Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alternative medicine/Archive 1

message: The rules are very simple here.  
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-- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 13:19, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The rules are very simple here.

message: Terms and concepts was not my original idea, but was adapted straight from the Buddhism project. This article will in effect be one huge glossary of CAM terms. We would differ from the Buddhism project by restricting it just to the English language. The beauty of this glossary concept is that CAM developers will now be able to define hundreds of CAM terms in one paragraph without actually creating a new stub article.  And, all the stub articles now in CAM could be physically deleted and moved to Terms and concepts.  
The first thing that I will define in Terms and concepts will be all the terms used in the CAM Classifications section of our project's infobox.  So, when operational the CAM Classifications section would all be hyperlinked to Terms and concepts.  Concepts that can be developed into full blown CAM articles would also be in the Philosophy of series. 
Thus, the CAM development process would be first to define the concept in Terms and concepts with a short paragraph or bulleted list.  Next, a full blown article could be developed privately in the editors sandbox.  Once the official article is created the link would be added to the Philosophy of series simple list article.  And, a link to the actual CAM article would also be added to Terms and concepts definition.  Finally, a link would be also added to the Index of Topics simple list article.  The Index of Topics simple list article might become overwhelming and appear to duplicate other lists, but that is how the Buddhism project has implemented their List of Topics as far as I can figured out.  It contains no text and looks like a book index.  It is functioning as a master index of topics in Buddhism. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 12:08, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject:Alternative_Medicine#Core Project Lists and Articles|Core Project Lists and Articles]] Define the Scope of this Project[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject:Alternative_Medicine#Scope] 

message: I am interested in finding the deletion history for these Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine templates.  Notes  on their respective talk pages indicate TfD noitces were posted Aug - Sept 2004, yet the Deletion Log for Sept has no record of anybody voting on these templates.  What happened?
: -- TfD notice was posted in Sept 2004.
: -- TfD notice was posted in Aug 2004.
:Alternative Medicine (Terms, Philosophy, Branches, People, History, Index)
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:-- John Gohde 08:07, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Project on Alternative Medicine Template Deletion History

message: The Project on Alternative Medicine is active.  Our project's infobox designs have been updated.  The new designs place greater emphasis on :Category:Alternative medicine.  The current phase of our project is to update our infoboxes in their respective articles, as well as :Category: Alternative medicine and :categories. 
In some cases, the original infobox must be restored first before the update can be made.  Do not feel bad about adding back our informative and beautiful infoboxes.  Projects are an accepted part of Wikipedia.
The implementation of :categories, at least in the area of alternative medicine,  is a total mess.  :Category: Alternative medicine is woefully incomplete.  Major articles are missing.  Subcategories of alternative medicine like :Category:Manipulative therapy and TCM have not been added to :category: alternative medicine.  In short,  :categories require a major effort at making them complete in both directions. John Gohde 08:11, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: February 4, 2005 -- The Next Phase of our WikiProject has officially begun.

message: I don't care to get into this debate, but I thought I'd write a note here alongside this other note above.
Template:CamNotice may have been vandalized.  I don't really care about the arguments.. I reverted things.  See Template talk:CamNotice for what I noted.
-- Sy / (talk) 23:36, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Everything appears cool.. the deletion conversation was restored, and the template is hardly used so I'm supporting its removal. -- Sy / (talk) 03:20, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another case of Snowspinner vandalism? 

message: I created a stub template for the alternative medicine topic, , to be used instead of  or .  This is to separate conventional medicine articles from alternative medicine articles.
--CDN99 19:52, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative medicine stub template:   -->   CAM-stub 

message: A related article, Obesity, is currently nominated to be improved on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Please vote for this article there.--Fenice 08:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement drive