Talk:OPCS-4

Publication title

The published and official title of the classification has been OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures version 4.x since OPCS-4.3. No reference to Office of Population Censuses and Surveys has been made within the title since OPCS-4.2. Within this context, OPCS is used as a pseudo-acronym/orphaned initialism.

The OPCS-4 article is about all versions of the standard and doesn't prevlidge the latest version (see WP:RECENTISM). Also you haven't provide secondary source for any of this. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:48, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

I'll have to double check when next in work, but IIRC the only source that states OPCS is an orphaned initialism is the introduction within OPCS-4.6. To maintain stylistic consistency with the likes of the BBC article I've reverted OPCS-4 to the 11 June version until I can provide a reference re use of OPCS as an orphaned initialism. I'd rather that, than a delete tag or vandalism lock be applied. Little pob (talk) 14:56, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

With OPCS-4.7 due April, I've come back to this. There seems to be some incompatibilities between WP:AT, WP:ON and WP:RECENTISM with regards to the way to go, hopefully I've got the lead section's balance right? Little pob (talk) 13:56, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Article rewrite

This is one of the first wiki articles I wrote. Coming back with a bit of time to work on it, I can see the following issues/fixes needed.

• lead section no longer reads smoothly. Needs overhaul, but need to keep in mind WP:ON vs WP:RECENTISM
• rework "revision cycle" as a history section. The issue here is the most comprehensive source is OPCS-4 itself.
• rewrite "chapter list" as a Vol I section. - renamed, more work needed.
• create Vol II section between current chapter list and sup pub sections. - needs expansion though.
• attempt to locate some 3rd party sources.

Little pob (talk) 11:15, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Update

I've just tinkered around the edges with some inconsistencies and inaccuracies that annoyed me. Sadly, there is zero chance of removing the 'third-party' template as noone cares about OPCS-4 unless they are working in this area in the NHS :-( The NHS Terminology and Classifications Service like to hide the history of OPCS before 4.2, but it did exist. OPCS-3 was published as a blue hardback, OPCS-4 first appeared in a red ring binder with no index. 4.1 came as photocopied pages to slot in until 4.2 came as the square-bound not-quite foolscap book with the red cover 208.127.199.222 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:07, 16 May 2023 (UTC)