Talk:Auger therapy
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Time for an overhaul!
This article clearly needs some work; in addition to remaining issues with readability and scope of content (etc.), there are also assertions made that are either too muddled to be verifiable/refutable or simply wrong. While it is currently not up to the standards of Wikipedia, I do think that it meets the notability criterion as an established area of research that looks like it is poised to become an important part of our arsenal against cancer.
I am going to be making some major changes to the article, including a re-write of the introductory section and removal of a lot of information that is extraneous, unsourced and unverifiable, or incorrect. I hope that others will continue this trend and help build this page into a more thorough treatment of this interesting topic. In the interest of disclosure, I am a scientist with knowledge and experience relevant to the contents of the article but I am not involved in research that is directly related to cancer therapy or auger-effect based therapeutics. Thus, I have no conflicted or competing interests and no stake in this other than trying to improve an article that needs serious help to rise to the level of its peers.
Pyrilium (talk) 00:22, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
References
Since this is an article that may collect a lot of references, and standard footnote inline citations make the wikitext hard to read, I propose using a variant of this format called list-defined references: see Citing sources, List-defined references (short), and List-defined references (full). Basically, this means that the Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). tags are collected in one place in the article, and referred to by name in the running text. Per Wikipedia's policies, any wholesale change to the reference format used by an article requires a consensus of the editors; it is not clear that inline-footnote vs. list-defined footnote is a wholesale change, but I am proposing it here for comment. I am going to use this format from the start for refs that I add, and once there is consensus - or lack of comment for a while - I will eventually convert the rest of the article to be consistent. If there is dissent, I will convert any refs that I add to inline-definition.
Pyrilium (talk) 01:15, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Unpublished source
The unpublished source in this section does not meet WP:MEDRS (not to mention WP:RS), and I've removed it. Miniapolis 13:55, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Concerns raised at WP:MEDICINE
I've raised some concerns about this article and a related one (Molecular Therapy) at WikiProject Medicine, see here. Carcharoth (talk) 05:38, 2 July 2015 (UTC)