User talk:Anthonyhcole/sandbox

I'm managing a review of Wikipedia's article, Parkinson's disease. BMJ (publishers of top-tier, peer-reviewed medical journals) recruited some highly qualified reviewers, and the reviewers have commented and proposed changes here.

To change content in a Wikipedia medical article, best practice involves providing a reliable source that supports the change. Finding the ideal source to support a change can be tedious and time-consuming. The reviewers, busy people who are already donating a lot of their valuable time in reading and discussing the article, won't — and can't reasonably be expected to — search around for sources to support every change they propose. This leg-work should be done by a facilitator familiar with Wikipedia's policies — in this case, me.

I don't have access to pay-walled medical articles or online medical textbooks. I've tried to do this work using freely-available sources and making the odd request at Wikipedia's Resource Exchange but I actually need to browse through many articles and textbooks, and using the Resource Exchange is far too cumbersome for browsing. (When you know what journal article you want, Resource Exchange is great.)

So, this review is on hold. If I could have password access to a top-flight medical school's subscribed journals (and ideally also access to their e-Library of medical textbooks) I'll be able to re-start this important review.

Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 07:12, 2 November 2016 (UTC)