User talk:Gak

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Contents 1 Careful 2 Protocol 3 Protocol 4 Body louse 5 Hey doc! 6 Tuberculosis 7 Influenza 8 Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance 9 Antimalarials/antiprotozoals 10 Fractional values?

[edit] Careful

It's "sTIBogluconate", not sTILBogluconate.

No harm done, this is just so you know. DS 15:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protocol

Also, it's not generally considered polite to remove messages from your talk page unless they're grossly insulting. You can archive if/when it gets too big, yes, but just deleting... not really done. DS 03:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protocol

Okay, firstly, you should leave messages on other users' talk pages, not on the userpages themselves. This is because, when you leave the message on the talk page, this triggers the "you have new messages" announcement.

As for why you shouldn't remove messages - there are various reasons for that. It can be construed as looking like you're trying to hide something... it's not good to delete warnings... there was an ArbCom ruling that it's not good to tamper with other people's opinions and statements... anyway, it's not like we're strapped for memory here. If the page gets too full, you can archive it. DS 22:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it is too unreasonable to archive messages you have read by deleting them - they are still available in the page history. Is there a policy guideline that they should be archived, and not deleted? Thue | talk 09:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Body louse

Good work on Body louse! :)

Couldn't you also just put the clothes with cannot be boiled in sealed plastic bags, and then wait until all the lice have hatched and starved to death? Thue | talk 09:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Not practical because the eggs don't hatch until they come into contact with warmth. I have no idea how long eggs can survive in that sort of "suspended animation" sort of state.--Gak 20:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey doc!

Hello, for some reason I hadn't noticed your extensive contributions to infectious disease subjects. Good thing too, because it was one of the fields Wikipedia needed help in. Where do you work? Have you considered joining our doctors' mess at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine? JFW | T@lk 16:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tuberculosis

Hi, Gak. JFW mentioned that you may be able to help rescue the featured status of tuberculosis. Some of the problems are listed here. It needs to be brought to standard, more along the lines of cystic fibrosis or AIDS, which are recent medical featured articles. If you're able to help, please drop a note on the Featured Article Review page. Thanks! Sandy 21:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Influenza

Page now nominated as a FAC. Comments and suggestions are welcome on the review page. Thank you. TimVickers 00:53, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance

Thanks for recent formating and additions to Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. I added some addition PubMed abstract and article links to the citations you had kindly provided.

The article in the 'Annual review' section indicates that referral to haematologist only occurs when serum electrophoresis shows an increasing paraprotein level, and only then does the haematologist arrange a skeletal survery. Your addition of a diagnosis criteria section implies that referral to a haematologist and the skeletal survery are performed prior to making the diagnosis, rather than at a later date. This seems to me, as a nonspecialist, contradictory - either skeletal surveying is generally infrequently initially performed (vs the list of all possible tests that a textbook might list, but which a specialist may commonly choose not to perform), or the info in the 'Annual review' section needs to be relocated within the article. I would be grateful if you could help clarify this point; please see Talk:Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance#Diagnosis, Haematology referral and skeletal surveying :-) David Ruben ^Talk 02:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antimalarials/antiprotozoals

Just a quick thank you for your recent additions to primaquine, as well as your creations of artesunate, pamaquine and nifurtimox. Keep up the good work. Best, Fvasconcellos 15:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fractional values?

At talk:degrees of freedom (statistics), you wrote:

Who's written that fractional degrees of freedom are possible?? Why add confusion to an already confused article? --Gak 20:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know who added that, but since your comment I've added a bit on what non-integer degrees of freedom are used for in statistics. Michael Hardy 18:25, 12 February 2007 (UTC)