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Practice Editing Here (Nov 23rd in-class Wiki session work)

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

Assignment # 3

 * Note: You will be emailing your assignment # 3 directly to your tutor, however, please paste a version here that excludes your personal information. This will allow us to support your efforts on Wikipedia prior to editing "live" in the article.


 * My Wiki Article is Measles.

Proposed Changes

Current Statement

Clinical diagnosis of measles requires a history of fever of at least three days, with at least one of the following symptoms: cough, coryza, or conjunctivitis.

Revised Statement

Typically, clinical diagnosis begins with the onset of fever and malaise about 10 days after exposure to the measles virus, followed by the emergence of cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis that worsen in severity over 4 days of appearing.

Rationale for Proposed Change

The change was necessary because the information presented in the Wikipedia article on this subject matter was vague – e.g., by their definition, anyone with a fever and cough for at least three days may have measles – and uncited. Therefore, I believe it was wise to not only cite recent literature on this subject matter, but also provide a clear and explicit review of the clinical diagnosis of measles. I have chosen to edit this portion of the diagnosis section of the Measles article using Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (see full citation below). This is an appropriate source to use when making the revision to the Measles article because Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine is considered the gold standard of medical textbooks and presents current information on the diagnosis of measles that most physicians and lay people would want to review when researching this topic.

Rainwater-Lovett K, & Moss W.J. (2018). Measles (rubeola). Jameson J, & Fauci A.S., & Kasper D.L., & Hauser S.L., & Longo D.L., & Loscalzo J(Eds.), Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine-mhmedical-com.proxy.queensu.ca/content.aspx?bookid=2129&sectionid=192025856

(Potential) Area of Controversy

I am unsure whether my revision addresses an area of controversy, however I do acknowledge that it is very problematic for the article to present information as important as clinical diagnosis and not cite the literature or provide specific information (e.g., refer to rationale of proposed change).

Critique of Source

When selecting a source to improve the diagnosis content in the Measles article, I intentionally selected a source with little bias. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine is a tertiary source that is current (published in 2018), relevant (pertains information specifically on the diagnosis of measles), reputable (the gold standard for medical textbooks), accurate (peer-reviewed tertiary source of information), and purposeful (intent is to synthesize information for physicians to better understand measles). A potential criticism of this source however is that being a tertiary review, the information it presents is the most prototypical. This source does not describe atypical clinical diagnoses of measles, so additional resources will need to be reviewed when wanting to describe all the possible clinical manifestations of this virus.

Article Improvement

Please refer to the Wikipedia Measles Talk page to see my post regarding my proposed revision.

What to post on the talk page?

 * This will also be covered on Nov 23rd 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 2020/Talk Page Template