Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dietary Supplements

Problem setting up bot

I wanted User:WP 1.0 Bot to track article quality and importance, but I am having problems setting it up. I posted for help at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index#Help_requested_to_diagnose_problem. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:57, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

The bot is operational now. The class and importance of articles is tracked in the assessment section. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Membership size requirements?

• I thought wikiprojects had a specific membership size requirement? (it may have been optional) IRWolfie- (talk) 21:58, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

How can anyone be invited if there is not a membership page? I will invite people - let me set it up. Or if you feel like it, you invite someone. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:35, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Usually one way would be to gather likeminded editors across perhaps the pharmacology and medicine wikiprojects and going through a wikiproject proposal phase (see WP:WPPRO). IRWolfie- (talk) 10:28, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Taskforce proposal

This will not gain enough followers. I suggest making this into a taskforce under Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology. I support the effort, and I would join it as a taskforce. Sidelight12 ^Talk 01:03, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

I think a task force is a great way of making it more sustainable. The problem is that there are so many overlapping wikiprojects that the small guys get lost in the background. IRWolfie- (talk) 10:26, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, this should be a task force of either WikiProject Medicine or WikiProject Pharmacy. I will post on their talk pages about this to get consensus from the communities there. But first - do either of you have advice about updating the WikiProject template for this project? Currently it is

{{WikiProject Dietary Supplements | class= | importance= }}

and I think that if it merged it should read (for example, if medicine is the choice)

{{WPMED| supplement=yes | supplement-imp= | class= | importance= }}

Currently, about 100 pages have this project template. Should I change these manually after the merge (which would come after community discussion) or is there a more clever way? Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:09, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Hmm... there are other dead WikiProjects which should also be merged into task forces. Have either of you ever seen a merge like this before? How was it executed? Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:26, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, WP:Desserts, WP:drinks, WP:Spices, and WP:Cheeses all started life as separate projects. Get an administrator to do a group move to the new project. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:27, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

I think that it would be sensible to talk first with people in the pharmaceutical project about whether or not to merge this project. I also think that the growing work in nutraceuticals is going to be tedious. How different is that? MaynardClark (talk) 14:04, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

MaynardClark I set up this WikiProject as separate because I wanted to run certain bots here to do metrics reporting, and at the time I only saw a way for me to install the bots if this were its own project. The more natural thing to do would be to make this project a "task force" of a more popular WikiProject, but right now, there is little relationship between WikiProjects and bots which operate on WikiProjects. Ultimately I proposed that someone apply for funding someday and do development so that it would be easier to know when to start a WikiProject and to get metrics on the articles within a WikiProject. Right now, all of this is managed manually with unstable software subject to change, and lately a lot of software has changed a lot. See meta:Grants:IdeaLab/WikiProject_management_suite for the reform proposal.

With regard to your merge proposal - I have no opinion. It would be work to merge it and I am not sure it matters. I have no reason to believe that this project is being disruptive to stand unused. I never was able to get metrics on these articles. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:32, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm interested in seeing the development of a section on nutraceuticals (though it's not expertise for me). The current Wikipedia article on the topic is a scant introduction of the portmanteau, and a little more. MaynardClark (talk) 15:06, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

What are the definitions of "alternative medicine" by "major world health organization[s]"?

At Talk:Alternative_medicine/Archive_25#Reddit_discussion_on_Wikipedia:_Alternative_medicine_article I responded to a query from a user on Reddit about the state of the article. He says that the article's definition of alternative medicine does not reflect the definitions of alternative medicine from "major world health organization[s]".

I don't specialize in science-related articles, but I would like to know what these definitions are, and if there is a need to tweak the definition in the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:57, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

WhisperToMe Yes, there is a need to tweak the definition. The question is not easy to answer even by top experts in the field. If you want to take this to the alt med talk page you can. Check the archives - it has probably been discussed there. Also, I regret making this WikiProject. Consider posting to WikiProject Medicine in the future. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:35, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Ayurveda RFC

A Request for Comments is now in progress at Talk:Ayurveda concerning whether [[Category:Pseudoscience]] should be added to the article on Ayurveda. Participation in the RFC is encouraged. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:02, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

The American Society for Nutritional Sciences

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/129/7/1412S.full and others are Free for Abstracts, Texts, and PDFs. References should be amended to include |url= . ~~ Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 23:14, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Article renaming discussion

You are invited to participate in a discussion at talk:Dietary element § Article should be Dietary mineral. Only four editors have been involved so far, and while they agree the article should be renamed, they disagree about the best new name. YBG (talk) 04:25, 4 July 2016 (UTC)