User talk:John P. Sadowski (NIOSH)/Archive 2

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On 26 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Engineering controls for nanomaterials, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that low-turbulence enclosures developed for the pharmaceutical industry are also suitable as engineering controls for nanomaterials? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Engineering controls for nanomaterials. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Engineering controls for nanomaterials), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi John,

I just created an account here. bare with me

Cellulose nitrate is one of the chemicals that is used in inks (5 to 10% in this case). The machines I work with produce 72 micron drops of ink, 15% of which are solids. acetone, ethanol and some other chemicals make up the rest. Now... when the 85% of the other chemicals evaporate away, I'm left with nitro cellulous that has been converted into very fine particles. If I'm understanding what I'm reading, that makes the material more volatile. risk of fire increases ?

Thanks

Stan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 40+years (talk • contribs) 00:06, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Dear John Sadowski:

My colleagues and I work closely with NIOSH. I am writing to introduce myself and share our intentions regarding the content of a number of Wikipedia articles related to work stressors and occupational health outcomes. Upon review, we find that a number of articles, for example

Anxiety,

The principal colleagues involved are myself, Peter Schnall, M.D. MPH, Prof of Medicine Emeritus, University of Calif at Irvine and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology; Marnie Dobson, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor,Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California, Irvine; Associate Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology in Los Angeles. Paul Landsbergis, Ph.D. MPH, EdD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Medical Center. BongKyoo Choi, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Irvine

Sherry Reson, who is familiar with and contributes content and edits to Wikipedia, will be editing under our supervision.

For Peter Schnall, I am SherryReson (talk) 19:11, 29 June 2018 (UTC)SherryReson

On 6 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Characterization of nanoparticles, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that characterization of nanoparticles' size, shape, and agglomeration state is necessary to understand their health and safety hazards? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Characterization of nanoparticles. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Characterization of nanoparticles), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

On

hurricane responders face hazards from floodwater such as chemical and biological contaminants, and electrocution? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hurricane response. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hurricane response), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page

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Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

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Dear Dr. Sadowski, I am not sure I remember if we have been in contact already, but I wanted to say hi. I'm a active user of Wikidata and member of the [NanoSafety Cluster] community. Via our US NanoCommons partners, your name came up. I have been recently adding OECD Test Guidelines and EU representative nanomaterials to Wikidata and worked in June on an effort to get more NanoSafety Cluster projects listed in Wikidata. I like to hear more about your (nano)chemistry work within the WikiMedia ecosystem. Grtz, Egon. --

On 19 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hazards of synthetic biology, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that artificial alternatives to DNA called XNA have been proposed to reduce some hazards of synthetic biology by preventing gene flow to natural organisms? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hazards of synthetic biology. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hazards of synthetic biology), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

On 12 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Universal neonatal hearing screening, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in developing language—which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Universal neonatal hearing screening. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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On 25 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hearing protection fit-testing, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that hearing protection fit-testing is used to determine if devices like earplugs or earmuffs are providing the right amount of sound reduction? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hearing protection fit-testing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello John, My name is Mike Benjamin, and I took an Occupational Epidemiology class with Thais Morata last spring, where I started editing OSH pages as a Wikipedian. I've enjoyed it and plan to continue, but I would like more information about some things (and might make some suggestions).

What is the current status of the OSH WikiProject and its participants? While I know that everyone is volunteering to work on pages as time allows, it seems as though many aspects can be optimized.

1) It seems as though James Hare organized some work and placed several requests for work on various OSH topics years ago, but the information was vague and it is uncertain which requests were completed or not. Can these requests can be evaluated and updated?

2) Is there a coordinated effort to create, edit, and review/assess articles, including as part of OSH courses? If not, I think there should be.

a) Out of ~2000 current articles, 1000+ are start/stub class, less than 50 are above a B-Class, and ~400 have not been assessed. (metrics as of 4/24/19)

b) After recently trying to create a new article for National Stand Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, the non-OSH reviewer indicated that it was not notable. (I have tried following up on multiple message boards, etc without a response). While I may be a little biased, I do think that, outside of formatting and other principles, people outside our field may not be the best reviewers for new articles in our project. Having a regular group committed to organizing the review of new articles and assessment of existing ones could be helpful.

3) Is it possible (and if are people willing) to list the universities and courses that are working on the OSH Wikiproject on a Talk Page? If there is a critical mass of participants (10 courses?), it may be possible to not only edit/create articles and learn from each other more effectively, but they could evaluate each other's articles as well. I think the basic information needed from the instructors is the name of the course, a brief description, when/how often is it offered, the typical number of students, and how Wikipedia is being used. Of course, any previous metrics for the course (articles created/edited) would be helpful, too.

Anyway- just some thoughts. I know everyone is busy, but I thought I would throw it out there. Thanks! UCIHGrad18 (talk) 14:45, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi John,

WE may have met at ASU during one of David Guston's CNS events.

I sent all of the citations to Egon so that he could take care of collecting them with others as well as giving them an overview.

Yours,

Fred

John

I am a member of the AIHA Exposure Control Banding Committee and trying to organize our historical information about the topic in our limited member access data sharing site. I am trying to confirm the last time NIOSH or other ECBC members may have touched (updated) Wikipedia at this location. Appears April of 2018? Please confirm for me. Should we expect an update adopting the reference of the Technical Report to this page coming from NIOSH, or should AIHA committee be pushing out the revision. Forgive my complete ignorance of Wikipedia......

Kind regards, Steve

Steven Jahn Past Chair AIHA Exposure Control Banding Committee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:51DD:8108:A464:FF4B:D2D3:63FC (talk) 17:12, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Steven! Yes, we wrote the Occupational exposure banding article back in 2017, and we have plans to update it now that the final version of the Technical Report has been published. If you or anyone on the AIHA committee is interested in helping out, or improving Wikipedia articles on any other OSH topic, let me know! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 04:56, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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On 22 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nanoinformatics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the structure of nanoparticle cancer drugs affects their function in such complex ways that nanoinformatics approaches are useful? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nanoinformatics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nanoinformatics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

I added some comments in the "talk" section of the "Carbon nanotube" Wikipedia text. In particular, I feel that removing the whole passage with the uncorrect terms is too much. Thank you for the interest you paid to my remarks.Ekisbares (talk) 11:08, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello. I'm updating the outreach:Wikipedian in Residence. Is it correct for your WiR position? In particular, is there a defined end date and/or url with information about it? I've used the current table info to update John P. Sadowski (Q41870222) so that I can automate the WiR table (in progress). See the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 00:39, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

@Evolution and evolvability: There's no end date, and there's not really a dedicated URL other than the one you found. Thanks! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 05:28, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Fab, thanks! I think the table should be complete now, but if you come across anybody missing an item let me know. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 05:33, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I really like the way the Chemical <--> Disease (intoxication) <--> symptoms were modeled in Wikidata for the NIOSH Pocket Guides. I was inspecting CDC ATSDR pages and it seemed like something similar could be done with some of the ATSDR chemicals that are not already included in the NIOSH pocket guide. I checked the CAS RN's covered in ATSDR and the NIOSH NPG and found about ~64 ATSDR records that don't map via at least one CAS-RN to NIOSH NPG records. The curated list of ATSDR entries are here--would appreciate any advice/help on getting these into Wikidata in a manner similar to what you did with NIOSH. Gtsulab (talk) 19:26, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

@Gtsulab: It was User:Harej who did that project; he can give you more details on how that was done. If you need help deciding how to map the ATSDR data to Wikidata staements, I can give feedback on that. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 06:44, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): Thanks for the clarification, I actually found you via his NIOSH user page. His page said that he was no longer with NIOSH and then linked to you for NIOSH related topics. The help I need is with mapping ATSDR data. Creating an entity for any substance intoxication in Wikidata is straightforward enough, but what would be the best way to go about mapping all the symptoms of intoxication since there are no identifiers? Do you think this would be best done by an expert? Mix N Match? Thanks Gtsulab (talk) 14:31, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@Gtsulab: It looks like the NIOSH Pocket Guide had an explicit list of symptoms that were matched to Wikidata items when they were imported. Looking at the ATSDR website, it looks like it doesn't have an explicit list of symptoms, but the information is buried in the prose. Is that the difficulty? John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 15:34, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): Yes. Not sure how to best extract this information as ATSDR isn't as well-structured as NIOSH NPG. Gtsulab (talk) 15:56, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@Gtsulab: Perhaps you can assemble a list of keywords from the NIOSH Pocket Guide, and then check what keywords the ATSDR document contains (that don't have some form of "not" in the same sentence). That would at least get you a rough data set that you could then spot check against the original prose. I'd caution though that it looks like the ATSDR documents sometimes report symptoms cited to a single case study, rather than having more general support in the literature; I'd be reticent to include these in Wikidata without qualification. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:44, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): Thanks for the suggestions. Since NIOSH has done a good job of adding NPG entries to Wikidata, it would be easy enough to pull a list of symptoms mentioned in the pocket guide, but probably too time-consuming to map to the prose, especially if it might not have enough evidence for inclusion in Wikidata. I guess I'll refrain from moving forward on this as I don't really have enough background to determine whether the weight of the evidence in the prose is strong enough to include in Wikidata. Many thanks for the input Gtsulab (talk) 18:10, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

I would like to create an article for Laura Conforti, a woman scientist who is very accomplished, but I am not sure about notability. Some of her work involves nanotherapies. I am also having a hard time finding sources that mention her work, other than in the peer reviewed literature. it would be somthing to include here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_pharmacologists Can you take a look at let me know if you think it is a good idea or not? Thanks! TMorata (talk) 14:48, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello, John P. Sadowski (NIOSH). It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! ~riley (talk) 08:32, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

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