Chronic Lyme Disease page
This entire page looks like it was edited by someone with a visible bias, who cherry picked quotes to support an agenda. Here is the full context of the opening quote: “Although ‘chronic Lyme disease’ clearly encompasses post-Lyme disease syndrome, it also includes a broad array of illnesses or symptom complexes for which there is no reproducible or convincing scientific evidence of any relationship to B. burgdorferi infection,” said Shapiro, who is professor of pediatrics, epidemiology and public and investigative medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
Cutting the opening clause, "Although ‘chronic Lyme disease’ clearly encompasses post-Lyme disease syndrome" effectively changes the meaning and intent of the original quote, while still using the "Yale" name as a source of reliability.
In general, almost every supporting citation is over 10 or 15 years old, while lyme disease is a very current topic. Moreover, the intent of the more legitimate scientific articles is twisted by the quote cherry-picking.
Rather than implying all people who use the term CLD are frauds, it seems more informative and educational to follow the NIH's lead to explain CLD is a term misused to address a variety of symptoms or illnesses, some of which are the result of infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and some of which are not. From 2018: The term “chronic Lyme disease” (CLD) has been used to describe people with different illnesses. While the term is sometimes used to describe illness in patients with Lyme disease, it has also been used to describe symptoms in people who have no clinical or diagnostic evidence of a current or past infection with B. burgdorferi . Because of the confusion in how the term CLD is employed, and the lack of a clearly defined clinical definition, many experts in this field do not support its use." JaniceCAV42 (talk) 21:17, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- FYI, I don't really know the wikipedia editing process, so I apologize if this is the incorrect action. I was researching lyme disease and when I came upon this page, it is just such an outlier (in terms of overt bias) to what I consider the normal quality of wikipedia articles, that it surprised me. JaniceCAV42 (talk) 21:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- The case should be argued on Talk:Chronic Lyme disease, not here. I have no stake in the dispute, but deemed it necessary to protect the article because of the disruptive edit-warring. Favonian (talk) 20:31, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Stone RM
Hi! I was surprised by your close at Talk:Stone (disambiguation)#Requested move 23 June 2022. Would you mind sharing your thinking around it? Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 21:26, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- I did read your careful argument, but this was one of the cases where long-term significance had a very strong following, and I closed the request accordingly. Favonian (talk) 20:27, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- Long-term significance was presumed, but I think it was clear that those commenting on it hadn't bothered to look at the relevant topics. But yeah, probably no need to reopen a discussion given the baggage of a week's worth of votes (no matter how irrelevant they may be; a note to myself here to avoid commenting in discussions unless it's near their start date). I'll start a new one right away, at least as soon as I manage to fix the 500 or so incoming links (that's both complex and uninspiring, so probably gonna be months). – Uanfala (talk) 21:58, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
VXFC again
is back again. Would you block 78.149.231.146 and 92.23.215.132 please. John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)