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The layout for this needs re-organization. Any improvements or suggestions are very welcome. FiachraByrne (talk) 04:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unbalanced tag

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An editor added a Unbalanced tag with a cryptic edit summary. Clearly the topic relates to a particular point of view on mental health treatment but that's in keeping with policy as long as the POV is presented neutrally. We should remove that tag unless a clearer reason can be given for keeping it. Jojalozzo 14:00, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My problem is with the title "psychiatric survivor" especially since List of psychiatric consumer/survivor/ex-patient related topics redirects here. The title is biased, and suggests that other patients didn't survive. If a Vietnamese group would call itself the survivors of American chemical warfare, I don't think a topic "List of survivors of American chemical warfare" or anything related would be allowed. DS Belgium (talk) 16:54, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
{{POV-title}} would have been more appropriate, I admit. DS Belgium (talk) 16:56, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe switch the redirects and content, and add a neutral section to the article? DS Belgium (talk) 16:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I invited the editor who changed the title from it's original "List of psychiatric consumer/survivor/ex-patient related topics" (with the edit summary "simpler") to participate here. Jojalozzo 18:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's long enough as it is, I admit. Deleting the redirect would be another option, but in view of the recent move, chances are incoming links go via that page...
I removed the tag, there seems to be no perfect solution in this situation. DS Belgium (talk) 19:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know what the most generic name would be but as an outsider it seems that either of the other two options are more neutral, i.e. "List of psychiatric consumer topics" or "List of psychiatric ex-patient topics". Jojalozzo 02:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I favour the present title as it is a widely used term which fits in nicely with our Psychiatric survivor movement article. Johnfos (talk) 04:14, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

'Interesting' First "Issue" removed

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for those who have experienced this, forced feeding does not beat or compare to forced confinement, sometimes solitary, as well as forced synthetic medications - 62,000 times more harmful on average than dietary suppelements, according to the data from Europe (which i could link to if i had to/if needed). it's unfortunate the names of 'confinement' and 'forced synthetic cures' are not more plain in language, but i will have to grant that time.

basically, i removed 'forced feeding' as a red herring/inappropriate suggestion, compared to confinement and forced medication, etc - the real concerns

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

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"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]