Wikipedia:Notice board for autism-related topics

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This page is a notice board for matters particularly relevant to articles related to autism and autistic spectrum disorders. Please refer to the talk pages of these articles for related discussions.

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[edit] Notice board for autism-related topics.

If you are Wikipedian interested in autism-related topics, this notice board is for you. See also controversies in autism.

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[edit] Announcements (please update as needed)

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[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

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[edit] Autism-related alerts

[edit] Autism-related articles in need of attention

[edit] New autism-related articles

[edit] Requested moves

[edit] Autism stubs

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

[edit] Autism-related articles which have survived AfD

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

[edit] Active contributors on autism-related topics

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[edit] Autism-related Featured Articles

[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)

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