Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medical Conditions

message: Please bear with me and my English. I would like to take part in this
WikiProject. At least, as much as my time allows.
I have a few quick questions :
* why disorders ? Maybe Diseases and syndromes ? 
* is there a standard or a de facto standard of capitalizing diseases names like Cerebral Palsy or is this only a US convention ?
If my queries have already been answered elsewhere please direct me to this
page.  Kpjas 24-10-2002  21:23:11 CEST
As explained in Cerebral Palsy, it is *not* a disease.  It is also not usually called a syndrome.  The term disorder is a generic enough term that it can refer to all of the health problems.  It was a little arbitrary though.  If there is a more generic term, that would work, but disease is not the term to use.  Cerebral Palsy is a proper noun.  According to naming conventions of Wikipedia it would be "Cerebral palsy" unless it was a proper noun, which it is.  That is the reason for the capitilization.  Maybe someone disagrees?
I did check a thesarus before making the name.  I also didn't want a compound name because it is too long (personal preference I guess).  -- Ram-Man
I have no immediate plans to participate in this particular project, but I would suggest a name change to make it clear that it's talking about medical disorders and not disorders of Wikipedia projects, which is what drew me to it.  Moving it now while the project is still young would be easier than later. Eclecticology 19:31 Oct 24, 2002 (UTC)
What should it be renamed to? Maybe Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Disorders?-- Ram-Man
:That would solve the ambiguity problem that I noted; however, I would still leave the decision to those who want to be involved in the project. Eclecticology
I'm ok with Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Disorders.  Would Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Conditions be too vague? Dachshund
One of the medical references I use refers to them as Conditions, but I didn't use it because I thought that the term was less clear than Disorder.  However adding Medical in front keeps clarity, and conditions is a more accurate word than disorders. -- Ram-Man
:The current name is OK with me. I can't think of a better one now, and it is definitely better than the previous. Kpjas 2002-10-25 
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I noticed that Health science is linked from the Main Page, but the more complete article Medicine is not.  Should these two articles be merged into one?  They both contain very good information, but I don't think the Medicine page is getting enough attention since it is not linked from the Main Page.  -- Ram-Man
:IMO the merge would be a bad thing. "Heath" and "Heath science" are broader terms and they should stay in WP.The other thing is wheather "Medicine" deserves to be on the Main Page. IMO yes. But I might be biased in this respect.Kpjas 2002-10-25
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Hello dear participants of Wikiproject Medical Conditions. Recently I've been creating a lot of stuff on medicine (I'm a doctor myself), effectively ignoring the fact that this Wikiproject existed. Is anyone still involved? What are the plans? I'm getting jealous of the light-blue boxes at the bottom of all sorts of pages, apart from the medical ones (it seems). I'm eager to join. Please see some of my recent work on oncology, thiazolidinedione, infectious disease, nephrology etc. Please write on my Talk page or even over here. JFW 19:14, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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message: Well, I'm trying to gather some support from other doctors to buff up the medical side of Wikipedia. Please see my WikiDoc page for some proposals; do not hesitate to invoke my talk page to share your feelings. When everything is on track, we might more our effort to this Wikiproject page, but not before there's some solid base. JFW 20:15, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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