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[edit] Shaken Baby
I was wondering if you would be kind as assist me with resorting the previous hypothesis information and deleting the inaccurate information contained in the "Nutriture hypothesis" section.
Thank you The Stroll 23:24, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not a paediatrician and have a longstanding aversion against the whole ascorbate debate. I'm getting urticaria just thinking about it. I think having a sensible discussion on Talk:Shaken baby syndrome will be much more productive. For one thing, you will have to convince Fyslee and Alteripse that there is any point in exploding the whole nutriture thing beyond proportion. JFW | T@lk 14:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Help with new Halakha subject article
Hi Dr. Wolff, Shavua Tov: I have been asked by a new user "...what are your thoughts on heter iska? i would like to wikify it, what are the guidlines on halochos!? are they in the correct categories etc? thanks Chavatshimshon 04:42, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- "Could you please look at the Heter iska article and see how it can be improved. Thanks a lot. IZAK 07:15, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
It's a long time I've last looked at that subject. An article on the topic should be brief and explain the main uses and requirements of a heter iska, and perhaps how it impacts on banking in Israel. JFW | T@lk 14:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Pre-Eclampsia
Hi. A while ago I pointed out a large copyright infringement on the article on pre-eclampsia and you agreed to replace it. I have marked out all of the infringing text on the talk page and cited the textbook from which it has been copied. PsychoticSock 11:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- Will try to address this soon. I intend to summarise the deleted content and use the book in question as a source. Do you think that is reasonable? JFW | T@lk 16:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Provided that the material is well adapted that should probably be ok, just bear in mind that what is currently there is word for word plagiarism. PsychoticSock 17:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Coeliac article
Kudo's on this much improved article. I started a few minor edits and will do a bit more. I'm going to try to avoid my susceptibility to sniping that has done me in in the past. Any chance you are going to DDW in Washington DC in May 07? Steve Kd4ttc 22:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] re consistently disruptive user
Hi, could you possibly have a look at a posting I've made to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive_actions_of_Alec_U.K.. There was a previous posting (linked at AN/I) setting out this users repeated disruption to asthma and South London related topics, as well of apparent clear case of sockpuppetry, but this got time-guillotined with no admin choosing to comment. (see User talk:87.194.35.230 with warnings over precisely the same topics - Asthma, areas in South london, and used of "disease" for eczema).
Alec + sockpuppet repeatedly disputes the word "disease", see the AN/I (i.e. asthma, diabetes, eczema) and between the accounts a couple of blocks already. Tonights edits are typical of general disruptive influence across medical topics - often minor irriations but generally issues already discussed by other editors on other pages which set out consensus. So almost no single edit is direct vandalism, but the overall effect is disruptive. Further example was "What asthma is not" to Asthma and its talk page. See User_talk:ArmadilloFromHell and User_talk:ArmadilloFromHell/Archive_06/Month_Nov for several discussion threads amongst several editors trying to work out how to proceed.
Alec clearly has knowledge on the topics that could be added to wikipedia, sadly not only not working collaboratively but is having a disruptive effect on both complex series of articles and diverting the time of several editors.
If you wish to "admin" on the noticeboard posting fine, else any guidance on how ArmadilloFromHell, Regan123, MRSC and myself should proceed to resolve this would be appreciated. David Ruben Talk 23:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User:ChosidFrumBirth
Hi Dr. Wolff: Admin, medical and Judaism help needed: Could you please take a look at the user page at User:ChosidFrumBirth as I think he needs to be reminded that Wikipedia is not a place to express vulgarity or obscenity, it's at least a violation of Wikipedia:Etiquette and Wikipedia:Civility and I am not quite sure who he is ranting at, breaking Wikipedia:No personal attacks and Wikipedia:Assume good faith. I was not involved with him at all, but it all sounds rather paranoid and primitive to me, it's sure no way to "advertise" one's "Chasidishe yichus." Take a look at it and decide for yourself. Have a very Good Shabbos. IZAK 13:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hi again, well I just checked again. It was not Chosid who said it, his page was vandalized by User:Greenbrook, as evidently they were having some sort of dispute, see User talk:Greenbrook, so I have reverted the nasty comments myself. IZAK 04:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] evolution
copied from Talk:Judaism and evolution s a biologist, I am glad to see the many orthodox authorities who accept the concept of evolution--even Hirsh in 1880 was willingto accept everything except the origin of life. But I would like to see some discussion of the current views that do not accept the theory. This article seems a little one-sided, as if it were trying to prove the POV that evolution is consistent with othodoxy. How about some discussion of the contrary? I would very much like to know how those who do not accept it justify their rejection of the secular evidence. Is it simply a matter that as it is inconsistent with Torah, it cannot be true & we will therefore ignore it, or is there an attempt at argumentation as is done by the Christian fundamentalists? DGG 04:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- What is meant with "even Hirsh in 1880 was willingto accept everything except the origin of life"? That's a misrepresentation. Hirsch states that gradual development shows a Divine plan. That's implicit acceptance of the premise of the origin of life but with God's Hand guiding the forces of development.
