Talk:Balanitis
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This article is cloned from a subsection of medical analysis of circumcision.
[edit] Emedicine
The article on balanitis at emedicine
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic51.htm
is filled with medical myths. It is unsuitable for a reference for Wikipedia.
Robert Blair 14:05, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Lots of men have smegma without having balanitis. Other men (usually circumcised) don't have smegma but do have smegma. I have not seen any real credible medical evidence that smegma and balanitis are associated.
Until that is produced, the e-medicine myths will not be permitted. In other words, just because e-medicine says does not make it fact. This is POV pushing by pro-circumcision doctors of the worst kind.
Robert Blair 21:57, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I've reverted your censorship, both of e-medicine and other information.
- Here are a couple of other articles discussing a link: http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/chow/ http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/edwards1/ See refs 2 and 72 in the latter, for evidence.
- You cannot censor information on the grounds that you personally haven't seen evidence. This is a collaborative encyclopaedia - the sum of human knowledge, not a RobertBlairPedia.
- Your continued censorship of facts that you do not like is appalling. When will you ever read Wiki's NPOV policy? - Jakew 22:57, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, you could also read [1] this. It's not available online, but I have a copy I'll try to scan for you... - Jakew 23:01, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dishonest edit summary
Robert Blair, your most recent edit was summarised very dishonestly. You claimed that it was: "RV to improved more accurate version and to restore deleted information".
In fact, far from being improved, it removed relevant information:
- links to http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic51.htm, http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/chow/ http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/balanitis/edwards1/ (as discussed in sect. above)
- info about lack of aeration etc
- info about "The most common complication of balanitis is phimosis..."
You claimed that you were restoring deleted information. In fact, NO INFORMATION was added - only removed.
Please stop being so dishonest. - Jakew 18:32, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Reorganisation of article
Please note that I have reorganised the article into meaningful sections, and I have added a reference list. I have some changes to make to the article, to include additional information, which may require adding further references. The current citation format (eg Keogh, 2005) is temporary, unless anyone thinks it is an improvement (?). It will make it a lot easier to reorder the references once the new ones are added. I anticipate doing this within the next week or so, so please comment! - Jakew 20:28, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
