Template talk:Infobox medical condition (old)

Template-protected edit request on 21 April 2017

The page Thrombocytopenia starts with a plain wikilink to the category Category:Pages with Infobox medical condition using multiple parameters for one. I presume that you actually want to add the article to that category, and so the colon at the start of the wikilink in this template's code should be removed. User:GKFX^talk 22:15, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Done Ahecht (TALK
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Template-protected edit request on 15 August 2017

Consensus here has depreciated this template, in favour of template:Infobox medical condition (new) in combination with template:medical resources. Please add {{Deprecated template|Infobox medical condition|Infobox medical condition (new)|note=For adding classification data, see [[template:medical resources]]|date=August 2017}} if deemed appropriate. Little pob (talk) 12:21, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

What is the transition process? How do I actually replace it with the new one? Parameter-replacements? -DePiep (talk) 19:35, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Last I read a bot was being proposed to automate the transition to the new infobox? However, the deprecated tag is for the template page, not the infobox itself. It may have been clearer if I had provided the WL to Template:Deprecated_template also, as it has an example at the top. Little pob (talk) 07:35, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Updating is going to be a slow and gradual process. I have done 500 or so.

We have a tool that speeds up the conversion but it is still manual. More work is required before it can be automated.

You add this to your common.js

importScript("User:Ladsgroup/RefCleaner.js");

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:17, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Note: Given that the main protagonist in this change Doc James has passed on making the change, and nobody else has taken it up in 2 weeks, I'll mark it as answered. I think marking a template as deprecated while it's still in use on 6500 pages would taint too many pages for too long. Little pob, some kind of comment on the doc page indicating its deprecated state and where to find the new preferred template seems more appropriate at this stage. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 09:55, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Added to /doc. Template {{Deprecated template|Infobox medical condition}} must be added to the documentation page, and so will not appear in mainspace. It does not alter any working of the tempalte, it's just documentation text. (BTW, that page is not protected and so does not formally need an {{edit template-protected}} request). -DePiep (talk) 10:44, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Please use HTTPS for the Patient UK (patient.info) link

The purpose of this edit is to provide increased privacy and security for users by having the template use HTTPS when generating links to Patient UK. (As a side note, a previous comment states that the template is deprecated; however, it appears that there are still many pages on which the template is used.) In particular, it appears that URLs of the form http://patient.info/doctor/xxxxxx generate a 301 Moved Permanently redirect to https://patient.info/doctor/xxxxxx which in some cases is followed by a subsequent 301 redirect to another HTTPS URL. For example, http://patient.info/doctor/Body-Dysmorphic-Disorder-(BDD) generates a 301 redirect to https://patient.info/doctor/Body-Dysmorphic-Disorder-(BDD) which then generates a 301 redirect to https://patient.info/doctor/body-dysmorphic-disorder-pro. In the template, please change http://patient.info/doctor/ to https://patient.info/doctor/ instead. Thanks. --Elegie (talk) 10:33, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done, @Elegie. -- Carl Fredrik ^talk 10:43, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Also went ahead and did it one the Template:Medical resources that replaces this template. Carl Fredrik ^talk 10:44, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Possible fix for broken eMedicine search link

At the current time, the template has the ability to generate a link for doing a search on eMedicine. If the search query is infection, for example, the URL for the search link would be http://search.medscape.com/emedicine-search?queryText=infection. However, it appears that search URLs of this format are broken; accessing such a URL generates a series of redirects that eventually lead to the URL https://search.medscape.com/search/? on the Medscape site and no search results are shown. It appears that it is possible to do a search on the Medscape site by using the URL https://search.medscape.com/search/?q=XXXX where XXXX is the search query term(s), though it is not clear as to whether all of the search results are specific to eMedicine. Would it be useful to change the template to use this URL format for doing eMedicine searches? --Elegie (talk) 11:18, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Error in template

It seems that the template creates the following error for all instances now:

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:I18n/date' not found.

It is now fixed it seems Hervegirod (talk) 21:45, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Template talk:Infobox medical condition (new) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 21:16, 3 June 2019 (UTC)