Talk:Balanitis

message: Robert Blair, your most recent edit was summarised very dishonestly. You claimed that it was: "RV to improved more accurate version and to restore deleted information".
In fact, far from being improved, it removed relevant information:
* links to http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic51.htm, http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/chow/ http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/edwards1/ (as discussed in sect. above)
* info about lack of aeration etc
* info about "The most common complication of balanitis is phimosis..."
You claimed that you were restoring deleted information. In fact, NO INFORMATION was added - only removed.
Please stop being so dishonest. - Jakew 18:32, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dishonest edit summary

message: Please note that I have reorganised the article into meaningful sections, and I have added a reference list. I have some changes to make to the article, to include additional information, which may require adding further references. The current citation format (eg Keogh, 2005) is temporary, unless anyone thinks it is an improvement (?). It will make it a lot easier to reorder the references once the new ones are added. I anticipate doing this within the next week or so, so please comment! - Jakew 20:28, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reorganisation of article

message: i know its not the most pleasing to look at (or is it?) but could someone get an image for this article? it'd make a big difference--83.71.84.138 (talk) 08:06, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: picture

message: Re Fergusson et al., 97.116.126.206 originally added the text: "Fergusson's study shows that circumcised infants are at a much greater risk of penile inflammation than those intact, but that after infancy, intact boys are at a greater risk of penile inflammation."
I then altered this to read: "In a study by Fergusson et al., circumcised infants were at a greater risk of penile inflammation than uncircumcised infants, but after infancy, uncircumcised boys were at a greater risk of penile inflammation. The authors noted that the "net effects of these trends were that by 8 years of age the uncircumcised boys had experienced more than 1.5 times the rate of penile problems"."
97.116.126.206 then deleted the final sentence, stating in the edit summary, "This article is about balanitis, but your quote references information that includes other problems other than balanitis."
This is a good point: Fergusson were indeed discussing "problems" rather than inflammation specifically.  However, it also applies to the first sentence.  Fergusson et al. state in their study that "During infancy circumcised children had a significantly higher risk of penile problems, whereas after infancy these problems were significantly higher among the uncircumcised boys", but — as with the quote I added — this is a statement about "problems", rather than penile inflammation specifically.  I therefore replaced this sentence with a sentence specifically describing Fergusson's findings about penile inflammation.
This edit was then reverted by 97.116.126.206, for no obvious reason. Jakew (talk) 16:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fergusson

message: Policy and guideline indicates that information published in reliable sources, such as peer-reviewed journals are acceptable sources. The fact that a published author is also a wikipedia editor does not mean that the published text now becomes invalid. If Van Howe were to edit wikipedia, would we delete all reference to him? -- Avi (talk) 17:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was puzzled by the removal of this ref, too.  I presume it was a misunderstanding of policy.  Jakew (talk) 18:18, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waskett source 

message: The original version of the Taylor & Rodin sentence read:
*In a retrospective study, Taylor and Rodin found that sexually-transmitted monilial balanitis was more common among uncircumcised men.
97.116.113.153 then changed this to read:
*In a retrospective study on herpes, Taylor and Rodin remarked that sexually-transmitted monilial balanitis was more common among uncircumcised men in 28 cases.
There are several problems with this:
#There is no need to state that the study primarily focused on herpes.  Taylor and Rodin explicitly note that their Table 4 documents the conditions among the control group (with respect to herpes), so the only relationship with herpes is that none of these patients suffered from it.  This article isn't about herpes; it's about balanitis.  This merely creates confusion.
#Saying that balanitis was more common in 28 cases is nonsensical.  In those 28 cases, the balanitis rate was 100%, so "more common" is meaningless.  If we say "more common in...", then we need to specify the population studied, which in this case was the randomly selected 410 patient control group, 
#The claim that T&R "remarked" is false, since they did not make such a remark (and, as I noted, such a remark would have been nonsensical).
I've therefore changed this to read:
*In a retrospective study including 28 cases of monilial balanitis, Taylor and Rodin found this condition to be more common among uncircumcised men.
Jakew (talk) 08:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Taylor & Rodin again

message: Here, the Guardian says that sand can cause balanitis, and this might be why the only cultures to historically have practised circumcision are Jews, Muslims and Australian aborigines. Worth mentioning? Malick78 (talk) 10:02, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sand and religion 

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