User:Zad68

Hello, I am, but please feel free to call me Zach. I am a volunteer Wikipedia editor just like you are (or could be!). I am particularly interested in medical topics, and I am an active member of Wikipedia's Medicine Wikiproject. I also like to edit or review articles in the natural sciences, and occasionally attend to the odd biography, especially if the person relates to an article I am working on.

I think the good article review process is one of the most important initiatives on Wikipedia. I have messed around with developing a bot using the account, and plan to develop a bot to provide tools to automate the more tedious parts of doing reviews of WP:MED-scope articles in particular.

If you have any questions about things like sourcing for medical articles, the GA process, or just getting started with Wikipedia, please drop me a note on my User Talk page and I'll try to help!

Quick reference for some of my common edit summary abbreviations

 * r = reply
 * c = comment
 * c/e = copyedit

Zad68's Rules of Content

 * The best defense against bad content is good content. In fact it's probably the only defense.
 * The Wikipedia Catch-22: You'll do your best content work on articles for subjects you know little about and don't particularly care about. But then, of course, you won't be particularly motivated to work on such articles.
 * Any edit that adds biomedical information and explicitly points out it's based on a "scientific study published in peer-reviewed journal" probably needs to be reverted per WP:MEDRS.
 * You don't have to respect the subject of the article you're working on, but you do have to respect the sources.
 * This is why I find In popular culture sections problematic.
 * This is just one reason why we should almost never be citing primary sources for scientific information.

Focus
I found this essay and the accompanying slide show to be very influential in the choices I make of articles I'd like to do significant development work on. Wikipedia has a lot of articles, but overall the most important articles (as determined by the number of views) do not get as much development attention as they deserve. At over 12 years old, en.WP has over 4 million articles; just about all the articles that are on what might be considered core encyclopedic topics have already been started, but most are still not yet at GA quality. Editors should be motivated to work on the articles for these core topics, and I hope efforts like the Million Award will be effective in doing so.

A Cochrane a day
The Cochrane Library is a very well-respected publisher and repository of high-quality secondary sources of medical evidence. Wikipedia has partnered with them to provide free access to the full texts of their articles, and is still handing out free accounts to editors active in developing WP:MEDICINE-contentsee WP:COCHRANE to apply for your own free account! I got an account and to make sure Wikipedia benefits from it, I am trying to do a Cochrane a day: whatever other content work I might be doing, each weekday I will pull a Cochrane article and update something with it. An article will benefit, I'll learn something new, and maybe I'll get ideas for future content work. Should be fun!


 * 16 September: Tiotropium ipratropium for COPD
 * 17 September: reduce childbirth labor pains
 * 18 September: Insulin detemir and insulin glargine are for diabetes mellitus type 2
 * 19 September: An updated review shows that there is still to suggest that oxygen helps someone having a heart attack, and in fact may make things worse
 * 20 September: Electronic mosquito repeller devices to repel mosquitoes and reduce the spread of malaria
 * 23 September: Adding radiation therapy after chemotherapy for those with early stage Hodgkin's lymphoma
 * 24 September: Personal invitations and educational materials are at increasing the uptake of screening for cervical cancer
 * 25 September: There is to come to any kind of conclusion about what effect lycopene might have on prostate cancer
 * 26 September: In type-2 diabetics with periodontal disease, treating the disease can result in in blood sugar levels
 * 27 September: Inhaled antibiotics in those with cystic fibrosis, but with some drawbacks
 * 30 September: Celiac plexus blocks are a way to deal with abdominal pain for those with inoperable pancreatic cancer
 * 1 October: Caffeine is a bronchodilator, and so using it may of a lung function test for asthma
 * 2 October: Combination hormonal contraceptives help of severe PMS (known as premenstrual dysphoric disorder)
 * 3 October: Corticosteroids increase the in those with traumatic brain injury, and so are not recommended to be given routinely
 * 4 October: Sexual dysfunction is in those with chronic kidney disease; PDE5 inhibitors (things like Viagra) and zinc  for helping men with these problems
 * 7 October: Dopamine agonists are to help manage restless legs syndrome
 * 8 October: Aspirin is often prescribed to women for the purpose of increasing chances of fertilization by IVF, but there's to show it works
 * 9 October: There is to show that Chinese herbs are safe or effective for treating diabetic neuropathy
 * 10 October: Mycophenolate mofetil is a relatively  for lupus nephritis
 * 14 October: Transdermal fentanyl patches  for those with moderate to severe cancer pain
 * 10 October 2014: Topical corticosteroids for treating phimosis in boys: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008973.pub2

OK I have to admit these are good...

 * Even changed "BFV" to "CFV"

Stuff to do

 * Lyme disease - To GA
 * Earthworm - To GA
 * Review recent changes in the WP:MED Queue
 * Fix cite book editor field to handle where it's filled in like "4th ed." to not render as "4th ed.ed."
 * Foreign language Wikis - WP:MED article assessments
 * Create BLP for Charles Snowdon

Barnstars...
You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.7.204 (talk) 00:35, 12 April 2012 (UTC)