Talk:Nina de Vries

Biography assessment rating comment
WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 14:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Surrogate
Does anybody see this activity as linked to being a sexual surrogate partner? Just thought I'd throw it out there, so maybe soebody can flesh this out a bit. Castlan 05:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

"Mentally disabled"
The terminology continues to be a tricky issue for wikipedia: it's difficult enough to get a consensus on the "correct" term in one country, let alone across several English-speaking countries. I've discussed this issue a bit here.

Anyway, the wikilink on *this* page went to mental disability, which redirects to mental disorder. If I'm correct about Nina de Vries, that is completely the wrong page. I'm sure someone out there will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I was under the impression that de Vries specialises in offering services to people with learning disabilities (UK term: I think the term "people who are mentally retarded" is used in the US): that is to say, people with conditions such as Down's Syndrome. She doesn't specialise in offering her services to people who have psychiatric or mental health issues (i.e. clinical depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders etc.) In light of this, I've changed the wikilink in the first line from "mental disability" (which redirects to "mental disorder") to "intellectual disability" and linked it to the "mental retardation" page. This last phrase most definitely isn't regarded as an acceptable term here in the UK, but until a consensus is reached (if ever) about the best term to use among the international community of wikipedians, at least this takes readers to the "right" place. Or rather, it doesn't take them to the "wrong" place. Dom Kaos (talk) 23:03, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Good call. 89.217.2.190 (talk) 11:19, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Tags removed
I just removed two tags from the article. AxelBoldt (talk) 01:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * One tag claimed that a major contributor to the article appears to have a conflict of interest. No evidence was provided for this claim. I wrote most of this article, and I have no conflict of interest regarding the article's subject. Nina de Vries made only minor contributions to the article as it stands.
 * The other tag questioned the subject's notability, again without offering any arguments. As the article correctly states: German newspapers have repeatedly covered her work and several documentaries were broadcast on German, Austrian and Swiss television. This establishes her notability.
 * Article in Mosaic (not in the references): http://mosaicscience.com/story/sex-disability. 89.217.2.190 (talk) 11:18, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Translation of the German article
Hello to everybody! I am the author of the German article about de:Nina de Vries. Now I am about to prepare a translation for the enWP. It will be done by a billingual helper and the new WP-author IrmaCan. Is there anybody who would be against my intention to substitute the existing en-article about de Vries by the translated one? Best wishes --Andrea014 (talk) 05:28, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Nobody against → Done! (Could somebody be so kind as to help with the above boxes?) --Andrea014 (talk) 04:32, 15 February 2017 (UTC)