User talk:Gurshawnstuteja

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Speedy deletion nomination of Chronic Disease and Condition

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Chronic Disease and Condition requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Drchriswilliams (talk) 18:11, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Advice

Gurshawnstuteja - If you want to rename a page, you should start by reading the article title policy. For example, "Chronic Disease and Condition" doesn't meet the requirements for capitalization (it would be "Chronic disease and condition". A second problem is that these aren't really two separate things - they are different aspects, or different ways to talk about the same thing (or, if you prefer, an overlapping set of things). The article title policy favors simplicity - so "chronic disease", "chronic condition" and "chronic illness" are all viable article titles; having a conversation about which one of the three the page should be called, based on the merits (usage, accuracy, etc.), might be worth having. But it's also worth noting that all of these links take you to the same place, and a Google search for any of them will end up at the article. What the article says is important. 'At what title is a lot less important. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:55, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Advice on the lead section

You applied an edit to Chronic condition which attempted to completely rewrite the lead of this article. I reverted your edit as I believe that you have approached this in a way that causes problems. Wikipedia has a range of policies to help guide editors, such as Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section that you could familiarise yourself with. I suggest that you should treat the lead as covering the actual title of the article, not the title that you want the article to be given. A better starting point would be to address some of the deficiencies within the main body of the article, before trying to use the lead section to summarise the major themes. Drchriswilliams (talk) 04:47, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Drchriswilliams Thank you for your advice! I have been looking into the types section of the page and thought of clarifying the idea of why chronic conditions should be distinguished via a sort of introductory paragraph to the entire section based on the fact they include more than just diseases (i.e: physical impairments, health related states, precursors to disease etc). Wanted to get your opinion on this. Thank youGurshawnstuteja (talk) 14:52, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, but remember Wikipedia's manual of style, so you will need to think ahead and consider where in the article your longer explanations and references will sit. Here are a couple of interesting articles that may help you with material that goes beyond the NCDs: Cochrane review Oral health as an example of a condition mental health aspects. Drchriswilliams (talk) 15:53, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Drchriswilliams So I tried to use some of the articles' basis along with others I found in order to create a "lead" like for the types section of the article. I thought this would allow a better understanding as to why certain conditions and diseases are written as chronic. Wanted your opinion on this! Thank you Gurshawnstuteja (talk) 17:46, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

I see that you're getting the hang of things. Well done in linking all these different concepts together. Drchriswilliams (talk) 17:55, 13 April 2016 (UTC)