[edit] Notice board for autism-related topics.

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[edit] Announcements (please update as needed)

• New: WikiProject Health controversies, March, 2006

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Article requests

• Aspie-quiz, June, 2006
• Age of Autism, April, 2006
• Amish anomaly
• Sallie Bernard
• Defeat Autism Now!
• Lyn Redwood
• Autism Awareness in Singapore

[edit] Expansion requests

[edit] NPOV requests

• Andrew Wakefield
• Autism Awareness Campaign UK
• Ivan and Charika Corea
• Homefirst Health Services
• Frequency of autism

[edit] Autism-related alerts

• Merging of Autistic community into Autistic culture has been suggested, April, 2006
• Merge all content related to causes to Causes of autism, April, 2006
• Merge all content related to treatments/therapies to Autism therapies, April, 2006
• Move all vaccine-related information into a main article and delete it from everywhere else, April, 2006
• Merge frequency of autism and Autism (incidence), March, 2007 (attempted, but reverted by Ombudsman)
• Merge content in Biomedical intervention for autism with Autism therapies, April, 2006

[edit] Autism-related articles in need of attention

• Autism Awareness Campaign Sri Lanka
• Biomedical intervention for autism
• Controversies in autism
• Intelligence tests and autism
• Leslie Lemke
• James Henry Pullen
• Jim Sinclair
• Peter Szatmari
• Stephen Wiltshire

[edit] New autism-related articles

• Autism Jersey, October, 2006
• Autism Research Institute, November, 2006
• Autism Speaks, April, 2006
• Autism Spectrum Quotient, May, 2006
• Autism therapies, February, 2006
• Autism Treatment Trust, July, 2006
• David Ayoub, MD, June, 2006
• Anna Balazs, October, 2006
• Thomas Burbacher, PhD, August, 2006
• Manuel Casanova, PhD, July, 2006
• Causes of autism, February, 2006
• Combating Autism Act, August, 2006
• Eric Fombonne, January, 2006
• Boyd Haley, PhD, March, 2006
• Neal Halsey, MD, April, 2006
• Brian Hooker, PhD, June, 2006
• Isodicentric 15, October, 2006
• Arthur Krigsman, February, 2006
• Richard Lathe, PhD, May, 2006
• Derrick Lonsdale, MD, June, 2006
• Jason McElwain, February, 2006
• Tito Mukhopadhyay, January, 2006
• Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder, May, 2006
• Sally-Anne test, July, 2005
• Henriett Seth-F., January, 2006
• Peter Szatmari, July, 2006
• Vaccine injury, February, 2006
• Weak central coherence theory, August, 2006
• Wrong Planet, May, 2006

[edit] Requested moves

[edit] Autism stubs

• Alonzo Clemons
• Autism diagnostic observational schedule
• Autism Network International
• Michelle Dawson
• Tony DeBlois
• Norm Ledgin
• Jonathan Lerman
• Thristan Mendoza
• Derek Paravicini
• Jim Sinclair
• Peter Szatmari
• Gilles Trehin
• Richard Wawro

[edit] Autism-related Articles for Deletion (WP:AfD) candidates

[edit] Autism-related articles which have survived AfD

• Controversies in autism - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversies in autism April, 2006
• Autism epidemic - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autism epidemic April, 2006
• Edward Yazbak - Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Edward Yazbak, June, 2005
• People speculated to have been autistic - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/People speculated to have been autistic - March 2006.

[edit] Autism-related articles which have been AfD'd

• Early intevention for autism - deleted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Early intervention for autism, March, 2006
• Asperger's self-identification - deleted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asperger's self-identification, January, 2006

[edit] Active contributors on autism-related topics

Feel free to add or remove yourself from this list:

• ombudsman
• Rdos
• Gerrit

[edit] Autism-related Featured Articles

• Autism
• Asperger's syndrome

[edit] Discussions

I believe that editors need to keep a close watch on Ombudsman's activities with regard to autism. Examination of his edits and many of the topics he has started show a clear agenda of alleging that autism is an epidemic, that it is substantially caused by vaccines, that there is a "medical establishment" cover-up, and that those who try to edit wiki along lines of established evidence - which does not support any of his propositions - are malign, if not corruptly influenced. In pursuit of this, he has created page after page overlapping with existing subjects, generally creating alternative narratives to those worked on by others over many months. He has also added a network of links that would tend to lead readers away from the contributions of others. He has repeatedly deleted links on such pages - most often to delete links to the autism page, where he has been unable to gain influence. He has repeatedly breached the three-reversion rule in his attempts to promote a handful of anti-vaccine activists, edited comments on his own page, making it difficult for readers to follow what's going on. He plainly has no specialist knowledge of any of these topics, and in the rare cases where he references a claim, it will generally be to an anti-vaccine opinion website. I am all for free speech and multiple viewpoints, but I would hope that those with real knowledge of autism can find the time to follow this phenomenon. Misinformation on these topics has caused real distress to parents, and, in my view, exposed children to real risks. 86.129.121.203

My main objective of removing the therapy and causes sections of the autism (and Aspergers) articles and putting them in new articles was the controversy implied in these topics. I think it is far better if these controversial ideas (mostly from the pro-cure camp) is kept separate. At least I'm offended by the ideas put forward there, and especially in the therapy section --Rdos 17:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)