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Did you know... that the anti-vaccine book Melanie's Marvelous Measles has received over 1,000 one-star reviews on Amazon.com?

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Great minds...[edit]

I've been working on this page in my user space for several weeks, I had it almost done, just was going to clean up the grammar and then publish it, now I see that someone else has beat me to it. I like the writing style with this page. So I'm going to just see if I can add the content from my weeks of work to this page. I hope it is seamless, but apologize if not. Will welcome someone to help smooth over the two writing styles to make it a stronger page.Sgerbic (talk) 04:39, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gorski quote[edit]

This quote in the Reception section is accurate to the source. "The death of a single child, whatever the cause, is a tragedy. If we want to see a lot more of these tragedies, all we have to do is to be complacent and let the vaccination rate fall too far below herd enormity." However, I'm fairly certain the word 'enormity' should be 'immunity'. I don't know how to handle such a thing, so I bring it up here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geneocide (talk • contribs) 16:06, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The MOS guidance is at WP:MOSQUOTE and I read it as saying {{sic}} should be added. It isn't cool to point out a silly mistake but it would be too much the correct it silently, I think. Thincat (talk) 16:54, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen to it. Thincat (talk) 13:32, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dates[edit]

It seems according to the counter in AWB that there are two styles used. Should we {{use dmy dates}} or should we {{use mdy dates}} here? I prefer the former if we can't use ISO dates, which we can't. Jerodlycett (talk) 21:52, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jerodlycett Stick to DMY - the author and the book are Australian, and Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Choice_of_format says "Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the more common date format for that country".--Gronk Oz (talk) 01:57, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seems mainly in the citations anyway. The bit I was thinking of when asking was WP:DATERET as I wasn't sure of the strong national ties bit. I may go through later and convert to ISO with the {{date}} format's dmy option, and leave {{use dmy dates}} hanging around. Jerodlycett (talk) 02:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Possible links[edit]

I'm not very great with prose, so I'll leave it to someone else, but likely candidates to link here are David Gorski, William Sears (physician) and Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network. The first two for their statements, and the third for their support and the fact they are selling it. Jerodlycett (talk) 01:47, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]