User talk:John P. Sadowski (NIOSH)/Archive 3

Your GA nomination of Characterization of nanoparticles

The article Characterization of nanoparticles you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Characterization of nanoparticles for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of HaEr48 -- HaEr48 (talk) 03:41, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hazards of synthetic biology

The article Hazards of synthetic biology you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hazards of synthetic biology for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ajpolino -- Ajpolino (talk) 22:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

If you've got the time and interest, Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations#Biology_and_medicine is severely backlogged and could use experienced editors with time to undertake thorough reviews. Knocking out a couple reviews may just reduce the wait for your next set of GA nominations! Regardless, I hope all is well. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Open Source Ventilators

Hi John,

Great work on the ventilator page. Thank you.

I have a few more open source ventilators that I have been collecting from various places.

How can we add them to the google sheet?

I am not a wikipedia editor.

Eduardo.Garcia@hush.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.44.75 (talk) 07:41, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

For creating Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19, have a cup of coffee to keep ya going. Good work, keep it up! CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 20:15, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 Drug repurposing and vitamin C

In your opinion, does this belong in the merged article or not? I had added it to the repurposed article. David notMD (talk) 22:19, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

There are three ongoing clinical trials of intravenous vitamin C for people who are hospitalized and severely ill with COVID-19; two placebo controlled (China, Canada) and one with no control (Italy). A review of vitamin C administration to critically ill patients (burns, trauma, sepsis) reported a tendency towards a mortality reduction when intravenous high-dose vitamin C monotherapy was administered.:

@David notMD: My expertise is not in medicine so I don't feel I can give guidance on whether this should be included. I'd suggest asking at the article talk page. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 23:06, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

My experience is in nutrition, so hesitant to interject a nutrition topic (one with a history) into this article. Maybe best if I wait until the trials are completed and published. David notMD (talk) 00:16, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

References

I undid the merge due to the unexplained deletion of large amounts content during the merge, and my being unable to find sections I was working on in the "merged" content in the new article, and the merging of disputed content with removal of the disputed tag. The discussion should have continued on the talk page of the article not the talk page of one user. Gammapearls (talk) 06:10, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Cloth facemask

I want to commend you for creating a covid-related article with actual historical information, and not simply a listing of current news. Natureium (talk) 10:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

@Natureium: Thanks! Even though these topics relate to our immediate circumstances, I always try to write a full accounting of the topic as if I had been writing it at any other time. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Precious

nanotech and occupational safety

Thank you for your stellar work on a collection of scientific topics – nanotechnology, biophysics and science policy to mention a few – and more recently on COVID-19 related topics where accuracy and awareness are the need of the hour – you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2386 of Precious, a prize of QAI. Sainsf (talk · contribs) 07:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Yay! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Definition of Airborne Disease

At the beginning of April, you made some changes to Airborne disease to clarify that spread respiratory droplets is not the same as airborne. Some changes were made about a week ago that remove that distinction “due to claims being disproven” (I’m not sure how you disprove a definition), without linking a source. As you have a documented background and the other author does not, I was wondering if you could review those changes? Either way, thanks for your contributions!

Slithytove2 (talk) 16:48, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

@Slithytove2: Thanks for the tip! I think they misunderstood some recent reports about detecting coronavirus RNA in aerosols. Of course, this doesn't change the definition of aerosol or respiratory droplet. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for N95 mask

On 30 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article N95 mask, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the melt-blowing technology used to create N95 respirators was previously used to produce ready-made ribbon bows and bra cups? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/N95 mask. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, N95 mask), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Cloth face mask

On 4 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cloth face mask, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that cloth face masks were routinely used by surgeons before being replaced by modern surgical masks in the 1960s? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cloth face mask), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Respiratory droplet

On 7 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Respiratory droplet, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that surgical masks provide effective protection against diseases spread by respiratory droplets (examples pictured), but not those spread by airborne transmission? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Respiratory droplet. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Respiratory droplet), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:01, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Design of masks to be worn by infectious people?

Hi John,

(This is a NIOSH question, not a Wikipedia question.) Do you know if NIOSH has any standards or guidance for masks to be worn by people with infectious respiratory illnesses, to prevent them releasing bacteria or viruses into the air?

Thanks, Rosieredfield (talk) 17:04, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

@Rosieredfield: Here's some relevant guidance from CDC: Steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 if you are sick and Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 23:41, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19

On 28 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that workplace hazard controls for COVID-19 include measures for psychosocial hazards such as stress and anxiety, for which social distancing may prevent typical coping mechanisms? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Autopatrolled right

Hi, thanks for all your contributions! As I can tell you know what you're doing, would you be interested in applying to be autopatrolled, meaning your articles are published without needing to be reviewed manually? This would be really helpful to reduce the workload of pages that need manual review. You could apply yourself or I'd be happy to nominate you. Blythwood (talk) 12:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

@Blythwood: Sounds good to me! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 21:01, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi John P. Sadowski (NIOSH), I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 16:04, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Source control (respiratory disease)

On 6 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Source control (respiratory disease), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that cloth face masks are considered source control but they are not considered personal protective equipment? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Source control (respiratory disease). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Source control (respiratory disease)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Wells curve

— Wug·a·po·des​ 22:54, 20 June 2020 (UTC) 12:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)