User talk:DominicRA

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Sunetra Gupta UnHerd interview

I don't know if you're aware, but your paragraph on the Sunetra Gupta page about the UnHerd interview was deleted on 7-Dec-20, and it's not clear to me why. The deleter Alexbrn is suggesting that the sources cited at the time of deletion are unreliable, when they seem anything but.

You might want to look at the Talk page: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Sunetra_Gupta#UnHerd_article Ml66uk2 (talk) 14:14, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I hadn't noticed. I've reintroduced the paragraph but rewritten it slightly and changed the medRxiv source to something else (I guess that one must have been their issue?). DominicRA (talk) 16:52, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

August 2024 - Lucy Letby

Look, you are going to be reverted again shortly by someone. When that happens, please do not revert again. Ideally just self revert now. You are in danger of exceeding the Three revert rule and then you will be banned for edit warring. Please don't do that. Your contributions are good, but be very wary abut reverting against an RfC. That never ends well. Cheers. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 14:13, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for the advice. I won't self-revert but I won't undo the next one from someone else. I did expect resistance, but it's just quite frustrating when excessive adherence to procedure makes things sclerotic and leaves control in the hands of those willing to invest the most time. DominicRA (talk) 14:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The thing about the procedure is that it keeps things sane. If your edit were left to stand then very soon someone will come along and put in other changes that swing in another direction (it is clear there are various views as to what that sentence should contain). And then we would just have revert wars, and nothing else on the article would get done. The RfC has created a stable sentence. I am sure it could be improved, but we need the process so that it is improved cautiously and defensibly. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 17:08, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Need a little help

Could you lend a hand with a little project? Nothing as complicated as Lucy Letby, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine is trying to get at least one ref into every medicine-related article. The list is getting shorter, but we've still got a bit more than 100 to go, and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/November 2024 ends in just less than a week. If you could add a source to even one or two of them, it would really help us out. Here's how to help:

Pick an article from the list. Most of them are organizations, people, or other subjects that do not require any specialized medical knowledge.
Find at least one reliable source and add it to the article.
Remove or update any maintenance tags at the top of the article.
Edit the list to mark off the item or leave some notes about it so the next person will know that this one is done. (Try editing the page in the visual editor, because it's much easier for tables.)
That's all!

Also, if you ever need help with medicine-related articles, please feel free to put Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine on your watchlist, and to join the discussion whenever you'd like. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:34, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]