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[edit] Wired magazine article
I don't think that disturbing and rambling Wired Magazine article should be in the links list, but I'm not going to remove it quite yet. I would like some feedback first. 68.149.35.104 22:47, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Reconstruction of the “blindness” page
I’ve making extensive edits to the “blindness” page, since it had started to look more like a hodge-podge of incoherent thoughts than an encyclopedia article. This is a work in progress, however, and so copy additions and edits are encouraged.
One of the most drastic changes I’ve made involves moving the web accessibility discussion to another page. This concept is broader than blindness and, besides that, the technological talk doesn’t really have much to do with the physiological condition. Kael 00:43, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Eww, who wrote that?
Who wrote the 'social attitudes towards Blindness' section? Remarkably slim, and looks like it was stolen from a book. (Awfully stilted book...) --Penta 01:11, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I wrote it when I overhauled the entire article a few months ago. The idea here on Wikipedia is to make copy changes if you have additional information. 68.149.34.143
[edit] Dead links
these articles were linked, please add them when the article is written.
- The Blind and the Deaf
- Blindness in Children
- History regarding blindness
- Blindness in Law
- Blindness in medicine
- Organizations associated with blindness
[edit] What do those numbers mean?
I rather like updating the blindness-related pages, as it is one field in which I’m interested. If you’d like to see anything added to them, please say something - User:Kael
- You need to explain the 20/200 notation, or provide a reference to a page which explains it. Gdr 10:26, 2004 Jul 28 (UTC)
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- Sorry it took me so long. Broke my leg skydiving. There's a new link at the bottom of the page. User:Kael
- Is there nothing about speaking-semaphores and those who play some music? There's one next to my house and it continues uttering "Verde para los peatones de la calle Francisco Gourié. Crucen con precaución." all the night =D --euyyn 08:35, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, for instance in our country (Czechia, and I believe in most of Europe), we have semaphores that emit two different clicking sounds, depending on the state they're in. Also, one blind guy once told me that in Prague there is a system of radio identification of bus and tram lines (which tells things like which bus just came), and also radio identification of entrances to various important buildings. I don't know much more about it, but it seems interesting. Also, we have lines along the platform embossed in subway, so blind people can track those with their stick and avoid falling from the platform (I suspect there are also other such cues). Samohyl Jan 07:07, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Internal links are redundant?
The first time I visited this article, I could find the internal link to Braille within the "Reading and magnification" section.
Now I found it removed by Martin-C with the comment removed redundant braille link. But why are internal links redundant?
In my mind, in Wikipedia internal links are like a skeleton, and the articles around them are like the flesh. Are bones redundant?
Please help me to understand this.
-- Madeleine 08:25, 2005 May 15 (UTC)
- It's preferable to have only one internal link per term per article (when the term is first mentioned), because it makes (I think this is the reason) resulting html code shorter without affecting usability. Samohyl Jan 07:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Emotion-induced blindness
See article on Slashdot [1]. Samohyl Jan 07:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Very old movie about blindness
Does anyone recall a movie of about 20 years ago which was made by the British? it starts with a guy in the hospital who has been attacked by these very large plants with stingers (the plants are about 7 feet tall). The guy has been temporarly blinded and, as fate would ahve, is bandaged over his eyes when a comet is coming into range of earth. The comet creates a spectacular light show however, the next morning, anyone who looked at the comet has gone blind. The man recovers from his own blindness to find an England devastaed by mass blindness and he trys to survive in those new society. At the end of the movie, it is revealed that te comet might actually have been a Soviet weapon. I sZw it in the 80s on PBS, Channel 26 in Washington, D.C. as I remember. Any idea what the name of it was? -Husnock 18:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- It was The Day of the Triffids (1962), directed by Steve Sekely, based on the John Wyndham novel. [JPP]
[edit] NPOV
This article has a slight POV, as some sections are written more like an advertisement then encyclopedic entry. I would correct them, only my knowledge of ocular trauma isn't that great. _-M o P-_ 23:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
If you're referring to the webaccessibility sections, there's a reason; it's a heavily monopolized industry.
- Do you mean the JAWS reference? This is not unreasonable: they're dominant (cf mentioning Internet Explorer in an article about web browsers). Disclaimer: I work for a competitor of Freedom Scientific. User:Alasdairking 22 June 2006.
[edit] {{unreferenced|date=August 2006}} tag
The {{unreferenced|date=August 2006}} tag was removed with the following comment: "article contains sources, please be more specific". I am the one who originally added the tag. The sources that currently appear in the article were also subsequently added by me. The specific statements in the article that still need references and sources are those statements that do not have references and sources (i.e. a few sentences in the introduction and nearly everything below the section entitled "Epidemiology"). It's not appropriate to add the {{fact}} tag after every sentence requiring a reference, so I'm going to reinsert the {{unreferenced|date=August 2006}} tag. -AED 05:11, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
Who put a picture in the same infobox as the ICD codes? It's aesthetically unattractive and wrong, you could place it farther down in the article, besides it's not that illustrative --Shandris 10:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion of Article
This article is entirely related to human blindness. It should cover the basic causes of blindness, physiology, etc, and link to separate articles on human blindness, evolutionary blindness, etc. I came here looking for blindess in cave dwelling animals, not humans and their adaptions.
- MSTCrow 17:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I removed the NPOV tag. I found little evidence of slant, though the article still needs some work.
[edit] Audio File
It seemed too ironic that our article on blindness had no audio file. I have therefore added one. [[User:Brinticus|Brinticus\\ 11:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unintentionally funny
"...but nothing definitive can be said of the blind as a class except that they cannot see well." It's true, of course, but somehow that sentence made me chuckle. Perhaps a small rewrite?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.86.23.99 (talk • contribs) 14:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC).
- I agree. The comment does not appear to be encyclopedic. -AED 00:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hysterical blindness?
There's an article for a movie of this name, but not for the phenomenon, which I guess is now called a form of Conversion disorder. Does anyone know enough about it to add something? Шизомби 18:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
