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Thanks for taking the time to update Huntington's disease. It has long needed input from a neurologist! JFW | T@lk 23:28, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Secondary sources

Concerning your last edit to Huntington's disease, could I persuade you to take a glance at WP:MEDRS. For quite some time now there's been a consensus that in medicine-related articles we should ideally try to let secondary sources (reviews, textbook chapters) serve as the ideal sources of information for encyclopedia content. The trouble with primary sources is manifold, as the MEDRS page will show. If your main source for an edit is a review in JCI, then directly citing this review is probably the best solution. I agree with your assessment of JCI reviews as authoritative; they are usually of exceptional quality. Very nice of them too to publish an entire series of reviews in one issue![1] JFW | T@lk 21:52, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I did cite the JCI review (ref 123 currently) for the therapeutics bit, though I kept some of the original refs in there because the section goes beyond the scope of the review; and some of the updated content is too new to have been reviewed yet. I think the HD article has too many references, though, and agree that it would be better served with fewer, secondary refs. I'll try to re-edit the section making use of secondary sources e.g. the other articles in that JCI issue. Dubbin (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

regarding cleanup tags on Locations of Half-Life

To point out specifically: {{Refimprove}}'s instructions under "Differences from {{Unreferenced}} and {{Citation needed}}": However if an article has sufficient inline citations, but the article lacks citations to cover specific information (such as no citation on a quotation) then use the inline citation template {{citation needed}} to indicate more precisely where additional citations are needed. Unlike citation needed, refimprove places a very conspicuous banner in the article. You have identified two places where cites are needed (that's not in doubt), and there's already 3 or more cites in that section, so you don't need to use the general section banner since you have specific locations in mind. --MASEM (t) 15:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the time to write an explanation; I'm convinced that both were not needed in this instance. More generally, I think there are cases where they might both apply, within the guidance above - for instance, in a section requiring many additional citations where only the highest priority are deserving of an inline tag. But now I'm intrigued: would you mind telling me what 'tl' does when added to a template tag? Dubbin (talk) 15:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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easy peasy

Thanks for rewording Eric Stonestreet. Way better than getting into a edit war. Of course, I'm sure you rep the west side. 71.57.11.10 (talk) 19:08, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Net present value

I saw your comments on the talk page about simplifying the article, and particularly, the introduction. I have made some additions attempting to further explain the concept. Let me know if it helps. Cheers, I eat BC Fish (talk) 10:48, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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References

Please do not remove references attached to each sentence. Our readers expect this and it make follow up more difficult if text is moved around. Have hide them. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:16, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a problem with hidden citations, though I still think it's overkill and if every long article adopted this approach, editing them would be a nightmare. The history gives a sufficient account of where information came from and if it's moved, a different citation may be more appropriate in its new context anyway. But I'm happy to leave things as they are for this paragraph, which before my edits was suffering from WP:CITEKILL. Dubbin^{u | t | c} 18:55, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Voskhod

Hi, Dubbin! I know that as an author of Voskhod, Russia I am not, strictly speaking, in a position to decline a prod, but I just wanted to bring to your attention that this is not a "list", but a set index article (one of many), which is not required to be notable on its own merit (not unlike a disambiguation page). Entries are supposed to be verifiable, so I'll be happy to add references upon request (or whenever this particular article comes up in my to-do flow). Let me know if you still have concerns. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 5, 2016; 13:15 (UTC)

"Fundamentally, a set index article is a type of list article" (from WP:SIA). I don't see the point of such an article listing dozens of items that don't have pages. If none of its subjects are notable, then what is the point of the page?

If you can direct me to a specific guideline or AFD discussion on a similar page that is full of red links, I will be content to leave it. Otherwise, the PROD having been removed, I will AfD. Dubbin^{u | t | c} 15:49, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DHMIS

Hey, I saw your post on ANI and though I'm not a prolific editor by any means, I have watchlisted the article to help revert unhelpful IP edits for what it's worth. Valeince (talk) 18:10, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Dubbin^{u | t | c} 19:27, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion

I notice that you used the proposed deletion process for William Henry Lyttelton. This process should not be used in such cases as it says "Please note that this process is only to be used for uncontroversial deletion. PROD must only be used if no opposition to the deletion is expected." This is important because there is no discussion in such cases and we don't want plausible topics being silently deleted. You yourself favour medical topics, which is fine, and you might suppose that no-one would be so crass as to try to delete those. But see the recent Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barostat. Such casual deletion nominations are quite a threat to our integrity because they are poorly patrolled now. I do what I can but don't have time to look at the hundreds of daily cases. Andrew D. (talk) 05:46, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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am so sorry to see this, Dubbin. Really. Jytdog (talk) 00:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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