Alexaa746
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:28, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Over-the-Counter Drug Critique
editArticle link: Over-the-counter drugs
This article focused on over-the-counter drugs in several countries throughout the Western Hemisphere, specifically Canada, Netherlands, the US, and the UK. What I noticed throughout the article was that it split the medications through classifications. There were generally drugs that can be sold in retail stores, such as CVS, that a person can easily grab off the shelf. The next classification was usually drugs that were kept in the back with a pharmacist. A pharmacist is the only person who can access these medications, and a drug must be prescribed in order for a customer to receive it. The final classification for medications are medications that are not used frequently, or are not allowed to be used medically.
Overall, this article was informative. It provided knowledge about what is considered an OTC drug, and what isn't. It also was interesting how it focused only on Western hemisphere countries, and did not focus on any regulations in Asia or Eastern Europe, etc. The article was elaborative and explained the definition of OTC drugs, the regulations, and differences between OTC and prescriptions.
A main criticism I have about the article is how it focuses on categorizing the different drugs, when the article is about OTC drugs specifically. There are articles within Wikipedia that already focus on what are controlled medications in the United States, or what the schedules are in Canada. A better way to really focus on OTC drugs is to define more common drugs that are OTC or make a separate article discussing the classifications of drugs, and use this article to focus on OTC drugs worldwide.
Overall, this article was informative and explained the concept of an OTC drug. It could be more focused on OTC drugs, rather than the regulations of drugs, but it was fairly helpful if a person wanted general knowledge about OTC medications.
I have deleted the page Medication error in the Emergency as a duplicate of the page Medication errors in the Emergency Department. The title also had a number of grammatical errors. Medication errors in the Emergency Department was created by you on 10 January. On 5 March another editor merged the page into Emergency department. On 19 March you created Medication error in the Emergency by moving your sandbox to that title.
This may have been a simple mistake on your part. However, if it was a deliberate attempt to circumvent the earlier merge, then this is not the way we do things. We do not allow two pages on the same subject, see our guideline Wikipedia:Content forking. Nor do we start edit wars with other editors. If you wish to dispute the merge then you should open a discussion and try and reach a consensus with other editors, not just repeat the action without discussion. This is probably best done at Talk: Emergency department. You can also contact the user who carried out the merge directly on their talk page (User talk:Jytdog), discuss it at the relevant Wikiproject (eg Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine), or use the Wikipedia:Requests for comment process. SpinningSpark 18:34, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
By the way, article titles on Wikipedia should be in sentence case, not title case. SpinningSpark 18:37, 23 March 2018 (UTC)