User talk:Steve M/Archives/2020/August

March 2018

Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Wikipedia:Patent nonsense— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 16:47, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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Can you explain

... what this [1] uncommented revert meant? Thanks, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 05:03, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

It was an accident and I need more help for wikipedia tools since im new.

Ah, okay, no problem then, thanks for clarifying. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:54, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fibrothorax

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Fibrothorax 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 ChessMaster7734 -- ChessMaster7734 (talk) 00:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

ChessMaster7734, you can't review your own GA nomination. I don't think you meant to, but by opening the review page, you're preventing anyone else from doing a review. Please be patient; there is a long backlog at GAN, and it may take some months before a reviewer comes along, or they could select your article much sooner than that. I'm going to arrange to have the review page deleted, so it's possible for a valid reviewer to select it.

I'd like to recommend that you read through the Good Article nomination instructions if you haven't already, and also the GA criteria: the article you nominated will need to meet all of the GA criteria, and it looks a little thin to do that.

Hi Chessmaster. I've had a look at your GA nomination for Fibrothorax and tidied up a lot of the wording. It will need a bit more content to meet GA status including a section on 'Epidemiology' and a section on the history of the condition. The references could use some expansion too - in general using review articles in peer-reviewed journals (try looking on PubMed and finding free to access reviews). I would recommend looking at MEDMOS (the Wikipedia manual of style for medicine-related articles) for ideas about how to bring this up to scratch. Good luck! PeaBrainC (talk) 16:46, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Madness Combat (cartoon series)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Shruti Rane

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Your GA nomination of Fibrothorax

The article Fibrothorax you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Fibrothorax for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Originalmess -- Originalmess (talk) 08:41, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fibrothorax

The article Fibrothorax you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Fibrothorax for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Originalmess -- Originalmess (talk) 05:02, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Hemothorax

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hemothorax 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. PeaBrainC (talk) 13:35, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Steve, I haven't heard much of a response from you to the comments on the GA review page. There's quite a bit to be done if you're serious about getting Hemothorax to GA level but if you use the review articles that have been suggested as a starting point then it should be possible. If I haven't heard anything by next week then I'm going to close the nomination. Hope to hear from you. PeaBrainC (talk) 22:40, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Steve, well done for your work so far improving the article, it's looking better. I've done a more detailed review which can be found on the GA review page of most of the sections now but have Management still to do. Is the GA review page specifically on your watchlist? Changes made to the review page don't necessarily get flagged up as a change to the talk page even though it's transcribed there. PeaBrainC (talk) 12:28, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Steve - PeaBrainC asked me to sit in as second reviewer. I've left a few comments and may have a few more, but generally feel the article is close to GA. David notMD (talk) 04:38, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Last of my comments to resolve: Thoracostomy subsection: With the Wallen ref now removed, there is no support for the sentence "Manual manipulation of chest tubes (also referred to as milking, stripping, or tapping) is commonly performed to maintain an open tube, but no conclusive evidence has demonstrated that this improves chest tube drainage." as that is not covered in the remaining Patrini ref. David notMD (talk) 10:08, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

GA nomination of Systemic lupus erythematosus

Steve Mulch Civic (Pro), I have removed your GA nomination of Systemic lupus erythematosus, since you didn't follow the process laid out on the GA nomination instructions page.

Specifically, while anyone may make a nomination, editors who have not been significant contributors to the article should consult with those who are significant contributors prior to making the nomination, to be sure the article is at a level where it meets the GA criteria or is close enough that a modest amount of work will bring the article to the point that it meets that criteria. As far as I can determine, you have not been a significant contributor, so a pre-nomination consultation needs to take place.

Posting your desire to nominate it to be a GA to the article's talk page and allowing the standard seven days for responses and discussion is your next step if you wish to pursue this nomination. You should also be prepared to work to address any issues with the article that come up during the GA review once it begins. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:52, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

I have just done the same with your nomination of Melanoma; with two edits to the article, you cannot be considered a significant editor. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:14, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

And the same with Diaphragmatic rupture. You can always do the consultation I mentioned above if you wish to pursue these nominations. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:18, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Person not patient

Please follow this per the WP:MEDMOS Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:21, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Have adjusted a little more here[2] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:36, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Fibrothorax FAC

Hi, I've removed your nomination of Fibrothorax at FAC for the moment. You need to initiate the nomination properly before re-adding to the page. To initiate the nomination, either go to the Fibrothorax talk page and click on the red text at the top ("Please feel free to initiate the nomination"). Alternatively, you can click here to start it.

