Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Health and fitness

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Notice of List articles

Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).

• List of basic health topics
• List of basic exercise topics
• List of basic health science topics

This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 19:13, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Vital articles

Any editor with a broad knowledge of health is invited to take a look at Wikipedia:Vital articles and offer suggestions on how to improve the list of 1000 vital Wikipedia articles, as well as on the process of choosing them. It suffers from a severe lack of attention and POV editing. — goethean ॐ 02:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist    10:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Men who have sex with men

See debate at Talk:Men who have sex with men regarding people inside and outside the MSM demographic. Are transmen and women MSM? Are rape victims in prison? Hyacinth (talk) 22:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Health by country

There is a need for 'Health in Foo articles, where Foo is a country, to give an overview of a countries health. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 09:37, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi all

Sorry I haven't been too responsive to efforts to revive. I am interested!

Wanted to at least let you know, we've been busy on some related subjects in Oregon. Look at Category:Public health in Oregon, and specifically the sub-category on controlled substances, if you're interested. -Pete (talk) 22:29, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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Health benefits of the Açaí berry

In case anyone pays attention here, I felt this article was prudent to create given all the attention the topic has gotten in the media lately. There's plenty of reference material out there, I think, so whoever is interested, your help is appreciated. Equazcion •✗/C • 09:33, 4 Mar 2009 (UTC)

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Urban legends about illegal drugs

Is Talk:Urban legends about illegal drugs within the scope of this project? WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Image FYI

Just an FYI, I don't know what level of coverage Wiki has on exercises and such, but in browsing a great Flickr source for free images (I was looking for sports stuff) I came across this album. Dunno if any of them would be helpful, but there are some Commons-license-able HQ images there if they can be. Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Overall benefit

I've tried to put Dance and health into suitable categories. It seems to me though that people split up physical and mental fitness into two separate categories and the concept that things like tai chi, dance, or martial arts could have overall psychological as well as physical health aspects doesn't seem to fit in well anywhere. Am I missing something out here? isn't there any concept of overall benefit anywhere? Dmcq (talk) 10:25, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Picture

can

be used as the main image for this article and for the entire health and medicine categories and related articles ? (a template needs to be made for the latter)

81.241.110.18 (talk) 10:51, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Editors considering this will want to see the objections raised at WT:MED#Picture (will eventually be moved to WT:WikiProject Medicine/Archive 15). WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Note that the png has now been replaced with an svg, and the discussion at Archive 15 was about the version with four individual icons, now replaced by a red star of life and a modified caduceus. --Slashme (talk) 18:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Reboot

I stumbled on the project page from one of the weightlifting articles. I've started doing some work on the To Do tasks Thedarxide (talk) 14:24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Swimming pool sanitation

I've just added the article Swimming pool sanitation to this WikiProject; it needs a lot of work and, I believe, a great deal of uncited information contained within it is not encyclopedic and some of it is not even correct. For example, I think it makes no sense to lead off with a detailed discussion of specific pool equipment -- although a shorter version of that probably should be somewhere else in the article. I'd like to invite anyone here to take a look at the article and try their hand at editing it. I am declining to be bold in my edits because I have a potential conflict in that its subject matter is of interest to a client of my employer. For example, they have pointed out to me that chlorine is not mentioned until the second half, although chlorine systems are very common. I tend to agree, but I've done only a small amount of work on the article and want to see if anyone else might be interested in the article or, if you would, offer advice and feedback on edits I may make further. Thanks in advance, NMS Bill (talk) 16:47, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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3O Requested at Kundalini Yoga page - Idiosyncratic Warnings

Hi guys. Thanks for all your great work. It's really appreciated.

Sorry to bring this to your doorstep, but I have an ongoing dispute situation with a user Atmapuri over the content presented at the top of the Kundalini Yoga page. Needless to say we got carried away and the page is now blocked until Feb 3rd. My main gripe with this editor is that is an edit warrior - he has done so in his past, and he has no concept of editing towards consensus or how references and editing work. He has reverted numerous edits to his same exact edits, while I have tried to shape and improve the page, its relevance and legitimacy.

