Talk:Anorexia

Spelling error in image of article

I am relatively new to editing on Wikipedia so apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, but I noticed a spelling error in image 3/5 "Genetic correlations of anorexia with psychiatric and metabolic traits" where under "Psychiatric Traits" what I believe was meant to be the word schizophrenia is instead spelt "squizophrenia".

I have basically no experience with image editing so I thought i should raise this issue here. DarraghMoose (talk) 00:41, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out, the image is unfortunately a jpg so it can't be edited directly. Nsophiay (talk) 04:07, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Ah okok, thanks. Is there anything else I should do in the meantime or is this insignificant enough to leave for now? DarraghMoose (talk) 20:36, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I added it to my to-do list but in the meantime you can just leave it. Nsophiay (talk) 22:07, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Nsophiay If you fix this picture, please notice that obsessive also has a spelling error ("obsesive"). Lova Falk (talk) 08:03, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

I've recreated the image as an SVG and fixed the two typos (squizophrenia -> schizophrenia, obsesive -> obsessive). Could you guys (DarraghMoose—Lova Falk) please take a look and let me know if I should make any changes before we replace the original image? Thanks! Nsophiay (talk) 19:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Great job!! Wow! Everything looks fine to me. Like Lova Falk (talk) 05:26, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! I've replaced the image in the article.  Done Nsophiay (talk) 22:32, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Issues in Medication section

> Administration of olanzapine has been shown to result in a modest but statistically significant increase in body weight of anorexia nervosa patients. Other types of medication that can be used to treat Anorexia Nervosa are Prozac and Zyprexa. Prozac is a type of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor which can be used to maintain a healthy weight in patients once they reach a healthy weight while Zyprexa is used to calm obsessive thinking and increase weight gain in patients

Issues with this section:

- Olanzapine and Zyprexa (brand name) are actually the same, so "Other types of medication" isn't strictly right

- Spelling/case inconsistencies: olanzapine (should be upper-case), anorexia nervosa / Anorexia Nervosa

- Repetition ("maintain a healthy weight in patients once they reach a healthy weight")

- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor -> should be abbreviated with link ~2025-40779-52 (talk) 19:36, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Updated the Medication section to reflect these changes. Nsophiay (talk) 03:25, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Sentence coherence, word choice, and consistency throughout the article

I think this article has a large number of ways in which its coherency and general phrasing of language can be improved (and, well, actually on all the other articles for eating disorders)... I've slowly been making edits paragraph by paragraph, but it's taking a while. It'd be nice to get some collaboration going on so we can see better phrasing and understanding throughout the article - especially expansion on misinterpretation of the disorder by the general public and how this changed over time.

But, eh, I'll probably end up doing all this by myself over the next couple months or so individually if no one else steps up to help. Spirit of Wikipedia, will you come forward? Burgermachine74 (talk) 10:26, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 20 July 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Clear consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) 1isall (talk | contribs) 09:47, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

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• Anorexia nervosa → Anorexia
• Bulimia nervosa → Bulimia

– Move per WP:COMMONNAME by a wide margin. It is a similar naming situation to if polio was entitled "poliomyelitis" - sometimes the full medical name is not necessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:11, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support as common names. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:52, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support per nom & WP:COMMONNAME Accesscrawl (talk) 15:44, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
• Strong support per COMMONNAME.--Ortizesp (talk) 22:30, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support per nom as common names Dinitrify (talk) 11:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support per WP:COMMONNAME and the fact that the current titles are a WP:SURPRISE. Steel1943 (talk) 15:54, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Question about article move

This article was moved from "Anorexia nervosa" to "Anorexia" due to WP:COMMONNAME. I don't think there is much dispute that "Anorexia" is the common name here. But, I am confused as to what the point of WP:MEDTITLE is. The article title should be the scientific or recognised medical name… rather than a lay term (unscientific or slang name). It gives the example, heart attack redirects to myocardial infarction. Heart attack is not technically slang and generally only has one meaning; meanwhile, poliomyelitis redirects to polio. Now, anorexia nervosa redirects to anorexia. Anorexia is a medical symptom of low appetite in scientific literature. In the case of bulimia, it generally has only one meaning like polio. What is the line here? @ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ @Randy Kryn @Accesscrawl @Ortizesp @Dinitrify @Steel1943 Slothwizard (talk) 20:23, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Pinging another active editor @Æ's old account wasn't working Slothwizard (talk) 20:29, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

MEDTITLE is simply an outdated WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. To put it simply, it should be revised to remove that since WP:COMMONNAME directly contradicts it. We do not use scientific or medical names over the "unscientific" ones. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 20:29, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

I believe WP:MEDTITLE came after WP:COMMONNAME. I would not say, per the guidelines, that they contradict each other. Rather, the common name should work under the policy of WP:MEDTITLE. My previous understanding was that, for polio, the shortening was so ubiquitous in medicine that it still worked under WP:MEDTITLE, while heart attack was not. However, for the past few years, the guideline started getting ignored entirely with SIDS, ALS, and Anorexia now being moved in spite of it. This could be that a consensus is arising that WP:MEDTITLE is obsolete. Maybe there should be a discussion about this elsewhere, as I have not seen many people talk about it. This guideline is one of the first things seen in WP:MEDMOS—the first section. Slothwizard (talk) 20:42, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

I have a hard time seeing how MEDTITLE and COMMONNAME can coexist. COMMONNAME advocates for using the name most typically used and explaining the medical name within the article. I think this makes more sense because of WP:NOTJOURNAL, which states that "a Wikipedia article should not be presented on the assumption that the reader is well-versed in the topic's field". Using scientific names assumes a familiarity with the subject matter. Sometimes a scientific name may still be the common one, like in the case of more obscure concepts, but this, too, falls under COMMONNAME since there is no more commonly used one. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 22:48, 8 October 2026 (UTC)