Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list/July 25, 2011

Quick breeze through

• Images need alt text.

  Done. Christine (talk) 12:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

• Could expand a little on what transmission methods "blood-to-blood" actually constitutes?

  Added the phrase, "or by exposure to another person's infected blood". Is that enough? The problem is that this is just a short blurb and experts disagree about the transmission methods. Christine (talk) 12:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

• Not keen at all on the use of "celebrities" - very POV/OR.

  I understand; this is something I've struggled with myself. Understand, though, that this list has been extensively vetted. No entry has been included without a good source that clearly states the person's HVC-status. In most cases, he or she has gone on the record with it. The edit history and talk page shows that as this list's main editor, I've been very strict about that. For example, I didn't include Tommy Lee because even though Pamela Anderson claims otherwise, there are no sources that state that he has Hep C, other than his denials of it, so he's not in the list. I'm very aware of the contentious aspect of this list, so I've been very careful. This kind of list, a list of people with an infectious disease with a negative stereotype is a convention in Wikipedia; for example, List of HIV-positive people, which is a featured list.Christine (talk) 12:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

• Eastern medicine is a dab link.

  Done.

• Several redirects, some of which should be fixed, like "the Rolling Stones" -> "The Rolling Stones"

  Pretty sure I got them all. Christine (talk) 13:22, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

• "porn film" would prefer something more encyclopedic like "pornographic movie" or similar.

  Um, the only instance of that phrase that comes close is Brooke Ashley's entry, and I specified the link. Christine (talk) 13:22, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

• ref 63 has a bare url.
• Ref 9, can we check that's an en-dash, not an em-dash?
• Ref 26 (for instance) has wrong way round date format, year-month-day if that's the style, be consistent.
• Ref 65 v Ref 67 "New York Times" or "The New York Times". Suggest the latter.
• Don't mix date formats in the refs, see ref 50 and 51 and compare to the yyyy-mm-dd formats used in the rest of the refs. Be consistent.

The Rambling Man (talk) 20:16, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Have dealt with the reference issues, date consistency , Eastern medicine and porn. —WFC— 20:58, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't see that you had done this, WFC, but it improved it, anyway. I think that everyone's on this list has been addressed. Christine (talk) 13:29, 28 June 2011 (UTC)