User talk:Truthflux

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Contents 1 Welcome Message 2 Commercial links 3 The glass is half full 4 My page 5 You are so nice 6 lemurs 7 63.67.218.148 8 Intro to Norse mythology names 9 Fungi Project? 10 British v. American English 11 Naevus/Birthmark

[edit] Welcome Message

Heya, welcome to Wikipedia, Truthflux. You might like to start by reading the tutorial and introducing yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask at the help desk or on my talk page. Two useful tips are that you can sign your name using four tildes (~~~~), and that you can preview your changes before you save using the show preview button. You can regularly find new tips on the Community Portal. I look forward to reading your great articles and I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. :-)

Okay, I cheated, I stole that from the guy who welcomed me, and he stole if from Angela, but hey, that's okay what with GFDL (I think!). But hey, I got to welcome someone!

--Viki 21:34, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

PS. Looking at your articles, a little tip: don't link to overly specific articles that don't yet exist. For example, there is no Allergic conjunctivitis but you could link to Conjunctivitis. If allergic conjunctivitis is important, it will start off as a subcategory in the main article and then maybe move into its own space.

I didn't add that. Must've been someone else, before.--Truthflux 09:58, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial links

Most commercial links are inserted manually. Bot-like link spamming is theoretically possible, but it relatively rare. Generally it's from people who are trying to increase traffic to their sites.

If a user (anonymous or with a login name) spams commercial links, I would begin by placing a warning on his/her userpage, such as "Please note that Wikipedia is not an advertising medium. Your commercial link has been removed. You are free to contribute verifiable and neutral information to articles, but you risk being blocked from the project if you continue inserting links."

If the user carries on with the same behaviour, any administrator (e.g. myself) can be contacted to consider the merits of a block. This would typically be a short block (e.g. 24h). People patrolling Recent Changes should notice wholesale link additions and block with more prejudice, but this process is not failsafe. JFW | T@lk 20:22, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

If you want me do any little tasks for you, just ask.

Hmm, you could begin by tidying up my living room (although that is not a little task). Kidding aside, enjoy Wikipedia, develop some interests and see which niche you feel comfortable in! Little tasks that are always appreciated are spellchecking, fact & reference checking and patrolling of Recent Changes for nasty vandals. JFW | T@lk 22:49, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The glass is half full

When you have a list with one item, don't say "Not in any particular order, it's hard when there's only one in the list)". Say fx "I have arranged the following list of one item using your personal favorite ordering relation!" :). Thue | talk 21:42, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And thanks for the help with disambiguating cell! Thue | talk 23:49, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] My page

Thanks for your help with a Javier Solana vandal, --SqueakBox 18:10, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You are so nice

you are the nicest person on this site, and thank you for not deleting my article on KayCee, and i think you should talk to her because you are one of the most sincere person on this site. you are the best. her adress is (aloha_kike@hellokitty.com) -- [Unsigned comment by Moonman]

[edit] lemurs

I have all the potential primates on my watchlist... and I've become a master at fixing articles. Thanks for the appreciation. :) - UtherSRG 23:35, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 63.67.218.148

Sorry to be harsh to whoever this person is, but s/he's been adding content that's unacceptable, for example, s/he added a section on how all the male students are sexually deprived and all the girls are mules, etc. Read through the history. Thanks a lot though and I hope you don't think I'm being a jerk. Just trying to deal with vandalism. Atrivedi

Thank you for the kind words on my page. Perhaps I'm a bit newer than most people (I think maybe I've been a member since last fall or late summer) and perhaps I'm a bit naive, and while I agree we should chase people away, if people don't have something valuable to add, we've got other stuff to be doing rather that reverting pages. Just my thinking, I suppose. Again, thanks for the kind words! I'm really glad to be a part of the community! Atrivedi

[edit] Intro to Norse mythology names

When I read it without the commas it seemed fine to me, but if you feel the grammar is bad, then it's OK by me if you fix it. My main concern about these articles is that the article's title should be the first word in the introduction, as is in the majority of other articles in Wikipedia. Mark 10:34, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate that you're doing this in good spirit, but I agree with the others that its not always neccessary for the topic to be the first word. I'm interested as to why you think this should be. The sentence flow is often better worded differently. The important thing is that the first sentence explains what the topic is. It really is common to put something else first, particularly in the area of mythologies, where many ideas span different mythologies, to do this. We also do it in the science articles because certain terminology is used mostly within disciplines and often has a different meaning to the everyday one: e.g. "In zoology, a hermaphrodite is....". Because, under different circumstances, a hermaphrodite is usually something different. As to the comma business, not all of your changes read badly, I'll go through and check them, I guess. People always think grammar they've written is alright. I often fall into that trap. I really think you should have discussed this with others before going ahead and changing all those articles, which seem to have been consistent in themselves. --Mike C | talk 10:59, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

But there are many other mythology names that are first, such as Thor, Odin. Also it doesn't mean that there are different meanings for these names, as in your hermaphrodite example. Mark 11:07, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

But it's often nice to establish the context immediately. For example there is a 'Vali' in Hindu mythology as well as Norse mythology. And there is absolutely no harm in the way those articles were worded. Rigid adherence to the guideline of placing the name first is not necessary. And as you are finding out, Mark, there are indeed quite many articles like this. Take Springfield Elementary School as an example from yet another field. It's nice to establish the fictional (or mythological) context immediately. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 19:59, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fungi Project?

I'm trying to spark up interest in starting a Tree of Life Project for Kingdom Fungi. It's the only major group of organisms that doesn't have a project set up for it. I noticed that you had edited a fungus-related article and I wanted to see if you'd be interested. Please comment on my talk page and let me know. Thanks. Mycota 18:16, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll help you, but don't expect too much of me. I do like fungi (and that sort of thing, I personally think slime moulds are where its at), but I'm not so knowledgeable about them. I study mainly neurobiology and pathology, so until someone discovers a fungal disease of the brain, I'm not likely to be learning too much about it, either. Again, I'm not sure I'll be an enormous help but I hope you'll find that having people on board will help the project get off the ground. --Mike C | talk 13:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Mike. I agree that slime molds are great, but alas, they're forever outsiders.... So far you're the only taker, so I'll let you know if it even gets off the ground! And thanks for the tip about starting a new talk page. That hadn't even occurred to me. Mycota 21:45, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] British v. American English

As I was going through that article I changed all the faeces/foetus to feces/fetus, but then I realized there wasn't really any reason for me to do this and changed them back (but I missed a few :S )... Also, what do you think would make a good category name for drugs used in parasitic disease treatment?--CDN99 19:34, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm not a particularly good person to ask as I'm not clinically orientated, but I guess that "anti-parasitic agents" is fine. I've never heard anyone call them that before, though: The "agents" bit sounds odd. That category is currently a subcategory of antibiotics, which doesn't seem right to me. --Mike C | talk 21:31, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naevus/Birthmark

Thanks for the apology, but you didn't need to give one; I can see your angle as to the fact that they both are different enough to have their own pages. I appreciate you also saying that you tried to revert it yourself.

Regards, Jared 19:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)