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Dear Doc James. Dear Doc James.


I think you must see this: and the <s>seven</s> '''ninteen''' next messages. I think you must see this: <s>and the <s>seven</s> '''ninteen''' next messages.</s> (; it was a mistake, the policies are different in spanish Misplaced Pages. Sorry!).


Regards. --] (]) 22:41, 27 September 2015 (UTC) Regards. --] (]) 22:41, 27 September 2015 (UTC)


::There is even this message, that was deleted: ::There is even this message, that was deleted: <s>https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Lagoset#December_2014_.28deleted_by_Lagoset.2C_Revision_as_of_14:50.2C_28_February_2015.29</s>
::He deleted the warning and he continued to add spam links: ::He deleted the warning and he continued to add spam links: <s>https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Lagoset#Restricted_external_links</s>
::Regards. --] (]) 04:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC) ::Regards. --] (]) 04:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
:::I have edited to make some corrections. Regards. --] (]) 15:37, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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Cochrane Collaboration meeting in Vienna, October 1st

Hi Doc James,

I 've heard you might be able to visit the Cochrane Collaboration meeting in Vienna. Somebody (User:FloNight?) reserved some time for a wikipedian pre-colloquium . We've skyped with FloNight about this recently, and several people would like to attend, but we need some details. Are you, or ia FloNight planning to give a speech, a workshop, or anything else? Do you want us to prepare something? What will be our objective? Please answer on our wikiproject's subpage, English is OK. - Or, if I'm completely wrong, please forward this to whom it may concern. Regards, --MBq (talk) 08:56, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks User:MBq yes I will be there. FloNight is the one leading efforts. Will let her provide further details. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
I replied on the wikiproject's subpage. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 18:16, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi again, Sydney and I will have a chat about this event, on monday, August 31th 21:00 CEST (19:00 UTC, 15:00 EDT). If you like, feel free to enter at any time, irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-de-rm . Regards, --MBq (talk) 08:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

Historical Enquiry

(dislcaimer noted) In relation to : s:Page:Recovery from the passage of an iron bar through the head.djvu/12

Was wondering what the notes for Nov 16th would translate as in modern parlance. In particular "... Was bled from the arm ℥ xvi., and got:—℞. Hydrag. chloridi, gr. x.; ipeacac, gr. ij. M. ", I am assuming gr is short for grains, so this is clear a dosage given, but of what?. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:16, 14 September 2015 (UTC)


(talk page stalker)I think Hydrag. chloridi is Calomel or Mercury(I) chloride used to cause regurgitation , as is ipecac. — 206.188.36.153 (talk) 01:17, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Doc James is away,im certain he'll respond ASAP --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:03, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
User:ShakespeareFan00 The first bit is describing blood letting while the second appears to be the prescribing of two medications. Ipecac is well known. I am not sure what the other is or what the abbreviations are. The IPs suggests seem good. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:36, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Your presentation about Ebola translations

Dear James, thank you again for your presentation about Ebola Translations in Mexico.

Next weekend I will be attending the WikiCon 2015 in Dresden, a conference similar to Wikimania, but aimed at the German speaking community of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. I am invited to talk about the Wikimania (program). My idea is to present your project, the Medical Translation Taskforce, as an example about what happens in the Wiki world and that it is worthwile to become active outside ones own language borders.

Could you send me your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF or Word or whatever) so that I can cut out some key figures to use for my presentation or just tell me where I can find it? I'll be asking Carl on his talk page as well.

Thanks again for your work, with best regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 07:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Doc James is away,im certain he'll respond ASAP--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:45, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Have send. Hope you got it in time. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:15, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

hi

I know you've been away but you may want to look at....Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Medicine#BMJ is offering us an expert-review service and/or Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Medicine#Engaging academic experts in creation of WP content( emailed you should these discussions be of interest)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:51, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks will follow up eventually. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:32, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

A question

Dear colleague Can I ask about the cause of omitting the referenced article "Efficacy and safety of Honey based formulation of nigella sativa seed oil in functional dyspepsia: A double blind randomized controlled clinical trial." from the citations? It is clearly stated in "Misplaced Pages:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)"that: "Primary sources may be presented together with secondary sources" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mheydari2 (talkcontribs) 20:24, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

