Talk:Needle remover

message: I am a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the University of Virginia. For my thesis, we are designing a needle-remover that is specially built for developing countries. I felt that I should share my recent expertise on the subject. The sections discussing social and ethical implications, design possibilities, and commercial models should be expanded as newer models, patents, and research come out. 199.111.203.79 22:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The person who submitted the page is aware of WP:OR; the material submitted is background information. Please be aware that the needle-stick problem is a major health issue in less developed countries; there are several commercial units available, as this article explains. I think this proves that the article is not original research.Bryan 22:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expertise

message: I think the template was placed on the page because of concern that the article violated WP:OR, but I think it is quite evident from the article that this is not true, so I removed it.Bryan 22:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. This article may need some wikifying, but it's pretty obvious that it is not OR.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation of removal of verification template

message: Per discussion above, actually the content of the article is pretty good, but since the sources are not annotated properly within the article, perhaps it gives the impression that the quality of the article is low (?). I am not sure where the original source material came from, but I worked for Philips in a previous life, so I think it is pretty good already, but I can take a stab at improving it and "wikifying" it a bit. Not sure about the section called "Possible designs" though, is that really acceptable? I mean, I look at the articles for MRI and CT machines, diabetes devices, blood pressure monitors, etc. and I don't recall any other products having such a section.  MarcoPolo419 (talk) 03:31, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  About wikifying this article 

message: I've never heard one of these called a "needle remover", always "sharps container."  When I saw the article title I initially thought it would be a device for removing (rather than containing) needles e.g. by extracting them from some body site; it's also an odd term since these are used for many sharp objects other than needles, e.g. vascular catheters, stylets, scalpels, etc.  This seems likely to be a regionalism, as the US-based FDA and CDC use "sharps container", whereas PATH uses "needle remover". Should these be merged? Which is the more common usage? — soupvector (talk) 01:59, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The device described here seems to cut the needle from syringe (as described here); you just throw the whole syringe+needle into a sharps container, no?   But even so, these could and should be merged i think. Jytdog (talk) 07:43, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Support Merge to Sharps container - there is at best a paragraph of well-referenced information here, which would fit well into the larger Sharps container article.Dialectric (talk) 18:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Sharps container]]? 

message: This article was redirected to “Sharps container” which itself is a redirect to “Sharps waste” which contains a link to this article. Reverting to avoid circular redirect nonsense. If you don’t like it, please fix the article or merge it instead of redirecting it.  EthanL (talk) 08:08, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I note that User:Natureium redirect the article back in 2017 with the edit comment , having formally proposed a merge 3 months prior to that. There were no objections to the merge, and I can well understand that the content was thought to not be relevant to the topic of Needle remover, but rather was relevant to Sharps container or Sharps waste. Perhaps the argument was that those pages were sufficient in their present form, but given that Sharps waste#Sharps containers is unreferenced, my view is that there is sufficient material that could be added through a merge.  Given that we can't merge to a redirect, I've modified the template to make an alternative proposal. Klbrain (talk) 13:22, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Withdrawing proposal: seems like there is enough for an article here; just in need of updating. Klbrain (talk) 10:52, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted redirect to [[Sharps container]]