Talk:CaBIG

Neutrality

It was tagged over a year ago for neutrality, although I could not find a discssion here. It looks like several paragraphs of uncited propaganda promoting the program, followed by one paragraph criticising it. Generall needs sourcing to citations anyway, and remove dated empty language etc. Also think it should be merged with the caGrid article if that is just some software that runs it, unless they are independely notable. W Nowicki (talk) 21:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

A paragraph about criticism was added and has been expanded to include recognition of the NCI report and the replacement program, and mention of this is in the opening paragraph. I disagree with the the idea of merging with the grid article as cabig grid is a subset of cabig and many applications operate independent of it. furthermore cagrid itself is subject to far more of the problems than cabig itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallet55 (talk • contribs) 23:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

This article reads like advertising. caBIG was a good idea in principle but executed by self-interested parties. The NIH shut down the program because it consumed $350M in funding and produced very little results. There's not much else to the program other than the historical note of how not to run a big-science program. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.255.177 (talk) 19:18, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

This article makes claims that are unsubstantiated regarding the number of sites that participated and the utility of the program. At no point were 50+ centers exchanging cancer data on any shared study. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.93.61 (talk) 15:18, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

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Well the discussion was right in the section above? Anyway, I worked on removing some, and will try to remove some more. It was clearly a promotional piece to justify the government contracts, but then had the critical section added at the end. Still needs to be merged with the otherwise not notable caGrid. W Nowicki (talk) 23:06, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge

A merge has been proposed (not by me) between caGrid and CaBIG, this article. I support this merge, as:

• This allows the information to be displayed in one place
• Portraying the articles together is likely to enhance readership and thereby improve quality
• Both issues relate to the same topic.

Thoughts? Kind regards, LT910001 (talk) 07:45, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Seems fair enough, and given that this this is 3 years old ...  Done Klbrain (talk) 22:26, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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