User talk:Canele

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-- New user message (talk) 21:14, 6 January 2019 (EST)

Handling misspelled names
Hi Canele,

I appreciate all the work you have been doing on the site. Re: mispelled names - I can't find where Wikipedia keeps misspelled names as a page redirect. I think keeping misspelled names clutters up the drop down menu. Kmdenmark (talk) 15:44, 17 January 2019 (EST)
 * Hi User:Kmdenmark, thanks for your message and sorry I didn't include the en-WP policy link from the start--it's here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Reasons_for_not_deleting (I was especially thinking of items 2, 4, and 5). Wikipedia does delete rather than redirect some misspellings but only if it's misleading in some way, or "implausible" that someone might make the same mistake (e.g. if the correct name were Clare Longlastname, WP would keep Claire Longlastname as a redirect to help readers find Clare, because but not Clard Longlastname, because that's not likely to recur). That's why my inclination was to keep Zach for Zack, but yes I can see that it might confuse readers who put the name into the search bar and then wonder if there are two different researchers (less of a problem on Wikipedia when putting anything into the search bar will always give you a large number of results.) It does seem to be a tradeoff, in terms of streamlining that versus preventing inadvertent dead ends--I've found several so far in going through the top redlinked pages.
 * Hm. Well this isn't the most urgent question, we can always add deleted redirects back if we decide later we want them, but maybe I'll put a note on the discussion page of the MOS to see if there are more opinions on what people find useful--in the end, whatever most people find most useful will be the best thing to do! Canele (talk) 18:41, 17 January 2019 (EST)
 * Actually probably a better question for Talk:Editorial Guidelines so it's there! Canele (talk) 19:13, 17 January 2019 (EST)

New topics
I saw you were looking at wanted pages and new topic areas.

I think a biomedical research page and info on different types of research would be great. I looked into it and it seems social-behavioral is another type. "Biomedical research" is a phrase used on many pages so I thought it might be helpful to list examples of what is and what is not biomedical research.

The origins of CBT & GET aren't covered either - the Primers mention the PACE trial but that wasn't published until 2011. The UK's NICE guidelines were using both from 2007. Studies go back to at least the 1990s though.

An existing area which could be covered much better is genes and gene testing. Many come up in different studies but gene testing results and DNA don't seem explained. Promethius has limited info on genes linked to CFS and fibro. There's also info on genes linked to certain medication responses that might be helpful.

I wondered if these topics interested you. I'm currently adding pages for researchers and politicians who are advocates.

Njt notjusttired (talk) 18:56, 29 January 2019 (EST)
 * Thanks so much Njt! I really appreciate knowing what folks might find useful. I'm only just starting to get acquainted with ME/CFS research, but I'm wiki-competent and reasonably science-literate so I can definitely help get pages started and then very much welcome help from others developing them further (or adding myself as I get to know the field better).
 * Please feel free to let me know if you have more suggestions! Canele (talk) 19:31, 29 January 2019 (EST)

Bayesian Theorem Formula
Hi. I saw on the Suggestions page you suggested an image for Bayesian Theorem and had some questions about WikiMedia's Commons. Anything from Commons (or Wikipedia) should be licensed for re-use, and any image from elsewhere with a clear license allowing re-use is fine to copy and upload via Special:Upload - just fill in the image creator details to give them credit and pick the matching license from the drop-down box. A lot of images from academic research can also be re-used, check the Copyright / Licensing information in the article. Any image licensed as "Creative Commons Share Alike" can be edited as well as reused, provided edits are described and the original creator is credited.

The image you suggested looks blurred to me and it would be very simple to re-create a better quality version. Another possibility is to use a different one, eg the neon blue one or the tree diagram ones from the Wikipedia page. Looking at Wikipedia the same formula is on the page, created using wikitext code rather than an image, so copying that code is another option, or taking a screenshot and uploading even. notjusttired (talk) 17:39, 22 March 2019 (EDT)
 * Thanks for the reply User:Notjusttired! As far as text, that actually is what I tried first, but Wikipedia appears to be using a template for coding math formulas that we don't have set up, unfortunately; I got an error message on MEpedia. As far as images go, ok, I see--there's no opportunity to use the image directly from the Commons, it'd need to be downloaded and reuploaded here (that's too bad, it's so convenient across WMF sites that you can just link to the file). I'll see about familiarizing myself. Thanks! Canele (talk) 02:25, 23 March 2019 (EDT)

Starting new pages
Hi. It's good to see so much content being added, including for treatment centers. If you can use the example MEpedia:Article_outlines page outlines then it will make sure there's some See Also links, Learn more, and should suggest the most appropriate categories. Ideally this should help reduce the number of orphaned pages or pages that are not reachable from categories. Empty headings also prompt other editors wanting to improve Stub pages. Thanks again for your editing. notjusttired (talk) 20:09, 5 April 2019 (EDT)