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: I'm sorry you have encountered past issues with "sex-difference material", but I have no such history, concerns or issues. I do expect text inserted into any (medical) [[WP:FA|featured article]] to comply with [[WP:UNDUE]] and to meet the sourcing standards at [[WP:MEDRS]], and the criteria at [[WP:WIAFA]]. You have made some good suggestions for improvements to the leads, but discussion of other text would best continue on article talk. Regards, [[User:SandyGeorgia|'''Sandy'''<font color="green">Georgia</font>]] ([[User talk:SandyGeorgia|Talk]]) 00:07, 13 October 2013 (UTC) |
: I'm sorry you have encountered past issues with "sex-difference material", but I have no such history, concerns or issues. I do expect text inserted into any (medical) [[WP:FA|featured article]] to comply with [[WP:UNDUE]] and to meet the sourcing standards at [[WP:MEDRS]], and the criteria at [[WP:WIAFA]]. You have made some good suggestions for improvements to the leads, but discussion of other text would best continue on article talk. Regards, [[User:SandyGeorgia|'''Sandy'''<font color="green">Georgia</font>]] ([[User talk:SandyGeorgia|Talk]]) 00:07, 13 October 2013 (UTC) |
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:: OK, thanks. [[User:Leadwind|<font color="green">Leadwind</font>]] ([[User_talk:Leadwind|talk]]) 03:13, 14 October 2013 (UTC) |
:: OK, thanks. [[User:Leadwind|<font color="green">Leadwind</font>]] ([[User_talk:Leadwind|talk]]) 03:13, 14 October 2013 (UTC) |
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Moving entire section to [[Talk:Autism]]; again, please discuss articles on article talk where ''everyone'' can participate. [[User:SandyGeorgia|'''Sandy'''<font color="green">Georgia</font>]] ([[User talk:SandyGeorgia|Talk]]) 16:38, 14 October 2013 (UTC) |
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:::: {{ping|Leadwind}} could you please stop making assumptions about other people's motives? As I have explained above, on medical FAs, our concern is that we use the highest quality, most up-to-date, independent, secondary reviews and respect [[WP:UNDUE|due weight]]. [[User:SandyGeorgia|'''Sandy'''<font color="green">Georgia</font>]] ([[User talk:SandyGeorgia|Talk]]) 14:24, 14 October 2013 (UTC) |
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:::::On [[Talk:Autism]], you said, "Could we find a place in daughter articles for Baron-Cohen speculation?" Baron-Cohen looks like a prominent autism researcher, and he's been working on autism for 30 years now, but you think his theories are "speculation." Is there a reason that I should dismiss his theories as speculation? If so, I'd like to know. [[User:Leadwind|<font color="green">Leadwind</font>]] ([[User_talk:Leadwind|talk]]) 14:57, 14 October 2013 (UTC) |
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I checked but I don't have access. Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 16:32, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks so much ! Now that my account finally came through (it was my fault, there was a typo in my email address), I am finding, as I suspected, nothing in Cochrane <sigh>, and I need to get the DSM5 and other updates done. I'm on it! (Finally.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- I can send you that PDF if you want to email me. Sasata (talk) 16:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks, you are a gem, but I've gotten hold of it! Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:35, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- PS, I am hoping it is the "missing link" I've been waiting for ... that it will allow me to update the entire suite of articles to reflect the new DSM5, while also covering WHO/ICD/European diagnostic categories. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:38, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks, you are a gem, but I've gotten hold of it! Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:35, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- I can send you that PDF if you want to email me. Sasata (talk) 16:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi you may find these useful, Motor Stereotypies which is more for my own understanding of the issue, and a collection put together for a friend Tourettes Syndrome (PubMed is currently having some technical issues info on site). I can not do much more on the DCD article either, but I have a few other pet projects which for me is more about learning. I hope these collections are of some use dolfrog (talk) 16:51, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, Dolfrog ... I have limited journal access. Do you have access to the full text of the Singer 2011 article on Stereotypic movement disorder? When I began writing about TS, there was very little published about SMD, so I had to use Roger Freeman's blog-- that was all that could be found six to ten years ago (and he is such a recognized expert that I wasn't too worried about his self-published blog). I believe the Singer 2011 article could be used now to upgrade the citations at Stereotypic movement disorder, but I do not have that article.
