On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:54 -0400, Derk wrote:
sensibly, thanks
I didn't look at the EBM/EBH pages and I'm not
debating or really
concerned with what goes where. None of this has anything to do with
whether or not I (or we) agree with what a page should be called.
I think a page on evidence based medicine can quite reasonably be called
that, but it will not be found by a search for Evidence based health.
A page called evidence based health will be.
If it points to the other page that seemed to be to be useful. Still
does.
(And if I had been offering an opinion that the page name should be
different, be sure that that is what I would have written, and note I
have in the past made comments on discussion pages for Smallpox etc).)
Here is (part of) my model, of how I think the wiki works
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If a page called "EB health" only has a pointer to one called "EB
medicine" then my suspicion is that the first academic nurse (or Physio,
clinical psychologist, occ therapist, radiographer or healthcare service
commissioner or manager that happens upon it might feel inclined to add
a piece on evidence based practice in their specific field.
If in due course someone notices that there is a big article on EBM with
little articles on EBN and EB Physio etc, then they might well, if they
are wise in the ways of the wiki and not subject to interruption, decide
to conflate them into one article, and make the other pages whatever you
call a page that just tells you where to go instead.
The most likely person to do that sort of thing is someone who looks at
the structure of the wiki rather than the content of the pages.
Presumably, an administrator.
If
you want to move one page to another location,
Don't, didn't, said so
before.
sign up for an account
and do it (since page moves are restricted to logged in users). The
point is that writing in an article "So and so page should be here"
Didn't.
is
not something that belongs in the article space. If you wanted it
moved, you could have moved it yourself, written a note on a talk
page, dropped a note on the "requested moves" page, asked an editor of
the EBM/EBH pages on their talk page about moving it, etc. Feel free
to do any of these.
What I want(ed) was for someone looking for an article on Evidence Based
Health to find the material that exists.
The reaction was excessive, poorly considered and rude (unless I'm doing
a language thing and "vandal" is a term meaning "you have done something
I don't agree with" in American. The ones I know are neat and polite
people, so it probably means about the smae as it does in English.
And the account of it is drifting.
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Adrian Midgley <amidgley2(a)defoam.net>