Before you do that, however, you are advised to read the opening text at WP:FAC (the part starting "Before nominating an article...") and consider going through GAN or WP:PEER REVIEW before going to FAC. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 13:31, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Edit summaries

As you edit existing articles, please add appropriate descriptions as Edit summaries. Especially in times when there are many consecutive edits, this will help in identify when a particular edit was made. Thank you. David notMD (talk) 17:53, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

You do other editors a disservice by not describing the changes you are making with appropriate Edit summaries. David notMD (talk) 00:25, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Ok sorry Steve Mulch Civic 00:35, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Help:Edit summary explains reasons better than I. Especially when one editor is doing a cluster of edits (as I have often done in bringing articles to readiness for Good Article Nomination), other editors can look at the Edit summaries to see if there was a content change in part of the article that interests them. David notMD (talk) 00:37, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Epidural hematoma...

... also has referencing problems. See my note at Talk:Epidural hematoma. And in my opinion the list of Notable cases adds nothing to the article. David notMD (talk) 02:45, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

GARD

Is written by the US government and is thus Public Domain. Thus it is not plagiarism. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Hemothorax

On 11 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hemothorax, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that endometriosis, a condition in which tissue from the womb occurs in unusual locations, can cause bleeding into the chest during menstrual periods? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hemothorax. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hemothorax), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Your GA nomination of Epidural hematoma

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Good article nominations

I am concerned about your large amount of GA nominations. I have just failed epidural haematoma for concerns to which there was only a short reply and note that you have a number of outstanding nominations, including to Ehlers–Danlos syndromes, to which I can only see one edit. BlueMoonset has raised similar concerns above. I think it's great that you're involved in editing but having so many nominations (especially those to which you are not going to reply or weren't involved in editing) wastes the limited time of reviewers, time that could be given fairly to others.

I'd encourage you to stop nominating any further articles until your backlog is cleared, and only nominate articles which you are familiar because of close attention. Happy future editing! Cheers --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:33, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Epidural hematoma

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Your GA nomination of Ehlers–Danlos syndromes

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Your GA nomination of Ehlers–Danlos syndromes

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Your GA nomination of Ehlers–Danlos syndromes

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Your GA nomination of Chylothorax

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Your GA nomination of Chylothorax

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Your GA nomination of Chylothorax

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Your GA nomination of Fibrothorax

The article Fibrothorax you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Fibrothorax/GA3 for things which need to be addressed. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 22:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

WP:MEDMOS

Per the above we generally use person rather than patient. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:20, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fibrothorax

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Ref

Does not provide anything

"The mortality rate is around 92%."

Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:31, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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I've just had to revert this again. It is simply not accurate to state:

• "It has an estimated death rate of 18.4% in cases in people over 80, and with around 70% of cases being severe."

The figure is wrong; there is no such metric as "death rate"; and you should be aware that 100% of deaths are severe. You have confused multiple figures.

The source you cited states:

• "estimates of the proportion of infected individuals likely to be hospitalised increased with age up to a maximum of 18·4% (11·0–37·6) in those aged 80 years or older."

I assume that you understand the difference between "killed" and "likely to be hospitalised"?

The actual CFR estimate in the source was this:

• "we obtained a best estimate of the case fatality ratio in China of 1·38% (1·23–1·53), with substantially higher ratios in older age groups (0·32% [0·27–0·38] in those aged <60 years vs 6·4% [5·7–7·2] in those aged ≥60 years), up to 13·4% (11·2–15·9) in those aged 80 years or older."

If you want to add something from that source, at least get the figures right, please. --RexxS (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Further complaints:

1. Learn to sign your posts.
2. You claim "I took it to discussion and only reverted it once".

You did not take anything to discussion. There is no sign of you adding anything to Talk:Coronavirus disease 2019.

Read WP:BRD. You made a Bold edit; I Reverted it as incorrect information. The next step is for you to start Discussing it at the article talk page, not for you to go and re-insert the incorrect content again. If I don't see some indication that you comprehend how you inserted false information into the article twice, and an intention to do better in future, I'm going to be asking Boing! said Zebedee if he feels you need to be removed from the COVID-19 area to protect our articles. --RexxS (talk) 18:19, 4 August 2020 (UTC)