Talk:Hereditary spastic paraplegia

note
moved from the article: ''Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. Spinal nerve degeneration. Is there new inforamtion concerning generation of new spinal nerve material to replace degenerated nerves in spine?'' Kosebamse 17:29 25 May 2003 (UTC)

Note: Added stuff from public domain text from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/hereditarysp.htm

I strongly detest how this article was cut & pasted wholesale from the above url.

Macetw 13:17, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, as it was edited, it became much more technical and difficult for the non-technical reader to understand. I don't know what the problem is with closely paraphrasing public domain text which is written to be used to educate the public. --Nbauman (talk) 18:26, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Epidemiology
The epidemiology section needs to be rewritten. The following resources would be useful in doing it:  D ip ta ns hu Talk 04:51, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

removal of nonsense about transcription factor
"Spastizin (ZFYVE26) is zinc finger transcription factor: mutations in this gene cause SPG15." was added in 2015 by an IP address here and is untrue. I came across this because I am editing Adaptor proteins, vesicular transport and made a link to SPG15, which redirected to this page. SPG15 should have its own page, which at some point I will try to compose, if I don't run out of energy fixing all the crap I'm finding. JeanOhm (talk) 02:07, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Change for more respectful language towards people with disabilities?
Could I request that, in the prognosis section:

"Some cases are seriously disabling while others are less disabling and are compatible with a productive and full life."

Be altered to read something like:

"Some cases are seriously disabling whilst others leave people able to do most ordinary activities to an ordinary extent without needing adjustments."

The exact wording would need to depend on precisely what was meant.

As a disabled person (albeit not with this condition) I feel that the way in which the original phrasing assumes that life with a serious disability is necessarily not "productive and full" is an inappropriate and somewhat predjudice-laden value-judgement.

(I do appreciate that the current phrasing is probably merely a technical-to-conventional language translation glitch and was not in any way intended to be offensive or to encourage bad attitudes)!

FloweringOctopus (talk) 20:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC)