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Contents 1 Edit conflict 2 Good job and welcome 3 mGluR's modulate other receptors 4 multiple referencing 5 Hey 6 Merge on Intra-axial hematoma 7 First Aid 8 Invitation to review 9 Manual of Style 10 Wound images 11 Banning people 12 RC Patrol 13 Infection 14 Thank you 15 CDVF Answers 16 RC Patrol part 2 17 GraemeL's RFA 18 Ahoy 19 Re: George W. Bush 20 Re: George W. Bush 21 User:131.247.153.37 22 Thank you! 23 Hello 24 My failed RFA :) 25 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 26 Hi 27 my user page 28 Right on 29 Environmental vegetarianism 30 Vandalism reverts on my user page 31 Thank you! 32 malo's RfA 33 Thanks 34 Thanks 35 Thanks 36 Discussion on Merkel disk receptor 37 thank you 38 Fetal Development 39 Nissl 40 Big Spring, Texas 41 USer page 42 Removed from runescape page 43 TfD nomination of Template:Logo 44 Japan visa info 45 Thanks for Hello 46 DNA Polymerase 47 Hemorrhagic stroke 48 Photoreceptor/Photoreceptor cell 49 Psychology Wiki 50 Connexin categorization 51 Monobook 52 Shaken Baby 53 A stupid user 54 Where's the move button? 55 ASPS 56 Thanks for the help 57 how do i...? 58 sorry!! 59 Acamprosate 60 i tried to call you 61 Attempt to redirect/merge Premarital sex to Fornication 62 sorry 63 please try to avoid blanking archive pages 64 Vandalism 65 gre 66 Street medic edit 67 so...???? 68 the letter! 69 bac 70 Big scary bacc exam 71 Vandalism on Walter Mondale 72 sorry 73 bot help? 74 Hi 75 your bacc / street medic organizations 76 Moon landing 77 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 78 Green Day

Edit conflict

Sorry for the editing conflict on Metabotropic glutamate receptor! --RichG 07:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

p.s. - nevermind, I thought my edits cut yours out. Good luck with the research.--RichG 07:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Good job and welcome

Hi there, I've been noticing your recent contributions to several neuroscience-related articles. I just wanted to point out that there is a {{neuroscience-stub}} category you might want to use in your articles rather than using the less descriptive {{bio-stub}}. Also, I redirected your article on Resting channel to Resting ion channel, which is a more descriptive title. I hope you don't mind. I also left a message for you in the AMPAR talk page. Finally, I wanted to encourage you to keep up the great level of work you have been contributing. Cheers, Nrets 14:20, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding the review article: You can put a link to the abstract in the journal website, or simply just write in the citation. That being said, PubMed is pretty quick in updating, so it will probably be up in a few days, unless it is a really obscure journal. What's the reference? Nrets 21:27, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

mGluR's modulate other receptors

Hello. Good work on providing a defence of the modulatory role. I took the dispute tag off, and put a small blurb in the "group II and III" section. --RichG 01:52, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

multiple referencing

Hello, Delldot. I checked out the wound healing page. The reference page you need is Wikipedia:Footnotes, and it appears possible to use {{ref num... instead of {{ref.... Good luck! It seems to me, though that the wound healing article has a rather large amount of referencing. Wikipedia seems to prefer fewer, more general references (it's not really inteded to be rigorous research). One thought might be to place most of the references on an article sub-page. ? I dunno.
By the way, if you get a chance, you might be interested to take a look at neuropsychopharmacology which I am writing. I would much appreciate any suggestions you may have. --RichG 03:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Yea, I think there's too many references. In my opinion, specific references in an encyclopedia article should back up any somewhat strong claim, very new information, or otherwise info which a reader may feel resistance to grasp. But that's just roughly my opinion. Like I said, a sub-page could be created for all of them, but I don't currently know what kind of precedent there is for that. If I have time, maybe I'll take another detailed look at that article. Happy writing! --RichG 04:27, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Too many references??? There's no such thing as too many references.  :-) As long as footnotes or something guide the reader to the right references among the sea of them. My opinion. Coppertwig 17:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Hi Delldot, good work there on the bleeding inside skulls! Please continue; have you had a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine?

Please don't put articles in Category:Medicine just because they are medical topics. This category is a container for many subcategories, and would be overloaded and unworkable if all medical articles were placed in it! Thx. JFW | T@lk 04:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

I would put the neurotrauma pages in Category:Injury, Category:Neurosurgery and Category:Traumatology, although there seems to be a move to eliminate diagnosis articles from the "medical specialty" categories. Perhaps you might contemplate putting them all in a new Category:Neurotrauma and to make that a subcategory of all categories I mentioned above. JFW | T@lk 08:35, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Merge on Intra-axial hematoma

Pleased to make your acquaintance. I've finished the merge, per Talk:Intraparenchymal hemorrhage. However, this probably only should be a temporary merge, and once there's some significant content for Intraventricular hemorrhage, we could split them out onto two pages again. I just put a few sentences at Intra-axial_hematoma#Intraventricular_hemorrhages to get the ball rolling, but you might want to take a look at it when you get a chance. --Arcadian 21:20, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I just saw your latest rounds of rewrites -- nice job! --Arcadian 23:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

First Aid

Go for it. I'll drop by from time to time and check it out, and let you know if I think of anything else. --Gadget850 04:10, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Invitation to review

Hi Delldot. How's the writing going? I have placed the article Neuropsychopharmacology for peer review. Based on your qualifications in the medical field and related contributions, I am inviting you to take a look at the article and if you wish, to comment on it at Wikipedia:Peer review/Neuropsychopharmacology. Thank you.--RichG 01:58, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Manual of Style

I noticed your question about the general guide to style/layout - see WP:MoS. Alf ^melmac 17:56, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Wound images

Hey, I saw your question about potentially disturbing images you want to add to the chronic wound article. Now, I am no authority, but as far as I know, there's no guideline detailing the use of such images. You'll see that the article on wound has the images available, for example.

However, what I would suggest doing is a method similar to how Wikipedia links to shock sites. That is, you could upload an image, and in the article, create a link to that image with a warning about the image nature. For example, something like Warning! The image linked to is of graphic nature and might be disturbing or unpleasant to view - link.

Hope it helps. Solver 21:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Banning people

A quick check shows that our anonymous friend (216.207.246.91) has vandalized Tennen Rishin-ryu and Paranoia as well. Just curious (not something I personally want to get into) but how do you ban editing privilages. Personally I think the person has had enough warnings. Peter Rehse 01:30, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the info - again I only asked to know how its done. I guess the next question (don't worry just one more) is how to restore previous versions or is it a matter of cut and paste. The latter seems to work pretty good so far.Peter Rehse 02:38, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Now its clear - thanks much.Peter Rehse 03:33, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

RC Patrol

What page did we run into eachother at? RC Patrol is a very noble cause, we always need people to fight back vandals and I'm glad you're interested. First, either use WP:CDVF or watch the listings in #wikipedia-en-vandalism on freenode if you have IRC. Second, get Sam Hocevar's godmode-light.js to give you the rollback button, it makes reverts way faster. See http://sam.zoy.org/wikipedia/ for info on how to do that. You're certainly not getting in the way, if I beat you to a revert or something, no big deal. If you have any more questions, I'm more than willing to answer them. -Greg Asche (talk) 00:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Yea, I think that's a bug with CDVF. Kinda annoying, but you get used to it. -Greg Asche (talk) 21:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Infection

Hi delldot! I originally removed the disambiguation link from the infection article because it mentions the title of only one out of 110 episodes of Babylon 5. I'd consider it useful if it was the title of a whole tv series / movie / ... . Anyway, today I saw that there's a whole article about that episode (about each episode to be accurate), so now I see that it might make sense to keep the link. But, as you can read in Wikipedia:Disambiguation: Ask yourself: When a reader enters this term and pushes "Go", what article would they realistically be expecting to view as a result? I don't think anyone would expect to find an article about a Babylon 5 epsiode when entering infection. So I'm still for removing the link. I'll also add this to Talk:Infection. --Tim81 10:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, I think you're perfectly right - let's see what others think and let them decide. :-) --Tim81 13:34, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment on my RfA. I appreciate the feedback! .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 04:46, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

CDVF Answers

Noticed your good work on RC patrol and saw your questions about the CDVF. Just wanted to add to help cut down on revert conflicts (which aren't an issue for Wikipedia, but it does waste your time trying to do something someone else already did), you can change the setting in Configuration to "Automatically remove old edits & ...". That way when something is reverted it will disappear. Other helpful settings is "Auto blacklisting people reverted by those on the whitelist" and then compiling a whitelist of admins (those you see reverting vandalism). Soon you get a significant list of suspected IP's to keep your eyes on. :") Have fun, and keep up the good work! - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:47, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

RC Patrol part 2

I've noticed the good work you've been doing on RC patrol as well. I would like to encourage you to keep on adding the test message to vandals talk pages. I find that for the casual vandal a single test message is all they need to make them stop. Keep it up. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:10, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I use a tabbed browser and at home I open a second window of the browser and put it on the second monitor. Then I just put all the user contribution pages in there and every two or three minutes I update them manually. At work it's much the same but only one monitor which is a pain. If they are blanking their talk page I would revert it with a warning. Which usually gets blanked but I wouldn't block a user for that. The reason I like leaving the test message is that you can go through your watchlist, click on the IP numbers and then look and see if they have returnd and are making new contributions. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

GraemeL's RFA

Ahoy

Hey Dell!

Re: George W. Bush

Delldot - Thanks for your message, although I was actually trying to remove the profanity from the G.W.Bush page, rather than put it in as your message might suggest... Check the versioning if you like... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 163.1.132.70 (talk • contribs).

You're right, see my appology on User talk:163.1.132.70. delldot | talk 06:08, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: George W. Bush

Hey Delldot,

What would you say to the idea that we get the Secret Service or some other fed brass to "protect" the Bush page. It is practically like a white wall in a ghetto somewhere just waiting to be tagged. --Master Jay 23:40, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

User:131.247.153.37

Did you forget to log in? This user has made one edit to your user page and nothing else but it's hard to tell if adding balloonist theory to your to-do list is a vandal edit or not. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello

Hello! I hope this is the way to respond to a message.

You asked about my editing "death." I'm doctoral level faculty with 15 years at a major academic medical research institution. I'm a thanatologist, a medical ethicist, and a Unitarian Universalist minister. One branch of my family came over to the colonies on the Speedwell. I have many interests and much knowledege. I've just hopped into Wiki and figure I have a great deal I can contribute. I've written lots of things over the years that I use in teaching, etc., just sitting in my computer. I figure, why not share?  :o) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.219.160.13 (talk • contribs).

My failed RFA :)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hi. Just a quick note of thanks on the RHPS edits. MosheZadka 09:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi

Not sure if I was suppose to answer you here or on the comment page where you penned a message to me about OSC. I was very surprised when wikipedia said I had a message waiting for me -- didn't know you could do that. Just a heads up that I've responded there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.205.180.171 (talk • contribs).

my user page

Thanks for reverting the vandalism from my user page, thats the second time its been vandalized (people don't seem to like me!). — Wackymacs 21:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Right on

Yeah man need to get read of those farm animal lovers. I see that you are in Sarasota, Im just a bit south of you in Naples- Reid A. 04:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

____Thanks____

So you guys constantly go around clicking on diff oh and where is it. Sorry if i caused trouble alli wanted was to see if anyone would notice so i could then see how they noticed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.193.107.80 (talk • contribs).

I do not consider it to be a vandalization of Wikipedia. It is merely the truth. Davideus 22:30, 13 December 2005 (UTC);

Ok, will do. Davideus 22:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC);

Environmental vegetarianism

No problem! - FrancisTyers 19:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

If you're going to mark the page as in use, could you make a comment on the talk page describing what changes you're going to make? - FrancisTyers 19:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Delldot for your contributions on the environmental vegetarian page. Refer to previous edit. Nidara 19:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism reverts on my user page

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. The car is far from perfect, but it's certainly not a turn in a jar! Jasmol 18:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Ha ha! Yeah, I took a flying leap on that one. delldot | talk 19:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

malo's RfA

Thanks

Many thanks for your support on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me.

ps sorry about beating you to reverts ;) --Alf ^melmac 11:28, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks

What a nice thing to say! I really appreciate it. Just FYI, there's a RfArb open now as well. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Discussion on Merkel disk receptor

Hello, I have left some discussion at the Merkel disk receptor page, and would appreciate a reply. Thanks, DeCaux 16:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I have seen your merge & name change. Many thanks. DeCaux 20:46, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

thank you

nice work delldot. please consider consider sending a staff application. -monkeysuncle (68.41.183.234 03:45, 15 January 2006 (UTC))

Fetal Development

Hello Delldot. I'm new to this so I'm not sure of the proper protocole to amswer your question re my modification to fetal development. What happened is that the metric and english system mesures didn't match. Since the metric measures appeared more precise I modified the english ones to reflect the metric one more accurately. I didn't really check wether the english or the metric ones were actually more accurate though. --User: esaque

Nissl

Oops no, the copyright notice pointed to a different page, I didn't realize that the older text was also copied. I'll reword it a bit, and cite that page as a source. Thanks for the heads up. cheers, -Nrets 02:37, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Great, thanks! delldot | talk 02:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Big Spring, Texas

Hi Delldot, thanks for helping out with the Big Spring page. There appears to be a single anon individual using one of several IP addresses who steadfastly insists on adding this edit or parts of it, with no attempts to tone down the obvious POV language. Here's a good example of what we've been dealing with [1]. Note the deceptive edit summary. Any suggestions? OhNoitsJamie^Talk 18:23, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

See response on user talk:ohnoitsjamie. delldot | talk 18:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. You suggested warning the IP; warn for vandalism, or something else? I guess I just wanted to be sure that this can be considered vandalism before I give that warning (though I think it's abundantly clear that some sort of warning is justified for that pattern of Wikipedia abuse). OhNoitsJamie^Talk 19:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

USer page

Thanks for the revert. That was some guy spamming. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem :) delldot | talk

Removed from runescape page

I thought it would be nice to have some people to help out new users. I was being serious about it. You can talk to me at Hilotsunami user talk. No one would access Hilotsunamis or stargazer 180s page unless there was a link to it on a commonly used page.

Ok, I'll copy my response on User talk:24.22.79.138 onto User talk:Hilotsunami. delldot | talk 19:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I added another section to the runescape page that took up less space did relate to the encyclopedia and it was deleted. Why?--Hilotsunami 22:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, don't know. I'll take a look through the history of the page, see if I can find what you're referring to, and let you know on user talk:Hilotsunami. delldot | talk 19:20, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

(copied from user talk:Hilotsunami): Hm, I don't know. Is this what you're referring to? Unfortunately, the person didn't leave an edit summary, so I can't know for sure what their motivations are, but I would guess that their reasons were the same as mine were when I removed the first thing you added. They'd probably say, if you asked them, that articles are only for notable information, and that an individual wikipedian probalby doesn't meet wikipedia's notability criteria unless they're famous or something. You might check out Wikipedia:what wikipedia is not for other possible reasons it was removed. I'm thinking specifically about Wikipedia is not a free host, blog, or webspace provider. People also aren't supposed to put links to their private webpages into articles (per WP:SPAM), so the person may have thought that linking to your user page as similar to that. Also, linking from the article namespace to other namespaces such as the user namespace is discouraged, again because the articles are for objective, encyclopedic information. I appreciate you offering to help people, but I'm afraid I have to agree with the person's actions, per these policies. But i hope this doesn't discourage you from still participating! As usual, I'm glad to discuss this or whatever else further on my talk page. PEace, delldot | talk 19:45, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry, I had another look at the edit and realized it wasn't your user page but a category that you linked to. I think the edit may have been removed because articles are not supposed to refer to wikipedia-related things (i.e. other namespaces) per WP:MOS. The notability concerns and cross-namespace linking are probably what the deal was with that. Peace, delldot | talk 19:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for answering my question. I talked with the user that edited it out and was able to put in a link that was agreeable for both of us.

That's great! Glad you worked it out. delldot | talk 18:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Logo

Template:Logo has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Esprit15d 20:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Japan visa info

Japanese Visa info is not copywrited and can be obtained on various public domains.--komplex 17:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Komplex16 for response. delldot | talk 21:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Hello

Sorry for the belated reply, I answered your question on my user page about my name, just in case other people have the same question later. I am interested more in diplomacy, but I do hope we find cures for all things that plague us. But my name comes from a shortened version of how else I am known on the net. Vindictive Immunity: meaning, immmune to persons who seek to be vindictive towards me. I came upon putting these two words together because they sounded poetic when I was trying to establish my online existance. -- vi 07:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

DNA Polymerase

The contribution to the DNA polymerase article was my own and was not copied from a website or an article.

OK, thanks for the response. delldot | talk 21:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hemorrhagic stroke

Hi, do you mind if I move the contents of hemorrhagic stroke under stroke and redirect it from your page? Reason being that hemorrhagic stroke is a type of stroke and itself encompasses a group of diseases, so imho it would be more clear if is redirected under stroke and then we can link the individual diseases from there. Thanks and let me know. Andrewr47 02:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Photoreceptor/Photoreceptor cell

You may want to revisit Talk:Photoreceptor cell to see if the direction of the merge is OK with you. -AED 04:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Psychology Wiki

Hi Dell,

I saw the work you did on Diffuse axonal injury and thought that you might be interested in some of the work I have done on the Psychology Wiki. The particular article I had in mind was the Recovery from Acquired Brain Injury. It was a project I did for my university, which was for non-specialists (social rehab trainers working with brain injured clients) who had no formal psychology/physiology training.

It will probably seem quite simplistic to you, but I got excellent feedback whenever I used it to explain Brain Injury to people who had no training in the area, partly because of the pictures throughout the article. Thought you might find it interesting.

If you have the time (after your Thesis) pop by the Psychology Wiki and see if there's anything you could help out with. We need more people to write technical articles, and we are happy for them to go into more detail than you would expect on Wikipedia, as this is the point of our Wiki.

Hope your Thesis/work is going well :)

Mostly Zen 19:28, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Connexin categorization

Was there a reason you categorized connexin's as ion channels? I've worked with channels for years and no one I've met has ever considered a connexin to be an ion channel. Afterall, ATP and other small molecules pass through the things...not just ions. Would there be any objection to my removing the categorization? -Dpryan 06:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Monobook

I've just cut and pasted the latest version of Sam's godmode light into your monobook, hope it works, if not rv and we'll try something else... --Alf ^melmac 02:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Shaken Baby

I took out the word "scanned" and left "PDF" in the reference for David TJ (1999) -all PDF files are scanned and the word "scanned" was redundant. I added a J to David TJ and a A to Clemetson CA. I discussed the reference listing with a number of MD colleagues today, who have published numerous articles in various journals over the years and everyone was in agreement with the AMA format that I mentioned earlier that is also listed in Pub Med and all the journals that have published papers.

I have spent a considerable amount of time working on this page and the references to provide reputable references. I spent all day Saturday until 1 AM trying to straightening out the page from all the people that tampered and destroyed numerous things, including the references. I had not even finished adding additional information to the article, including the references to take the time to make the corrections for a “proper” citation listing. I think the following is quite rude and brash. I think anyone with any class and style would have notified someone who was a obvious major contributor that editing changes would be forth coming and notify them of the impeding changes to someone’s laborious effort. I definitely will think twice about taking the time to add anything else to Wikipedia with this kind of attitude and respect.

And this is what David wrote:

Your edit of 07:19, 11 October 2006 risks breaching WP:Assume good faith - I am well aware of the proper format - see discussion at Template talk:Cite journal#Publication volume number in bold / additional data / descriptive labels where I source and link to the British Medical Journal's stylebook, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements style, style of National Library of Medicine (NLM) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) guidelines.

Stop trying to "own" articles and work with other editors in what is supposed to be a collaborative effort, unlike your attempt to instruct me to "leave this page alone". Your reversions to what were sincere attempts to copyedit to improve the article, seemed disruptive to the wikipedia process - please note the comments and edit summaries of several editors to your talk page and the shaken baby syndrome article.

Whilst Wikipedia is not beholden to any outside organisation on how it thinks best to do some thing, there are a number of standard approaches taken in footnote linking from a place within the text to full citation details listed in a reference or footnote section. Editors are free to choose whichever of these systems they like when creating an article (Harvard, ref/note, cite.php etc) - but manually arranged reference lists with a divorced series of inline links is not standard in wikipedia. It is a difficult approach to maintain, and indeed as of 9th October the version of the article had a mismatch with 42 inline links yet only 41 listed in the reference section, and several references were duplicated. Preventing others from trying to help sort out such issues was hardly collaborative.

As for style of presenting citations: - sure manually format if one wishes or use the appropriate citation template to do this for one. However the application of hyperlinking to the publisher or citation reference in the previous versions is not standard in wikipedia. Instead the hyperlink is generally applied to the title of the paper in question. This has nothing to do with the overall "format is for medical and scientific refences" as this is an in-house issue of how one applies hyperlinks within wikipedia to a given reference. Hence: Smith A "Report on X" The Times 12 Jan 2004 but not : Smith A "Report on X" The Times 12 Jan 2004. The linking of The Times would be assumed to be either to wikipedia's own article on the newspaper or the paper's homepage, e.g. : Smith A "Report on X" The Times 12 Jan 2004 David Ruben Talk 23:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

70.171.229.32 01:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

A stupid user

Hi there! The reason Im calling Khoikhoi stupid is the fact that he is. We had an argument concerning adding Turkish names in Greek places. After that he constantly harasses me, changing every single contribution I make, right or wrong, because I m banned. The reason I m banned is because of him. I dont know where you come from, but would you accept or even like to see your birthplace in Wikipedia written in a foreigh language, as well, in the opening sentence? And because i didnt agree with him, he provocates me constantly and in a manner that is WAY OUT of the purpose of Wikipedia. Everybody contributes here not just Khoikhoi. Thanx. Mywayyy.

Well, I have never been rude to anyone here in Wikipedia. Its not my thing to call people bad names especially behind a screen and a computer but this guy has something personal with me. I cannot explain his constant changes in useful contributions I make. For instance the word: stupeed is written by someone like this and i correct it to: stupid but that guy will again revert it to stupeed.....Maybe if you had a word with him just tell him to back off and let me enjoy Wikipedia. Thanx in advance.Mywayyy

Where's the move button?

Hi, Thanks for dropping in. I cannot see the "move" button. You may call me stupid if you like :) 56osmunka 00:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC) PS. Move it for me and I'll be grateful.

Thanks! Could you please tell me one more thing, are User special pages visable to other users via any of the page history or "user contributions" options? I just would like to know how private is my work while I am getting it ready for uploading. 56osmunka 00:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

ASPS

Hello. In fact, there is no copyright infridgement because 151.204.255.27 who added the copyrighted material is Yosef Landesman here http://cureasps.org/about/ who wrote it in the first place. You can send him an email to landesmany@yahoo.com listed on the website and he will confirm.

I will further expand the ASPS article this week with links and resources, making it top notch.

Thanks for the help

i hope i'm doing this right. thanks for the help with the jake ford article. i added some more stuff (a couple of links) to it this morning. i also added some links to the article from the articles on harold ford jr. and steve cohen. if you think of anything else that cld be helpful, feel free to edit it again. 65.7.49.103 16:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)sevenrings

how do i...?

you know how some pages are linked to by multiple search words? for example, "harold ford" automatically calls up the article for "harold ford jr."? or "mixed-race" automatically calls up the article for "multiracial"? how do i do that? if i saw an article that already existed, but i wanted to edit? perhaps i should take the tutorial again...? Sevenrings 22:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)lj

sorry!!

i should've been more clear on what i was talking about. um, i edited this already-existing article today on "horatio alger association of distinguished americans". but the thing is, no one really calls it that. i usually just call it the "horatio alger association." but when you enter a search for "horatio alger association", nothing pops up. you have to literally enter "horatio alger association of distinguised americans" or do a search for articles containing those words. i want to make it so you type in "horatio alger association" and that article pops up. is this what you were talking about, moving an article? i don't think redirect; not sure. thamks. Sevenrings 03:36, 18 October 2006 (UTC) leslie

Acamprosate

Thank you very much for improving Acamprosate! You may also be interested in NicVax, another article I have helped developed. —this is messedrocker (talk) 10:52, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

And thank you for improving the NicVax article. If there's any other article I'd like you to help me with, I'll be sure to let you know. —this is messedrocker (talk) 21:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

:) delldot | talk 21:05, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

i tried to call you

tonight. i made it so that when you type in "horatio alger association" it redirects to "horatio alger association of distinguished americans"; hopefully this is right!! you can call me back whenever you get the chance and i'm not online. Sevenrings 02:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)sevenrings

Attempt to redirect/merge Premarital sex to Fornication

According to the Wikipedia rules:

Merging is something any editor can do, and if you are sure that something should be merged, you can be bold and do so. If the merge is controversial, however, you may find your merge reverted, and as with all other edits, edit wars should be avoided.

If you are uncertain of the merger's appropriateness, you should propose it on the affected pages. After sufficient time has elapsed to generate consensus or silence (at least 5 days), you may perform the merger or request that someone else do so.^[1]

The last comment was in September which means the discussion has been in silence for "at least 5 days". All the information on the page was referring to topics discussed in the article "fornication" and both fornication and premarital sex used the practically the same definition:

Premarital sex is sexual intercourse engaged in by a person or persons who are not yet married.

Fornication is a term which refers to any sexual activity between consenting unmarried partners.

The information is already merged so it is duplicated unless the redirection is in place...do you really want duplicate information floating around wikipedia? Pbarnes 06:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages#How_to_merge_pages

By definition fornication means "premarital sex". The discussion has been revolving around merging premarital sex with extramarital sex but if this occurred then fornication must also be merged because they are synonyms. I think it should stay redirected to fornication until fornication is merged.Pbarnes 06:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Could you please invite more editors to the discussion? Send them here.

sorry

i'll def. give you a call back. i actually do have an answering machine. if it just continuously rings, i'm online. if you get the machine, i'm just not there. i'm probably going to go to borders and study for a while today. i'll try to call you back today; if not today by tomorrow or sometime this week. Sevenrings 16:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

please try to avoid blanking archive pages

thank you--172.168.185.155 23:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page!. Cheers -- Imoeng 03:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

gre

i scheduled my gre for next thursday at the university of memphis. i tried to schedule it for a saturday but they didn't have anything open until like january. i hope i don't encounter a conflict with work. Sevenrings 13:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Street medic edit

Hey earthworm! It's Grace (formerly echo...) I've been seeing a lot of Bork in the last year, and fondly remembering my sprained ankle when you, me, and Ziggy were reorganizing a certain library and moving lumber. Love to get in touch.

In other news, I'm doing a big big rewrite of Street medic, and have posted some comments and questions on the discussion page, too. I'm pretty new to Wikipedia, and would love some help. This rewrite is going to take some time too, and I'm sure I'm doing all kinds of things wrong.

I invited Jeremy to turn his eye back to the entry. Look forward to hearing from you!

Gobblehook 09:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

so...????

did you get a 6 on both essays? and were both of your essays 5-paragraph essays? the essay section may be harder than i first imagined, i first dismissed it as really easy...hm...

-l

the letter!

well, i just wrote char this long e-mail requesting a letter. *crosses fingers* i hope it works. i don't think there are that many other professors at nc that i want to write me a letter. there are a couple of professors at the university of tennessee who i cld ask to write me one. i'm kind of running through my mental list of possibilities right now. Sevenrings 23:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

bac

ooh, good luck! i'm sure your bac will go great. who's on your committee?

Big scary bacc exam

Hey Dell, good luck on your bacc exam. I'll wait on trying to get with you and catch up on the past until after you blaze though your tests with high scores. Catch you in three weeks, with my phone number and stuff. When you graduate, I'd love to come visit and clap and grin if I can afford the train ride. Keep me in the loop, we're both in the deep south, you heard me? Gobblehook 11:47, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism on Walter Mondale

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Mondale&diff=84763317&oldid=84763178 for starts. This needs an expert- half the article is bull. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.41.192.36 (talk • contribs).

WP:DFTT - look at edit history. -Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 03:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but the points made in the edit history were valid, weren't they? The article has been hit, hard, and my vandalism was easily findable, while this was very sneaky.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.41.192.36 (talk • contribs).

not sure I understand your note you left me. You're saying 208.41.192.36 is a troll? It seems like they aim to contribute positively now, so we'll see :) Peace, delldot | talk 03:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, when I left the note, please understand that he'd made several vandalous changes to the article (which he freely admits), and had just gone on to blank my talk page. I wasn't too impressed with him, but, after giving a test4, he appears repentant, so all is good. -Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 03:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Yup :) delldot | talk 03:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Please block the user 208.41.192.36. He has made several vandalous edits to many articles. You don't have to be an administrator to figure that out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Happy8 (talk • contribs).

sorry

yo man im sorry bout da vandilissm

hope you except my apolgy —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.161.209.140 (talk • contribs).

Thanks for appologizing. It will be fine so long as you don't do it again :) delldot | talk 03:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

bot help?

hey, there's no bot reporting in vandalism-en-wp. Can you help? Thanks much, delldot | talk 14:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Me and my bot has been banned from that channel indefinately as per essjays supreme authority. I cannot join that channel.

The bots code requires the channel name to be spesific. I can gladly provide bot assistance if the original channel ( #wikipedia-en-vandalism ) becomes avalible again. Otherwise the code wouldn't work.

--Cat out 19:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hello, you took away Category:Cults off Mormonism page. Why? It is a cult, despite what they believe. Cults take things small verses from the Bible, and focuses on it as its Cornerstone. --66.218.11.146 06:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for dropping me the note. I took off the cat because it seemed dubious and possibly contentious. Are you familiar with WP:NPOV? Is there any reliable source you could cite that states it's a cult? As you probably know, stuff is done by user consensus around here, so if you feel strongly about the edit i'd leave a note on the talk page and get other users' opinions about it. Let me know if you want to discuss anything more. Peace, delldot | talk 06:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for being kind about it, people seem to shove it in my face. Anyway, now think about it, all the major cults have a phrase from the bible that they seem to focus their entire faith on. The Mormon faith has a Bible, which has some of the same verses from the Christian Bible. I don't remember the name of this cult, but it focuses on the verse in the Christian Bible about dancing with snakes on poles, (the medical emblem).

Unfortunately, I can't think of any other cults for some reason. That makes me look like I'm just making excuses edit without reason. Here's a reference [2]. Ok, now look, yes they're Christian sites, but Christianity Today is a well-renown magazine. --66.218.11.146 07:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure Mormonism fits all the criteria for being a cult? That site you gave mentioned quite a few. At any rate, I think that if you can show a good source that gives a dictionary definition of cult and another one that shows that Mormonism fits it (i.e. "cults do this" and "Mormonism does this") your argument will be pretty solid. But you're still probably in for a talk page hassle, since probably some mormons edit that page, and they might be a liiiiiitle touchy about that if you know what I mean. It will probably help you to get a username (right or wrong, people will take your edits more seriously) and to always use really good edit summaries, so people don't think you're just vandalizing. And of course potentially controversial edits should always be discussed on the talk page. Good luck! I hope you manage to work it out to everyone's satisfaction. Peace, delldot | talk 06:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. If you get a username, drop me another note so we can keep talking. delldot | talk 06:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

your bacc / street medic organizations

Hurray for passing! I'll throw you a party, go to the French Quarter and get a mojito to celebrate! I'll go again if you come visit (might want to wait until Mardi Gras - I once again have no heat this winter).

So... The List of street medic organizations article is in a different format now, and you know what? I'm probably not going to touch it for the next month. So you and Schumin can cut it down to resolve the notability and verifiability issues.

However, while my street medic history research project is on hold, I'm busy getting other resources up online at the same spot that the history research was going [3]. I think, with action-medical's domain name expired, black cross on hiatus, and a new breed of medics about to hit, we need our stuff up. So... why not up and easy to edit? (Eowyn and Ari/Doc/Whisper are using the page for training materials already!)

Gobblehook 07:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I think this [4] looks more promising for a domain name, and hey! maybe we could get action-medical.net for the next year for $15! Ask your guy to look at it. And please glance at the medic mini wiki, when you get a chance, and give me some encouragement. I need it.

I ain't going to be seeing you on the 8th, but another good friend lives in Tampa, so keep in touch. I'm deleting this whole post as soon as you email me. Gobblehook 09:18, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Try me again at trainymedic at fastmail dot fm. Gobblehook 21:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Moon landing

Nice job fighting the vandals at Moon landing. :) Let me know if you ever need a block or other help. --Fang Aili ^talk 05:58, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I sometimes go to #vandalism-en-wp, but I don't often do a lot of vandal-fighting at one time, so I'm not there a lot. --Fang Aili ^talk 16:34, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Where are gone my bananas ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.67.129.2 (talk • contribs).

Hi, sorry, wikipedia is not for jokes or silly edits. That's what Uncyclopedia's for. Have you checked them out? delldot | talk 19:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Green Day

What are you talking about. What Nonsense. All i did was remove this junk on the page about them having homosexual relations to german men, and blowing off houses. Taking off stupid things like that is considered vandalism? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.62.49.64 (talk • contribs).

Are you talking about this edit? Sorry, I thought it was vandalism because it was a large removal of content with no edit summary, which is very common in vandalism. To be truthful, when I see something like that I tend to revert it without looking carefully, since vandalism patrol is pretty fast and furious. If you feel that the content shouldn't be in the article, you should discuss it with other users on the article's talk page before removing it, and leave an edit summary explaining what you're doing and why in the edit summary box when you make the edit. You might also consider creating an account, which will make other editors take you more seriously (right or wrong, it's the case). Feel free to ask questions or discuss whatever on [[user talk:delldot|my talk page]. Good luck! Peace, delldot | talk 21:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

No, that wasn't the part i changed, though i did notice that, and I think that should be there. The part i took out was this sentence that said stuff about them having sexual relations with german men, and blowing horses. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.62.49.64 (talk • contribs).

That's strange, are you editing from the same IP as when you made that edit? Because I'm looking through your contribs and that's the only edit of Greenday I see. If you know how to provide a dif, could you show it to me? Anyway, this is another good reason to create an account. Peace, delldot | talk 22:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)