On Tourette's, there is very little published that I don't have, although it is going to take me some time to get through the (lengthy) European practice guidelines, to make sure I've accounted for that and not unintentionally introduced US bias. Once I'm done upgrading to DSM5, and checking/updating the TS articles, I may find time to go back and do more on stereotypies, which I had to do earlier based on Freeman's work only because stereotypies were so frequently misdiagnosed as tics, and that was an ongoing issue of concern in TS diagnoses. Now that the new DSM has officially come out and stated what was once included only in blogs (that is, that many TS diagnoses are incorrect, and are actually stereotypies or autism, so better distinction is needed), the overlap/confusion is easier to deal with. I hope I find time to get to it. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- have a look at Stereotypic movement disorder: easily missed and Motor Stereotypies dolfrog (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, Dolfrog ... I have limited journal access. Do you have access to the full text of the Singer 2011 article on Stereotypic movement disorder? When I began writing about TS, there was very little published about SMD, so I had to use Roger Freeman's blog-- that was all that could be found six to ten years ago (and he is such a recognized expert that I wasn't too worried about his self-published blog). I believe the Singer 2011 article could be used now to upgrade the citations at Stereotypic movement disorder, but I do not have that article.
Still trying to locate:
- PMID 21496612
- PMID 22064610
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:09, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- Have you seen PMID 22064610 and Tic disorders: some key issues for DSM-V dolfrog (talk) 18:19, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- Freeman, Walkup, Singer and Leckman ... wonderful ... everyone who's anyone ... thanks! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- I've got PMID 22064610 as a PDF. Shoot me an email and I'll attach it back. As for how I wound up on your talk page, I saw your name on the list of people expressing their unhappiness at NW's Arb resignation, and was surprised to see you there since you disappeared for a while (at least from the pages I watch). So I clicked your sig and saw this. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:15, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- The other one, at least according to the library search engine that I used to get 22064610, says that 21496612 is a chapter in a book, and I can't find a digital version for you. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Will do ... yes, I've been exceedingly busy for over a year, and a new DSM-5 along with new European Guidelines at the same time are making it quite a chore to update the TS suite of articles for this revision after a busy year. I am still surprised at how much it takes me back each time I re-discover how much harder it is to write a medical article to FA standards and keep it there than it is for some other content areas, where cookie cutters can be churned out once a month and then rarely changed ... medical FAs are a labor of love and an ongoing task, requiring constant attention. Taking a year off for real life has a catch-up price! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Freeman, Walkup, Singer and Leckman ... wonderful ... everyone who's anyone ... thanks! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, since you commented on the previous FAC, can you post your thoughts on the article's talk page to improve the article. —Vensatry (Ping me) 06:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Poor Man's Talk Back
I replied to you post here. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:26, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Neutralhomer, your offer to meatpuppet for Gerda in the Infobox wars is yet another indication that the arb case is either not understood or not taken seriously-- the number of editors colluding on the infobox situation was the basis of the problem to begin with, that led to the arbcase. (That personal attacks of that nature are becoming the norm, not dealt with anywhere, is no longer surprising.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:43, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- It has been taken to ArbCom for clarification and personally, I can't see how a user adding an infobox hurts anyone. It seems silly to prevent someone from adding something constructive (and infoboxes are constructive) to any Wikipedia page. It seems even sillier to prevent anyone from adding infoboxes for that editor. Regardless of what ArbCom says, it seems like this is a way to prevent an established and well-respected editor from editing.
