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Those hairy Latins

Good call. Latin has many words for hair, it seems. It all rather depends what type of hair it is.

Badly laid out, from Google Translate:

caesaries hair, curls, locks, long hair, hair of the beard

capillus - hair, beard, wool, hair of the beard

crinis = hair, long hair, tentacle, tail

capillatura - hair, false hair

coma - hair, coma, lock, plume, mane, aigrette

pilus - hair, trifle

saeta - thick, hair, bristle, coarse, brush

seta - thick, hair, bristle, coarse, brush

villus - hair, shaggy hair, nap of clothes

umbra - ghost, shade, shadow, dark, darkness, hair

plantaria - sets, slips, hair, cuttings

capillatio - hair

From this list I have no idea which one to choose Fiddle Faddle (talk) 13:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Infobox location

Hi, thanks for tweaking anatomy articles. However, I noticed that your are systematically placing infoboxes above dablinks and maintenance tags. WP:LEAD recommends the opposite. Is there a good reason for changing this in anatomy articles? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

OK. I thought those edits had something to do with the information on your user page: "users of Nomina Anatomica have easy access to information on wikipedia". I'm not going to revert you, but someone will sooner or later because most editors conform to the WP:MoS guidelines. Happy editing! --Fama Clamosa (talk) 14:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for posting at WP:MED2013GA. Great choice. Let me know if you need any assistance! Best. Biosthmors (talk) 00:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem! I'll try to rephrase that a bit. =) Thanks for your work on anatomy articles. Do you want to bring any of those up to GA status? If so, feel free to list there still. Do you have any particular targets? No worries about feeling "unqualified". I brought DVT up to GA without a M.D. (I'm pre-med also). Thankfully, some M.D.s have given me feedback (see Wikipedia:Peer_review/Deep_vein_thrombosis/archive3). I'd like to get it to become a featured article relatively soon. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 00:21, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I'll try to push it on someone! What if I tried to push human anatomy on you?! ;-) I could help out with that one. I should read up on that subject for myself anyways. Interested? Biosthmors (talk) 00:38, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

It seems like the whole Approaches section should be mostly meaningful prose instead of being a list in line with WP:PROSE and WP:SS. So section(s)/paragraph(s) should exist to summarize the human nervous system, etc. That's the biggest opportunity I see for improvement. Human body gets a lot of views too. I'm not sure why separate articles are really needed at this point, but whatever. Biosthmors (talk) 04:21, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Translation request

Hi Jakob, is it possible for you to translate this page to Danish? ●Mehran Debate● 12:46, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Sure. I will post a first draft below later along with a question or two. Before I start, you use the term reader, is it okay if I translate this to browser (That is the term used in Danish as well)?
But when I am done you might want to throw it by another native Danish speaker since some of the terms like Portable Pre-indexed ZIM is hard to make a proper translation of without making it sound like a machine translation. --JakobSteenberg (talk) 12:55, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much buddy. This is excellent and adequate for me. So quick and nice job :) ●Mehran Debate● 15:07, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I submitted your translation here. There is an article named Kiwix and it doesn't have a Danish version. It would be good if you can create this article in your Wikipedia too, you can do that in your free time and there is no rush! Thanks again and best wishes ●Mehran Debate● 05:23, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Tibia

I was going through tibia and I noticed a fair amount of overlinking so I recommend trying the script at Wikipedia:Highlight duplicate links to spot these! I ordered some textbooks but it will be a while before they arrive. Not so much in time for February! Do you have an idea for what kind of anatomy article you might want to work on in March? I'd like for it to be something that lists at the WP:5000 consistently from being so popular. Best. Biosthmors (talk) 01:32, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I will look into it. Hmm... I was planning on doing more work on the leg and since arteries and veins have been suggested on Anatomy project then starting on femoral artery and working my way down through out march. I have not found anything on the top5000 that really cought my interest, but I only got to 3000-and-something... any suggestions since you ask? --JakobSteenberg (talk) 10:01, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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Fascial spaces of the head and neck

Hi again. Work is ongoing on these articles. So far we have these which I have either created or reworked:

