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I'm not in the least contesting this revert, but I had a couple of CUs check and there's no socking. Guess I'm just wondering about your edit summary. Primefac (talk) 21:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC) (please ping on reply)[reply]
User:Primefac a checkuser is not perfect and many professional paid editors edit such that they are not detectable. So no "detectable socking" with our poor quality sock detection tools rather than "no socking"
We know this company has been at this a long time per Wikipedia:PAIDLIST
This is false[1] if you look at the edits that follow
So yes I feel comfortable applying G5 even without a CU. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:40, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
About a medical library
Hello M. Heilman, just to inform you that a call for tenders for a "medical library" will be launched in Quebec next month. This true encyclopedia will give scientific and validated information on diseases, symptoms, treatments, prevention, convalescence periods, etc. Its content could thus be used to validate that of Wikipedia. I will try to keep you informed if you are interested in learning more as soon as I have more information. Regards. Stefanos Stefanos (talk) 22:49, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
By "medical library" does this refer to a collection of medical textbooks? Or an encyclopedia? Will it be under an open license? Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:49, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
From what I know for the moment, it seems that this is a project that will be implemented by the Quebec Ministry of Health. It would be part of a reform allowing, among other things, users who wish to register to have access to their medical records. It is not specified in the press release whether this "medical librairy" refers to a collection of medical textbooks or an encyclopedia or whether its content will be under open license.
On ctvnews.ca it is simply reported that: "The app, which cost $11 million to develop, will also feature a medical library, allowing users to get information on medications, as well as a list of all of a patient's prescriptions for the previous five years." Cf. while the French version of the press release on Radio-Canada states: "In June, Québec will launch a call for tenders for the "bibliothèque médicale". This true encyclopedia will provide scientific and validated information on diseases, symptoms, treatments, prevention, convalescence periods, etc." Cf. I hope that the informations will be available in both English and French. The project should probably become clearer in the coming weeks. Stefanos Stefanos (talk) 03:10, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hum. We launched this bit a few months ago in BC "The Quebec Health Record will initially include information such as the results of blood and urine tests, medical imaging reports and the list of prescribed medications"
I do see that it also mentions a "real encyclopedia". It will be interesting to see what they mean by that. They have put out a "call for tenders". Maybe we could submit Wikipedia :-) I imagine folks like ADAM which the NIH buys a license for will apply https://medlineplus.gov/encyclopedia.html
Unfortunately not yet. I only read this information yesterday; someone had sent me the link by email. Moreover, I agree with you: I too doubt that this encyclopedia will built from scratch. Some of Wp:en's articles - and probably even several - would be sufficiently complete and error-free to be accepted (especially since your intervention) but as it is a project linked to the Ministry of Health, policy makers will probably prefer to go with more "official" sources like the one you are quoting.
I wonder if a similar medical encyclopedia project linked to a medical record project for citizens has already been in another Canadian province or in the USA or elsewhere in Europe? If this project is successful, I also wonder if it will not be possible to extend it to an educational project in the medical field, perhaps in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation? Stefanos Stefanos (talk) 14:47, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yah I imagine they will be buying something off the self. UpToDate has patient handouts as well as a version geared at professionals. This group pulls in 2 billion dollars a year for their medical encyclopedia.
From what I see, with this cash inflow, UpToDate can afford to make its product available free of charge in certain humanitarian circumstances (New Zealand, Haiti in 2010, Nepal in 2015...).
I am sure they will be applying as well. Neither UpToDate nor ADAM are not under an open license, so unlikely that what the Quebec government buys will be either. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:18, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Paying for content is one thing, paying for computer problems that never end is another, as Quebec has been doing for several years, including the famous electronic medical record. Personally, this is the first time I have heard of a call for tenders for a medical encyclopedia, although the marketing of this type of data has probably been going on for some time. I am curious to see, among other things, if hyperlinks will be present in people's medical files to directly access articles in this famous "encyclopedia" and especially to see if bugs will be corrected quickly... Stefanos Stefanos (talk) 01:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have not found any other examples of government implementing a call for tenders for the creation of a medical encyclopedia for its citizens, however the case of Estonia is worth communicating knowing that it is the first country to use the blockchain to secure national health records. "This is an additional security feature," says Artur Novek, the foundation’s Implementation Manager and Architect. Ideally, this technology should allow each citizen to know precisely who has consulted their medical file, at least that is what Siim Sikkut suggested at a C2 Montreal conference recently. For the moment, I don't know if we intend to imitate this approach in Quebec.
In Estonia, other improvements are to come in the coming years, notably by analyzing data with artificial intelligence systems and by facilitating access to health care for people from home. If you are interested in learning more, you can contact Taavi Einaste, Head of Digital Healthcare at Nortal. Blockchain and healthcare: the Estonian experienceStefanos Stefanos (talk) 17:23, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Too close
Doc James
I never read this web page. I understand the concern. Regards
Hello Doc James, I'm Doug Rand, co-founder of Boundless Immigration Inc., a company that helps families navigate the immigration system.
I have two items I wanted to bring to your attention:
1) Last November, you edited the article Boundless_(company), which refers to a now-defunct company that distributed textbooks online. Our company recently purchased the defunct company's domain name (boundless.com), and I was going to ask if you might be able to remove the "official website" link, since it was taking visitors to our site...but it looks like someone else happened to fix this yesterday!
2) I wrote a draft article about our company that was rejected earlier this year, on notability grounds. I've studied the Wikipedia notability standards carefully, and believe that Boundless has received "significant coverage" sufficient to meet these standards. I would truly appreciate it if you had the time to review my analysis and let me know what you think.
The discussion can be found in archive 752 of The Teahouse [[2]], which is where I was hoping to get feedback a couple of months ago. I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of Wikipedia so that I can make solid contributions now and down the road (not just where I have a stated conflict), so I'd look forward to your guidance! Messier6 (talk) 16:46, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Messier6. Here's a comment, not from Doc James, but from a talk page watcher. I have posted details of my comment over at User talk:Messier6 so as not to use up space here. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:12, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your work on the young blood article. I feel that you’re trying to improve the article rather than just tear bits out of it. Your recent additions add to the content nicely. violet/riga[talk] 02:08, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DYK nomination of Knee dislocation
Hello! Your submission of Knee dislocation 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) 00:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.
Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.