Talk:Genital wart

message: Yeah come on here. It is not necessary to show the worst cases in the last stages of the seventh circle of hell.
How about showing those pictures into a section called "Heavily affected instances of genital warts".
As an analogy - Why would you keep a picture of a napalm victim, in an article about light burns.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.62.0.20 (talk) 08:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: there are people complaining to "clean up" a desription of genital warts and their transmission, I'm not sure a picture is going to go down to well —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.109.158.19 (talk) 16:42, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, if you go to the Genital warts page, it seems reasonable that you might expect to see an image of them, eh? -- MarcoTolo 00:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I removed a comment about using 200 grit sandpaper to deter chances of regrowth, nothing was cited for where it came from, and I have never heard of that before. Also it had a bad no http:// link in that portion of the article.
24.51.180.107 20:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  200 grit sandpaper 

message: Having contracted HPV and too embaressed to go to the doc to get it removed, I started reading around on natual home remedies.  Apple Cider Vinegar is commonly used to great effect and is a fraction of the cost of many of the other remedies out there. 
It's quite long, but I found the following forum particularly helpful: 
[external spammy link removed]
:Vinegar is worthless. If you are too embarrassed to see your doctor (and you shouldn't be: he's seen much worse things than warts), call Planned Parenthood or an STD clinic and make an appointment.
:I agree, don't be embarrassed, I contracted HPV about half a year ago and went into the clinic, the nurses removed them for me and after 3 more visits they haven't returned. Personally it would be hard to go into my family doctor but an STD clinic deals with this every day and are not going to be bothered by something they deal with daily.
According to [external spammy link removed], During the application of apple cider vinegar treatment on your genital warts, you might feel slight discomfort, which usually comes in the form of a tingling or burning sensation. This is to be expected, and is nothing to worry about   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comfis (talk • contribs) 08:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apple Cider Vinegar 

message: Are those typical genital warts?  or are they larger than normal warts?  it appears in the picture that there are even warts growing on top of warts.  What does a single genital wart look like?  Could somebody put up a picture of a more mild case?  75.26.189.55 09:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How accurate are those pictures? 

message: Please help me to add the images from Wikimedia Commons to this article. -Pgan002 12:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't. They're so awful. -- H3xx (t/c/b) 03:52, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What kind of response is this? Imagine Reason (talk) 20:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images from Commons 

message: the last comment on the misdiagnosis part may be a reason to disallow editing.
:Generally, they can't be. See WP:RFPP. Imagine Reason (talk) 20:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  block editing 

message: The pictures here show very very worst case scenarios. Most people who get these have much smaller, insignificant warts. Maybe some new pictures are needed?? The cases shown actually look nasty - as in, surgical intervention would be appropriate!! Dvmedis (talk) 13:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea, if we have a source for such images.  Zodon (talk) 07:17, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: "Approximately 70 percent of individuals who have sexual contact with an infected partner develop genital warts."  (Scheinfeld and Lehman, An evidence-based review of medical and surgical treatments of genital warts)
This statement, which is reproduced in the wikipedia article seems dubious - like there is some qualifier missing.  The same article says that HPV prevalence in US population is 10-20%.  If this is a steady state would expect something like 7 to 14% prevalence of genital warts (70% of 10-20%). 
The exact risk of infection from a single sexual encounter is unknown but according to the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology it is in the range of 65%   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.246.234.17 (talk) 03:20, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that this statistic contradicts the subsection of the wikipedia article on HPV:
 86.26.0.25 (talk) 16:51, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  probability of warts from infected partner 

message: On [external spammy link removed] They say not just Pearly Penile Papules are confussed as genital warts but also Skin Tags, Genital Herpes, Sebaceous Glands (Fordyce Spots and Angiokeratomas.
I for one did confuse my Fordyce Spots as Genital Warts. I was glad to hear they were normal and i hadn't been in fected with HPV. The pictures were a great help too! I also know that the HPV virus does stay in your body for life so will always come back eventually. Apparently by using Immune Sytem Suppressants you can prevent them  returning quicker.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.86.90.203 (talk) 21:04, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conditions Confused With Genital Warts 

message: I think I'm not completely stupid, but to me it looks like the following statements are in direct contradiction with one another:
:70% of those who have sexual contact with an infected partner develop genital warts, and while less than 1% of those infected become symptomatic,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.85.68.231 (talk) 19:58, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They do seem to be contradictory, as noted in #probability of warts from infected partner, the 70% figure seems questionable.  Zodon (talk) 05:44, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparent contradiction in percentages? 