Wouldn't mind you taking a look at one of the pages I have reworked or created and pointing out any style errors, as I usually don't make anatomy articles. Thanks. There are also several more that need to be created or reworked I feel... will get around to these in the coming days:

Lesion (talk) 13:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for feedback. I have altered the current headings of these facial space spaces to reflect the MEDMOS, but I don't have content to fill some of the others, other animals etc.
A category I think would be good. Re a template, option is either to stick these new pages onto a template that already exists (maybe Template:Mouth anatomy or Template:Digestive tract- which already has a few pharyngeal fascial spaces listed) or create a new one. Not sure of best way to proceed with regards templates. There is no rush, it will take me a while to rework all the articles of this topic anyway. Lesion (talk) 10:55, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if fascial spaces have a ==function==, it is just connective tissue filling a space. Maybe you could say that fascia is to lubricate muscles so they can move a bit within the surrounding tissues...but I'm not sure the fascial spaces have a purpose. Lesion (talk) 12:54, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for creating that category. I have added 2 more pages to it, canine space and infratemporal space. I have thought more about what template(s) are best. Some of these spaces are not immediately adjacent to the mouth (and therefore also the digestive tract). Perhaps this would make the inclusion of some of them (e.g. superficial temporal space) on the templates for mouth anatomy and for digestive system anatomy inappropriate? I think a new template would be good. I might be able to copy an existing template with minimal changes. Thanks gain for your help and advice. Lesion (talk) 18:19, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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Eng. WP s.v. Ulna

Hello JakobSteenberg,

There is no etymology section s.v. Ulna. I think it is relevant for the reader to know that Latin ulna means both “elbow” and “forearm” – and so does Classical Greek ὠλένη. In fact, the primary meaning is “elbow”, cf. the root *elei-, “to bow”.

In Danish you can’t possibly use albue if you intend to say underarm – at least not today. The same obtains for English. In French it is a bit mixed-up, and French WP doesn’t really clear up things, see French WP s.v. Ulna, a word which has taken over “a part of” Latin ulna, so to say, i.e. the bigger bone of the forearm. The headword Ulna should therefore be changed to Cubitus. Even Modern Greek, when resuscitating the term ὠλένη (which is a purely medical term today), they adopted the semantic content from French.

I happen to be a classical scholar – at least I was until I proceeded in other directions – I bowed my arm, if you like. :- )

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Redirects

Dear Jakob,

I will create redirects later this day regarding the nomenclatorial changes I have made in some articles (editing with an iPad is not that easy at all). By the way, I try to make multiple redirects as you have seen, that take into account multiple versions and guidelines of the Nomina Anatomica, Nomina Histologica, Nomina Embryologica, and the Terminologia Anatomica and Terminologia Histologica. And the orthography changes all the time, e.g. anulus->annulus->anulus, oesophagus->esophagus->oesophagus,aquaeductus->aqueductus->aquaeductus(in TH or Terminologia Embryologica). And of course the textbooks and atlases that use corrected forms, e.g. glandula parotis. By the way, by categorizing these redirects, they are beautifully alphabetically ordered on the category:stub-class page. Thanks for the good work, with kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 08:53, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Dear Jakob, I have made a start with the redirects. Tomorrow more redirects. With kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 21:06, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
I have to do a lot more redirects. By the way, thank you for the redirect of discus proliger. You can find that form on google books. In Latin there are a few endings that loses the -us for the masculine form of the adjective, e.g. -fer, -ger. With kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 20:53, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Jakob,

I ask for some advice regarding a potential COI with a user who has been making many edits to head and neck anatomy pages, but from the same source. Please see User_talk:PeggyDoll#Fehrenbach. Thanks, Lesion (talk) 11:15, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. I will try to follow your good advice in future, always to remember that what seems like a problem editor initially may turn into a good editor ... assume good faith as always I suppose. Anyway, the user in question is now not using the same source, but using a variety of sources. I have not reverted any edit they have done, they all appear to be constructive, apart from small things which appear to be accidental such as removing infoboxes... possibly due to visual editor bugs, who knows. By the way, congratulations on the semester abroad, sounds great. Lesion (talk) 02:37, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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Quarterly focus - GA nominations

I would like to take some time on this first quarterly to evaluate the state of the project. We have the benefit of having a relatively-small group of articles that are, for the most part, relatively non-controversial. Additionally, for the majority of our articles, it may indeed be possible to create an article that reflects a significant proportion of the published literature. This is quite distinct from other projects.

