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==Parkinson's science learning project in Wikiversity==
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Hi. I'd like to bring your attention to a new learning project in Wikiversity. As you have been involved with the discussion on the wikipedia Parkinson's disease page I felt you might be interested in looking at the project and perhaps even contributing material to it. Please see my Talk page, http://en.wikiversity.org/User_talk:Droflet#The_Science_Behind_Parkinson.27s_learning_project , the subpage, http://en.wikiversity.org/User_talk:Droflet/ProjectDescription or the project itself , http://en.wikiversity.org/Portal:The_Science_Behind_Parkinson%27s . It would be great if you could bring the project to the attention of others who might be interested in helping us develop it. Thanks.


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== The Pulse (] newsletter) June 2014 ==
== evo-devo ==


The first edition of '''The Pulse''' has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. ''']'''
Now that things seem to be stabilizing at the Evolution article, would you consider looking at and working on the evo-devo article? As you mentioned, at one point, this is an important growing area. I did some work on it a while ago an exhausted my relevant knowledge, but it still seems like the length and quality of the article do not match its importance. ] | ] 12:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


The newsletter has been sent to the talk pages of ] members bearing the {{tl|User WPMed}} template. To opt-out, ] or simply remove your name from ]. Because this is the first issue, we are still finding out feet. Things like the layout and content may change in subsequent editions. Please let us know what you think, and if you have any ideas for the future, by leaving a message ].
:Gulp. What am I going to get myself into? LOL. I'll check it out! ] 18:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, I don't want you to over-commit!! I just know this article deserves to be better than it is. You can start by looking at one editor;s suggestions and also I have a comment in the section of talk that follows (on, concerning the tendency to microevolution). ] | ] 15:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


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Well, folks, Creationism as a theological schism rather than religion vs. science seems to be an aspect worth examining, and my prayers for a source have now been answered at Reason Science and Faith, Roger Forster and Dr Paul Marston. Chapter 7 - Genesis Through History. (javasript link to pdf). A worthy read, and astonishingly the authors seem convinced that YECs misrepresent Christianity pre 1961 as being literal when it wasn't. Whooda thunk those creationists would change history, and get it misrepresented in Misplaced Pages? Will aim to clarify the ] article in the fullness of time, or fairly soon with any luck. ... ], ] 23:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
:Yes I believe that this ] business is pretty recent. Even ] is a fairly recent invention, and was quite unpopular before about 1960; even ] of prominent ] fame was not a biblical literalist or YEC. Many other famous early creationists were not either. It was definitely a minority position of only a few crazed extremists that most other creationists avoided because of their clear irrationality. Somehow, though, this extreme viewpoint has become increasingly popular recently , which is quite interesting.--] 23:26, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
::I was reading a book last night about Creationism (can't remember the name), and they said the same thing. In the 1800's, the "fundamentalists" believed that the earth was millions of years old (I believe the author said that at the time billions of years wasn't comprehensible), and they did not dispute the science, other than they believe that G-d's hand was in there. I'd take those fundamentalists any day of the year. Anyways, I'm now more convinced than ever that Creationism should be positioned as a religious debate, and not a science one. Of course, I believe that science and religion can be compatible, so this may help that argument. ] 23:33, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


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:::I am wondering if it is not due to the advance of science and technology, and as science has become more advanced, and technology as well, that the average person is more and more disconnected from the current scientific understanding and current technology. In this situation, where the average person does not understand the science or the world around him, magical thinking and being dismissive of science might become easier and easier. The average person today is alienated from science. One hundred years ago, most people lived on farms and had to repair farm equipment and understand technology and by extension, the science behind it. Now, everyone has magical devices to talk on and to compute with and to get information, and no one can understand the guts of their car or anything else. So if someone comes and talks about magic, how hard is it to subscribe to it? After all, how different is that than the average person's understanding of his surroundings?--] 23:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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::Oddly enough, it may be that most people today lack the theological background and sophistication that anyone literate in Darwin's day was fully familiar with. In the chapter I've read, pp. 43 to 53 credits the prophetess ] with coining the literalism that inspired ] to create his 1923 magnum opus ''The New Geology'' which all but 7th day adventists ignored until the 1961 revelations of Morris that "Having shown that virtually all those he accepts as spiritual Christian leaders between 1859 and 1940 were gaptheory, age-day or evolutionary creationists, he elsewhere proclaims all such ideas to be equivalent to evolution which he says is inherently atheistic and ‘pictures God as a sadistic ogre’." Which doesn't stop him blatantly claiming that they all shared his "literalism". .. an interesting read. ... ], ] 23:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


