Talk:Meninges

Opinion

I have to say I think the recent additions to this page have made it far too complicated for this wiki. This especially applies to the long, detailed section "problems with meninges". Although there is no limit in principle to the length of our pages, it cannot be sensible to have content which is so specialised even for medical students. It is just overwhelming, and in this case longer and more complex than the corresponding page on English wiki. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I would be interested to hear a consensus on this, because I wrote the recent additions, and especially with the "problems" section I did a LOT of work to get those concepts into Simple English, for a couple of reasons. If the problem is that the concepts themselves are complicated, that's actually why I think it's important to have that content in the Simple English wiki. I've seen you write elsewhere that if people on Simple English want more info, they can just go to the corresponding Enwiki articles. However, the corresponding pages for these concepts (see for example "Subarachnoid hemorrhage" on Enwiki) are so long, complex, and use so much medical terminology that I think they'd be useless for many Simple English wiki users. Before I added these changes I also looked around on the Internet for materials on these concepts that are in even relatively simple English and didn't find much.

Perhaps it would be better to have separate pages for problems like the meningeal bleeds and then just link to those pages like the Enwiki article does. This is just my $0.02, but I know many people who come to the Wikis for info about medical problems; just seems like people should have some place to go for simple info about these problems. FWIW. Fuhvah (talk) 20:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)