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Previous discussions have been archived here: Archive 1; Archive 2.
[edit] Purple Day
Greetings all. Last night, a section on Purple Day was removed from the article. The reason cited was that it did not meet Wikipedia's reliable source criteria. However, upon a little research, "Purple Day" (http://www.purpleday.org/) "Purple Day is an international grassroots effort dedicated to increasing awareness about epilepsy worldwide. On March 26th annually, people in countries around the world are invited to wear purple and host events in support of epilepsy awareness. In 2011, people in dozens of countries on all continents except Antarctica participated in Purple Day. With your help, Purple Day 2012 will be even bigger!". Now, purpleday.org is an affiliation between Epilepsy Foundation Association of Nova Scotia (EANS) and The Anita Kaufmann Foundation of New York (AKF). Does anyone have any input on this regarding Wikipedia:RS? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aneah (talk • contribs) 13:50, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Reviews
Time for an update:
- Duncan, JS; Sander, JW, Sisodiya, SM, Walker, MC (2006 Apr 1). "Adult epilepsy.". Lancet 367 (9516): 1087-100. PMID 16581409. http://www.acutemed.co.uk/docs/Epilepsy,%20Lancet%204-06.pdf.
- Guerrini, R (2006 Feb 11). "Epilepsy in children.". Lancet 367 (9509): 499-524. PMID 16473127. http://pingpong.ki.se/public/pp/public_courses/course05768/published/1320311836409/resourceId/4917413/content/Epilepsy.pdf.
- Muthugovindan, D; Hartman, AL (2010 Jul). "Pediatric epilepsy syndromes.". The neurologist 16 (4): 223-37. PMID 20592566.
- Werhahn, KJ (2009 Feb). "Epilepsy in the elderly.". Deutsches Arzteblatt international 106 (9): 135-42. PMID 19568380.
- Crawford, PM (2009). "Managing epilepsy in women of childbearing age.". Drug safety : an international journal of medical toxicology and drug experience 32 (4): 293-307. PMID 19388721.
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:53, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Indeed. I have been meaning to overhaul (not merely update) this page for some time. This should be the year I do it. Thanks for collecting those reviews. I plan to add to these and possibly some books too. It won't be a quick process, I'm afraid. Colin°Talk 08:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes none of these huge topic are. Seizure and epilepsy are closely related which makes writing about them a little difficult.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:35, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Source citation format
I'm planning a major overhaul of this article. Currently, I'm reading some big textbooks on the subject. I would appreciate two changes to the citations and per WP:CITEVAR I'm requesting the change here.
- Move from the {{cite}} template family to hand-formatted citations in Vancouver style, which is the style often used in medical journal articles. It is easy to format by simply taking the citation from PubMed search results and moving the author-list before the title. This will greatly help page-formating time when the article is edited/previewed and loaded, reduce the bulk of the HTML generated for the reader, and eliminate unnecessary bloat in the edit window.
- Move to using list-defined references (see also Wikipedia:Citing sources#Avoiding clutter). This is a big aid to organising and keeping track of references used in an article. It makes it easy to add HTML comments against sources. It also makes the text easy to read in the edit window.
See ketogenic diet for an example. Colin°Talk 19:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