However, it appears we only have 5 GAs (Anatomy, Brain, Clitoris, Human tooth, and Leonardo da Vinci) and 4 FAs (Immune system, Hippocampus, Cerebellum, and Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom), none of which relate to purely anatomical items, which constitute most of our mass. By 'anatomical items' I mean muscles, nerves, bones, blood vessels, veins, foramina, and so on, that constitute the vast majority of our articles. In fact, we only have one 'system' (Immune system) at FA class, and none at GA class. We indeed only have 70 articles out over 4,000 at B-class. This scarcity is, I believe, for the following reasons: (1) lack of model articles (2) lack of appropriate guidelines, and (3) general sparsity of sourcing on many articles. How may these be addressed?

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Thanks for the bling. It it always nice when people notice and appreciate what you do. Thanks. Kind regards JakobSteenberg (talk) 09:14, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

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  • By topic. Wikipedia's anatomical categories may provide impetus, as may editing a suite of related-articles, using a parent article such as ear for direction. A collection of series are slowly being rolled-out, including one for epithelia and for articles about the gastrointestinal wall, which also act as groups of topics. Templates, as documented on our main page, provide a similar categorisation.
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Hi Jakob, I forgot to create new redirects after altering the Latin terms in the infobox. Currently I have listed in the etymology part of sternum, xiphoid process, thyroid cartilage and thyroid numerous Latin and English synonyms. How many Latin (and Englis) terms do we have to include in the anatomy infobox? Thank you for your response, with kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 22:37, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

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Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation


Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?


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CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

  • Swedish
    Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
    Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
  • Dutch
    Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
  • Polish
    Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
    (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
  • Arabic
    The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [4]

News in short


To come
  • Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
  • Proofreading drives

Further reading



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Feature – Ebola articles

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:
New roles and guides!

At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!

New sign up page!

We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!

Style guides for translations

Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.

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WP:Anatomy quarterly update (#3)

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Released: 1 November, 2014
Editor: Tom (LT)

Hello WP:Anatomy participant! This is the third quarterly update, documenting what's going on in WikiProkect Anatomy, news, current projects and other items of interest. I'd greatly value feedback on this, and if you think I've missed something, or don't wish to receive this again, please leave a note on my talkpage or remove your name from the mailing list

What's new
What's going on
  • We fly past 10,000 articles (now already up to 10,150). Why is this important? Articles under our scope are automatically included in popular pages, the cleanup list, and will be included as the recent changes list is updated.
  • A discussion about the formatting of infoboxes.
  • A lot of editing on the heart article -- can it make it to GA?
  • The medical newsletter, WP:PULSE finds its feet, and Anatomy and Physiology are featured as a subsection!
  • A new WP:WikiProject Animal anatomy (WP:ANAN) is created to focus on animal anatomy.
How can I contribute?
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  • Continue to add high-class reliable sources
  • Browse images on WikiCommons to improve the quality of images we use on many articles.
Quarterly focus - Anatomical terminology

Anatomical terminology is an essential component to all our articles. It is necessary to describe structures accurately and without ambiguity. It can also be extremely confusing and, let's face it, it's likely you too were confused too before you knew what was going on ("It's all Greek to me!" you may have said, fairly accurately).

In the opinion of this editor, it's very important that we try hard to describe anatomy in a way that is both technically accurate and accessible. The majority of our readers are lay readers and will not be fluent in terminology. Anatomy is a thoroughly interesting discipline, but it shouldn't be 'locked away' only to those who are fluent in the lingo – exploring anatomy should not be limited by education, technical-level English fluency, or unfamiliarity with its jargon. Anatomical terminology is one barrier to anatomical literacy.

Here are four ways that we can help improve the readability of our anatomical articles.

