User talk:George G Milford

Your editing
Hi George, I've brought your editing of Flammer syndrome and other pages up at the talk page of WikiProject Medicine in this thread. Your thoughts there would be appreciated. Graham 87 11:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

hi
noticed your edit history, do you have a relation to the article Josef_Flammer or Flammer_syndrome in any way? (please read Conflict_of_interest)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:24, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology


A tag has been placed on Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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WP:COI
Were do you disclose your relation to the subject you write about? Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 14:40, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
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– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Reference formatting
All of your journal referencing is flawed. Wrong

Right

The correct format allows a reader to click on the pmid number to be hyperlinked to the article's listing (and abstact) at PubMed, or on the doi unformation to get to the jounal's hyperlink. To auto-create journal refs, go to https://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi Once there, enter the PMID number. Copy the result into the ref /ref brackets for the reference. If you intend to cite the same ref at more than one place in the article, lead with, with a ref name after the =. For subsequent uses of the ref, repeat the content within the < >. but with a / before the >. David notMD (talk) 16:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you David, that advice is much appreciated ! I have wondered why (on some pages) there is no coherent way of referencing. Now I will use your guideline and example to update the references used by me over time. Best George G Milford (talk) 13:55, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thank you so much ! I had no idea up to now what a barnstar is - but now that I know I'm really honored ! BestGeorge G Milford (talk) 13:58, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Your teahouse post
Hello George G Milford, I intended to add a reply to your post addressing the specific questions that you had asked there, but I wanted to make sure first. That led me to raise the issue at one of our more experienced editors's talk pages, and that has elicited further comments to your post, which has moved the discussion slightly somewhere else. So, here I am. The issue seems to be one of controversy, and therefore lacking in clarity that I hoped to give you. The only thing I can say for certain, is that you can and should (not in email) ask the editor that adds such a tag to give specific points about what exactly needs to be done in order to address the concerns and remove the tag. They have an obligation to give that much. It doesn't seem like you can personally remove the tags yourself just because such explanation is not given at the talk page, per current community norms. But you could request that the tag be removed, and others might be moved to act on your request when you point out that the documentation of the tag requires the tagger to explain the issues at the talk page. I think it's a bad idea, and one unlikely to yield anything positive, to report the user in question, which is one question you specifically asked too. But, as only a point of answering, while advising strongly against it, you can report any given user to WP:ANI. You should read the notice on the top of that page carefully and follow the guidance, if you choose to post there. The discussion I started about your post is ongoing at User_talk:Iridescent. A lot of Wikipedia jargons are used, but I think even an editor not intimately familiar with Wikipedia can grasp the salient points, should you choose to take a look. Those tags seem to live in a grey area not governed by some hard and fast rules, and therefore, the consensus on them is likely to be unwritten, and anything that is locally enforced. As such, another sort of a "complaint" could be to seek clarity on the issue. Policy is usually discussed at WP:VPP but it may be better to start a discussion at the talk page of the template if you choose to persue that avenue. The template that generates the tag in question resides at Template:COI, the documentation is on that page, and discussion on it can be had at its talk page, i.e. Template talk:COI. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you so much Usedtobecool ! Your advice is much appreciated; I did not have that situation before and I am not that active on Wikipedia. Will certainly try to avoid contributions that arouse such a suspicion in the future - and I definitely appreciate all the editors' work and enthusiasm for this valuable institution. Kind regards and best wishedGeorge G Milford (talk) 12:06, 12 June 2020 (UTC)