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Primary sources

We generally do not allow primary sources for medical content. Please use secondary sources such as review articles. Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 09:58, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

I've been checking similar webpabes re: social anxiety, and I've seen they refer to primary sources. Please, advise. PsicoFS (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
We here at Wikipedia prefer secondary sources. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 19:06, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: Bot

Hi Doc James! BattyBot 25 is working to fix dates in references that do not meet MOS:DATEFORMAT. Eventually, dates in incorrect formats will have a Check date values message visible for everyone to see, so the goal of the bot is to fix many of the common unambigious formats before the message gets switched on. We're still finding lots of creative bad date formats (as you can see on my talk page), which is why the bot is on its second run through Category:CS1 errors: dates. All of the changes are getting bundled together for future runs, as you suggested. We haven't decided how often the bot should run, but your input at Help talk:Citation Style 1 would be appreciated.

It would be great if we could change the citation templates so whatever format people put in would be displayed properly. If we only had one valid date format for all of Wikipedia, that might even be possible. However, with multiple acceptable formats, I don't know how this could be done. Any programming expertise you could provide at Help talk:Citation Style 1 would also be appreciated.

Most importantly, I understand that the standard watchlist only shows the most recent edit to an article, and if multiple people (or bots) edit on the same day, it takes more clicks to view the entire history to keep an eye out for vandalism. I recently learned that if you set your Preferences to Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist and Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent, you'll be able get a more complete picture of all the edits that were recently made to an article. So instead of Hepatitis C just showing BattyBot, you could see on your watchlist that Donpayette and Flaming Ferrari also recently edited the page. (You may also want to increase the maximum numberof changes to show in expanded watchlist, depending on how many pages you're watching.)

Thanks, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:42, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks will take a look. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 08:15, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Epilepsy

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Epilepsy you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jfdwolff -- Jfdwolff (talk) 21:30, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 21:32, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Please do not remove the NPOV tag from Circumcision

There is an ongoing discussion at the NPOV noticeboard. Until the issue has been resolved, the tag remains at the top of the article. ScienceApe (talk) 01:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Not how it works. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:55, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Ok, your warning to me along with your edits are reason to believe that you are abusing your administrator powers. ScienceApe (talk) 02:13, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
If you notice point number 2 "It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given." [1] Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 02:14, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

I was going to point out bullet point #4 in the NPOV tag instructions, "The neutral point of view is determined by the prevalence of a perspective in high-quality, independent, reliable secondary sources, not by its prevalence among Wikipedia editors or the public." ScienceApe's NPOV justification is based on prevalence among the public, so use of the tag is not justified. Zad68 02:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

  • Nevertheless, Doc, you're edit warring. Please don't continue, even if another revert takes place. In addition, it's preferable to use the standard template to give a final warning for edit warring, lest your message is read as meaning "I will block you next time". Thank you. Drmies (talk) 04:12, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
I prefer hand written messages to templates. No were of course did I state I would block the user in question.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:41, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Information icon This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

JNC 8

Thanks for the note about JNC 8. I have updated the medication section to take account of the new recommendations and added a table (based on the JNC 8 paper) comparing international guidelines. This may excessive for Wikipedia - I would welcome your opinion, also I doubt if the table is formatted as well as it could be (I'm still not very expert with tables). Adh (talk) 17:35, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Have moved to a subpage. IMO a little to detailed for an overview article. Thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:57, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Bringing you warm wishes for the New Year!
May you and yours enjoy a healthful, happy and productive 2014!

And thank you for all you do in here!

Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks and same to you. Doc James (talk ஃ contribs ஃ email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 16:58, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Translation task force

there are many articles in tamil wikipedia related to medicine. without the knowledge of these articles, your ttf volunteers have translated again. so, kindly update your list of articles which are already present in tamil. and translate them only if they are not found in tamil. thanks.-தமிழ்க்குரிசில் (talk) 04:01, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Would you be willing to help with this? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 04:09, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

Home-Made Barnstar
Thanks for enabling me to access some great sources for this article. Kudos! Lesion (talk) 16:29, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
No worries. Any time. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 16:31, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Erm...

