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| Great work so far on your edits! JenOttawa (talk) 02:12, 28 January 2020 (UTC) |
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Hi! I hope that you are well. Your edits are looking great. I will re-organize the Cochrane Update list today to include the march 1st additions in alphabetical order. The papers marked as "done" are automatically archived on the 1st of each month as well by the bot. New papers go to the bottom automatically and I adjust to make it easier to find articles. While here I also noticed you had some questions about tables. If you still are having trouble I would be happy to meet for a quick call and help. Thanks, Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, BDD user. I wanted to let you know why I reverted this edit. As you can see by perusing Dementia with Lewy bodies, rivastigmine is already well covered by very recent secondary reviews. There is usually no reason to add a 2003 source to any medical article, but in particular, not to DLB which already uses the most recent secondary sources available. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:06, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- Same here ... this article already uses a newer source: we should be using the most recent reviews, rather than very old ones. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:12, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello again, BDD user and JenOttawa. I just reverted and replaced a similar problem in this edit to insomnia. Mention of further research needed eighteen years ago is not encyclopedic, is too dated to use, and it's important to check what has resulted from that "further research needed" before adding such old information. If the research isn't mentioned in recent secondary reviews, it's probably UNDUE to add such info. In fact, I replaced that text with a secondary review that is 14 years newer. Please keep in mind when adding Cochrane information you should always check PubMED to see if there are newer reviews available, very old reviews are rarely useful, and very old mentions of "further research needed" will require checking to see where that has landed.
A more concerning issue is at autism spectrum, where I removed and replaced outdated and inaccurate information about medication. Thanks for your effort, and please take care to be sure information is still accurate before adding. Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:11, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
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| Thank you for updating the references to Cochrane reports - keep it up! Mike Peel (talk) 19:16, 1 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Hello there. I saw your edit to DVT, thank you. I did spend some time making sure this Cochrane reference still verified the prose in the DVT article. In the future, can I recommend something? Instead of just saying "Update Cochrane reference" as an edit summary, how about instead saying something like "updated Cochrane reference and ensured that the prose is still verified" or the like? I hope you're verifying this already, but I just don't know if that's the case because the edit summary was vague and did not address the concept of WP:Verifiability, which is very important around here. Also, as you can see with my edit, I did not include the PMC number because that won't help readers verify the information until after April 2022 because of the embargo. So I would only recommend including a PMC number if the article is already released and freely accessible at that site. Thank you! Biosthmors (talk) 18:33, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
And as an FYI, adding a url to a PMID is unnecessary and unhelpful. Adding a PMC will make the title of the article become a hyperlink, and the general expectation is that if the title of a reference is hyperlinked here, then readers are conditioned to think the source is freely accessible. We don't want to direct readers who are expecting to see the full text of the article to see "This article has a delayed release (embargo) and will be available in PMC on April 20, 2022.", as is the current state of PMC8092568. Does this make sense? Biosthmors (talk) 18:42, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
What is helpful, if the article is freely accessible at the doi, is to add this parameter. I don't know if my browsers are all logged in here at my university and if that's why it's freely-accessible for me or not. Do you know if this article is freely-accessible to the general public at the doi? Adding this parameter makes the doi the hyperlink atop the article title. It's unnecessary to add |doi-access = free if an article is already freely accessible at PMC and the PMC number is filled in. Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 18:48, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for updating the outdated citation in Vaccination in India. I love these "medical topic by country" articles but they are a pain to maintain. Bluerasberry (talk) 19:21, 15 April 2022 (UTC) |
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