Brouhardr

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the hypoglycemia link

Welcome to wikipedia. We need people with medical expertise willing to provide content rather than links. Although I am not the person who removed your about.com link, there are at least 3 reasons why you might want to reconsider about insisting on it. First, there is little or no info in it that is not contained in the article. Second, wikipedia is not a "link farm". Third, you need to be particularly careful to avoid the appearance of linkspamming when you are involved with the link. Fourth (maybe not relevant); like wikipedia, the medical info in about.com is highly uneven-- I have not examined your section, but some of the endocrine coverage is misleading, unbalanced, unreviewed, or simply wrong, and there is no mechanism (like there is here) for feedback or correction. I am not interested in arguing with you about the quality of the medical articles in about.com, but simply politely telling you why your linkspam was removed. Would you be kind enough to do it yourself this time? And please write some articles for us. Thanks. alteripse 20:34, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

PS: I just read your link. It really does need to be removed as it contains misleading and inappropriate direction to readers within the first paragraphs. You should not direct people with diabetes to "call 911" for symptoms as mild as dizziness-- the first appropriate response is to feed them; the second appropriate response for more severe symptoms is glucagon. Are you aware that nearly everyone with diabetes (or their families) deals with most hypoglycemia without calling paramedics? Calling 911 is a last resort for 99% of comparably severe hypoglycemic episodes and usually represents a failure to follow the recommendations of their diabetes doctor. Calling 911 for hypoglycemia provides a chance for mistreatment or excessive and unnecessary ER visits. The problem is usually not the paramedics who are authorized to confirm a rising glucose or give glucose, but those who are required to take a patient to the ER in all circumstances if they get called to the scene, and even worse are the ER personnel who do all kinds of pointless and unnecessary tests for patients who have already recovered. While people should certainly call 911 if someone isnt breathing, your website needs to be clearer that it is rarely necessary for hypoglycemia. Calling 911 instead of giving glucagon even for a severe hypoglycemic episode usually converts a $90, 20-minute scare into a $3000 many-hour ordeal leaving bruises and unnecessary follow-up referrals. Anyway, please do not replace the link. Thanks alteripse 20:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

on linkspamming in general

It looks like the rest of your contributions have been links to about.com as well. Please review our policy on this WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided, and WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory. It may be that you were not sure what this project is. We would still like to have you contribute to the articles on paramedic topics, but please finish removing the rest of your links. It would be ok if you added to our articles with content from your site, rephrased to be encyclopedic and to avoid copyright violation. You can leave your link on your user page of course. Sorry to disappoint you if linking is the only reason you joined us, but we need content not links. Thanks for understanding. alteripse 22:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Why don't you incorporate some of the content from your about.com article into the bleeding article, rather than just posting a link? - Cybergoth 15:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Warning

In case it was not clear enough from Alterprise's comments above, if you continue to add links to your site you will be blocked from editing. Feel free to add content instead of links. Thank you. Guy 11:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I haven't added anything since reading Alterprise's comments. I plan to add content to address some issues in the bleeding article.Brouhardr 19:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I noticed. Sorry for the appearance of a "pile-on". We will look forward to your contributions. alteripse 19:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

September 2010

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia as you did to National EMS Association. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.99.188.225 (talk) 14:43, 12 September 2010 (UTC)