message: I had provided additional images of Genital Warts outbreaks from [external spammy link removed] but the links were removed by the editor.  I thought that they would be helpful for anyone looking to see what an outbreak would look like.  Much more comprehensive then any image references on this page now.  I have provided images for other sections of the Wiki without problems, just seems to be on this page, and the herpes pages.
Maybe those looking at the discussions can be helped by them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidandkimbenton (talk • contribs) 14:20, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This site adds little beyond what Wikipedia has already. If you wish to improve wiki I can help find some review articles for you. Cheers. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The request was for more images on Wikipedia. Not for a link. If people wish more images they can do a google image search. Please read WP:ELNO Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:44, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be nice to have a good external link, but that one isn't really very impressive.  In fact it seems like Google's image collection is better for this purpose than the individual sites it links...  it would be very, very nice to find some proper scientific site, with no spamminess to it, with a deep image archive.  But I didn't.  (It would be interesting to see pictures of warts matched by some researcher with their identified subtypes, so you could see if the subtype was somewhat diagnosable by looking at the wart) Wnt (talk) 01:23, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: I just recently found out that i have hpv and i would like to know if it ever goes away and what can be done to keep these levels of hpv below breakout level and or fights off the hpv  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.54.121.187 (talk) 00:13, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The material you suggest adding may be more apropos the article on human papillomavirus.  There is also some coverage of this in Cervical cancer#prevention.  Such things have probably been better studied in relation to cervical cancer, since it is a more serious condition. Zodon (talk) 02:34, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life consistancy of HPV GW 

message: The article currently reads: "It is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner." However I was under the impression that if a hand touched an infected genital area and the touched an unaffected genital area it can spread. I'm not saying it can spread to the hands but that maybe the hands can spread it. In other words a hand job and then masturbation might spread it from person to person or vice versa. Can anyone clarify this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.176.60.84 (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transmission Clarification 

message: According to UPtoDate, a highly respected and current online medical resource, TCA and BCA are the ONLY treatments approved to treat vaginal warts. The WIkipedia articles states the opposite. Please change "Trichloracetic acid is not recommended for use in the vagina, cervix, or urinary meatus" to Trichloracetic acid can be used on the vagina and cervix and during pregnancy." Thank you. J. Breton, MSN, CNM, RN
198.217.64.36 (talk) 22:04, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. UPtoDate may be highly respected and current, but you need to show exactly where you got your source; probably a specific URL. -Nathan Johnson (talk) 15:27, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 6 May 2013 

message: "About 90% of those who contract HPV will not develop genital warts, but the remaining 10% who are infected can still transmit the virus."
Does not seem to make sense.  Could it please be improved. 81.48.40.171 (talk) 17:05, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  A sentence does not seem to make sense.  Could it please be improved. 

message: In any medical article one of the first sections people will go to is signs and symptoms, one of the main reasons WebMD is used.  In a topic that is as important as HPV signs and symptoms the fact that this article is using one source and that source is from an article in a medical journal from almost 6 years ago that most people can't access does not bode well.  If Wikipedia acts like no improvements have been made in medical research on HPV since then and there isn't a higher standard in place for an article as visited as this what does it say for others?
I mean if this is really on the info on this then at least demand a more current source showing that to remove all doubt.  If I visited a Dr and he told me he last brushed up on his material in 2012 I would walk out of his office.
I get talk shouldn't be this combative and more constructive but it's frustrating trying to help someone and leave you as a resource for them and not being able to.   JaqenHghar80 (talk) 01:50, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the age of this source as an issue. How much are you expecting the signs and symptoms of genital warts to have changed in the last 6 years? If the source were used for treatment then you may have a point, but that's not the case here. Coincidentally, most of the information in that section doesn't actually appear to be in the source, so more citations actually are needed. PriceDL (talk) 02:25, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

text: I have partially cited the section. PriceDL (talk) 02:33, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

text: It's not that the symptoms have changed it's that what we know about the symptoms has changed and which ones to apply to that disease.  Medicine advances at a rapid pace and that includes all aspects of epidemiology and pathology.  I mean new studies are being published all the time about what signs and symptoms are attributed to what condition all the time and a lot of the time certain symptoms that we thought were attributed to one condition or were significant can turn out not to be or vice versa.  In fact there was a study done between genital warts and then onset of MS though it was too small and further research is needed.  
My main point from my statement was not so much that the content was wrong so much that there are much better references that are more current and if you are going to have such an important article then why not cover your bases and make sure the research is up to date with current science?  People who are sick are going to look at symptoms before anything else and if that information isn't up to date then it will effect treatment.  There is probably a reason why Wikipedia articles used to be one of the top results when research medical issues and Google has penalized them recently.  Knowing what I know from my SEO background having your sources be so old would be one of the reasons.   
I don't have a problem if the article isn't being updated regularly, like if the last time this article had been touched was 2012 thus explaining it's source then I would understand because this is a big site with only so many editors but that is not the case. JaqenHghar80 (talk) 00:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  SIgns and Symptoms (One of Key Sections)  Only Has One Insufficient Source 

message: Delete duplicate "include" and replace comma with "and" before final item in sentence: "Treatment options include include creams such as podophyllin, imiquimod, trichloroacetic acid." in introduction. 
82.1.122.99 (talk) 00:02, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done –72 (talk) 01:01, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 5 January 2018 

message: Which article should sensitive DNA techniques go? Thanks.  --Somatic dyspenea (talk) 11:50, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Have unlinked. We already have PCR listed. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:35, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Red

message: May I request that someone connect this article to the Italian Condiloma acuminato https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condiloma acuminato which you will notice uses the same photos and translates perfectly as genital wart 
Many thanks AntGreenit (talk) 22:42, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: , this should be done on Wikidata, not Wikipedia. Lemonaka (talk) 06:35, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 January 2023