Talk:Polio#WP:URFA/2020 review

I'm here, after I watched content about a person whom known as "The man in the iron lung". Even on his WP page mentioned he is a "polio survivor", howewer, I not found here even a mention about him.

I feel important to ask rather than edit.

The person itself crossed all the necessary barrirers of being a WP article, so in my opinion at least needed to mention here as he is most known person who survived the disease.

But, better to insert a small section, such as "Most known survivor" or similar to that term.

Paul Alexander (polio survivor)

The link above is points to the article on same WP. Czink Attila (talk) 09:37, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Doesn't Wikipedia have a style-manual that mandates that if genetic material is owned by a virus, it is the virus's genetic material? I think it should be trivial for Wikipedia to have ROBOTIC proofreaders that find things like "virus' genetic material", correct them, issue warnings to editors who caused the article to contain such abuses, and, upon finding that an editor has done it on a prior occasion, proceed to remedies beyond issuing warnings. Wikipedia COULD be great, but over and over again I see that it is unwilling to implement measures that would make it BE great.2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 06:48, 18 January 2025 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson

The link to the reference for the prequalification of nOPV2 (ref. 14) leads to a page not found on the website of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Would it be possible to substitute it for a working one, that also contains the necessary information (e.g. https://polioeradication.org/news/gpei-press-release-on-nopv2-prequalification/)? 147.142.51.76 (talk) 14:24, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

:Done!! Thank you. Bob (talk) 21:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Replace

Between 25 percent and 50 percent of individuals who have recovered from paralytic polio in childhood can develop additional symptoms decades after recovering from the acute infection, notably new muscle weakness and extreme fatigue.

With

Around 85 percent of individuals who have recovered from paralytic polio in childhood can develop additional symptoms decades after recovering from the acute infection, notably new muscle weakness and extreme fatigue.

As the PPS indicates that current research gives the higher figure and the older figure is incorrect. 91.154.169.156 (talk) 20:28, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

:What is your reference(s)? This one from 2023 still has "PPS afflicts between 25% and 40% of poliomyelitis survivors and mimics motor neuron diseases (MNDs), such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), due to its selective impairment, degeneration, or death of motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord."

:Punsoni M, Lakis NS, Mellion M, de la Monte SM. Post-Polio Syndrome Revisited. Neurol Int. 2023 Apr 13;15(2):569-579. doi: 10.3390/neurolint15020035. PMID: 37092507; PMCID: PMC10123742. Jaredroach (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2025 (UTC)