- I will await ArbCom's ruling on this one and proceed according to that. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:51, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Again, still, you don't seem to be aware of or acknowledge the disruption caused to Wikipedia by editors colluding on technical issues. "I can't see how a user adding an infobox hurts anyone" indicates you may not be familiar with the case, or the issue that more editing by proxy is not what those involved in that case need. What they need is to curtail their attacks on those who disagree with them on the usefulness of infoboxes. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:59, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Adding an infobox to a page is an "attack"?! What?! Explain to me how you came up with that theory. Are we now restricting people we disagree with? I don't agree with you, let's put some restrictions on you and vice versa? It's an infobox...come on! - Neutralhomer • Talk • 14:04, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- The attack was by Montanabw on someone pointing out an infobox issue: this is characteristic of what has gone on throughout that case. Please focus: I don't really have time to bring you up to speed on an old case. I do have time to point out to you that suggesting that I will wade into that mess is not sound ... one would think admins would deal with the situation without more need for more editors to be drawn into the imbroglio and factions. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:13, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- OK, so you won't give me the short version of this "case", but you will tell me that I shouldn't take up this fight. That's the kind of answer that makes me want to. An infobox is not an attack, it is not a faction and it is not anything one should be restricted over. You have obviously forgotten why you are here, you are here to edit an encyclopedia, not put restrictions on people you clearly disagree with. You are not the Wikipedia Police Department, you are an editor. If you think you are anything more than that, please consult the "log out" link above. None of us should discourage an editor from expanding an article, as you are, over something one doesn't have the time to explain. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:43, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- I wouldn't mind taking the time to walk you through the case and the history if you would first read what is already on the page. Unless you are being deliberately obtuse, the attack is not hard to find. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:56, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Neutralhomer, please read through all of the pages associated with Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes, to see what the fuss is about. Adding infoboxes is not an attack (and Sandy never said it was), but there are factions associated with adding/removing infoboxes, and it is the kind of thing several people were restricted over. A lot of people think that adding/removing infoboxes is a really big deal, and Gerda was one of several people who gained editing restrictions when the issue was taken before ArbCom. This is not Sandy unilaterally imposing editing restrictions, or even several editors imposing them - it is a major issue that was taken before ArbCom that has resulted multiple ArbCom-enforced editing restrictions. You may not find it a big deal to add an infobox, but a lot of people do. I hope this clears some things up. Dana boomer (talk) 00:23, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, Dana! I was beginning to wonder if I was speaking Spanish :) Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:44, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Neutralhomer, please read through all of the pages associated with Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes, to see what the fuss is about. Adding infoboxes is not an attack (and Sandy never said it was), but there are factions associated with adding/removing infoboxes, and it is the kind of thing several people were restricted over. A lot of people think that adding/removing infoboxes is a really big deal, and Gerda was one of several people who gained editing restrictions when the issue was taken before ArbCom. This is not Sandy unilaterally imposing editing restrictions, or even several editors imposing them - it is a major issue that was taken before ArbCom that has resulted multiple ArbCom-enforced editing restrictions. You may not find it a big deal to add an infobox, but a lot of people do. I hope this clears some things up. Dana boomer (talk) 00:23, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- I wouldn't mind taking the time to walk you through the case and the history if you would first read what is already on the page. Unless you are being deliberately obtuse, the attack is not hard to find. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:56, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- OK, so you won't give me the short version of this "case", but you will tell me that I shouldn't take up this fight. That's the kind of answer that makes me want to. An infobox is not an attack, it is not a faction and it is not anything one should be restricted over. You have obviously forgotten why you are here, you are here to edit an encyclopedia, not put restrictions on people you clearly disagree with. You are not the Wikipedia Police Department, you are an editor. If you think you are anything more than that, please consult the "log out" link above. None of us should discourage an editor from expanding an article, as you are, over something one doesn't have the time to explain. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:43, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- The attack was by Montanabw on someone pointing out an infobox issue: this is characteristic of what has gone on throughout that case. Please focus: I don't really have time to bring you up to speed on an old case. I do have time to point out to you that suggesting that I will wade into that mess is not sound ... one would think admins would deal with the situation without more need for more editors to be drawn into the imbroglio and factions. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:13, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Adding an infobox to a page is an "attack"?! What?! Explain to me how you came up with that theory. Are we now restricting people we disagree with? I don't agree with you, let's put some restrictions on you and vice versa? It's an infobox...come on! - Neutralhomer • Talk • 14:04, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- Again, still, you don't seem to be aware of or acknowledge the disruption caused to Wikipedia by editors colluding on technical issues. "I can't see how a user adding an infobox hurts anyone" indicates you may not be familiar with the case, or the issue that more editing by proxy is not what those involved in that case need. What they need is to curtail their attacks on those who disagree with them on the usefulness of infoboxes. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:59, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
@Dana: TL;DR, gimme the short version.
