Talk:List of MeSH codes

MeSH
My last edit was not an error. These pages are of little use because the handful of requests are spread across dozens of pages. There is also a great deal of duplication in the requests. It would be most useful to consolidate all the missing subjects on this one page. Other pages, such as MeSH Z01, contain nothing but redlinks which should never become articles and would be useless as redirects. - SimonP 12:30, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Adding a list of 212 red links at the top of a page is very disruptive. I disagree that "it would most useful to consolidate all the missing subjects on this one page", but if you wanted to create a new page to serve that purpose, I won't stand in your way. If you feel that pages like MeSH Z01 shouldn't exist, the proper place to initiate that discussion would be at Articles for deletion. --Arcadian 13:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, this was useful!
I was researching central retinal vein and followed "what links here" for retinal vein and found MeSH_A07, which lists the MeSH entry for retinal vein, and this confirmed what I had found elsewhere "Central retinal vein and its tributaries. It runs a short course within the optic nerve and then leaves and empties into the superior ophthalmic vein or cavernous sinus". Thanks for this! Now I have to work out how to incorporate MeSH numbers into an article... Carcharoth 00:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: done Kotniski (talk) 15:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

MeSH → List of codes for MeSH — This list is not a page with information or discussion about Wikipedia, so it should not put in the project namespace. There are many lists similar to this one in the main namespace, such as List of Dewey Decimal classes, Library of Congress Classification and ICD-10. Quest for Truth (talk) 22:36, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, but all the sub-lists should be moved as well.--Kotniski (talk) 11:58, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I also agree to move all the sub-lists. I did not notice the sub-lists when I made the request.--Quest for Truth (talk) 01:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * That's a lot of pages to move. Any chance of getting help from a bot? -GTBacchus(talk) 21:53, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I can do it with a script (which I've just tested in userspace). Shall I go ahead with the first few of these to check that it's working?--Kotniski (talk) 13:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * All right, it's working. I'm going to move all of them.--Kotniski (talk) 15:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Full machine-readable mapping?
This list (and its child-pages) is a very useful resource. Do any of the contributors know if this cross-linking between headings and wikipedia pages exists in a complete, machine-readable form that could be integrated with MeSH based indexing systems? (Disclosure: I'm writing a MeSH-based indexing system that needs to cross-reference wikipedia for abstracts)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.6.125 (talk) 11:38, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Needs updating
All of these sublists (List of MeSH codes (A01), etc.) need to be updated to a more recent version of MeSH. The purported source of the info doesn't even exist anymore, apparently: the link leads to an archived copy of the relevant page, but that page doesn't actually include the 2006 file referred to in the citation. There are several more recent versions listed there, however, like from 2013. (The current [non-archived] website has a 2020 version, but I'm not sure how to download the information in an efficient manner.) - dcljr (talk) 03:23, 5 February 2020 (UTC)