Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Ophthalmology task force/Archive 2

Retinal atrophy

I'm not sure that this project is still active, but if anyone's home: The first sentence of Lattice degeneration links to Retinal atrophy, which automatically redirects to Progressive retinal atrophy, which is apparently a disease found in dogs. Is this a reasonable redirect? Should the Lattice degeneration article link to something else? WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:15, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Fixed & clarified. Retinal atrophy is found in dogs as well as humans, and probably in other animals too. Thanks for bringing this to attention. EyeMD ^T|C 16:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Should this discussion page be archived?

This talk page has gotten cumbersome. Many of the topics are now resolved. Should old/resolved topics be moved to an archive page? (This might preserve the topics slightly better than deleting them since it would place them in an archive rather than just in the edit history.)

Another alternative would be to collapse headers of the sections that are resolved.

I'm willing to set up either the archive or collapsing of the old topics. I'll wait for a response to this post or on my talk page. I'd like to hear from EyeMD or AED since they represent the majority of posts to this page. Garvin ^Talk 01:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Neither of those people appear to be active editors any longer, so I don't think you should expect a response from them.

Have you considered having the project merged back into its parent, as an alternative to merely archiving this page? This was recently done for two other projects under WP:MED, and there was talk of re-absorbing some of these 'dead' projects as task forces. (Apparently that process involves moving a few project pages and changing all of the {{OphthoWikiProject}} tags on talk pages to tags that say {{WPMED|eye=yes}}, or something like that. It looks like there's about 100 tagged pages, so this shouldn't be too awful. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the archiving for obsolete talk items. Good to be back here :-) EyeMD ^T|C 20:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I've archived all 2006-2007 items (see link in the archive box). Hope that helps. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:15, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Computer vision syndrome merger to Asthenopia

Computer vision syndrome (which has 17 PubMed hits - ie exists but not widespread used term) is already mention in Asthenopia ("eye strain" which has 96 PubMed hits) and thus should be merged (using per WP:MEDMOS the technical term for the condition vs redirected lay-term) - I've set up discussion thread at Talk:Asthenopia#Merge of Computer vision syndrome David Ruben ^Talk 01:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed acquisition

Except for EyeMD checking in every few months, this project appears to be pretty much dead. Is anyone home? Would anyone mind if this were folded into the WPMED project as a task force like these? WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Good - this place could use a bit more exposure - invite more talent and expertise to continue doing the good work! Cheers!! EyeMD ^T|C 17:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to WPMED

WP:WikiProject Ophthalmology has been converted to a task force under WikiProject Medicine. Welcome!

For the most part, WP:EYE should look, feel, and behave exactly as it had been. A few pages and categories have moved, but redirects should be in place for all of them and the shortcuts have been updated. The old project banner for talk pages has been merged with {{WPMED}}. You can leave messages for ophthalmology-specific issues on this page, just like you always have, keep working on your own {{to do}} list, and keep separate importance assessments for articles if you want.

Please feel free to participate in the larger project, to recruit members and other help from the larger project, and also to keep the doctors' mess on your watchlist in case of announcements affecting greater numbers of people. The overall goal is to reduce your administrative overhead, so if you need something bureaucratic handled, WT:MED is the place to ask for help.

Again, welcome! WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Blurred vision

Blurred vision is a mess, and could use a look by anyone that wants to wikify it or add sources. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

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Taskforce-imp ranking

The WPMED template was recently changed so that taskforce importance is no longer inherited from WPMED importance. (i.e. formerly, if taskforce-imp is not specified, then the taskforce importance would be the same as the general WPMED importance. After the change, the taskforce importance is "None" if it is not specified). (See WP:WikiProject Medicine/Assessment#Statistics.)

The old behavior can be restored for those taskforces that desire it. (See template talk:WPMED#Taskforce importance.) Zodon (talk) 07:40, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Papillitis

Papillitis would benefit from some attention by any editor that knows what it is. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Trabeculoplasty

I started this article yesterday. I have no idea about the subject whatsover. Some expert attention would be most appreciated! -- ǝʌlǝʍʇ ǝuo-ʎʇuǝʍʇ ^ssnɔsıp 19:38, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Corneal dystrophies

Hello! I've created the stubs for all the human corneal dystrophies. If anybody wishes to fix the errors, do the copyedits, and especially to create the navigation box based on the latest categorization of these dystrophies, you are welcome. Best regards, --CopperKettle 05:53, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

The naked eye

On the WP:MED talk page, we have been discussing an article entitled naked eye. There is plenty of interesting information on it, however, none of it is cited. If anybody here can do anything about it, please do so. Also, we have been debating whether we should notify the astronomy wikiproject as well, since it appears that the article might interest them also. The article has no known affiliations with any project. Thanks, Tyrol5 [Talk] 22:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)