@Sandy: You were speaking, what I like to call, "round-about English". English that goes around in circles and doesn't really make a point, but uses big words. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:00, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Seriously? I gave you the short version above. So let me try again, with little words and short sentences. Some people like infoboxes. Some don't. They fight. They went to ArbCom. ArbCom told a bunch of people to knock it off. Including Gerda. </end of short sentences> Now, for some advice: if you want to get involved in the infobox issue, I suggest you get used to reading long pages, and drop TL;DR from your vocabulary. Dana boomer (talk) 01:12, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, seriously. ArbCom discussions all meld into one after awhile, I like short versions. Still doesn't explain why people don't like infoboxes and how that prevents someone from editing/expanding an article....or editing period in some cases.
- I'll drop TL;DR from my vocabulary when you drop the attitude. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:23, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- If it was simple and able to be explained in a sentence, a paragraph, even a computer screen's-worth of text, it wouldn't be at ArbCom. To understand why some people/projects don't like infoboxes, you have to read their arguments - it has to do with appearance, necessity, breaking complicated ideas into little (sometimes oversimplified) chunks, etc. ArbCom doesn't rule on content though, they rule on conduct. And they ruled that several editors, including Gerda, had acted in such a way (tendentious editing, editing against consensus, WP:IDHT, etc.) as to necessitate sanctions. In Gerda's case, this included an injunction against adding infoboxes to any article she hadn't created. Also, per ArbCom policy, if an editor is restricted from doing something, other editors are prohibited for doing that something for them, as is currently being explained at the ArbCom clarifications page. But again, this whole paragraph that I have just written is way too simplistic (and I'm sure I'm going to hear about it from people who participated in the case). As I said above, if you want to understand disputes that end up at ArbCom, you're going to need to be able to read and digest long pages, because simple disputes that can be easily explained in non-TLDR fashion don't end up at ArbCom. And I would have seriously thought that an experienced editor such as yourself would not have to have this explained to him, several times, by several editors. Dana boomer (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- One, I like bite-sized bits of information.
- Two, I think ArbCom is waaay too full of themselves, always have, and they all have forgotten why they are here.
- Three, anything can be explained in non-TLDR fashion if you take the time.
- Four, when an infobox causes an ArbCom investigation, people are taking themselves waaay too seriously and have forgotten why they are here.
- Five, I have Aspergers (and Dyslexic), I lose interest in something quickly if not explained fast (hence the bite-sized bits of information).
- Six, stupid decisions by bureaucracy (like in DC) normally have to be explained several times, so that even the most experienced people (like in DC) can understand it. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:36, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Well, that does clarify why you'd perceive infoboxes as an unalloyed good. If you want some background, User:Geogre/Templates is well-balanced but you may find it a bit long; Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes is more easily read but also more polemical. Like most ARBCOM decisions, this isn't really "about" infoboxes (or dashes-versus-hyphens, or whatever triviality you like); it's about people's behavior making use of them. Gerda's behavior during the case made it clear that she was going to continue making and using infoboxes in ways that upset other productive editors, to the maximum extent possible without breaking the letter of the rules. It's a shame that these constraints hinder her editing: she's a talented and productive editor. But she would not be laboring under an onerous external restraint if she had shown internal restraint or better judgment. Choess (talk) 15:54, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- ArbCom cases are hardly ever about what they appear on the face of it to be about, but that's by the by. Why do some people get so agitated about infoboxes? Some infoboxes are arguably useful and others are arguably a blot on the landscape. Pigsonthewing has much to answer for here, with his empty rhetoric about metadata. Eric Corbett 16:13, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Well, not intending to throw too many of the aforementioned "big words" at Homer, but the entire infoboxes case was just a proxy for collusion among a group of like-minded editors (that is, all about cabalism, never really even about infoboxes).