- Nowadays, there are many Orthodox people who either implicitly or explicitly agree that life may have developed in a way indistinguishable from natural selection bar the Divine intervention. Others find the concept heretical. Both views deserve equal exposure; one needs to cover Derush Or ha-Chaim by Lipschitz, Hirsch, and Slifkin (who bases his views on Hirsch and Dessler but also the Ran and Rabbi Avraham ben ha-Rambam). I'd be at a loss to give the names of Orthodox sources that explicitly adhere to special creation, but this does appear to be the default view. JFW | T@lk 22:33, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Links on "list of dog diseases" page
Many (but not all) of the links on the "list of dog diseases" page actually link to human diseases, but the overall page layout tends to indicate that the links are about dog diseases, which of course could be significantly different to the disease in humans. The "wiki project dogs" is starting to think about how to organise their pages. This may be relevant to the "wiki project medicine" because the two data structure may impinge and I feel that early liaison between the "wiki project dogs" and the "wiki project medicine" will be beneficial. It sounds like the "wiki project dogs" would welcome some support. There is some discussion on the "list of dog diseases" talk page, which you might like to follow and perhaps bring the discussion to the attention of others for a consensus opinion. Snowman 11:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Disease pages on Wikipedia should be on human diseases by default. If there are well-studied and notable animal equivalents they should be disambiguated. Could you mention this on WP:CLINMED. I'm sure there'll be ample discussion there. JFW | T@lk 22:33, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Coeliac and industrial breadmaking
JFD: First of all, thank you for all of your contributions in medical and halachic subjects. I would like to draw your attention to an issue related to celiac disease. I am a cheesemaker and traditional baker in, of all places, New Jersey, and over the years I have heard anecdotic references to a possible correlation between the rise of celiac disease in post-war Italy and the conversion of post-war bread industry from the traditional batch-process, slow lactic polyculture fermentation to continuous-process, high-speed yeast monoculture fermentation. I have found an journal article that may underlie the anecdotal references: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=126681
I hope that you'll have a look and let me know if this warrants inclusion in the celiac article. Again, thank you for your tireless work!
Yours, Curdnerd
- Thank you for your kind words. I hope you'll be contributing to the Wikipedia articles relevant to your work in the future.
- The article you quoted is indeed fascinating, although it doesn't quite make the claims that change in sourdough use may have altered the epidemiology of coeliac disease. I've not been able to find other sources that support such a claim (but then I haven't looked very well).
- You may have noted that novel coeliac treatments are under development that involve enzyme therapy. A particular gliadin protein fragment seems to be the culprit in inducing villous atrophy, and predigesting this either with oral enzymes or during the baking process has been suggested as ways of treating coeliac. It seems the King's College group in London is also working on wheat types that are less immunogenic.
- Let me know what you think. JFW | T@lk 15:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Messianics again
Hello Dr. Wolff: The Messianic Judaism editors have been busy lately, you may want to know the following. Thanks. IZAK 19:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- User:Inigmatus (contributions), self-described as "A mystery user with a point to be made" (wouldn't that make anything he does as automatically POV?), has added a number of features to Messianic Judaism. A month ago he evidently plagiarized [1] the Template:Judaism and created Template Messianic Judaism based on it. He also created Wikipedia:WikiProject Messianic Judaism also obviously plagiarizing the Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism page. This may mislead unsuspecting readers and there ought to be some warning or guidance about this.
- User:Stjamie (contributions) created a new article (yet again) about "Rabbi" Isaac Lichtenstein (did this person even exist or this a hoax?), as well as about Boaz Michael (is this person notable or is this a vanity page?)
