User talk:Fswitzer4

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Question about FDA / UNII
When you say FDA, are you talking about some national organization? [ Such edits deal primarily with the United States and may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. ] --Smokefoot (talk) 23:57, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The US agency that manages UNIIs. I manage this terminology at the FDA. We publish these UNIIs through the US National Library of Medicine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fswitzer4 (talk • contribs) 11:40, 1 August 2016 (UTC) ‎

Possible conflict of interest (COI)
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Please discuss any further "‎Validated CAS" or "added FDA UNII" edits here before you make them. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:45, 30 May 2020 (UTC)


 * A bit late, but: Adding UNIIs is very much welcomed. After all, the drugboxes have a parameter dedicated to that purpose. This is certainly not advertising or promoting (whom, the FDA?). Thanks for your tireless efforts, Fswitzer4! --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 15:47, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the encouraging words ἀνυπόδητος! Since so many Wikipedia users care about identifiers, our team tries to create and validate UNIIs in Wikipedia because bad links can be worse than no links. I also regularly validate CAS in Wikipedia. It is in my interest to have correct identifiers in Wikipedia but it is not a commercial interest since UNIIs are freely available and distributable. This is done as part of my public service commitment just as we generally distribute data via NLM https://fdasis.nlm.nih.gov/srs/ Fswitzer4 (talk) 17:59, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Is there any particular reason why you didn't follow our policy at Paid-contribution disclosure the first time I asked you to? Adding UNIIs and validate CAS isn't a problem. Not disclosing who is paying you is. See Paid-contribution disclosure. --Guy Macon (talk) 18:22, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Guy Macon I was unaware of the policy and I only saw the issue when it appeared in my work email. I am also unsure about how I should navigate it since it involves thousands of articles. Not really changing articles but cleaning up DrugBox and ChemBox data. Fswitzer4 (talk) 19:03, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hold off on anything that involves hundreds of pages, but please go to the instructions and do the bit where you declare a COI on your user pages. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:52, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Guy Macon I had never created a user page which I have done now. Hope this helps. It would be lot more work for everyone if I had to go through the suggest edit process every time I found an incorrect or missing identifier. Fswitzer4 (talk) 21:02, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Please click on this link: Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and read the last couple of paragraphs. You are not only allowed but encouraged to join the discussion there. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:24, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for making that declaration; there is nothing else you need to do, in that regard. Thank you also for your valuable contributions, which are welcome - please continue them. That said, you might more profitably add the same data to Wikidata, where they can be used by this Wikipedia, and Wikipedias in 300 other languages. LMK if you need help getting started there.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me. Again, adding UNIIs and validate CAS isn't a problem. We just need to know when someone edits Wikipedia as part of their job. Your declaration on User:Fswitzer4 accomplishes that. Thanks! --Guy Macon (talk) 22:47, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Fswitzer4. Thank you. —Guy Macon (talk) 16:47, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Slashes
The slashes in the UNII and other identifiers don't work and prevent the links from working. Please use multiple/separate entries (e.g. UNII, UNII2, UNII3) instead. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 21:11, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

This was the only thing we could come up with for combo drugs in the limited size infobox. If you can show how to increase the size, I will do that.Fswitzer4 (talk) 21:31, 26 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Take a look at what I did for Dapagliflozin/metformin. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 04:40, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

That is what we did before but the codes don't make it clear that the combination product involves salts and a third set of codes will not display.Fswitzer4 (talk) 14:00, 1 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, but that is better than the recent changes that broke the links. Where was the change discussed? --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 02:30, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

It was not discussed. I don't know who I would discuss it with. How can I get more rows in the infobox? That would allow display of all the data.Fswitzer4 (talk) 12:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I decided to remove the component identifiers for the combo drugs. There would not be a UNII for the combo but there is often a CAS number. See my update to Dapagliflozin/metformin. Fswitzer4 (talk) 19:01, 2 March 2021 (UTC)


 * You wrote This was the only thing we could come up so I thought it was discussed. You can discuss the template at Template talk:Infobox drug. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 21:13, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * See additional discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Archive 147 and Template talk:Drug links. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 21:19, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

This latter link is very helpful and current. Given the way this is trending, it was best to remove the extra data from the combo drug pages.Fswitzer4 (talk) 11:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

CSD tagging
Hello, Fswitzer4,

For some reason, there is a CSD notice that is being transcluded to Dunnite, Hydrazoic acid, Methyl hypochlorite and Potassium picrate, pages which you edited, and appearing in the infobox. Do you know how that this might be fixed? I really don't know the composition of chemical infobox or what is causing this notice appear. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:29, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

I think the pages may be using trademarked names without indicating so. The first page had been titled Ammonium Picrate. I was simply updating identifiers in the ChemBox

JK-05
Hi Fswitzer4. I noticed you added a CAS number to the page for the antiviral drug JK-05, which I was not aware had a confirmed / disclosed structure. If it has a CAS number issued, does that mean the structure is now known, and if so I would greatly appreciate if you could share it so I can add it to the page? Meodipt (talk) 09:28, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

CAS does not disclose structure.


 * Great, thank you for clarifying that. Are you familiar with this category? So many pages still with no UNII and CAS, if you have any of them in your database.Meodipt (talk) 01:05, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

No inside info on this drug. Patent US 2021/0283150 by Gilead Sciences indicates it may also studied for use against SARS-COV-2.Fswitzer4 (talk) 11:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

CAS numbers
Hi Fswitzer4. Any chance you could check if this substance hypoxen has a CAS number? It is a mixture and doesn't seem to be on PubChem but there are many Russian references going back 20 years. Has become quite high profile all of a sudden due to having shown up in a doping case in the Olympics. Meodipt (talk) 06:48, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

148465-31-0 A synthetic drug from the class of polyoxyarylenes, registered in Russia as an antihypoxic agent; latterly described as sodium [poly(2,5-dihydroxyphenylene)]-4-thiosulfonate Fswitzer4

Another one
Hello again Fswitzer4. I don't suppose you could check if this compound Delta-6-Cannabidiol has a CAS and UNII assigned to it? It seems to be commonly confused with the more common isomer cannabidiol but they are not the same compound, and both versions appear to be sold commercially these days. Meodipt (talk) 23:12, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Added CAS and UNII for Delta-6-Cannabidiol Fswitzer4 (talk) 12:01, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Duplicate arguments in template calls
Hello Fswitzer4. Thanks for your many edits to articles on chemicals, but may I ask you to have a look at Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls? For example, when you added UNII and CAS to the infobox in 3F8 in this edit, they were already present further down the infobox. Sometimes the values conflict; when this happens, Wikimedia overwrites any previous values found with the last one in list order, even if the last value is blank. It would save your fellow editors a great deal of work if you could check for existing values before adding a new one. Thanks again for your help with this. Storchy (talk) 18:43, 31 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Just noticed this my self and working to fix Fswitzer4 (talk) 18:57, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thank you. You might find User:Frietjes/findargdups useful: it warns of duplicates at the top of an article in preview, or you can use it from the sidebar at the left to detect duplicates during editing. Storchy (talk) 19:15, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

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