  1. Substitute. Use words readers are familiar with -- there is no need to use anatomical terminology unless necessary!
    Innervated by
    The nerve that supplies X is...
  2. Explain. When using terminology, remember readers will likely not understand what you mean, so consider adding an explanation and providing context. Use wikilinks for terms that a reader may not know.
    "The triceps extends the arm" may not be readily understood. A small addition may help the reader:
    "The triceps extends the arm, straightening it". Consider:
  3. Separate. Do not use long, complicated sentences. Don't write discursive, long comparisons unless needed. Start with simple information first, then get progressively more complex. Separate information by paragraph and subsection. Bite-sized information is much more easier to digest for readers who don't have a solid anatomical foundation
  4. Eliminate. Not all information is necessary on every article. Hatnotes are a simple and effective way to direct readers to another article. Don't provide long lists of synonyms of names for structures that an article isn't about. If a sentence has been paraphrased to the hilt, consider that several editors are indicating it may need to be simplified.
    "The other branches of the trigeminal nerve are the opthalmic nerve (nervus opthalmicus) and mandibular nerve (nervus mandibularis)"
    "The other branches of the trigeminal nerve are the opthalmic nerve and mandibular nerve" is much more easily digestible

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Jakob

Your kind response and suggestions were really helpful. I really thought editing would be simple, but the wikipedia syntax is very convoluted and not intutitive. But I have gotten through most of the Help pages and have a pretty good idea now of at least how to do basic editing. Many of the references cited in the articles are really not the best. So I hope to improve that among other tasks. And someone posted a long list of anatomy articles that need editing so I am working on the first, common flexor tendon. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anatomyczar (talkcontribs) 11:55, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

references

Jakob:

I have just edited the page for "common flexor tendon." I am confused about references. I added a reference but it is coming up as a window rather than within a reference section. Is this correct. Also how does the text seem? And I should have an image that actually shows the common flexor tendon. I am working on that. Also, now that there is a reference how do I eliminate the icon that says the article needs a reference. Thanks. Joel Anatomyczar (talk) 14:38, 25 March 2015 (UTC)Anatomyczar

got it

Jakob:

I see now what was needed to make the reference section work. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anatomyczar (talkcontribs) 16:22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

singular/plural

Jakob: I of course will change the singular/plural material but I am not sure I really understand what you are doing. Please give me a page where you have made the changes so I can see what you have done. And I certainly did notice that you did some additional work on the common flexor tendon page. I am still working on a better image for that page. Also will work on the infobox. thanks. Anatomyczar (talk) 21:44, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Jakob:

I understand now in concept what you are doing. It will take me a bit of time to put it into practice. And thanks for saying that editing Wikipedia is not easy. I am fairly computer literate and I found editing very confusing. Fortunately, I had some exposure to HTML years ago so at least I have some idea of what is going on. But for someone with no prior exposure, editing would be very confusing. So I have plenty to do in my retirement.

I just got a great image for common flexor tendon.  I will label it and figure out how to insert it and remove the old Gray's anatomy image.  

JoelAnatomyczar (talk) 11:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

more quesitons

Jakob: Firstly, that infobox seems more for muscles than for this tendon. See if you agree. More importantly, I have a new and much better image to insert but I don't see where the code is for the images on the current page. I want to delete the gray's image and put in mine. Also I took a look at the upper limb template at the bottom of the page. It is really confusing and has errors and terms that are not used. Should I fix it and if so how? Where do I find it? I now see how working on these pages is infinite. Thanks. JoelAnatomyczar (talk) 20:15, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Jakob:

I do understand about loading images and copyright. Let me play with getting the mages onto the page and then I may have some more questions! Thanks. JoelAnatomyczar (talk) 15:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

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Jakob:

I put a new image on the common flexor tendon page. I think I am done with this one for now and will likely do common extensor tendon next and then move on to some more complicated pages.Anatomyczar (talk) 13:25, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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JakobSteenberg, I am sorry to have offended you. My intentions are not to spam nor to adversely affect "listing at Google." My intention is to add references to a resource with no banner ads or space filled with supplement/steroid/Viagra promotions. From my perspective, these Wikipedia articles, especially the articles on specific exercises lack at times good quality before/after photos and detailed videos that may assist someone exploring these exercises. With that being said, I will not add these references in the future to the muscle group pages. I can see that some individuals may find it helpful and some may not based on the parent guidelines of these articles. Does Wikipedia provide any guidelines for this purpose?