[edit] Adolf Jellinek and his Christian son
Does anyone know what kind of "rabbi" and Torah scholar Adolf Jellinek was (Orthodox, Reform, none-of-the-above, all-of-the above?) The question is important because he had a son Georg Jellinek who supposedly became a Christian, and the article about him says that "Jellinek, the son of Adolf Jellinek, a rabbinical scholar, converted to Christianity." Making it sound that the alleged conversion of George Jellinek is somehow "enhanced" (like a "hidur mitzva - lehavdil) by the fact that he had a "rabbinical father." Anyhow, the portrait of Adolf doesn't look like it would make it into an ArtScroll anything right now :-} In addition, in the List of converts to Christianity from Judaism Georg Jellinek is listed and his picture features very prominently. If anyone has any more information on this, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. IZAK 14:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lupus
Hi,
I just made a bunch of modifications to the Lupus erythematosus page and since it hasn't received much traffic in the past couple days, I'd like some feedback on the content and edits. Stalking the history page turned up you as a contributor a while back, so this is me soliciting feedback. Could you have a gander please?
Thanks,
WLU 14:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'll have a look. JFW | T@lk 16:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dispute over Category:WikiProject Messianic Judaism
Hello Dr. Wolff: I am having a difference of opinion with User:Inigmatus who insists that Category:WikiProject Messianic Judaism be a sub-category of Category:WikiProject Judaism. I have tried to edit the page [2], and have even tried a compromise of having it be part of Category:Christian and Jewish interfaith topics instead which would be perfect for it, but each time he reverts me, claiming "We make that call, not you. We're not part of "normative" Christianity either." [3] and this:" "We" is Messianics. either both Judaism and Christain categories, or none go here. We make the call, because Messianics know best what is Messianic." [4], and he adds on Category talk:WikiProject Messianic Judaism#Main categories: "Either Christian and Judaism categories go here, or they both don't. Not one or the other. Messianics do not ascribe to Chrisitanity, and Judaism is an unrelated category. I didn't put either category in, so I request both be removed, but if one is to be listed, then I request both Christianity and Judaism be listed. "We" Messianics have the right to inform the readers who "we" are affiliated with. inigmatus 04:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)" What do you think should be done? Thanks. IZAK 14:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Messianic "Halakha" etc?
Hello Dr. Wolff : On 25 October 2006 [5], User:Inigmatus moved Messianic religious practices to Messianic Halakha with the lame excuse "moved Messianic religious practices to Messianic Halakha: As discussed in prior archives, with the creation of the new Messianic Judaism template, this page can now be targeted for clean up: This entire page is better split into two articles" [6] thus opening up a whole new can of worms. This fits into this new pattern of vigorous pro-Messianic Judaism POV edits, moves, categories, projects and articles, basically without warning and ignoring the consensus that has been maintained for some time. The main problem is that the over-all thrust of the recent pro-Messianic Judaism activity is to mimic and and get as close as possible to any and all Judaism, particularly Orthodox Judaism, articles and efforts, so that anyone looking at the one will arrive at the other by sheer proximity and similarity. And I repeat this again, because of its relevance: *User:Inigmatus (contributions), self-described as "A mystery user with a point to be made" (wouldn't that make anything he does as automatically POV?), has added a number of features to Messianic Judaism. A month ago he evidently plagiarized [7] the Template:Judaism and created Template Messianic Judaism based on it. He also created Wikipedia:WikiProject Messianic Judaism also obviously plagiarizing the Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism page. This may mislead unsuspecting readers and there ought to be some warning or guidance about this. I would suggest that a new template be develpoed that would be placed on Messianic Judaism pages with a "Note: This article deals with Messianic Judaism. It does not represent normative Judaism and does not have any connection with, or official recognition from, any Jewish denominations." IZAK 03:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome the NotJudaism template
In view of the above, please see the new {{NotJudaism}} template:
- Note: The subject of this article or section does not represent normative Judaism and does not have any connection with, or official recognition from, any Jewish denominations.
Feel free to use it where applicable. Thanks. IZAK 05:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] FA nomination for Bacteria
Hi there. I've nominated this page for FA. Your comments or corrections on its nomination page would be very welcome. TimVickers 23:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
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- An editor has made some major changes to this article, could you please return to the FAC and provide some feedback on whether or not these are an improvement? TimVickers 21:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Myocardial infarction
Hello, again. I'm somewhat back, at least for a while. :-) I sometimes get frustrated by the wikipedia process and may need to take a break again. :-( I just wanted to hopefully get you to weigh in a bit on myocardial infarction before things get out of hand for me. The problem is article length, of all things. I know, you wish this was more of a problem. Anyway, it's my intention to make this article significantly larger, and then break out sections as needed. (I still haven't talked about the rise & fall of facilitated angioplasty, IIb/IIIa inhibitors, the role of stress testing for risk stratification after NSTEMI and after thrombolytics, sex variations in treatment patterns, etc.) Also, a lot more references will be added with time. :-) Ksheka 00:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Your memory about this article might be needed here: Talk:Myocardial_infarction#Copyright_issues. A site seems to have copied your work!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This month's winner is RNA interference!
