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Wikipedia Weekly Episodes 37 and 38
Well, gee whiz! I don't check WP:WEEKLY for a few days and look what happens: I miss two new episodes. Nonetheless, Wikipedia Weekly Episode 37 and Episode 38 have been released!
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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 39
Wikipedia Weekly Episode 39 has been released!
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- See User talk:Anthony Appleyard#National Health Service and Talk:National Health Service#Major overhaul - requested move for discussion about a move request which you put in the "uncontroversial" part of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Cut_and_paste_move_repair_holding_pen&oldid=178897092 . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:52, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
sympathise with you quite a bit about the NHS and the bad press. There does seem to be a concerted campaign going on in some quarters to muddy the name of the NHS and a lot of it comes out of America though some, it is fair, is generated by the red-top and true blue quarters of our own press. A lot of the stuff from the US comes from a limited number of sources that seem to be very successful at getting into print. Mostly I suspect that this has to do with the upcoming presidential campaign and the expected changes to America's broken health care system which seems to benefit mostly the insurance companies as far as I can see. I first got involved in this when I came across a term called "single payer" and came to WP to see ewhat it meant. That lead me to socialized medicine which is how the American right denounce systems like the NHS. The article, and the article it linked to then told a totally misleading picture of the NHS. I was flabbergasted at the lies and mis-truths there! Since then I have been putting the article on a fairer basis though it has been hard work and there are editors there who seem bent on distorting the truth further. I am sorry about undoing all your work, but hopefully it will be possible for you to put your edits back bit by bit into the main article and by all means use the talk page before making a series of edits as a major reconstruction. If there is consensus to your reconstruction I'm sure it'll be OK and people will allow you to make the edits there. As for hiving off the criticism section I am not to sure. Why not propose it on the talk page, give your reasons and wait and see what response you get? I do seem to see a lot of often repeated criticisms which are quite unfair and spread around so fast that I am sure people think they are true even if they are not. I think WP is a good place to open up the examination of these claims. You can get an idea of what I am talking about here.
I must admit that I found the NHS article rather dry and focussed on organization rather than function. I therefore created the article Healthcare in the United Kingdom which was intended to focus on the user perspective of the the public and private systems without the messy organizational stuff which most people don't need to now about. I thought that would be more useful to people outside the UK who really just want to know what it does. --Tom (talk) 20:15, 22 December 2007 (UTC)