While I am sure you deal with many spammers, I would ask you to please provide others that you talk to for the first time with a little more professional than you afforded me. I personally felt very threatened by your email, and I do not think that your salutation of "kinds regards" is appropriate for a letter with such a tone. In the article you provided me the guidelines for the first email read as follows:

"Hello, I'm UserName. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you.

As I said, please respond and let's have an open discussion. If you still believe that the external links are inappropriate for the muscle groups please let me know, and I will take them down. No need for you to spend your time taking them down. Also, if you need someone else to weigh in on this issue, please reach out to an appropriate Wikipedia editor. I'm not familiar enough with the community.

Best, Kevin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinpmcgowan (talkcontribs) 00:08, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I appreciate your tone this time. I agree, based on the guidelines of the WikiAnatomy project, the links in the anatomy are not appropriate.

However, I am quite discouraged by this process. During our conversation User:CFCF removed every single link that I contributed. Again, I would have been perfectly willing to remove these myself. My problem with the exercise contributions is external links to t-nation and other sites (supplement/pseudosteroid sites still exist) but all links to site with no ads/supplements/steroids is removed. The editor process is important. An editor should be able to remove spam, but again contact that individual and ask whether that person really cares about the topic or is trying to make a big buck. Right now, it just looks like CFCF is trying to be a vigilante by removing all links without any discussion while leaving much more questionable links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinpmcgowan (talkcontribs) 13:28, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Rest assured I will not add any more external links nor will I interfere with any of your efforts. My intent was never to interfere with this community. I appreciate the quality discussion that this has turned into. After reading through the long-list of rules, I do believe you were justified in asking for these links to be removed. With that being said, I am discouraged that the enforcers of these rules at times fail to follow their own prescribed rules during enforcement. I am also discouraged that the rules were selectively enforced on me but not similar links. The same moderation should be taken with all links on these pages. After all, I used these initial links as proxy for what was or was not appropriate for these exercise articles. With that I sign off wikipedia. Good luck with your studies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.37.112.40 (talk) 23:11, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

gluteal muscles

Jakob, thanks for the support. I have to do a little more on common extensor tendon and then will work on gluteal muscles. You are correct. The article needs work and should be fun to do. JoelAnatomyczar (talk) 11:17, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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gluteal muscles

Jakob: I spent time on the gluteal muscles article today (just reading it). It is basically wrong and pretty useless. Much of the discussion pertains to the gluteus region and not the gluteal muscles. The fat layer that is referred to, panicles adiposa, is not found in humans. Honestly, I am not sure why an article on gluteal muscles would need anymore than a single sentence stating the three gluteal muscles with redirects to them. Not sure how to proceed here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anatomyczar (talkcontribs) 13:31, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

gluteal region

Jakob: I really appreciate your comments. I will work on the page. Currently working on the extensor compartments of wrist page. This one is very straightforward but needed some minor corrections, editing and some images.Anatomyczar (talk) 12:52, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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I have been asked to write an editorial on Anatomy and Wikipedia for the journal Clinical Anatomy. I am almost done with it but because I am so new at this I could really use an experienced Wiki editor to check it. Would you be willing to do that. If so, please email me directly at vilensk@ipfw.edu. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anatomyczar (talkcontribs) 14:13, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

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Hello WikiProject Anatomy participant! This is the fourth update, documenting what's going on in WikiProject Anatomy, news, current projects and other items of interest. We've had a quiet time over the last half-year or so, so I've slowed down the release of this newsletter and will probably release the next one around the end of the year. If you'd like to provide some feedback, if you think I've missed something, or don't wish to receive this again, please leave a note on my talkpage or remove your name from the mailing list

