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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

Continued discussion on the role of subject-specific notability guidelines at Wikipedia talk:Notability.
An ongoing effort to trim talk page banners has brought us a discussion regarding whether {{English variant notice}}s should be converted to editnotices.
An ongoing discussion at WT:MED considers spinning out parts of the infobox for medicines/drugs into other templates.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:02, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

About the protest

Hello, Prairie Astronomer.

I agree with you for the most part, however, resistance is futile for now. I tried, as did other editors. Many Wikipedians are like the rest of the populace, and get agitated in response to polarizing events. I wish we could apply WP:RECENT and truncate a large portion of THAT article, until the facts of the situation are known to all, through official government channels. (Will that happen? And if it does, will naysayers believe it? I worry, as I can't convince my own MSNBC-watching mother to listen to me about Trump or COVID19, despite referencing facts sourced from official US government websites and even the World Health Organization!)

Keep up the good work in your studies of fire safety, and your contributions to the Wikipedia project.--FeralOink (talk) 17:33, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]