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Practice Editing Here (Nov 15th in-class Wiki session work)

 * This is a place to practice clicking the "edit" button and practice adding references (via the citation button).

Task:


 * 1) Find a peer-reviewed journal article on PubMed. Practice inserting your citation in the above space using the "cite" tool
 * 2) Choose one "B-level" medical article on Wikipedia from the following list: https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Medicine/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=High-Class
 * 3) Practice editing live on Wikipedia by finding a typo in the text or improving the clarity/readability of a sentence by adjusting a few words in a sentence.

Assignment # 3- please post an anonymous copy here!
Proposed Changes: This statement should be added under “Diagnosis” on the Mycosis fungoides wiki page: Childhood Mycosis fungoides (MF) makes up 0.5% to 7.0% of cases. Although data on childhood MF is limited, a 2021 systematic review observed that there is a significant delay in the diagnosis of childhood MF which may negatively affect a child’s prognosis. Notably, most pediatric persons with MF present with early-stage disease.
 * Proposed ChangesProposed Changes

Rational for proposed change: This addition is suggested because at present, the Wiki page for Mycosis fungoides does not include a statement regarding diagnosis in children. This change is important as there may be a significant delay in the diagnosis of MF in children that may impact a child’s prognosis. Importantly, in a 2021 systematic review it was observed that most children with MF (97%) present with early-stage disease, compared to adult persons with MF in which 65.8%-82.2% present with early-stage MF

Area of controversy: There is some area of controversy surrounding the results of this article. Data on childhood MF is sparse, so there is no other systematic review of childhood MF to compare too. The systematic review prepared by Jung et al included a wide range of resources and a total of 571 participants. The authors observed that the most common variant of MF in this study was the hypopigmented form followed by classic MF. These results vary from previous investigations who report a lower proportion of hypopigmented MF. At present, there may be an area of controversy surrounding the most common variant of MF in children, due to the small number of cases and research.

Critique of sources: The article prepared by Jung et al article is a systematic review. I chose this article because it is high on the hierarchy of evidence. The methodology was sound as a wide search strategy was used (PubMED, EMBASE, Cochrane and Scopus), and 2 independent reviewers examined all titles/abstracts. This article, however, may be susceptible to reporting bias in which only positive diagnosis of childhood MF are reported, vs those suspected but not confirmed. Another limitation of this article is the number of children with MF with certain variants such as granulomatous slack skin (GSS) (7/567) and granulomatous MF (4/567).

What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page (part of assignment 3)

 * This will also be covered on Nov 15th in class. Your group should use the below template to share an outline of your proposed improvements (including your new wording and citations). Article talk pages are not places to share your assignment answers. The Wikipedia community will be more interested in viewing your exact article improvement suggestions including where you plan to improve the article (which section), what wording you suggest, and the exact citation (Note: all citations must meet WP:MEDRS)
 * You will not be able to paste citations directly from your sandbox to talk pages (unless you are interested in editing/learning Wiki-code in the "source editing" mode). We suggest re-adding your citations on the talk page manually (using the cite button and populating the citation by pasting in the DOI, website, or PMID). You will have to repeat this process yet again when you edit the actual article live.
 * Talk Page Template: CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Fall 2021/Talk Page Template