... I'm not sure whether to congratulate or console you on your apparently newfound notability. :) MastCell Talk 17:45, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

I think you mean notoriety? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 17:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
No, you've always been notorious. But now you're notable, too. :P MastCell Talk 17:59, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Not sure about that... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Greek medical articles

Hi! I saw your call on el.wikipedia. I am involved in a translation project that I organised with the Medical School at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in which we translated enough medical articles from english to greek: el:Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ Ιατρική Εκπαίδευση. I'll be happy to move the articles from here to el.wikipedia. -geraki TL 18:41, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

That would be excellent. The entire list of articles we plan to eventually translate over the next few years is here Book:Health care. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi we can help ! (Arabic)

in TWB & adding articles, I am a coordinator for several science translation activities [2] , I will be pleased to work with you. --عبد الله الصيدلي (talk) 20:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. It is very much appreciated. Let me know if you find any of the instructions difficult to understand or need help updating the table. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 21:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Macedonian

Not bad at all. I appriciate your work. I'm here if help is needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamara Ilioska (talk • contribs) 22:47, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks yes help is needed. Posted on your talk page [3] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 23:39, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Czech Wikipedia Disease Infobox

Hi, I think Infobox Choroba is the right one. Anyway, thank you for your confidence, althrough medicine is totally off my scope.--RomanM82 (talk) 00:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

No worries. We are mostly looking for an expert Wikipedian. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:10, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

For your efforts

The Outlaw Halo Award
It's not always easy doing the right thing - sometimes you need to be a WP:DICK, bend some editing rules, and endure the endless spew of diarrhea from POV-pushers while being the target of asinine ANI threads. But in the end, your efforts have a large impact on preserving the integrity of health information on WP. So, for getting your hands dirty and dealing with crap from other editors in order to do the right thing, even when I'm the one causing the problems (or maybe a newbie version of me), I award you the Outlaw Halo. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 21:06, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

(about the award)

Thanks Seppi for the vote of confidence. We all made mistakes when we started :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 21:09, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
No problem - just keep doing what you do. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 02:04, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 January 2014

Scalable reference columns

Hi Doc James, I may agree with you about the refs being too wide for 30em [4]. 45em may be better - in my browser the average refs are now one or two lines. How does that compare to fixed for you? Widefox; talk 23:32, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I prefer just setting it at 2 columns. The other formatting does not work across languages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 23:39, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
You mean across different wikis or a software bug with non Latin characters? There's some tips/guidance at Template:Reflist, care to note your concern on that talk page? Cheers Widefox; talk 02:10, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Does not work across language versions. This makes translation more difficult. I like to keep the markup as simple as possible. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 02:11, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
IMHO, a Lua master should automate it for consistency, keeping the markup just the template name (no numbers). Until then worth noting if you feel strongly. Widefox; talk 03:55, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Osteoporosis

Did you find time to check Template:Reflist? Re [5] I'm only editing per the guidance there. Please can you take your objection to Template talk:Reflist, as I previously suggested, there may be a good case for medical article exceptions I don't know, and I will hold off until then, but obviously others will increasingly use them. As I edit dab pages (OP) I do sometimes come across medical articles, so would prefer it reasoned there. On a separate note, if osteoporosis is known as OP, please say and I'll reinsert in the dab which was in bad shape. Regards Widefox; talk 03:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Osteoporosis is not known as OP. Were dose it say 30em is preferred over 2? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 03:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, the dab was so bloated I didn't check sources. I haven't seen a hard rule. A (the) major practice of 1 (< ~10) ->2 (>~10) ->30em (> ~20-50) is detailed Template:Reflist#Practices with examples and really should be discussed for the MOS. The spirit/reasoning is Template:Reflist#Columns. Considering the spirit is it to pick column widths that are appropriate for the reference widths (to reduce white space), hardwiring (1,) 2 or 3 columns is a guess at the browser width, a heuristic which generally works, but when fails wastes a lot of space with many references, and probably less importantly forces 2 columns in very small windows (e.g. mobile browsers). Widefox; talk 11:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Re:Translatede article (Polish)

Thank You for information. Let me talk to another pl.wiki user, editing medical topics more frequently than me. Mpn (talk) 08:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thank you very much. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:51, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Marijuana

Other than your assertion that their were more articles on pubmed for cannabis, I saw no evidence that this was true. No offense, and not to suggest you lied or even that you were surely wrong, but we only trust verifiable sources. And you did not provide anything verifiable, whereas Msnicki did. Red Slash 17:45, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

You need to count them manually not just type into pubmed.
Try it. Search for review articles for Cannabis from the last 5 years. Set the display to 200. Search for cannabis and you pick you 73+79+11=163, type in Marijuana you pick up 13+8+1=22.
Next search Marijuana review articles from the last 5 years. Set the display to 200. Cannabis in the title is 58+64+38=155. Marijuana in the title is 18+15+7=40. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Is there a compelling reason to limit it to the past five years? Anyway, let's discuss this at the article's talk page. Red Slash 18:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
We want to use modern language. Agree lets discuss there. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:10, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Translation to Russian

I replied here. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:16, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Your article

Hello Jmh649. Your article moved to ckb (central Kurdish) wiki: ckb:ئانافیلاکسی. Thank you very much for this good article!--چالاک (talk) 23:36, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Wonderful thank you. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 23
46, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Is this you?

