User talk:John P. Sadowski (NIOSH)/Archive 3

Your GA nomination of Characterization of nanoparticles
The article Characterization of nanoparticles you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Characterization of nanoparticles for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of HaEr48 -- HaEr48 (talk) 03:41, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hazards of synthetic biology
The article Hazards of synthetic biology you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hazards of synthetic biology for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ajpolino -- Ajpolino (talk) 22:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * If you've got the time and interest, Good_article_nominations is severely backlogged and could use experienced editors with time to undertake thorough reviews. Knocking out a couple reviews may just reduce the wait for your next set of GA nominations! Regardless, I hope all is well. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Open Source Ventilators
Hi John,

Great work on the ventilator page. Thank you.

I have a few more open source ventilators that I have been collecting from various places.

How can we add them to the google sheet?

I am not a wikipedia editor.

Eduardo.Garcia@hush.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.44.75 (talk) 07:41, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 Drug repurposing and vitamin C
In your opinion, does this belong in the merged article or not? I had added it to the repurposed article. David notMD (talk) 22:19, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

There are three ongoing clinical trials of intravenous vitamin C for people who are hospitalized and severely ill with COVID-19; two placebo controlled (China, Canada) and one with no control (Italy). A review of vitamin C administration to critically ill patients (burns, trauma, sepsis) reported a tendency towards a mortality reduction when intravenous high-dose vitamin C monotherapy was administered. :


 * My expertise is not in medicine so I don't feel I can give guidance on whether this should be included. I'd suggest asking at the article talk page. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 23:06, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * My experience is in nutrition, so hesitant to interject a nutrition topic (one with a history) into this article. Maybe best if I wait until the trials are completed and published. David notMD (talk) 00:16, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I undid the merge due to the unexplained deletion of large amounts content during the merge, and my being unable to find sections I was working on in the "merged" content in the new article, and the merging of disputed content with removal of the disputed tag. The discussion should have continued on the talk page of the article not the talk page of one user. Gammapearls (talk) 06:10, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Cloth facemask
I want to commend you for creating a covid-related article with actual historical information, and not simply a listing of current news. Natureium (talk) 10:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Even though these topics relate to our immediate circumstances, I always try to write a full accounting of the topic as if I had been writing it at any other time. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Precious
You are recipient no. 2386 of Precious, a prize of QAI. Sainsf (talk · contribs) 07:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Yay! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Definition of Airborne Disease
At the beginning of April, you made some changes to Airborne disease to clarify that spread respiratory droplets is not the same as airborne. Some changes were made about a week ago that remove that distinction “due to claims being disproven” (I’m not sure how you disprove a definition), without linking a source. As you have a documented background and the other author does not, I was wondering if you could review those changes? Either way, thanks for your contributions!

Slithytove2 (talk) 16:48, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tip! I think they misunderstood some recent reports about detecting coronavirus RNA in aerosols.  Of course, this doesn't change the definition of aerosol or respiratory droplet.  John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for N95 mask
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Cloth face mask
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Respiratory droplet
— Maile (talk) 12:01, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Design of masks to be worn by infectious people?
Hi John,

(This is a NIOSH question, not a Wikipedia question.) Do you know if NIOSH has any standards or guidance for masks to be worn by people with infectious respiratory illnesses, to prevent them releasing bacteria or viruses into the air?

Thanks, Rosieredfield (talk) 17:04, 24 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Here's some relevant guidance from CDC: Steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 if you are sick and Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 23:41, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Autopatrolled right
Hi, thanks for all your contributions! As I can tell you know what you're doing, would you be interested in applying to be autopatrolled, meaning your articles are published without needing to be reviewed manually? This would be really helpful to reduce the workload of pages that need manual review. You could apply yourself or I'd be happy to nominate you. Blythwood (talk) 12:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 21:01, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi John P. Sadowski (NIOSH), I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AJohn_P._Sadowski_(NIOSH) added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 16:04, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Source control (respiratory disease)
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Wells curve
— Wug·a·po·des​ 22:54, 20 June 2020 (UTC) 12:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)