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BARNSTARS

The Original Barnstar Thanks for all your efforts on medical articles. Best. Doc James 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Tireless Contributor Barnstar Thank you for being a dedicated, smart, and fantastic person in the GA review. I am very impressed with your knowledge and dedication. I hope we can work together in the future. AmericanAir88 12 November 2017(UTC)
The Original Barnstar Congratulations on getting Egg allergy to GA status! I hope it'll be followed by many more. Chiswick Chap 14 November 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar Congratulations on getting Vitamin C to GA status through a fair bit of turbulence! Chiswick Chap 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Barnstar of Diligence Thank you for your assistance overseeing the student edits. You help was greatly appreciated! JenOttawa 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Barnstar of Life You have made many, many, many significant improvements to medical content here on Wikipedia. You should have been awarded this barnstar a long time ago. The Vitamin C article is exquisite. Barbara (WVS) 7 February 2018 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar I watched the "Averell Smith" saga unfold at the Teahouse, and wanted to thank you for your time and effort. You set a good example for others to follow... Tribe of Tiger Seconded. Deb 10 March 2018 (UTC)
The Compass BarnstarI just wanted to thank you again for all of the help that you have lent me during the process in getting Chromium to FA... UtopianPoyzin 12 October 2018 (UTC)

My successful GA nominations

Egg allergy (Nov 12, 2017)
Vitamin C (Nov 27, 2017)
Milk allergy (Feb 15, 2018)
Brown-tail moth (July 25, 2018)
Luna moth (August 17, 2018)
Red yeast rice (August 15, 2019)

DYKs I've reviewed (keeping track of)

West African bichir (used)
Nemobius sylvestris (used)
Megachile chomskyi (used)
Robin Ling (used)
Harold Basil Christian (used)
General George Washington Resigning His Commission (used)
Oriental Basin pocket gopher (used)
Vel blood group (8/18/19; not used yet)

And the ones I nominated

Egg allergy for GA (used 12/5-6/17; on that day, increased daily views by 3,600. Before the DYK ~150 views/day)
Vitamin C for GA (used 1/10-11/18; on that day, increased daily views by 2,200. Before the DYK ~3,000 views/day)
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold for 5X (used 2/20-21/18 with image; on that day, increased daily views by 10,000. Before the DYK ~30 views/day)
Milk allergy for GA (used 3/14-15/18; on that day increased daily views by 3,000. Before the DYK ~200 views/day)
Brown-tail moth for GA (used 3/20-21/18; on that day increased daily views by 3,100. Before the DYK ~95 views/day)
Luna moth for GA (used 9/12-13/18 with image; on that day increased daily views by 8,400. Before the DYK ~700 views/day)
Red yeast rice for GA, nominated 8/17/19 with image.

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors! (2017)

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The 2017 Cure Award

In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:01, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's been fun rooting around in the dark recesses of articles on dietary supplements, nutrients, and such. David notMD (talk) 12:38, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors! (2018)

The 2018 Cure Award

In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I saw "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold... "

Hi David notMD,
And it was a DYK on 21 February 2018. Splendid! I was quite unaware that it had been included as part of a stamp set.
Thank you so much for improving the article: this sort of collaborative work is why I so enjoy being a Wikipedia editor.
Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:02, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Growing up, a print was in my father's study, so long-time familiar. I regret having not yet been to the museum to see the original. David notMD (talk) 12:51, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Vitamin deficiency (declined)

Hello! Your submission of Vitamin deficiency at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion of length of existing article did not qualify for DYK because it did not take into account that some of the expansion was content copied in from other articles (content copied in separately has to undergo 5X expansion to qualify). David notMD (talk) 14:11, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hemothorax GA

Why should the MRI be removed? One MRI image looks perfectly fine to me.

In my opinion the image is too dark/murky, and also that infants not discussed in text as having hemothorax. Don't know if this was trauma caused or something infancy specific. I will defer final decision to PeaBrainC, who is a physician. David notMD (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A new source on Cerebral Folate Deficiency

Good evening, David! I came across a new review article about Cerebral folate deficiency - in your opinion, is this review good enough to be cited/quoted in the CFD article? Review: PMID 30916789 Hope you are doing fine! Cheers from Russia, ---CopperKettle 14:52, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely a valid ref, and provides info to improve the CFD article. David notMD (talk) 16:37, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, great! I'm slowly reading this review and am putting some quotes from it at Talk:Cerebral folate deficiency --CopperKettle 17:05, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Joan Almond article is posted!

Hello David not MD, I wanted to let you know that the Joan Almond article is posted now. Thank you for all your help!!LorriBrown (talk) 06:01, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats. By the way, me: 10+ years, 16,000+ edits, never created an article. Focus has been improving existing articles, including raising some to GA status. David notMD (talk) 13:39, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

David notMD,

I just wanted to say thank you for stopping by my user talk page from the teahouse. I guess I'll just have to work my way up then... Also, do you think that putting my age on my user page affects the way people see me? They might seem more harsh and/or less willing to help me even though Wikipedia can be edited by all ages.