The big issue for now is that the editor in question is determined to link "kundalini yoga" with "kundalini syndrome". Bad enough that he wants to keep this reference up top, but it's also a complete error in linking the two together. "kundalini syndrome" refers to kundalini energy, and not to the yoga form. Check the page yourself. Additionally, his reference material is primary source and opinion based. Even the "kundliani syndrome" page as a whole is marked as unprofessional (needing professional validation). Basically, he is giving this form of yoga a bad name, while referencing and citing material that is tenuous at best. And when I have added in material to refute this, or offer an alternative view, he has straight up deleted my references and citations, while commenting "If you want to change something add your own text and reference." Needless to say, it's been difficult.

My request is, can you give a third party review of this and establish that, on the grounds that "Kundalini Syndrome" refers to a spiritual energy source that can be "spontaneously generated", or "awoken" through any number of spiritual practices, it therefore has no definitive linking with any one style of Yoga. And as such, I propose that:

• A) Kundalini Yoga is not linked to "Kundalini Syndrome" in word or reference.
• B) Since Kundalini Syndrome itself in a non-professional term with dubious scientific value or validation, that it not be considered a valid reference source (internally).
• C) That Kundalini Syndrome is only speaking about Kundalini energy, and not directly with the Yoga form by the same name.
• D) And finally, strike all references to "Kundalini Syndrome" from the Kundalini Yoga pages under the fact that it is misleading, negative and erroneous.

Thanks for your attention to this matter, it will be really helpful to have a 3rd party review from a knowledgeable source.--Fatehji (talk) 21:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

As for (D), Wikipedia has absolutely no objection to including "negative" information.

If there is a source that directly associates the syndrome with the yoga, then WP:DUE probably requires the syndrome article to mention the yoga form, and the yoga article to mention the syndrome. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:57, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Please help with a 3O at this page: Talk Discussion. I don't understand if people do or don't read carefully before writing, but as it has already been stated: Kundalini Yoga itself is NOT directly associated with Kundalini Syndrome (It just shares the same first name - ask Obama if he's related to Osama?). But seriously... There are no sources that support that connection directly. Please review and share your opinion so consensus can be reached.--Fatehji (talk) 03:00, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

CrossFit

The CrossFit article has been a battleground for years. At one point, it was deleted. Recently, admins had to step in after copyright violations and a meat puppet campaign. The current page is flagged as reading like an ad and lacking neutrality. What's needed now are neutral editors with some subject matter expertise. Please help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwertman (talk • contribs) 14:57, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Could someone give it another look? After a deal of good work by User:Lambtron, it's drifting back toward the promotional. It's not a territory I know enough about to deal with properly, but I can spot (for instance) the weasel wording in critics "claiming" while an expert who supports CrossFit "states" and "notes". Gordonofcartoon (talk) 14:49, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid the area of health and fitness seems a bit moribund but I just had a look there and I fully agree, it is an ad. I changed the inline references to citations at the end and now itis obvious it is mainly derived from CrossFit articles. Dmcq (talk) 18:45, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Missing medicine topics

I've updated my list of missing medicine topics in case you might find it interesting - Skysmith (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to improve medical articles related to developing countries

Google's private foundation has offered to provide support to several non-English Wikipedias. (See this announcement.) Forty medicine- or health-related articles, some of particular interest to developing countries, have been identified as targets. The English-language articles will be translated, and we'd like to give the translators some good articles.

I think that it would be particularly helpful if some of these articles were expanded to make them more global/more obviously applicable to non-English-speaking countries. For example, recreational drug use contains prevalence information for Ireland and the US, but no other countries.

If you are interested in helping with this, please consider adding Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Google Project to your watchlist, improving these articles, and/or contributing advice at the talk page. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:10, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

merging Category:Medical fiction to Category:Medicine and health in fiction

I'm not sure if the WikiProject covers this, well, FYI

the merging of the above has been proposed, see

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_May_22

70.29.210.155 (talk) 04:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Anti-Inflammation Diet

Could someone more familiar with articles on diet and nutrition help with reviewing the article on Anti-Inflammation Diet? It seems to have some sections that are encyclopedic and some reasonable refs added here and there; but a large chunk of the article seems to flip between being more suited for use in either marketing material or in a magazine/journal. --12.193.27.158 (talk) 23:03, 16 July 2010 (UTC)