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The vermiform appendix, seen in the bottom left and the cause of much anguish when inflammed, stirs up an interesting discussion.
  • Should Vermiform appendix be retitled to its more common name (Appendix)? The discussion continues!
  • A large number of "back end" changes are made, and integration with Wikidata continues -- see the focus for more.
  • Our set of cranial nerve-related articles receive a review by a subject expert
How can I contribute?
Our articles on the 13 12 cranial nerves receive a review from a subject expert
Issue focus - technical changes

This issue was originally going to focus on how far we've come as a project. However, that encouraging news can wait until next issue, as there are simply too many changes going on at the "back end" of our project not to write about. What do I mean by "back end"? I mean changes that are not necessarily visible to readers, but may have a significant impact on the way we edit or on future edits.

Templates

A number of visible changes have been made to our templates. Firstly, the way our templates have been linked together has changed. Previously, this was a small bar with single-letter links. This has been replaced by a light-coloured box contained within all our templates with fully-worded links, which provides links to relevant anatomy and medical templates. This should make life a lot easier, particularly for students and other readers who are struggling with the vastness of anatomical systems and their related diseases and treatments.

As part of this, almost all our templates have been reviewed and cleaned up. The previously confusing colour scheme has been removed and colour standardised. The titles have been simplified. References to "identifiers" in the titles of navigation boxes (such as Gray's Anatomy and Terminologia Anatomica numbers) have been removed. Where possible, the wiki-code of templates has been updated to give a cleaner, more standardised, format that is hopefully more friendly to new editors. The cleanup continues , please feel free to contribute or propose templates which need attention.

Anatomy infobox

Most of our articles have an infobox. Previously, there were 11 separate infoboxes for different fields, such as muscles, nerves and embryology. These have been united so that at the "back end", every template will take formatting directly from the main anatomy infobox -- however at the "front end", there is little difference for readers. This will make future changes much easier -- including adding new fields, formatting, and reordering the contents. Several changes have already been made: infoboxes now link to a relevant anatomical terminology article; contents are now divided into 'Identifiers' and 'Details' headings, making it easier to grasp content for new readers; and new fields have been added, including Greek and UBERON, with several more under discussion.

External links

An editor has reviewed all our template-based external links. These are the links that often fill the "External links" category, and sometimes used as citations. At least thirty different links sets, with the number of links stretching into the thousands, have been fixed, and if not functioning, deleted. A number of non-functioning dead links (with no archived websites available), and one or two others, have been deleted. This helps keep our 'external links' section relevant and functioning for those readers who want extra information about articles.

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Perhaps our most important change has been integration with Wikidata. This is because of both its current uses and potential future uses. Wikidata is a service related to Wikipedia focusing on storing information. Data relating to a Wikipedia item (such as a muscle or bone, or even a template) can have related "structured" infomation stored systematically alongside it. For example, a muscle can have information about its embryological origin, nerve supply, and the relevant sections of Terminologica Anatomica (TA) stored alongside it. Much information that was stored within articles on infoboxes is now stored on Wikidata, including the TA, TH, and TE fields. An immediate benefit is that Wikipedias in every language will (as they update their own infoboxes, be able to automatically include this information. New data can be entered in a much easier format, and data can be batch entered by bots making future updates much easier Future uses include data visualisation. I personally am looking forward to the day when a reader can view a wikidata-based "tree", clicking mesoderm and seeing all of the derived structures, then selecting the intermediate mesoderm, then Pronephric duct, mesonephric duct and vas deferens. The possibilities of using Wikidata for data visualisation are really quite encouraging!

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Just to ask why you did delete my part in the Article in: Foreign body In Veterinary medicine often Endoscopy method is not the prefered one for foreign body. So the small hartmann is produced up to 1 m to extract foreign bodies. You do it under radiology control. Maybee you decide to refert back or like to give me arguments. regards--Arztde (talk) 03:26, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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hello dear I want to talk with you about this edit I edit one link for helping users for searching about appendix so I edit this link appendix this link for users helping for appendix issue so can you tell me why you delete this edit link? thank you... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zubi12 (talkcontribs) 19:45, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hello WP:Anatomy participant! This is our fifth newsletter, documenting what's going on in WikiProject Anatomy, news, current projects and other items of interest. There hasn't been too much worthy of news, and I have less time to dedicate to this project, so I've slowed down the release of this newsletter.