Kind Regards,

Muffington (talk) 13:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hydrogen Water

Hi David, I added substantial information o the hydrogen water talk page (I will not edit the actual page), including all published human trials using water to separate from the databases which also list inhalation or saline (water is used more than frequently than the other methods, at 40-50% of total trials), 4 review articles, including one just published last week, two of them discussing hydrogen water having a higher effect under a much lower dosage (1/100~). I posted other mainstream media articles with more neutral slants, and posted upfront on my conflict of interest (which I have also posted as my own page to my username, in case it is missed elsewhere). TarnavaA (talk) 16:17, 5 June 2019 (UTC)TarnavaA[reply]

Hi David, any feedback on the first draft I posted last week for review is much appreciated (the sections didn't convert properly in the talk page). I detailed my reasoning for including certain sections and stated why my bias and conflict of interest may play a role in inclusions. Appreciated, TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA —Preceding undated comment added 20:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David thanks for the post on my page, I left another message on my own. As an aside, scientifically it makes more sense to talk about the total body of research on hydrogen therapy, as many trials in rodents and even humans are replicative against the various methods (water, inhalation, saline). That said, I am unsure of the ability to speak more to it as "molecular hydrogen therapy" or something like that, and then it gets murkier talking about each section. It is also not clear when to use which method, if each method will work in each model, etc. It is still very green. Just food for thought. TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA —Preceding undated comment added 23:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, just following up on this TarnavaA (talk) 23:52, 23 June 2019 (UTC)TarnavaA[reply]

Not sure I can get to it soon. I set up the refs and started working on text, but also replying to a reviewer of one of my Good Article nominations. Maybe I can squeeze in my rewrite of the article tomorrow, but not promising. David notMD (talk) 01:33, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, appreciate your efforts. Let me know if you're stuck on anything in the literature, etc, I am happy to help. TarnavaA (talk) 20:15, 24 June 2019 (UTC)TarnavaA[reply]

Whoever edited your article David ignored all reviews and edits and simply reverted to a few horribly researched media articles.. what a shame. TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA —Preceding undated comment added 00:22, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This user deleted your contributions saying they were primary studies (you only referenced reviews...) 18:42, 21 August 2019‎ JzG talk contribs‎ looks like others are complaining about this user on his/her page.. may want to simply revert back to your version. Seems to have happened after someone else improperly added a ton of content. TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA

Membership renewal

You have been a member of Wiki Project Med Foundation (WPMEDF) in the past. Your membership, however, appears to have expired. As such this is a friendly reminder encouraging you to officially rejoin WPMEDF. There are no associated costs. Membership gives you the right to vote in elections for the board. The current membership round ends in 2020.

ReJoin Wiki Project Med Foundation

Thanks again :-) The team at Wiki Project Med Foundation---Avicenno (talk) 05:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're a 'Featured Host'

Hi David. You may have seen this announcement that all the 'Featured Hosts' - whose names and pictures randomly cycle round in the Teahouse Header - have just been updated.

As you are currently one of the 29 most active editors at WP:TH, your name and an image has now replaced that of an inactive host. But because you haven't yet added yourself to the full list of active hosts, I have simply used the default image of a cup of green tea. It would be great if you would now do two things:

Check or change the 'featured host' image allocated to you. Edit it at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/9, or undo my changes if you don't wish to be 'featured'.
Create a 'host profile' for yourself, and choose a relevant picture - click the 'Experienced editor?' button in the TH Header to formally sign up to create a separate entry on the full list of all 89 current hosts which new editors can view.

Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:30, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nick - Honored by the invite, as I initially got to Teahouse as a questioner, evolved to a kibbitzer. I think I completed both tasks successfully. David notMD (talk) 11:37, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Red yeast rice

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Red yeast rice you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RecycledPixels -- RecycledPixels (talk) 23:00, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Red yeast rice

