Talk:Josef Flammer

Proposed merge with Flammer syndrome
This isn't a recognized clinical entity, and nearly all the sources are written by Josef Flammer (and people connected to him). It would make more sense to present this as his idea, rather than as a recognized, accepted disease. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge Agree - there is no compelling evidence that the scientific community recognizes this syndrome; mention on the inventor's page will suffice. &mdash; soupvector (talk) 06:47, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge, agreed with Soupvector. Graham 87 07:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge per others Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 12:21, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose. While most of the papers on this subject are written by Flammer and/or Konieczka, there are three papers listed on Pubmed (, & ) written by other authors. Two of these papers are from the same Swiss team. However the third one is written by an unaffiliated team in China. I believe that the journals are peer-reviewed. Flammer syndrome is a notable subject in its own right, and the quantity of material justifies this spin-out. Axl ¤ [Talk]  15:14, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Axl, I suppose we could say that we "outvoted" you, but it's possible that your detailed comments might change someone's mind (not mine, though :-).  Are you resigned to the merge, or would you like me to list it at WP:Proposed merges?  WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:57, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I accept the consensus. Go ahead and merge. Axl ¤ [Talk] 15:06, 7 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Merge per reasons given above (however a review per  ...?)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:17, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The individual is notable in his own right, as is the syndrome. Both pieces already exist, there is no compelling reason to merge. Carrite (talk) 04:10, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that the individual is notable (as I said above). The syndrome seems not to be notable. I find no independent high-quality MEDRS on the topic in Pubmed.  When I search Elsevier's extensive ClinicalKey collection of biomedical resources (including many textbooks, etc), I find no independent high-quality MEDRS. Hence, my recommendation above. Perhaps I'm overlooking some clear evidence of notability for the syndrome (I certainly acknowledge that's possible - and this might be a regional/language thing)? &mdash; soupvector (talk) 21:58, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Merge header removed - described as "outdated" - though it's not clear to me that a consensus was reached nor that independent, high-quality sources agree on the use of the term "Flammer syndrome"; I wonder if the existence of that WP page will drive its adoption. &mdash; soupvector (talk) 19:00, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment apparently there are some oppose votes, (for my part I did indicate that review)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:17, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Alleged "conflict of interest"
Since the remark "major contributor" obviously refers to me and the gentleman who has tagged a number of my contributions with this COI has not respondend to my email, let me - once again - state that I know the subject of this page from meetings (when meetings were still held, before Corona), have read some of his publications. Ophthalmology is a small field and everybody basically knows everybody - am I the only one from this discipline who now and then contributes to Wikipedia ? Should I apologize for it ? Let me repeat here: I'm not related to any of the individuals I have contributed about, do not work or have worked for any of them, have no relation to their business or whatever they may be doing at the moment. What else can I do ? If somebody from the community has some advice - it would be much appreciated !George G Milford (talk) 17:45, 30 May 2020 (UTC)