In the name of "infoboxes", one group of editors who were roughly (but not exclusively) aligned around technical issues and around returning users breaching cleanstart and various socks disrupting FA pages, has been allowed to indiscriminately block, attack and insult their "perceived" "enemies"; chase off multiple productive editors, both those building content and those also engaged in technical editing; impose technical preferences well beyond the infobox issue; apply the same admin double standards that Malleus thought he was fighting against for years in ways that they seemed to think would silence their "perceived" "enemies" (and in several cases has), choosing to ignore personalization, battleground, and personal attacks among their own; create battlegrounds not only in content editing areas like infoboxes, but also on Wikipedia-space pages, in content review processes, and on dispute resolution pages; work together to preserve POV in articles; and .... well, the list goes on ... and the arbs didn't even get to address most of this, but not surprisingly, the signs of the extent of these issues and the editors involved are showing themselves since the case closed. As always, it is unlikely that the arbs were not aware of all that was going on-- but no one presented all the evidence.
So, for Neutralhomer, although you are not the first (and won't likely be the last) to offer to or to actually act as a proxy in the broader issues surrounding the infobox case, I hope you now understand why such conduct is viewed by the arbs as disruptive, and actually has been and remains a factor in battleground conduct based on factionalism (to wit, the attack which led to this discussion). Re Choess's comments about Gerda, I suspect that what got her noticed by the arbs, although many involved went undetected, is a never-ending defense (from a well-established editor) that began to sound one time too many like "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies". SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:31, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Well, not intending to throw too many of the aforementioned "big words" at Homer, but the entire infoboxes case was just a proxy for collusion among a group of like-minded editors (that is, all about cabalism, never really even about infoboxes).
- ArbCom cases are hardly ever about what they appear on the face of it to be about, but that's by the by. Why do some people get so agitated about infoboxes? Some infoboxes are arguably useful and others are arguably a blot on the landscape. Pigsonthewing has much to answer for here, with his empty rhetoric about metadata. Eric Corbett 16:13, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Well, that does clarify why you'd perceive infoboxes as an unalloyed good. If you want some background, User:Geogre/Templates is well-balanced but you may find it a bit long; Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes is more easily read but also more polemical. Like most ARBCOM decisions, this isn't really "about" infoboxes (or dashes-versus-hyphens, or whatever triviality you like); it's about people's behavior making use of them. Gerda's behavior during the case made it clear that she was going to continue making and using infoboxes in ways that upset other productive editors, to the maximum extent possible without breaking the letter of the rules. It's a shame that these constraints hinder her editing: she's a talented and productive editor. But she would not be laboring under an onerous external restraint if she had shown internal restraint or better judgment. Choess (talk) 15:54, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- If it was simple and able to be explained in a sentence, a paragraph, even a computer screen's-worth of text, it wouldn't be at ArbCom. To understand why some people/projects don't like infoboxes, you have to read their arguments - it has to do with appearance, necessity, breaking complicated ideas into little (sometimes oversimplified) chunks, etc. ArbCom doesn't rule on content though, they rule on conduct. And they ruled that several editors, including Gerda, had acted in such a way (tendentious editing, editing against consensus, WP:IDHT, etc.) as to necessitate sanctions. In Gerda's case, this included an injunction against adding infoboxes to any article she hadn't created. Also, per ArbCom policy, if an editor is restricted from doing something, other editors are prohibited for doing that something for them, as is currently being explained at the ArbCom clarifications page. But again, this whole paragraph that I have just written is way too simplistic (and I'm sure I'm going to hear about it from people who participated in the case). As I said above, if you want to understand disputes that end up at ArbCom, you're going to need to be able to read and digest long pages, because simple disputes that can be easily explained in non-TLDR fashion don't end up at ArbCom. And I would have seriously thought that an experienced editor such as yourself would not have to have this explained to him, several times, by several editors. Dana boomer (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
autism
Hi Sandy. I agree about having high standards for material on the autism page. I hope we don't end up in a fight. Sometimes the editors I meet who revert sex-difference material can get really worked up. I hope this isn't one of those times. We both just want the best article, right? Leadwind (talk) 20:28, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- I'm sorry you have encountered past issues with "sex-difference material", but I have no such history, concerns or issues. I do expect text inserted into any (medical) featured article to comply with WP:UNDUE and to meet the sourcing standards at WP:MEDRS, and the criteria at WP:WIAFA. You have made some good suggestions for improvements to the leads, but discussion of other text would best continue on article talk. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:07, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Moving entire section to Talk:Autism; again, please discuss articles on article talk where everyone can participate. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:38, 14 October 2013 (UTC)