The article Red yeast rice you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Red yeast rice for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RecycledPixels -- RecycledPixels (talk) 00:40, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a note on the GA review page about my personal delays. I don't want to keep this in limbo forever, but have not been able to dedicate the time the article deserves in order to perform a thorough review, so I have requested a second opinion in the hopes that someone else is willing and available to take over. If not, I will return when I am able to resume my efforts here, but it is not likely to be for several more weeks. I apologize for leaving this in limbo for so long. RecycledPixels (talk) 19:19, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Hi David, thanks so much for your edits on the page Sano Genetics, I was wondering if you had any more suggestions to make it conform to Wikipedia standards, or whether it is good enough yet to submit for review? I want to make sure the page is as good as possible before I submit, and any help would be really appreciated! Either way, thanks and all the best - Clarealev (talk) 08:51, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Clarealev: First, kudos for declaring your paid relationship. Current link is Draft:Sano Genetics. In general, my opinion is that it is {{WP:TOOSOON]] for Sano to be a subject of a Wikipedia article. A quick internet search found little about Sano that was not created by Sano. Interviews are not considered valid references (your ref #1). Mention of Heterogeneous should be deleted from the text and Info box. The entire Funding section should be deleted - funding does not convey notability. Ditto delete Podcast section - what a company says about itself has no weight. If these deletion recommendations are followed, there is not enough 'there' there to merit an article. You may choose to submit, but I bet it will be declined. There are options to self-delete the draft (not really needed, it will never show up on search engines), or let it go fallow and you will get a should-this-be-deleted notice in about six months. David notMD (talk) 13:34, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@David notMD: Thanks for your advice on this, it's been really helpful. I'll wait for more to be published about the company and hopefully there will be enough to meet Wiki's notability criteria then. As a sidenote, why do you think the mention of Heterogeneous should be deleted? And if you have any other advice it'd take it on gladly! Hope you have a great day. - Clarealev (talk) 15:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks!

Hi David,

Thanks for guiding me. I am new at wikipedia. It is completely a new start for me. I am really grateful to you. Hope, we will stay in touch.

Sincerely, Yasmin.

SAT Article

Hi David notMD, I just moved a couple articles MdC and CD to the main space. I was considering moving the SAT article. I'm not super clear as to the advantages or disadvantages of either one. Do you have any thoughts on that for the SAT article. Since other articles I submitted were approved rather quickly I guess I thought these would be also. Not sure why I thought that but I did. Thanks, LorriBrown (talk) 03:33, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LorriBrown - My preference is to let SAT go through the AfC process. David notMD (talk) 11:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Hello David notMD,

I wanted to thank you for your guidance via the Teahouse and for the edits you provided to the company page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hill-Rom&oldid=908010547.

Appreciate your help!

Jack at Hillrom (talk) 13:38, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Red yeast rice

The article Red yeast rice you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Red yeast rice for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RecycledPixels -- RecycledPixels (talk) 21:41, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK submitted 8/17/19. David notMD (talk) 12:40, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hydrogen Water

TarnavaA looks like a real name. Google shows one Alex Tarnava who is CEO of a company selling - you guessed it! - hydrogen water. i wonder if they are, by any chance, related? Guy (Help!) 01:09, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JzG: @TarnavaA: TarnavaA has a declared COI, and thus has stopped editing the article directly. I do not have a COI. What I do have is a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from MIT and a long career in dietary supplement science. I am retired, and do not have a COI. Even when I was consulting to DS companies, none of them ever sold hydrogen water. The review references I re-added to the article meet WP:MEDRS. David notMD (talk) 11:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

...and are probably fine in the context of a discussion of how there are a few small studies that are not yet conclusive. That wasn't what the hydrogen water shill wanted though. Guy (Help!) 12:26, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but does not get until the science gets a lot better. In the past I have cut some of the dietary supplement articles by a third or more because company representatives and well-meaning non-scientists get too enthusiastic. When I was consulting, my nickname was "Dr. No." as in "No, you can't say that." David notMD (talk) 13:05, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Guy, I find your insinuations quite troubling. I never once asked for anything other than what David wrote, a balanced article using the literature reviews not poorly written pop science articles.To clarify I didn't ever make any direct edits, and in my first post declared a COI, and put it on my user page, so it was up front to anyone I was corresponding with. I criticized you, Guy, for a poorly written stub when a proper and accurate enough article was written. You also seem to think that because I am from industry, I cannot be partial.. the fact is, I am more reserved in my positions and more partial than many of the public researchers in the field which I correspond with weekly (or other fields). To clarify on partiality, I do not need this field to succeed, I am thoroughly interested by it and left a more profitable business to pursue it. Many Professors "need" their research to succeed, across all fields. I routinely put out very cautious positions on the science, for my audience, and share and attempt to scale back claims for all using my IP (the tablet industry using my IP greatly eclipses the ready to drink category in North America). Here are some examples:

https://drinkhrw.com/blogs/news/hydrogen-and-skepticism https://drinkhrw.com/blogs/news/nafld https://drinkhrw.com/blogs/news/h2-concussion-recovery

TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA —Preceding undated comment added 22:30, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Striking sock puppets

You may like to know about the WP:TPO behavioral guideline: "Removing or striking through comments made by blocked sock puppets of users editing in violation of a block or ban. Comments made by a sock with no replies may simply be removed with an appropriate edit summary. If comments are part of an active discussion, they should be struck instead of removed, along with a short explanation following the stricken text or at the bottom of the thread. There is not typically a need to strike comments in discussions that have been closed or archived." These were socks of Morphin2020 (SPI page) and are indefinitely blocked. I'll let you self-revert or another editor restore the edit though. Thanks, —Paleo Neonate – 04:19, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks. If that was in the Edit summary. I missed it. David notMD (talk) 15:47, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

House of Industry

Hi there. I'd like to thank you for doing some copyedits on Draft:Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge back when it was a few sentences long. I'm almost done with it now, and if you have some time, I'd greatly appreciate if you could give it a look before I send it off to mainspace to see if there are any glaring issues. As I said on my userpage, writing this article was new territory for me, so I thought it would be good to get some other eyes on it. Just ignore this message if you don't feel like it though :) SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 21:04, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

COI and articles

Hello David notMD,

I am a PhD in Public Health working for a driving simulator company. We are trying to improve the quality of driver training and testing for all drivers, novice, aging, professional etc. Road safety is an issue that has never received the attention it merits with practical interventions aimed at promoting safer driving. My company's work addresses the lack of objective measurements and safe controlled learning environments for drivers. I believe that we have done some very interesting and genuinely noteworthy work that merits a Wiki page.

For example, as much as possible, we work with third-party university researchers to validate our training programs using a recurrent engineering approach. This means that our training programs are subjected to field tests, evaluated by third-party independent university researchers who publish or present their results after peer review, and based on these results, we modify and improve the programs, as required.

The article I prepared (which I will gladly share with you for your comments and critiques) is thoroughly referenced. There are 15 citations for 36 lines of text, four to peer-reviewed publications, five to other Wiki pages, one of which is a private company, CAE, which was probably written by someone paid by CAE. The founders of my company formerly worked at CAE; the remaining citations are from newspapers and government and consumer group websites distinct from my company.

I strongly support the neutrality policy of Wiki and would never knowingly infringe on that policy or present biased information. Compared to you, I am a complete beginner in the wonderful world of Wiki, and frankly, I need assistance.

I would so greatly appreciate it if you would be kind enough to help me navigate this process.

Please consider my request and let me know what you think.

If you create it via Articles for Creation then it will exist as an unsubmitted draft, visible to other editors but not to people searching Wikipedia or using a search engine. Once that is done you can add a note here with the article name. Do not use existing Wikipedia pages as references. When you create the draft, you are required to declare your paid relationship on your Talk page. See WP:PAID. LAstly, sign entries on people's Talk pages and Talk of articles by typing four of ~ at the end. David notMD (talk) 23:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sincerely,

DriverSafety (talk) 22:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello David NotMD,

As you suggested, I fixed the references on the driving simulator page and I prepared the article for Wiki, titled Virage Simulation, Inc. using my sandbox. There were some bugs I could not fix, extra text at the end of th article I wanted to but could not delete and a missing title in a reference I could not complete. I hope I correctly identified the COI.

I am told this review could take up to 8 weeks so there is no hurry but I would appreciate your feedback on my article.

Many thanks,

DriverSafety (talk) 19:28, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello David NotMD,

Thanks for your editing work on my article submission.

I have added the WP:PAID designation to my user page, but I am not sure I placed it correctly. Please confirm, if you don't mind.

Finally, I am not sure what defines notability for a corporation.

Does only size matter?

I base that question on the CAE page. Why is a CAE page okay but not one for Virage Simulation? What information am I missing?

My company is small but we are unique and advanced in our approach to addressing the human factors problems related to driver safety. We base everything we do on research. Before joining the company, I worked for decades in driver training and driver research. I can testify that the official policies that exert a huge influence on social norms for driver behavior are based more on political expediency than on research. I am guessing you may be familiar with this phenomenon. The only countermeasure for training safer drivers prior to licensing is driving simulation. But the case for this conclusion still needs to be made.

What sets my company apart is that we make as few assumptions as possible about how driver's learn and we have third party researchers test our programs in the real world. If this does not make us notable, I am not sure what notable means.

Your advice and guidance is most welcome and appreciated. DriverSafety (talk) 13:14, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is CAE Inc., but other-stuff-exists is not a valid argument. Many of the millions of Wikipedia articles merit deletion (not saying CAE merits that). In the current draft, some content has no citations. My cautionary note was just to explain what could happen, not what will happen. I put the PAID template on the draft's Talk page. David notMD (talk) 14:30, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, I thank you for your help. You point out that some content has no citations. I only included reliable third party citations and deliberately excluded newspaper or magazine references that might be perceived as promotional in nature. I would greatly appreciate it if you could identify the content in the proposed article that needs citations, and any content that you consider does not meet the neutrality standard. Thanks. DriverSafety (talk) 15:13, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

thank you

thanks for guiding me

but I'm literally not planning to publish a Wikipedia page

I'm just practicing and learning

When I'll literally feel that this is the good time to publish it then I'll do it