It states that primary sources should generally not be used. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Abortion article: shorter and better

Thanks for shortening and clarifying the sentence I wrote for Abortion and mental health... I hope you don't mind my continuation of that sentence now that it's shorter. SocraticOath (talk) 21:40, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

User:SocraticOath looks good. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:19, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Would you take a look under the Abortion talk page, section Defining abortion, for the change I'm proposing next? Thanks,SocraticOath (talk) 21:47, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

ERythromycin

I disagree with your reversion of my edit. A quick survey of random antibiotics I find cefepime and aztreonam that put the class in the lead sentence, and others like doxycycline and vancomycin that do not. Clearly there is a lack of consistency here. What guideline says that something like drug class can be stated only once in an article? You know just as well as I do that with antibiotics, in particular, the drug class is especially important and burying that detail at the end of another paragraph just doesn't make sense to me. Cburnett (talk) 15:51, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

It can be stated twice in the article. But it need only be stated once in the lead User:Cburnett. Per WP:MEDMOS we try to write in simple language. This means not trying to put everything possible into the first sentence. This means keeping the first sentence especially simple / general. We state it is a macrolide 3 times BTW. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I would have kept the drug class (that is macrolide) in the first sentence but trim a lot of the rest of the detail. Jrfw51 (talk) 17:26, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I wasn't putting everything in the lead sentence (fair enough though, you were being hyperbolic with what I did as I was about using "macrolide" only once). To me, the antibiotic class is incredibly important to have the lead sentence. It's right up there with movie's genre, book's author, what president # the POTUS was, or noting that James Heilman is an emergency physician and not just a physician. :) Cburnett (talk) 21:54, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
"macrolide" is not a well known every day word while "emergency" is. Thus I disagree that these two cases are comparable. We should try very hard not to use non common words in the first sentence of the article other than the name of the article itself Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:37, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Citation bot

It seems I am not getting the error report when I use citation bot for PMID articles, but the references are still not expanding. Have you had better luck? How could I bring this to the attention of the person that runs citation bot? (or potentially fix it myself). Thanks. Plumpy Humperdinkle (talk) 08:09, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Nevermind, I figured out how to report the error. Thanks. Plumpy Humperdinkle (talk) 08:30, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Is the "cite pmid" bot still working? I typically follow the ref formatting described at WP:MEDHOW and expand them before I save using the autofill feature User:Plumpy Humperdinkle Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Apparently there is a current RfC about whether to deprecate the cite pmid and cite doi due to coding issues. I find manually adding the refs a bit cumbersome, but will defer to it if the bot functionality is deprecated. Plumpy Humperdinkle (talk) 08:53, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
From my recent edits, it looks like cite PMID is once again working. This is great news. Thanks for the input regardless. Plumpy Humperdinkle (talk) 08:57, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
All one needs to do is enter the PMID or DOI and than hit the ref autofill button in the ref toolbar per WP:MEDHOW User:Plumpy Humperdinkle. One does not need to manually fill everything Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:52, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Ah I see -- I will use this as a backup in case cite PMID stops working again. Thanks. Plumpy Humperdinkle (talk) 10:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

User Lagoset

Dear Doc James.

I think you must see this: Numerous advices to this user. It seems that he does not want to learn. and the seven ninteen next messages. (I restored deleted content to Lagoset's talk page; it was a mistake, the policies are different in spanish Misplaced Pages. Sorry!).

Regards. --BallenaBlanca (talk) 22:41, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

There is even this message, that was deleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Lagoset#December_2014_.28deleted_by_Lagoset.2C_Revision_as_of_14:50.2C_28_February_2015.29 You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. 01:18, 28 December 2014
He deleted the warning and he continued to add spam links: https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Lagoset#Restricted_external_links Restricted external links, 09:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Regards. --BallenaBlanca (talk) 04:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
I have edited to make some corrections. Regards. --BallenaBlanca (talk) 15:37, 28 September 2015 (UTC)