Talk:Tay–Sachs disease

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Neutrality

As this article talks way more about the Jews that have the disease, and not the others, I will be adding a neutrality tag. Some instances of it are:

~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 01:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at the academic literature such as this paper PMID: 12108829 it mentions Jewish people as the carrier state is 10 times more common and thus homozygous individuals would occur in 1 in 3600 as opposed to 1 in 360,000 in the general population.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:23, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but there was WP:UNDUE weight there. ~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 14:27, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed one section that was just poor. But the rest... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:01, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SS

I suggest that we get this as Wikipedia:Summary Style. Getting Tay–Sachs disease#Genetics, Tay–Sachs disease#Prevention, Tay–Sachs disease#History, Tay–Sachs disease#Society and culture, and Tay–Sachs disease#Research directions. The page is 58,720 bytes long, justifying the splitting. I'm posting this here as I won't be bold here as it's pretty fustrating being reverted for these things. ~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 19:04, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I support summarizing and creating Prevention of Tay-Sachs disease etc. with a main link.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will. Also webciting some references. Lets try to get this to GA. ~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 19:21, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]