Talk:Fibromyalgia
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Sourcing concerns
This article has recently seen large-scale changes from Asto77. I am very concerned at the constant addition of unreliable, non-WP:MEDRS sources for biomedical content (e.g.). Asto77: have you an explanation? Bon courage (talk) 07:09, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
- Apologies. At heart I feel WP:MEDRS is unnecessarily conservative, and produces over-safe articles that (a) are less valuable and interesting than they could be (readers are adults), and (b) positions Wikipedia weakly in the coming survival battle vs AI (e.g. Grok DeepSearch). (See WP:MEDRS talk page). But I understand those are the current wiki rules, so I'll desist. Go well. Asto77 (talk) 23:52, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Asto77 Could you please stop using non-WP:MEDRS sources on this page? Studies such as this are not WP:MEDRS sources (eg. review articles).
- Also, have a look at some of the discussion of Frontiers Media journals here and here, they are not very reliable sources to use. And also see WP:MDPI about MDPI journals, which aren't very reliable too. Tristario (talk) 23:06, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
Excessive sections
@Asto77 When I found this article, it had an excessive amount of sections and subsections, which made it difficult to navigate and cluttered. I removed a lot, but it still has a lot of sections and subsections, as far as wikipedia articles go. Could you please avoid adding more sections/subsections to the article, when they aren't necessary? MOS:OVERSECTION states Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheadings.
Tristario (talk) 08:07, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
apologies for the mess and thanks for clearing it up - much appreciated. Asto77 (talk) 11:37, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
Removing "Impact on partners" section
Like the other commenter pointed out, it is too short to warrant its own section. I also question whether it's pertinent for a page on a disabling chronic condition to talk about its effects on the partners of the people actually suffering. 129.97.124.15 (talk) 13:15, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
Fibromyalgia
I think it would be appropriate to add the name, Virginia Roberts Giuffre to the list of persons who were diagnosed with with Fibromyalgia. ~2025-39046-41 (talk) 16:25, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
- I inadvertently added the word ‘with’ twice. Please remove one of them. ~2025-39046-41 (talk) 16:28, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
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