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:::I've been speaking to someone off-wiki about the Creationism debate. And what I said was that I could probably write a better article defending Creationism than most of the religious types could. What I've observed is that this anti-science, anti-intellectual attitude of the current crop of religious writing serves no one well. Although Morris' description of evolution is very descriptive, it serves nothing for the debate. Creationism can be written as a wonderful religious dogma--not in conflict with current science, because that's a battle that will be lost. We can do better. ] 00:19, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
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<unindent> The conclusion of the e=book chapter, pp 53 - 54, covers it neatly, ending with "Finally, the word ‘creationist’ is itself confusing. The
creatorship of God is central to Christianity, and it is in our view
impossible to be any sort of a Christian without being a
‘creationist’. So to a Christian theist who believes that God can
work through ‘natural’ processes, when does a so-called
‘progressive creationist’ become an ‘evolutionary creationist’?
Exactly how much micro-evolution is acceptable? R L Numbers,
having called his book The Creationists, seems to want to limit
it (for some reason) to non-evolutionary creationists – though at
times is hard put to delineate them. Morris and other youngearthers
seem to use the confusion of language to disguise their
own origins. To them the word ‘creationist’ is a flexible word.
Sometimes it means just those who believe in a literal six days
and recent earth – at other times it includes the many figures in
the last two centuries who have accepted mainstream geology
but not macro evolution. By juggling the terms, the radical break
marked by young-earth creationism with mainstream
Evangelicalism is masked. Let us be clear on this one thing.
Young-earthism is a clear and radical break differing in its
whole approach to the issues – and its modern roots are in
Seventh Day Adventism not in later nineteenth century
Evangelicalism nor in early Fundamentalism." And for non-Christians, p 7 discusses such scholars as ] who is currently cited as a creationist... So endeth the lesson, at least in my time zone. Will get in touch later today (UTC) ..], ] 00:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


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You are right. I get on a roll and just slam away at tiny bits of editing and I get sloppy and don't add a summary. I should do more I know. But I do think that I did wear away at a lot of the nonsense and make the references and links clearer; I expect that a lot of these will eventually have to get dumped but it will be easier when we can actually see where the links and references go. Some go to blogs. Some go to commercial sites. Some go to real peer-reviewed papers. Some go to government sites. And so on. It definitely needs more massaging and I am a bit nervous about what sort of response we will get from the hard core naturopathic types.--] 00:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


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There are no changes to the policy proposed at all. What I have proposed is the clarification of the section that summarises the policy. The new version of this summary is ] if you wanted to comment. However, I don't want to stir things up by proposing ANY changes in meaning. All I would like to do is make what is here a bit easier to understand. ] 01:45, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
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Since you're a ''real'' doctor and I'm just an ignorant vandal, maybe you could take a look at ]. It doesn't seem to contain any real assertions of notability, and I suspect the subject doesn't warrant inclusion, but maybe I'm missing something? Possibly something which your elite academic background would pick up on? It's true he's delivered 28 papers, but I've delivered hundreds myself...I used to have a paper route. ] <font color ="green">]</font > 04:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


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== Return of Raspor? ==
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I strongly suspect that ] is a sockpuppet of ]. Should we check? Here is why I have my suspicions:
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Misplaced Pages presence, such as ], ], and ]. <br>What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not ] (],],],]) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
*endless trolling
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*wildly exaggerated indenting on occasion (started when Raspor was chastised for not ever indenting)
*Raspor's suggestions that evolution is not a hard science or inadequate because of its lack of mathematical rigor, and Octoplus' allusions to a mathematical proof of the inability of evolution to produce life that uses differential equations
*long and frequent posts to talk pages but never any constructive suggestions to change the article
*familiarly of Octoplus with the page and the WP rules even though the account is quite new
*when frequently invited to produce something, Raspor and Octoplus both decline, and blame their lack of output on some sort of discrimination by other WP editors
*both have a similar attitude and seem aggrieved about something
*both tried to direct the attention to themselves and remain in the spotlight (when I moved material to Octoplus' talkpage, he deleted it and then claimed he had never seen it). When this was pointed out, he moved on to another complaint, much as Raspor would.
Suggestions?--] 12:19, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


