Talk:Osteotomy

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Please[edit]

Please read the style guidelines at WP:MEDMOS (with particular attention to the Audience subsection) for some help in improving this article. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia article, not a practical guide for patients. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

        Surely it would only be patients or rather potential patients that would be looking it up anyway?

Not necessarily, but even if that were true, it wouldn't matter: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a patient support organization. We can present information that "just happens to" interest people with a medical condition, but the average reader/healthy person/non-expert is the primary focus. We do not give advice, tell the reader what to do, or provide instructions on how to do something. See WP:NOT for more information. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation[edit]

The sections of this page from Day of Surgery to the end of Strengthening are found verbatim at http://www.kneesociety.org/index.asp/fuseaction/site.kneeOsteo. Should they not therefore simply be removed from Wikipedia?

Yes, and thank you for leaving a note about that major problem. I've deleted the offending material. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I note today (27 Nov 2011) that the section relating to knee osteotomy is verbatim from kneesociety.org. This is plagiarism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiclen (talk • contribs) 03:13, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Images[edit]

I believe the images you posted are not representative of a true osteotomy recovery. Instead, it seems as though the patient has had a complete knee reconstruction, or some similar procedure, as well as an osteotomy. CKnights4 (talk) 17:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)CKnights4[reply]

I removed this text for now:

(note: these images are not representative of a true osteotomy procedure. Please see http://www.orthspec.com/osteotomy.htm for a drawn representation of the procedure)

Perhaps when someone who actually knows more about this than I do comes along, we can get this sorted out once and for all. I'll leave a note at the WPMED project about the question. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great, but I think it might also be a good idea to remove those images because they really are not a good representation of an osteotomy. I think for those who are interested in the procedure, or might have the surgery done, should not have to see images that are clearly misleading. CKnights4 (talk)CKnights4 —Preceding comment was added at 17:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am no expert on this topic but the images show an incision consistent with open surgery of the knee capsule, something that is not part of a knee osteotomy as described in the text of this article. --Una Smith (talk) 21:30, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Then let's pull all of it, and CKnights4, perhaps you would put the orthspec.com link in the ==External links== section at the end, with a suitable half-sentence description. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:25, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm relatively new to wikipedia, and am not sure where the external links are, but here is the web page: http://www.orthspec.com/osteotomy.htm. Thank you for being so cooperative with this. 128.218.106.80 (talk)CKnights4

I've created an external links section and removed the pictures. Thanks for your help. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]