[6]

I know the first result is you, but I'm wondering if you were an author on any of the other 7 papers listed. If you were, you might meet WP:PROF, allowing the article about you I created a few days ago to be kept. Jinkinson talk to me 00:40, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
No just the first one is me. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

hi ! I would like to contribute. (Marathi)

Read your appeal on your talk page on mr.wiki,here I am an ordinary wikipedian on mr.wiki.My user page at Marathi wikipedia is here and that on the Translatewiki is here I am not a professionalist.

Pl. see whether I could be of any help to you.Awaiting your reply.

--V.narsikar (talk) 05:18, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

We would love help. So far we have one article in Marathi as seen here [7]. There are a few words that still need translation. Could you help with that? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 14:06, 11 January 2014 (UTC)


ya! Yesterday, I have already started the work there. I will finish it up soon.

--V.narsikar (talk) 07:45, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Anaphylaxis in Kurdish Wikipedia

Hello, thank you for your article on anaphylaxis in the Kurdish Wikipedia. There are two main Kurdish dialects, Northern and Central Kurmanji. In ku.wiki you will find any Kurdish dialect, but mainly Northern Kurmanji or Kurmanji, in Latin script, and in ckb.wiki, Central Kurmanji or Sorani in Arabic script. A good link between ku. and ckb.wikies is Çalak, Çalak in ckb. or Çalak in ku. I think your article was aimed for ckb., but we also welcome it, but we switch the alphabet into Latin script and add a box showing that it is in Central Kurdish (Sorani). Contact Çalak if you need any help to connect with ckb.wiki. Thanks --MikaelF (talk) 09:13, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Wonderful. Appreciate the help. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:49, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

AFD notice

In case you've already not seen it, I thought I'd best let you know — someone started Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Heilman a couple of hours ago. Nyttend (talk) 01:34, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Am involved thus will leave this to others. Also I only write about medicine. Know nothing about notability requirements for people. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:15, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi there

I mentioned your name here. QuackGuru (talk) 20:53, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

No worries. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:18, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: Indonesian translation project

Thank You for your information. Sure I can help. Medicine is my field too. :) -Dikaalnas (talk) 21:09, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Excellent. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:36, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Comments to cs:Diabetes mellitus 2. typu

Problems are: missing spaces, excess spaces, bad wikilinks (not only because of missing articles, but also because of incorrect formation) and use of non-existent templates on cswiki (I already fixed bad infobox with artifacts from denegue article). I am afraid that some of these problems could be easily solved, if translator bother to read the text after submitting it to cswiki. --Jklamo (talk) 03:06, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks. So we do inform all the translators when the articles are added and invite them to come fix the last few issues. The translations however are not being added by the translators but by a few of us English speakers. We are trying to recruit local Wikipedians to help and have managed in a number of languages but not yet unfortunately in Czech.
I think I have removed most of the templates that are none existent have I not? We are going through the source file to remove templates before translation so hopefully this will be less of an issue going forwards. Will look into the issue with spaces. I know that sometimes this is a malfunction with copy and paste. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 03:19, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Non-existent templates are gone. I think it is important to recruit some Czech wikipedians, as for example wikilinks are hard to create by non-Czech speakers (because of inflection). There is some feedback on Czech village pump and i am afraid it is not positive. They think that is necessary to found Czech volunteers, otherwise they request to stop the project. They think that there is large amount of work on articles to push them on acceptable level. --Jklamo (talk) 13:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

FYI

I quoted you on the AfD page in response to a request for your view. Diff. --Hordaland (talk) 00:18, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:56, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Concerning Swedish translations

Please keep contributing translations to Swedish Wikipedia. I strongly disagree with the actions by Yger and certain other users. They are in my view acting in an inappropriate and willful manner that does not reflect consensus on Swedish Wikipedia and goes against our own policies. The whole disagreement is based on an unfortunate idea that methods of treatment have to reflects Swedish medical practice, which is obviously anathema to WP:GLOBAL. It might need some tweaking to include other perspectives, but it certainly doesn't mean we can't include descriptions of international medical practice.