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I've been reworking ]--yes the lead is improved. I've been digging up references for these dinosaurs, and short of a lot of Cryptozoology articles (talk about junk science), there's one hadrosaur femur in New Mexico, some supposed research in China (can't find references), and some information that dinosaurs existed above the K-T boundary in the Hell Creek formation. But really, there are precious few references supporting it, but a lot in opposition. Thinking about undue weight, I'm beginning to wonder if this needs to be a POV fork (and away from ]). Just a thought that maybe you can consider as we move forward. ] 23:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
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:I'll take a good look tonight, OM. <font color="#0000FF">]</font> 00:06, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


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Regarding your edit summary "...by the way Orangemarlin, this is obviously not OR, the article itself cites 20 different sources including books and websites." Websites don't count as original sources, so do not have much credibility. Specific statements lack any references, and may or may not be a digestion of primary sources, but it is impossible to tell since statements or sections are not attributed to specific sources. If you review ], you will note that a verifiable reference is required for anything that is challenged or likely to be challenged. Full citations should be used, and inline citations are preferred. Primary sources far outweigh secondary ones (and websites are unverified secondary sources). Therefore, in lieu of references that support statements in the article, it is, by definition ]. ] 00:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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:Your statement about the credibility of websites is more a personal opinion than a fact, and while it might be useful I'm afraid it does not represent the thoughts of the whole Misplaced Pages community. As you might probably noticed we have to analyse and use every source available while adding information, even if that includes other websites; hit the random article button, and look for yourself how many pages do not include websites as sources. Likely to be challenged? I believe half of our history-related articles are likely to be challenged, but as I said before that does not mean they are all original research. While in-line citations are doubtlessly an useful addition to our encyclopedic quality, their lack is not a proof of an instant ] article, and ] states it clearly. You are adressing this problem from the wrong way; I suggest you to think twice about it next time, please. &mdash;<font face="Lucida Blackletter"><font color="black">]&nbsp;<small>(])</small></font></font> 22:24, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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::What????? There are no references, so it's all challenged. It is original research. I don't give a crap about inline citations, it just makes it easier to confirm the source. I'm not sure I appreciate your tone. ] 22:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


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:::I left a comment on the ] talk page. If people really want it fact-tagged, I'll do it, but the fact-tags will overwhelm the article. ] 23:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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::OR relates to making novel conclusions not already published by reliable sources. Something can have the hell sourced out of it, and it can still be OR because it draws novel conclusions from those sources. NOR and CITE are totally distinct ideas. ] 01:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

:::Merci beaucoup, Messr. Guettarda. ] 02:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

== not sure why we were arguing, but thanks for jumping into the bio page ==

hope i can be of some more help.] 08:59, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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Parkinson's science learning project in Wikiversity

Hi. I'd like to bring your attention to a new learning project in Wikiversity. As you have been involved with the discussion on the wikipedia Parkinson's disease page I felt you might be interested in looking at the project and perhaps even contributing material to it. Please see my Talk page, http://en.wikiversity.org/User_talk:Droflet#The_Science_Behind_Parkinson.27s_learning_project , the subpage, http://en.wikiversity.org/User_talk:Droflet/ProjectDescription or the project itself , http://en.wikiversity.org/Portal:The_Science_Behind_Parkinson%27s . It would be great if you could bring the project to the attention of others who might be interested in helping us develop it. Thanks.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Protectosil

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The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here.

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Medical Translation Newsletter


Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Misplaced Pages available to the world, in the language of your choice.

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

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I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Misplaced Pages presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

  • Swedish
    Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and 💕 of medical content. We want Misplaced Pages to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
    Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
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  • Polish
    Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Misplaced Pages has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Misplaced Pages does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
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Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here

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Women in Red World Contest

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