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  • Participate in discussions - a number of discussions such as those on our talk page or about our infobox would benefit from your opinion!
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  • Collaborate and discuss with other editors - many hands make light work!
Focus - how far we've come

How far have we come since our first newsletter... the answer is quite a lot! Here goes:

  • Hundreds to thousands of articles improved and standardised by many, many editors.
  • 14 new good articles created or added to our project [7]
  • Improved quality of our articles - subjectively and objectively. GAs quadrupled from 5 to 16, B-class articles doubles from 62 to 115, C-class article well on the way to trebling from 219 to 611, Start-class increased from 1,082 to 1,570.
  • Tens to hundreds of mergers performed between tiny, unedited articles - a remnant of our Gray's Anatomy (1918) heritage.
  • Layout guidelines changed and layout standardised for the majority of our articles
  • In the project space:
  • Active integration with wikidata in our infoboxes
  • Overhaul of all of our navboxes
  • Review and integration of all of our templates
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  • To help improve anatomical literacy:

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Firstly, thank you for rating so many of our anatomy articles. This is really helpful! (I alone use this ever 1-2 days)...

I have been having a look at our categorisation by field (specifically Category:Anatomy articles about systems) and have realised that most of the entries are redirects. I think the most useful way we can use our interproject field is to only list articles. The idea being that a WikiProject anatomy editor who is interested in, say, microanatomy can pull up straight away a list of relevant articles they can edit. I find (could just be me) that having lots of redirects is fairly messy and takes up some time when one is trying to work out which are the editable articles. What do you think about this idea? (as in - fields just for articles)? --Tom (LT) (talk) 22:59, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hello WikiProject Anatomy participant! This is our sixth newsletter, documenting what's going on in WikiProject Anatomy, news, current projects and other items of interest.

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What's new

new good articles since last newsletter include Thyroid, Hypoglossal nerve, Axillary arch, Human brain, Cerebrospinal fluid, Accessory nerve, Gallbladder, and Interventricular foramina (neuroanatomy)
I write an Introduction to Anatomy on Wikipedia in the Journal of Anatomy [8]
Vagina receives a lot of attention on its way to good article status.
We reach two projects goals of 20 good articles, and less than half of our articles as stubs, in July 2017. [9]
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Introduction to WikiProject Anatomy and Anatomy on Wikipedia

We welcome all those interested in anatomy!
We welcome all those interested in anatomy!

Seeing as we have so many new members, and a constant stream of new editors to our articles, I would like to write in this issue about how our project and articles are arranged.

The main page for WikiProject Anatomy is here. We are a WikiProject, which is a group of editors interested in editing and maintaining anatomy articles. Our editors come from all sorts of disciplines, from academically trained anatomists, students, and lay readers, to experienced Wikipedia editors. Based on previous discussions, members of our project have chosen to focus mainly on human anatomy ([10]), with a separate project for animal anatomy (WP:ANAN). A WikiProject has no specific rights or abilities on Wikipedia, however it does allow a central venue for discussion on different issues where interested editors can be asked to contribute, collaborate, and perhaps reach a consensus.

Project and article structure

Wikipedia has about 5,500,000 articles. Of these, about 20,000 fall under our project, about 5,000 of which are text-containing articles. Articles are manually assigned by editors as relating to our project (many using the rater tool). As well as articles, other Wikipedia pages in our project include, lists, disambiguation pages, and redirects. Our articles are improving over time, and you can have a look at our goals and progress, or last newsletter, to get a better idea about this.

Our articles are structured according to the manual of style, specifically here. The manual of style is a guideline, which "is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply", and prescribes the layout of anatomy articles, most of which follow it.

Our articles are organised in a particular way. Most articles have a infobox in its lead, describing key characteristics about the article. Because we have so many articles, articles are often linked together in different ways. An article tends to focus on the primary topic it is written about. Further information can be linked like this, or piped (like this). We use navboxes, which are the boxes at the bottom of articles providing links to similar topics, as well as hatnotes. Typical hatnotes in articles include {{main}}, {{see also}} and {{further}}. This lets us link to relevant and related articles. The bottom of articles also shows categories, which store groups of related articles.