I've done plenty of translation and even done some minor professional work, and I agree that the language in your contributions wasn't up to standard. However, it did not merit total reverts. I would be more than happy to help you out with proofreading of translations. Feel free to contact me about new additions to Swedish Wikipedia. Either here or at my Swedish talkpage.

Peter Isotalo 22:06, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Peter. If there is community support we are happy to continue. If we get the currently translated article integrated we can definitely resume. Would you be interested in speaking with the translators about requirements for Swedish Wikipedia? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
You've created conflicts on svwp. The article has an attitude to the use of antibiotics which is no longer accepted in Swedish health care. It may create expectations among patients for a certain treatment and thus put pressure on doctors to prescribe drugs against local policy to counter drug resistance. The article may cause harm. You don't adress this or the other issues but instead blame the translators.[8] Please stop! Edaen (talk) 05:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
If you read the English version and the same concerns exist in the English version than the "fault" is mine. However every sentence in the English version is attributed to a high quality reference. I may have mis summarized the reference or the reference may simply state something that those in Sweden disagree with. If you provide me the English passages that some in Swedish disagree with would be happy to look at them.
I am NOT blaming any translators in this statement [9]. What I am saying is that we should not force all translators to be involved directly on Wikipedia. The later is however just my opinion. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 14:59, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
James and his translators have contributed large amounts of new, informative and well-referenced content to Swedish Wikipedia. If you have concerns about certain views being over-represented you should work on the issue through factual discussion and article improvement. In general I agree with your view that overuse of antibiotics is a problem, but you need to treat this as any other WP:NPOV-issue. Describe the differences instead of simply trying to denigrate, belittle or censor other views. If you believe there are POVs that aren't properly represented, start digging up references to support them and simply add them. The idea that the article "may cause harm" has no support in policy or community consensus, despite your claims to the contrary.
Peter Isotalo 14:23, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Overall, there's really only the need for general proofreading. Concerning the differences in medical practices internationally, I'd say we simply need to be more specific about which treatments are preferred where. As pointed above, Swedish Wikipedia really doesn't have any special rules on this; we have almost the exact same disclaimers about medical advice and there's basically the same policy on global perspective. The issue seems to be one of unfamiliarity with international medical treatment.
I'd be more than happy to help communicate this to your translators.
Peter Isotalo 14:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Great to have something constructive coming out of this. The article has its merits, but the general publishing of this article version was surrounded by a lot of less than optimal circumstances. Hopefully your stay at the discussion has made you aware of some of them. Some things to take into consideration:
- Your new article version was an improvement, but not a version without faults. The old version was lacking in depth – and sources (until last night, to no avail following later reinstatement of the enlarged version).
- To publish a radically different version of a Wikipedia article means that you take a great risk of wasting your effort, if you're not willing to follow this up with later contributions in the article. A Wikipedia article on medicine presented in a more advanced language/style needs to be taken care of by persons that master both the subject, language and are willing to edit on Wikipedia. Hopefully we can find this or these persons. Just as the merits of this advanced language/style is debatable.
- It would benefit to have contact with the translators of the article. You can always send text to me through the "Email this user" function.
- The WikiProject Medicine is poorly known and/or understood on Swedish Wikipedia. It would benefit to make it more well-known, so we at sv:wp can evaluate your goals and formulate the right questions. In the current "Bybrunnen" discussion, we've had differing views upon the degree and type of advice we would like to see in a medical article directed at the general public (ill or not). The fact that sv:Urinvägsinfektion currently only sources the text to English-language texts could possibly influence its content. Some of this has already been mentioned in the discussion. In WikiProject Medicine, I hope you at least consider using sources in the target language. This would hopefully make it easier for the local reader looking up what the stuff is all about.
Best of wishes.--Paracel63 (talk) 17:53, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
User:CFCF is a Swedish Wikipedian and is involved. He also has a strong medical background. We are not deleting sourced content in target languages. I have also put him in touch with the translators so that he can relay concerns and instructions between the community and them.
The program is described here [10]. Progress is here [11] and instructions on how to access articles and add them are here [12]. Anyone is free to add articles and in many languages the articles are entirely added by local Wikipedians. Anyone can also communicate with the translators by using the proz.com website. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:02, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Photos of identifiable persons

