Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dentistry/Archive 2

Students working on dental articles
I remember reading somewhere about students working on dental articles. Anyone have further details of this effort? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:59, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Found it  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:01, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * at La Trobe School of Dentistry and Oral Health there seems to be a course each year where oral health students are tasked with working on different dental articles. I can't remember exactly which articles have had a group of these students working on in the past, but Attrition (dental) is definitely one. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 09:27, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah so we have a couple of schools working on dental content. Good to see. Going to add dentistry to the next version of the offline app. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 15:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Check out the Dashboard at Wiki Ed/Creighton/Creighton Dental Project (Spring 2017). Only one student at the moment, but it is just getting started. LexLife (talk) 20:04, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Courtesy of here also is some information about the Cochrane Oral Health Project at Scotland's Dundee Dental School: https://cochraneohg.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/12-months-on-cochrane-oral-health-dundee-dental-school-and-wikipedia-a-project-update/. LexLife (talk) 15:43, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Perfect thanks :-) Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 00:10, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Oral Health Foundation
Most of the article ins unsourced. We can not have content without sources--see WP:V. This is especially true about content involving living people--see WP:BLP The content will have to be removed if not sourced.

The article at present reads like a copyvio, and that's presumably the source--but I cannot find anything specific online.  DGG  DGG ( talk ) 19:57, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools
I have removed the proposed deleting template from this page for several reasons: 1- The Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools is currently a trending topics in dentistry. People can more easily identify this page as opposed to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry page. While training students and dentists, I have often attempted to direct people to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry without success.

2- The Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry was inactive until recently reactivated by one of our editors. So from my observations, the activity taking place is actually from editors who are part of the Collaboration. Not much was happening on Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry until Collaboration editors began to use it.

3- We are a substantial community of editors who are quickly growing. We need a page that meets our needs (ie a place for editors to have discussions on the talk page, post about pages requiring development and post about future events). At Dundee dental school alone we have 35 editors ( in the UK and Egypt). Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, Harvard, Tufts, NYU, Boston and Arizona dental schools are all currently undergoing training. It is estimated that each of these schools will have at least 20-40 editors and we anticipate further growth when numerous more schools join from across the globe.

4- Over the next myself, editors from the Collaboration as well will develop this page with the help of the Wikimedia UK team.

Your patience would be much appreciated. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheStudiousDentist (talk • contribs)
 * Have you seen WP:SOURCE? ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:57, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Exonucleophagy


The article Exonucleophagy has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Non-notable; term does not exist in English; no attestations in English outside wikis and other user-provided content; one Croatian journal ref has it double-quoted as a neologism in the article."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Mathglot (talk) 23:50, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Currently redirected, but possibly inappropriately. Looking into it now... Mathglot (talk) 20:46, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Tooth whitening
There have been a series of new users, perhaps as part of a school project, adding content to Tooth whitening. It could probably use the review of someone knowledgeable in this area. Regards, Deli nk (talk) 20:56, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Draft
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lesion (talk • contribs) 00:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Draft:Potential complications of tooth extraction

Orthodontic Technology Article
Hi

I will taking charge of cleaning up the article page Orthodontic Technology. I'm in a field and this page is written terribly. There is not much information about the appliances and there is so much history behind it. I wiil eventually make an article about each appliance but to start off I will be making pages where I have a list of functional appliances (removal and fixed). There are so many appliances out there and they all need to be mentioned and clearly organized in a manner which is understandable to users. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Globalorthodontist (talk • contribs) 23:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

New article: Dental anomalies
Dental anomalies, which is mainly a list of terms, needs some attention. Possibly a redirect or conversion into a proper list article? --Animalparty! (talk) 01:23, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

