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			== Administrators' newsletter – January 2025 ==
	== Cochrane Collaboration meeting in Vienna, October 1st ==

			] from the past month (December 2024).
	Hi Doc James,

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	I 've heard you might be able to visit the ] meeting in Vienna. Somebody (]?) 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 ], English is OK. - Or, if I'm completely wrong, please forward this to whom it may concern. Regards, --] (]) 08:56, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
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	::Thanks ] yes I will be there. FloNight is the one leading efforts. Will let her provide further details. ] (] · ] · ]) 18:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
	:::I replied on the wikiproject's subpage. Sydney Poore/]] 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, --] (]) 08:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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	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?.
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	::{{tps}}I think Hydrag. chloridi is ] or Mercury(I) chloride used to cause regurgitation , as is ]. — ] (]) 01:17, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
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	::::] 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. ] (] · ] · ]) 16:36, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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	== 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 ] in ], 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 (]). 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, --] (]) 07:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
	:Doc James is away,im certain he'll respond ASAP--] (]) 10:45, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
	::Have send. Hope you got it in time. ] (] · ] · ]) 16:15, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

	== hi ==

	I know you've been away but you may want to look at....] and/or ]( emailed you should these discussions be of interest)--] (]) 20:51, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
	::Thanks will follow up eventually. ] (] · ] · ]) 16:32, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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	== 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 "]"that:
	"Primary sources may be presented together with secondary sources" <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 20:24, 21 September 2015 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	::It states that primary sources should generally not be used. Best ] (] · ] · ]) 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. ] (]) 21:40, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
	::] looks good. ] (] · ] · ]) 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,] (]) 21:47, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

	== ERythromycin ==

	I disagree with your reversion of my edit. A quick survey of random antibiotics I find ] and ] that put the class in the lead sentence, and others like ] and ] 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. ] (]) 15:51, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
	::It can be stated twice in the article. But it need only be stated once in the lead ]. Per ] 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. ] (] · ] · ]) 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. ] (]) 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 ] is an ] and not just a ]. :) ] (]) 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 ] (] · ] · ]) 19:37, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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	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. ] (]) 08:09, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
	:Nevermind, I figured out how to report the error. Thanks. ] (]) 08:30, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
	::Is the "cite pmid" bot still working? I typically follow the ref formatting described at ] and expand them before I save using the autofill feature ] ] (] · ] · ]) 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. ] (]) 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. ] (]) 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 ] ]. One does not need to manually fill everything ] (] · ] · ]) 12:52, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
	::::::Ah I see -- I will use this as a backup in case cite PMID stops working again. Thanks. ] (]) 10:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

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	Regards. --] (]) 22:41, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
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Latest revision as of 15:47, 5 January 2025

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

CheckUser changes

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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