Do you have a standard consent form you use with identifiable persons, or do you write a note in the chart? If written, do you retain it or submit to commons somehow? Thx. Ian Furst (talk) 00:09, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

I use a form adapted from my health region. The College of Physicians and Surgeons is happy with it. I keep a signed copy. I do not and will not send it to commons. The people at commons are just volunteers and the systems they use do not have enough security to handle patient names. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:55, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
any chance I could get a copy of a blank form to modify for my own use? Unless you know of one that's been proofed in Ontario.Ian Furst (talk) 01:41, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Sure email me. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:05, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Translation ready for integration

Hi,

I would like to help with integration translated articles into Polish but I can't get the translated texts from the twb page Can't log in with my proz.com login password pair. Any hints ? Anyway from my experience integration into WP-PL might be a bit problematic. I would like to have another go anyhow. Maybe this time it'll work out better.

Cheers,

Kpjas (talk) 09:13, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

The user name and password that will get you access is listed here [13] If you wish to use your own email and password email me and I can pass you onto the person who can help with this. Many thanks for taking this on. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 14:10, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia

Hi, I've been editing the APL page in my sandbox and I thought I'd get ya input on it as I think there are some sections in it that could do with some simplification for the laymen readers. Fuse809 (talk) 06:29, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Just adjusted per WP:MEDMOS. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 14:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

For you!

 Babel Barnstar
First barnstar I've ever given, and so well-deserved. On top of all your other great work for Wikipedia, the translation project is monumental. Kudos!

Hordaland (talk) 05:24, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Hordaland. I have some great people working with me. Would you be interested in translations into Norwegian? :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:48, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, then, you deserve another for working well with others!
I've taken a look and seen that there are names of Norwegian translators, hopefully some with medical backgrounds. But I could try. (Nynorsk, not Bokmål.) Hordaland (talk) 06:27, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Okay let me see if we can find translators. I would just mainly need you to add the articles / integrate the articles once translated. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:10, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
OK. Let me add that I am a born proof-reader. That includes English, Nynorsk and Bokmål. Hordaland (talk) 23:52, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Have emailed you. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:44, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Congrats, Doc James ! :) Hi Hordaland - it would be very helpful if you could evaluate our list of source articles to see which ones would be useful to add in the Norwegian Wikipedia (do they exist already, are they slim or extensive). Please e-mail me what you find and I will get this language pair started. Thanks, --Ildiko Santana (talk) 03:42, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Syphilis

Hi Doc James. I added a request for info on the uncertain geographical origin of syphilis and would like to hear from people who actually know what they are talking about. I also removed the disease from the list at Columbian exchange and added a two-liner on it under disease. Your help would be highly appreciated. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 12:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay will look. My expertise is more in the medical aspects. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 14:18, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, Doc James. Appreciated. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 22:05, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

reversts on sv:wp

we have discssued these inserts on our Village Pump, and agree we do not want thses kind of inserts from outside, so any further inserts like this will be reverted. There are three main reasons

  • We state our target group to be people with basic knowledge like a 15 years old. Your articles introduced word and concept that most 50 years of age will find har to understand. För exampel to us miktate for urinating is only understood by experts in medicine
  • We do not accept that proper articles will be overridden, or even mechanically merged. It is unacceptable to the persons who have written good and proper wikifyed articles
  • Most important though, is that medcine articles on sv:wp is based upon that there exist excellent articles on medicin in goverment supported webbpages. And we do not want our pages to compete with these. Therfor we conctrate in giving only basic info but understandable text

Also in the dscissuion we had on the villag punp in July 2012 this was the concusion, so it should not come a surprise. So I admire your ambition, but the way you are proceedning your implemention on sv:wp in not acceptable.Yger (talk) 18:20, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Certainly. Have emailed the translators and instructed them to stop translating into Swedish. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 18:45, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Understandable. The reasons above must be taken into consideration. We at svwp don't intend to give medical advice, as a wiki cannot be held responsible for a faulty medication or diagnosis. But the job you've already done can hopefully be incorporated into svwp, eg. sv:Urinvägsinfektion. Re my notes and questions on sv:wp:Bybrunnen.--Paracel63 (talk) 01:51, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
We at English Wikipedia do not give medical advice either. We only summarize the best available research. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 02:15, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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