List of people with hepatitis C

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I've listed this article for peer review because I feel that it has come a long way since it was an AfD, and because I believe that the topic is important enough to warrant an eventual FA-list status. Its quality is also on par with other FLs, but I'd like it to go through a peer review before nominating it. Finally, although its length is no where near other similar lists (i.e., List of poliomyelitis survivors and List of HIV-positive people), but I believe that's due to the strong bias against hepatitis C, which can be improved with this kind of list. Mostly, I'd like some copyediting assistance, as well as suggestions to improve it further.

Thanks, Figureskatingfan (talk) 04:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from NapHit (talk · contribs)

• "This is a list of notable people who are on public record as currently or formerly having having the infectious disease hepatitis C." no need to repeat the title of the list in the first sentence so remove it

I respectfully disagree. The two FLs listed above, which I've used as models, repeat the title of this list in their leads, as do most other lists I've seen.

• "Hepatitis C is caused by the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which affects the liver and is transmitted by blood-to-blood contact." this needs referencing

Done.

• "Hepatitis C infects an estimated 170 million people worldwide and is the leading cause of liver transplant in the United States." definitely needs a reference

Done.

• "As a result, celebrities diagnosed with the disease have decided to go public in order to raise awareness about hepatitis C and to encourage more people to get tested for the disease." again needs a reference

Done.

• you could make the table sortable, certainly the first two columns and leave the last one unsortable, Use class=wikitable sortable to make the table sortable, the sortname template for the names, and the class="unsortable" to make the last column unsortable.

I think I did this right, although I don't see that it makes any difference. Please check it, since coding is not my strong point in WP editing.

• "Child actor who played "Whitey" on Leave it to Beaver. He contracted hepatitis C from intravenous drug use. [4]" space between ref and full stop needs to be removed

Got it.

• Full stops are not needed in the image captions.

Done.

• add format=PDF to ref no.1
• I would split the references into two columns, use

to do this

Now that I'm editing from Mozilla, I can see the difference. Explorer doesn't show columns, dontcha know.

Hope this helps, good luck NapHit (talk) 18:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It definitely helps, thanks. Picky comments, which could be a good sign. ;) --Figureskatingfan (talk) 06:16, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I've sorted out the sorting and removed born from those people who had it, as this hinders sorting NapHit (talk) 15:32, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! It looks really cool. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 16:32, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]