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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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Neurocysticercosis

Regarding the article on Neurocysticercosis, the way of catching this disease is different from the way of catching taeniasis. Please refer to CDC for both, since the distinction is very important: cysticercosis (https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/cysticercosis/index.html) and taeniasis (https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/taeniasis/index.html). See how by consuming undercooked pork which contains cysticerci, they grow into adult worms that inhabit the human intestine, and by accidentally consuming Taenia solium eggs, these will grow into tissular cysts (cysticerci). There is physically no way for an adult worm (its length is of several meters) to migrate from the bowels and end up in any other tissue. Benzisoxazole (talk) 09:54, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays

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Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup!

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Top Ten Medical Editor Barnstar 2024

Top 10	Top 10 Medical Editor Barnstar 2024
	You were one of the top medical editors on English in 2024. Thank you for your hard work! —Mvolz (talk) 15:50, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Hiro1771 (18:56, 1 January 2025)

How do I add a picture of the person’s Wikipedia page if I have permission from the owner of the picture. Like is there some where I can show that I have proof that I permission to use that picture? --Hiro1771 (talk) 18:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hiro1771 Assuming that this is a copyrighted image that you have obtained permission to use, please ask the copyright holder to send a permission statement to permissions-commonswikimedia.org. You can learn more about this at Commons:Volunteer Response Team. Happy editing! IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 05:07, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA criteria for Havana Syndrome

Thanks for taking time to provide feedback on the Hav Syn article. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to step aside and let another reviewer do the review? I'm concerned about a few things:

You are focusing on a minor essay WP:PROSELINE... its not even a policy, let alone a guideline.
You asked for 4 paragraphs in lede. That was never a hard requirement for FA, let alone GA. Also, the 4 paragr suggestion was removed from WP:LEDE in 2024.
You say that GAC requires uniform citation formats; that is not correct .. FA require uniform cite foarmats.

No big deal, but you seem to be mixing up FA and GA. Would it be okay if we found another reviewer to do the review? Noleander (talk) 03:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Noleander If you would like a different person to review your article I'd ask WT:GAN as that is usually how new reviewers are requested. The other option would be for me to fail the review, you renominate, and then eventually someone else picks up the review and decides if you have improved on the parts that led me to fail the article. However I'll expand on my points thusfar.

While WP:PROSELINE is not a guidline, it is a word to explain bad prose. Clear and concise prose is apart of the GAC. Issues like PROSELINE make the article harder to read, hence why in it's current state I would not say the prose passes criteria 1.
The lead thing was more of a suggestion and I guess I could have worded things better. Part of the GAC is complying with the layout section of the MOS which states Single-sentence paragraphs can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, long paragraphs become hard to read. The lead you had before, with 5 paragraphs, included one paragraph that was a single setence which goes against the MOS.
Criterion 2 requires compliance with MOS:LAYOUT, the MOS:LAYOUT section MOS:REFERENCES says: Editors may use any citation method they choose, but it should be consistent within an article.. I'd be willing to discuss the plaintext citations however the bare urls do need to be fixed.

It's not uncommon for reviewers and nominators to disagree, however I would ask that you stay open to discussing these disagreements instead of just requesting I step down as a reviewer as these kinds of disagreements are going to happen regardless of who is reviewing. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 03:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just figured out you were using MLA formatted citations most likely so while I do believe consistant citation formatting is apart of GAN criteria I misspoke about the bare url part. Apologies for that. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 04:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) (though the bare URLs are still subject to link rot) Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 04:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, go ahead and mark the GA review as failed. Noleander (talk) 16:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay I’m going to do a full review as the article doesn’t meet QF criteria and so that the next reviewer can more easily evaluate if you were able to resolve the issues that lead me to failing the article. This may take a me a couple days. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 17:12, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Noleander, i mean instead of failing it, why not withdraw it? Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 17:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I mean regardless I would like to review this article tbh. It's an interesting topic. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 17:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]