 12:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and took out citing a source where each synonym came from, since there were really only two that encompassed them all. I'm not too sure about an entire section devoted to a list synonyms – I think that it's best to avoid long sections of list and go for prose if possible – but I hope clearing out the repeated references will make the lead a little less overbearing. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 18:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like the lists because, after all, it's a bit useless information in most cases. --Steven Fruitsmaak 20:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've broken it off into an additional paragraph at the end of the lead. What do you think? — Rebelguys2 ^talk 21:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Much better!!!

--Steven Fruitsmaak 00:15, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

picture

I think it's a good article, but it would of course be better with a picture... pretty hard to get, however... --Steven Fruitsmaak 12:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely. There are no free photos out there – and it's, like you said, obviously very difficult to find a patient to take a photo of given the rarity of this disorder. There's plenty of copyrighted choices at http://www.robinow.org, but I'm hesitant as to how to blindly choose one of the kids there for fair use. If we were to use a photo, If we were to take one from somewhere, and use it as fair use, I think it'd be best to take one of a journal. Patton (2002) and Afzal (2000) seem like good choices. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 18:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've uploaded a photo, Image:Robinowsyndrome.jpg, under a fair use rationale, and removed the requested photo tag. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 18:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now added a complete rationale to prevent User:OrphanBot from sticking {{norationale}} onto it. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mortality

In the chart, mortality is listed as 10% for the recessive inheritance, but I do not see any text as to how this translates into age at death, cause of fatalities, etc. I believe this would be something a family facing this situation could find especially useful. Jtmichcock

Recessive more severe

A sentence says "The autosomal recessive form of the disorder tends to be much more severe," but in the table below it, for the first three things it lists it seems like the autosomal recessive is less severe. Could someone check this for accuracy or maybe give a sentence of explanation for this apparent contradiction? Thanks, delldot on a public computer talk 04:08, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use image

Since there two free images exist (from Temtamy review article about brachydactyly) I think that fair use image in infobox should be deleted. With warmest regards, Filip em (talk) 06:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History

This article needs a dedicated section on history.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA status

This article is a little limited in scope to be a GA. Needs a section on epidemiology needs a section on treatment. History section needs to be expanded.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:19, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]