Medical catergories

[jmh649]

I am a long term editor over at Wikipedia's medical project. We have been adding a link to DMOZ for many topics and advising against people adding external links to Wikipedia itself. DMOZ however is missing a number of categories such as gastroenteritis. Wondering where one would propose the creation of one?

 

James Heilman

[mauri]

Hello.

 

For Dmoz a category represents a /Topic, so first to be created we need to have a good number of sites (already listed) strictly focused on that /Topic.

 

Currently we have

http://www.dmoz.org/...stem_Disorders/

with several subcategories

 

but also

http://www.dmoz.org/...stroenterology/

and

http://www.dmoz.org/...nd_Water_Borne/

 

Currently it doesn't seem that a /Gastroenteritis subcategory is necessary or urgent, but when we will have many sites devoted specifically to that disorder the idea will be certainly taken into consideration.

[jmh649]

Here are a few

 

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James

[mauri]

Please don't post specific URLs here, if you want to propose new sites to the directory use the "Suggest URL" link at the top of a /Category_Page, and they will be evaluated.

However, remember that we do not provide any "on-demand service", so any change to the directory structure occurs only after an internal discussion.

 

Thanks anyway for bringing attention to this subject.

[Elper]

To add to the above, when suggesting some suitable sites, add something like [for a proposed gastroenteritis subcategory] to the end of each description.

Also consider applying for a small category in the area ^_^

[jmh649]

Sure was just attempting to support the notability of the proposed catergory. With respect to epidemiology there are 5 billion cases of gastroenteritis resulting in 1.3 million deaths in children less than 5 (with additional numbers in other age groups).

 

Gastroenterology is simply the study of diseases of the gastroentestinal tract and therefore does not really apply. Food and water borne diseases are a little too general with gastroenteritis just being one type of food and water borne disease.

 

James Heilman

[jmh649]

Anyway if people here are interested in collaborating more closely with Wikipedia drop me a note on my Wikipedia talk page

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James Heilman