– ClockworkSoul 14:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Noahide Laws cleanup
Hi, I was hoping we could collaborate on cleaning splitting and writing up more articles related to 7mBn. I've tagged Noahide laws for a cleanup. I'm not rushing in, I've read them all up, I'm waiting for the readiness of a few others so we can take this on together, and have it featured on the main page sometime. Its possible, there are quite a few of us and will potentialy be a subject of interest. Again, I'm one for words and think the parent article should be Seven Laws of Noach, as in 'Sheva Mitzvas Bnei Noach'. Anything that is should be another 'ism'. Chavatshimshon 01:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Chavat: Do not change that title, it is the accepted English name for it (why is it that you have this great urge to change the titles of long-establishe Wikipedia articles?) Not everything has to be a direct translation or transliteration from Hebrew. Many Judaic and Hebraic topics do and should retain their English titles. Please contact the following to help you: User:Noahlaws; User:Jon513; User:Dauster; User:HKT; User:PinchasC; User:Shirahadasha; User:Shuki; User:TShilo12, they all have knowledge of Jewish Law and experience as Wikipedians and may be interested in working on this with you. Sincerely, IZAK 21:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for the welcome and for informing me of Rav Yosef Rosen. It is not my intentino to suggest that all or the majority of Yemenites go according to the Mishneh Torah in regard to every halakha. I'ld like to see what I wrote that you're referring to. I do suggest (I know) that the majority of Yemenites go according to the Mishneh Torah much more than the majority of non-Yemenite Jews, in some cases even when it is contrary to Shulhhan Arukh. It is also true, as is documented in many books and papers, that historically Yemenite Jews were even more strictly going according to the Mishneh Torah than most are today. In fact, this is the case with many Middle Eastern Jewish communities; See . Mori Yosef Qafehh without a doubt identified with that aspect of the Yemenite Jewish community which promoted more strict adherence to the Mishneh Torah - which they considered a return to the way Yemenites traditionally were. One who has read his intro to the Mishneh Torah and is familiar with his commentaries should have no doubt about this. I myself know so not only from books but also from affiliating with some of his most serious students (before his passing away) which I have been doing for the past 3 years. I have attended shiurim from Rav Rasson Arusi in what was his beit knesset (synagogue) in the Nahhlayot neighborhood of Jerusalem as well as attend every week a more local beit knesset of the same mindset located in the Shmuel haNavi/Bar Ilan area of Jerusalem - the Gabbai of who was also one of Mori Yosef Qafehh's closest students. As for sources, I don't know how more conclusive you want. About long quotes, my mistake for not having thoroughly read through all the guidelines. Thanks for pointing these things out to me. -- I'll try to keep in mind to not write Mori as well... though I think it should be noted somewhere that Yemenite Jews as a whole traditionally (and very many still do) call their community leaders/rabbis Mori in much the same way that Ashkenazim called their Rabbi and Sefaradim called their Hakham, and Ethiopian Jews called their leaders Kessim. The use of Mori in this context isn't limited to the meaning 'my teacher.' It was used as a general title. Someone who was an actual student of such and such Yemenite rabbi would not call him 'Mori Yosef Qafehh' for example, but would instead only say 'Mori.' One last thing, please check out the discussion board on Tachanun. Thanks for the encouragement in your message. All the best. Yosef Omedyashar 09:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'll have a look at Tachanun. JFW | T@lk 16:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chofetz Chaim
Is there any evidence, that Chofetz Chaim was a Kabbalist? None of his sforim, as far as I know, indicate any Kabbalistic ideas. He probably have privately studied some Kabbalah (as almost all Torah scholars did and do), but I do not think, it's appropriate to call in a 'Kabbalist'. Laplandian 01:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- It depends how you define "kabbalist". He certainly quotes kabbalistic sources (e.g. Zohar), which makes him more of a kabbalist than for example S.R. Hirsch. I don't actually care much about whether we label him a kabbalist or not; as you rightly said, most gedolim of the time were fairly well versed in kabbalah. JFW | T@lk 16:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your 'Friend' Trevor Marshall
I have noticed today a Wikipedia-entry which is a quasi-resume of Trevor Marshall. I have filed it for deletion. I thought it might interest you. Thanks for defending the Sarcoidosis article from his questionable practices! --Savisha 09:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Friend? I've voted, anyway. JFW | T@lk 16:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, I was joking. I noticed that you had some trouble with him trying to push his treatments on the Sarcoidosis site a year ago. Thanks anyways.--Savisha 16:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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