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Clinical and medical topics

  • Orthomolecular medicine, Megavitamin therapy, Talk:Orthomolecular medicine and Talk:Megavitamin therapy, among others. I am getting carpet bombed by proven POV warriors and "new" editors every other week who cannot or will not read & understand the prior discussions & current mainstream scientific references (i.e. 2005-6 NIH, NAS articles) before launching a jihad of insults and counterfactual blather, billboarding ((totallydisputed)), etc as their "ultimate priority" negative opinion. Is there some more efficient way to deal with unreasonable POV dumping like the Black Knight and various forms Wikilawyering to keep an article continually "blockaded" by uninformed (-able) contentious editors?--69.178.41.55 03:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:List of pseudoscientific theories Is orthomolecular medicine a pseudoscientific theory?
  • Talk:Orthomolecular medicine and Talk:Megavitamin therapy Is the statement of leading medical societies that these disciplines propound unsubstantiated claims and propose dangerous "cures" relevant, and is the repeated deletion of cited evidence to this effect justification for a POV tag that is also repeatedly being deleted by CAM supporters?
  • Talk:Yoshiaki Omura Dispute for third time re essential Notability of entry or if Notability dependent on related reported event. Need extensive third party 'mediation' as both editors stating (and documenting) that the other is (effectively) not according with WP criteria on a number of very specific (WP criteria) points. Long dispute already, controversial subject.12:11, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:St_Christopher_Iba_Mar_Diop_College_of_Medicine Needs 3rd party input on a variety of issues, including reliability of sources and accuracy disputes. 17:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Christopher Gillberg#Request for Comment: Scientific misconduct / credible sources - discussion on truth versus original research; how reputable is the new Zeeland magazine Investigate? NPOV-discussion concerning scientific misconduct. 17:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Skull - help needed in reaching consensus about splitting some content into a human skull article 23:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Diabetes mellitus - dispute whether the intro should be inclusive of a little-known theory on the role of chromium and "glucose tolerance factor" 22:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Asperger syndrome This article is now FARC, there seem to be some serious problems with NPOV and consensus to which no immediately satifactory solution is presenting itself. It really needs all the impartial input it can get 14:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Featured article review/Asperger syndrome 18:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Orthomolecular_medicine another edit war, unable to end due to CAM supporters enthusiasm. 06:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:G._Patrick_Maxwell editor droliver using threats to radically disrupt an Rfd on a bio entry, which many users have weighed in on, needing delete. Personal attacks such as (trolling) are inexusable.20:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:G._Patrick_Maxwell editor jglaw carrying over her POV dispute from breast implants article now trolling on this biographical entry20:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Desoxyn. Should Desoxyn be merged with methamphetamine? 03:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Biology and related

  • Talk:Vulva#Proposed_de-inlining_of_pictures_containing_graphic_nudity Should the images of vulvas, and similar photographs on Penis and Clitoris be displayed directly (inlined) or linked? 03:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Human feces. Should an image of human feces be displayed directly (inlined) or linked? 11:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Tautonym Edit war in progress over broad vs. narrow definitions. 09:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Pre-ejaculate An anon, asserting that Image:Precum.JPG is offensive, is making a point of having it not displayed inline. Circeus 02:20, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Transhumanism Should the article include a description of the most thorough reference of proposed transhumanist genetic alterations to correct human flaws, and guidelines for prevention of abuse of genetic alterations, and species names, research, and implementation (called The Catalog Of Correctable Omnipresent Human Flaws), or should it be forbidden from inclusion, as Loremaster, Metamagician, and StN want? 01:14, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Abortion

  • Talk:Abortion/First_paragraph - There appears to be a conflict between content based on reliable sources vs. content that survives a contentious bipartisan debate that may or may not have sources. The result has been a lot of reversion, endless arguments over the definitions of basic terms, and allegations of sectional biases. More sources and neutral, outsider commentary welecome. 03:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Mathematics

Mathematics RFC's should also be cross-posted and announced at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics

Physical science

Physics RFC's should also be cross-posted and announced at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics
Chemistry RFC's should also be cross-posted and announced at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry
  • Talk:Tired light -- To use a quote, or our own description? 01:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Telecommunications and digital technology

  • Talk:Amiga virtual machine Deadlock about article Amiga virtual machine. Article was redirected after public discussion to Motorola 68k which is unrelated. Sure we couldn't edit 68k and add infos in it about Amiga virtual machines because we will commit false if we redirect to an article some topics that are unrelated. It is not fair for all wkipedia readers. Two editors (see Talk) were so kind not to answer my objections to resolve privately this dispute. Seems they do not want any friendly resolution, but only the article to disappear. But article was well written and describes not a neologism but a new category (see its history to verify it all). I ask community for some comments about reverting the article and give it back visibility to public. --Raffaele Megabyte 08:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Programming language Argument over whether to include numerous fact tags. Editor is refusing to discuss and threatening to revert on sight. 22:18, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Technology and engineering

  • Talk:Telectronics#Request for Comment - A slow moving edit war has been raging for entirely too long (months) here regarding the true history of the Australian company Telectronics, which was a pioneer in the pacemaker industry. The primary disputants are one of the top two guys at the company and the son of the now deceased other top guy. The dispute involves what role these two played in the early years of the company and the timeline of the corporate history. It has progressed to the point of legal threats, defamation, and personal attacks and needs serious attention.12:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Flashlight - A relatively minor dispute over whether or not to include the text "occasionally offline" after an external link, unfortunately resulting in a slow-moving edit war and no actual progress on the article. Outside opinions may help to end this cycle. 14:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Talk:Honda S2000 - A dispute over the length and content of the Criticism section (especially when considered in relation to the length, tone and level of detail of the rest of the article and WP:NPOV#Undue weight) has resulted in multiple reverts, with seemingly no resolution possible between editors either side of the fence. The dispute centres around this version of the article versus this version. 07:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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