AfD about Dentistry
An ongoing deletion discussion, Articles for deletion/SWED university, closely involves Dentistry education. Members of this project will likely want to participate. Thank you.&thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 22:47, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Dental fear
Hello. Just stopped by to alert you that some university students have been editing Dental fear and it's in a pretty bad state now. Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:13, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Merge discussion notice
I am writing this notice to generate an active discussion regarding the proposal to merge the contents from the article Root analogue dental implant to Dental implant The discussion is at Talk:Dental implant. I hope everyone interested will comment with their opinions. Gsingh (talk) 00:31, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Can someone take a look at this?
Hey! Can someone here who knows more about dental topics and notability as it relates to dental topics take a look at Eco-friendly dentistry? It kind of smells like a POV fork to me, but someone obviously put a lot of effort into it and I really don't know enough to wade out the undue influence in the article. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 20:04, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Reliable source
Is this WP:MEDRS: Health Technology Assessment of CEM Pulpotomy in Permanent Molars with Irreversible Pulpitis? I have cited it on Pulpotomy.-Nizil (talk) 12:20, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Dentistry throughout the world
Is it a sensible strategy to put everything about the organisation of dentistry throughout the world into one enormous article?Rathfelder (talk) 08:25, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Article on toothpaste
On the talk page of the article about toothpaste, there is a note saying that this article must conform to biographies of living persons policy. This seems strange to me, as this article is not about people. Would any one in your WikProject be able to change this please? Thank you in advance for your co-operation in this manner. Vorbee (talk) 08:30, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Relevant merge discussion, please join
Talk:Dental implant Staszek Lem (talk) 21:13, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Page Needed for GC America
I am an employee for GC America Inc and I just realized we don't have a Wikipedia page, despite being one of the leading dental manufacturers in the US and holding a 70% share of the glass ionomer market. I am not sure I am allowed to write about the company or our products, being an employee. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. Ajblome96 (talk) 18:13, 15 March 2019 (UTC) Ajblome96

Shovel-shaped incisors
Shovel-shaped incisors is also called winging, right?

Anyhow, I'm looking for a Commons image to crop for the article and also for Sinodonty and Sundadonty. Would this one be appropriate?

See also:

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:15, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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MfD nomination of Portal:Dentistry
Portal:Dentistry, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Dentistry and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Dentistry during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:40, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello
Im a present student working on page for pre dental care working on wikipedia project for class. I want to expand on topic of hormones and prenatal oral care. Any advice or info is appreciated. E razo0821 (talk) 21:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey User: E razo0821. I've left you a welcome on your talk page.  If you have questions about specific topics, or needs someone to review (that your professor can't resolve) feel free to leave a message at WP:MED talk page.  Be sure to let them know this is course work, at this time of year we meet a lot of students.  Best.  Ian Furst (talk) 23:59, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Updated diagrams for tooth naming
I noticed that there don't seem to be any simple diagrams anywhere that show permanent & deciduous teeth and their names anywhere. I had to create one for a project I'm doing, so I'm uploading it here in case anyone wants it. I was thinking perhaps I could put it into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDI_World_Dental_Federation_notation ? Open to any suggestions.





Gregory david baker (talk) 11:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Help needed: water fluoridation
The article on water fluoridation would benefit from contributions from dental experts. This article is under regular attack. Especially welcome would be citations to textbooks, per WP:TERTIARY.--Smokefoot (talk) 23:52, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Dentistry Barnstar
For anyone who hasn't noticed yet, I made the Dentistry Barnstar on the 4th. I already added it @WikiProject Dentistry/Participants. Jerm (talk) 01:19, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Dental software
Please help fix the issues that have been tagged. Bearian (talk) 20:22, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

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== In a bid to improve accuracy, U of T students give Wikipedia's dental and oral health content a checkup ==

For the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:20, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at WikiProject Medicine
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Wikipedialuva (talk) 13:28, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:42, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Request to add about history of Stomatology in Dentistry page of English Wikipedia.
Dentistry aka stomatolgy is a medical speciality. Till beginning of 21st century in countries like Spain France Italy Portugal and Austria stomatology was a 3 yr specialisation after medical school. It got separated in US and UK in late 19th century and the rest of europe followed especially after joining European Union. Dentists/Stomatologist are specialists of oral and maxillofacial region and no other specialty deals with it. Sagnikds6 (talk) 14:31, 15 August 2023 (UTC)


 * https://www.omd.pt/content/uploads/2017/12/ced-manual-2015-completo.pdf Sagnikds6 (talk) 14:32, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
 * https://www.adea.org/adeagiesfoundation/william-j-gies-and-gies-report.aspx Sagnikds6 (talk) 14:33, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Refer to Stomatology page of French Wikipedia or Italian Wikipedia Sagnikds6 (talk) 14:34, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Proposed for deletion (WP:PROD): Periowave - (photodynamic therapy machine)
FYI, the article Periowave has been proposed for deletion (WP:PROD). The first sentences summarize the subject this way:


 * "The Periowave is an antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (a-PDT) machine. It is used in periodontics, endodontics, and operative dentistry to kill bacteria or inhibit the growth of bacteria (e.g. Porphyromonas gingivalis). "

The nominator wrote this summary of their concerns:


 * "Non-notable product. No significant independent coverage located on a search."

If you agree or disagree with deletion, there are instructions on the deletion notice for what to do.

Thanks, -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 18:45, 13 September 2023 (UTC)