Tools

For interested editors, our project offers a number of additional tools to help edit our articles. On our main page appears a log of the most edited recent articles. An automatic list of recent changes to all our articles is here. We have a list of the most popular pages (WP:ANAT500). To keep abreast of news and discussions, it is best to monitor our talk page, newsletters, and our article alerts, which automatically lists deletion, good article, featured article, and move proposals. We also have a open tasks page for editors to create lists of tasks that other editors can collaborate with. Articles are also manually assigned to a "discipline", so interested editors in for example, gross anatomy, histology, or embryology can easily locate articles via here.

Our project has all sorts of smaller items that editors may or may not know about, including a barnstar, user box ({{User WPAnatomy}}), welcoming template ({{WPANATOMY welcome}}) and fairly comprehensive listing of templates (here).

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The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For your creation of plural redirects for anatomical structures. I didn't realise how useful that would be, but I feel like I'm using them every other edit. Thank you for your brilliant idea! Tom (LT) (talk) 04:40, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hello WikiProject Anatomy participant! This is our seventh newsletter, documenting what's going on in WikiProject Anatomy, news, current projects and other items of interest.

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What's new

Our new barnstar
new good articles since last newsletter include Epiglottis, Human nose, Pancreas, Prostate, Thymus, Trachea, T tubule, Ureter and Vagina, with Anatomical terms of location also awaiting review
A made-up eponymous term is used in our article that eventually makes it in to university anatomy teaching slides and a journal article
We reach a project goal of 150 B-class articles in July 2020, increasing by about 50% over five years, and are one good article away from our goal of 40 GAs, doubling over the last five years
In the real world, Terminologia Anatomica 2 and Terminologia Embryologica 2 are released ([11], [12]). Terminologia Anatomica 2 is now included in anatomy article infoboxes, and there is ongoing discussion about updating TE as well
A beautiful new barnstar is released ({{subst:The Anatomist Barnstar}})
Portal:Anatomy receives some attention, and two related portals are deleted (vale Human body and Cranial nerve portals)
Some things left out from past newsletters - A large amount of redirects are created to help link plural structures, and Cerebellum ([13]) and Hippocampus ([14]) are published in Wikiversity.

Newsletter topic: anatomy and featured articles

I have been asked to write up something introducing the Featured article (FA) process to anatomy editors, but I took a more general approach to explaining why one might want to contribute featured content and the benefits to the editor and to Wikipedia. I also tried to address some misconceptions about the FA process, and give you a guide that is somewhat specific to health content should you decide to take the dive.

A vital purpose of Featured articles is to serve as examples for new and aspiring Wikipedia editors. FAs are often uniquely comprehensive for the Internet. They showcase some of our best articles, and can enhance Wikipedia's reputation if they are maintained to standard—but in an "anyone can edit" environment, they can easily fall out of standard if not maintained. Benefits to the writer include developing collaborative partnerships and learning new skills, while improving your writing and seeing it exposed to a broader audience—all that Wikipedia is about!

Looking more specifically at WP Anatomy's featured content, the Featured media is impressive and seems to be an Anatomy Project strength. The Anatomy WikiProject has tagged 4 FAs, 1 Featured list, and 30 Featured media. Working towards upgrading and maintaining older Featured articles could be a worthwhile goal. Immune system is a 2007 FA promotion, and bringing it up to date would make a nice collaboration between WikiProject Medicine and the Anatomy WikiProject. Hippocampus is another dated promotion that is almost 50% larger than when promoted, having taken on a bit of uncited text and new text that might benefit from a tune-up.

Whether tuning up an older FA at Featured article review, or attempting a new one to be reviewed at Featured article candidates, taking the plunge can be rewarding, and I hope the advice in my essay is helpful.

You can read the essay "Achieving excellence through featured content" here.

SandyGeorgia has been a regular FA reviewer at FAC and FAR since 2006, and has participated in thousands of nominations

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