Talk:MEDLINE

message: I edited the "Inclusion" section for NPOV, e.g. institutional bias, no objective criteria.  The references to Pauling, etc. were not sourced, so I deleted these.  Retained JOM claims of bias.  —ERcheck @ 04:06, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to inclusion section for NPOV 

message: MEDLINE appears in all upper case letters in all official documents. I've edited the page to capitalize all instances. (Note the phrase MedlinePlus does not capitalize MEDLINE and I left that instance alone.) I'm unable to change the page's actual heading display to all upper case. How would this be done?
*Disagree with this unsigned comment. Just because the NLM is in the habit of using capital letters, that doesn't mean that Wikipedia must follow suit. Marks and Spencer also generally uses capital letters on its shop signs - but that doesn't mean we must all always write it as MARKS & SPENCER. (Actually, I don't know about Marks and Spencer, but that doesn't affect the principle.) Medline should remain Medline. Hugh2414 09:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I did look here first, where it shows MEDLINE with the trademark symbol attached, which I took to be definitive.  If it is a registered trademark, then I believe the convention is to use it as registered.  I'll just see if I can find any policy on this.  User:Noisy | Talk 09:50, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just noticed - the tab on my browser for the link has it capitalized, together with the trademark symbol as well.  User:Noisy | Talk 09:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I would say that a trademark is a symbol, which may incorporate the name of the product and present it in a particular way (typeface, size, colour, etc). The name of the product remains Medline, even if the trademark presentation of it is more like MEDLINE. OK - I admit I haven't consulted Wikipedia rules on this one... Hugh2414 09:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: The best I've found so far is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms).  I don't know that it's strictly an acronym, but there is a companion site called TOXLINE which indicates that TOXLINE is a contracted form of 'Toxicology Literature Online'.  Should we consult a wider audience?  User:Noisy | Talk 10:15, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Is Medline/MEDLINE an acronym? Not quite, I'd say. It actually stands for MEDLARS online - so I can see that MEDline would make sense, but not really MEDLINE... However, that is the way the NLM presents it, and I don't really mind. If the consensus is in favour of MEDLINE, I withdraw my objection. What I did rather object to was that it was changed with no discussion - and by a real fluke, this happened at precisely the moment I was writing the beginning of this discussion! Where is that wider audience? Does nobody else care? Probably not! Hugh2414 23:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  MEDLINE should be capitalized 

message: I thought I was going to have a laughing fit when  inserted material referring to PubMedNci. He is suggesting that PubMed does not index "Orthomolecular medicine" and "Medical veritas" because of a conflict of interest. This is wrong, of course. It does not index them because the NCBI has no duty to index pseudoscience. JFW | T@lk 12:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pubmednci 

message: Unless theres room for major expansion these stub articles would probbaly be better off as part of this main article. Artw 01:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: correction they do work, but it takes some playing around to find a part that accepts a search. they are of demo status. I think there's enough to write an article--but they are companion products from the same company, so it will take some thought about the best name--or if there should be a separate article. i want to do a little more OR (smile).DGG 05:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MeshPubMed & GoPubMed 

message: I attempted to identify the primary official website. I think this is it:
*https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline.html
 Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:52, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ ? --Ronz (talk) 23:14, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the first one. MEDLINE and PubMed are not the same thing... --Randykitty (talk) 16:42, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official website?