Talk:Melena

message: I'm not going to correct the article because I don't know enough about the subject. However there are a couple of dodgy spots. In the first paragraph the rule of thumb stating melaena can only occur if the bleed is below a certain point seems to be contradicted by the earlier suggestion that melaena can be caused by a slow bleed from a lower source. I think at the least the contradiction needs to be acknowledged; at best, resolved.
I think the last bit of the second paragraph (about diagnostic tests) needs to be clarified too. To me it looks like a non sequitur with a sentence that doesn't make sense and a spelling mistake. I might be mising something though. Melaena (talk) 01:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know much about the subject either. I only started watching this article because of vandalism. I've removed the last sentence of the diagnosis section. It was added in this edit in October 2007 by Nateydd, whose only other undeleted edits relate to the article he created, Stephen J. Prescott II. That article is about a barely notable person, and is not well-written either; therefore, I have proposed it for deletion. Graham87 04:39, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Yes, I agree with the above, the article is very confused in its thinking, and confuses may different types of blood in stool, bordering on dangerous if someone took medical advice from it. I'll try and fix some of it the best I can be bothered to.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.61.244 (talk) 20:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your edit to the article. I'm sorry for initially undoing it. It's just that somebody had vandalized the article 23 minutes after your edit, which caused me to not notice your talk page message until now, and I was a bit suspicious about the timing. As I've said above, I don't know anything about this subject; the article is only on my watchlist to guard against vandalism. You may be interested in the manual of style for medicine-related articles and the guidelines for medical sources on Wikipedia. Graham87 11:50, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems

message: Why is the medical precaution banner not set? It seems to me there must be a good reason not to have set it, but otherwise, this is my vote to place the banner. 82.197.211.178 (talk) 09:18, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Which banner are you talking about? Graham87 13:51, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Precaution banner

message: I have an additional source for some of the statements. I'd add it, but I have limited time to kill while waiting for an experiment to finish up, so I don't really have the time to figure out citations on Wikipedia. If somebody would be kind enough to add it, I'd appreciate it.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th edition (edited by Longo, Fauci, Kasper, Hauser, Jameson and Loscalzo), has support for the following statements:
-Under Causes, first paragraph, "Other medical causes... etc etc" is supported on pages 320 and 321 of Chapter 41 "Gastrointestinal Bleeding" by Loren Laine.
-The statement on 14 hours for melena is supported on page 322, same chapter.
If anyone has a copy and is interested in improving the article, it's a decent resource. (If I find some time later, I'll probably try my hand at it, I just can't right now.)
Thanks, PiousCorn (talk) 16:20, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much for this information; I've added the references. I've used  to note the page numbers, as this makes the wiki-markup more tidy; I hope this is OK. Graham87 08:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Source