User talk:Brim

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Hi Brim, and welcome to Wikipedia.

Thankyou for finding the time to sign up and contribute to our little project. If you're in doubt about anything, you might want to check out some of these pages:

It's also a good idea to sign the new user log and add a little about yourself.

When contributing to a talk page, you can sign your name by typing four tildes after your comments, like this: ~~~~. (Just so you know, some people won't pay attention to unsigned comments).

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me at my talk page, or at the Help desk or Village Pump.

Above all, make sure you be bold when contributing, and have fun!

-- TPK 02:43, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)


Contents

[edit] Sam Kelley

Thanks for moving my Sam Kelley, M.D. article to Sam Kelley, I was going to have to wait a few days! Proath01 01:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Site Gallery, Sheffield ("This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter")

Hello Brim, I added a few more details, what do you think? Wikityke 02:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Duke/U.S. News Rankings

Just of curiosity, where did you find all those historical U.S. News and World Report college rankings? I'm curious about how the rankings of different schools have changed over the years. Best, JTM 19:24, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anatomic eponyms

List of human anatomical parts named after people

[edit] Medical contribs

Hi Brim, thanks for starting Libman-Sacks endocarditis and all those anatomical articles. Your contributions suggest a medical background, or have you craftily Googled this together? Would you be interested in joining WikiProject "Clinical Medicine"? We urgently require people with a surgical background to update surgery-related pages on the project. JFW | T@lk 12:53, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Please keep me posted about the Wikibook. This sounds fantastic. Can I occasionally ask you to review oncology-related articles for me? For example, can you find any factual inaccuracies in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)?
Wiki is fun - it can greatly improve English writing style for informed lay audiences about technical subjects! JFW | T@lk 09:46, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] List of magic venues

Thanks for adding this link to magic, but could you also add something to the list? Either the link doesn't link to the correct page, or it's empty... Thanks again![[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 00:06, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kallmann syndrome source

Hi Brim. By any chance, do you remember the source for this edit to Kallmann syndrome? I found some documents with similar text, but nothing exact. Thanks. Charm ©† 15:20, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)

It's compiled from several medical textbooks. I believe I used Harrison's Textbook of Medicine and Cecil's Essentials of Medicine. — Brim 11:37, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cancer - your fixing of wikilink to 'United States'

Brim,

I had intended for the passage to read as follows:

...purports to be the "the [United States'] leading charity in the field of diet, nutrition and cancer", supporting...

The brackets were not meant to indicate a wikilink but an replaced phrase in the original quotation.

I hope you don't mind my reverting your change. I do appreciate your vigilance and actions on behalf of the article.

Regards,

Courtland (user Ceyockey ... who doesn't have a page yet himself)

That's fine. It was a little confusing since the syntax looks so similar to an incorrectly-done Wikilink, but I understand what you were trying to say. — Brim 06:57, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ISD

Oops, I must have been asleep. Improved the wording now. Thanks for informing me. Nichalp 10:30, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Work

Brim, you're doing some great work. Sadly, the few doctors on the project are not collaborating much at the moment. Some of last year's stars have encountered busy spells (although User:Erich gasboy edits occasionally).

Are you in the UK? Where are you based? Please email me if this is too personal for a talk page :-) JFW | T@lk 21:44, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words. I am a resident (in radiation oncology) in the United States. My main project currently is my Radiation Oncology textbook, still in its infancy, over at Wikibooks. I still try to contribute to general medical articles when somethings pops in my head. Unfortunately I've had little time to write articles from scratch, but I've been trying to fix up articles and put articles in their appropriate categories. — Brim 21:55, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

w00t, I've just started a combined Haematology/Oncology job. I'm a senior house officer (= junior resident) hoping to do gastroenterology when I grow up :-) JFW | T@lk 22:12, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I actually had you penned for an endocrinologist, thanks to the number of endocrine articles you've written or contributed to. — Brim 22:29, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
Ugh, I've also done a lot of haematology stuff (especially coagulation). Thanks for your input on cervical cancer. Have a look at the talk page... JFW | T@lk 07:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Ugh. I had no idea the circumcisionists had infiltrated cervical cancer too. What a pain! — Brim 07:58, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] C1inh

Brim, your timing is superb. Exactly 1 minute after I created C1-inhibitor you added the complement system category! JFW | T@lk 13:18, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Peer review/Solar neutrino problem/archive1

Hi, you listed that on PR. The policy at PR is that in order to make the process as dynamic as possible, listers are expected to help implement suggestions that are made. You haven't responded to suggestions yet, so please do and help impliment them, or the listing will be removed. Thanks - Taxman 16:46, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Misuse of Template:unencyclopedic

Brim, kindly familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music/Notability_and_Music_Guidelines and allow articles created to expand before immediate use of this template. The DJ Icey article was created today, its 4th edit was your inclusion of this template, many of our articles require several days and or weeks to become a well rounded article. How would you like it if someone did the same to one of your brand new medical submissions, most people know nothing about specialized medicine and would likely say Wikipedia is not a Medical Library or some other such nonsense. A simple google of "DJ Icey" returns 42,100 results which shows his notability. In the future would you please at least use google first? You sorta jumped the gun on this one.

- Thanks  ALKIVAR™ 20:21, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Alkivar, I apologize for jumping the gun on this one. At the time of my edit, the article was stubby and was written in the tone and style that's common with so many "vanity" pages created for unknown local artists. The article made no mention of notability. You're right that I should have at least Googled it before making the decision to name it encyclopedia. I appreciate your bringing this error to my attention. — Brim 20:32, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism of articles

In the future, please do not vandalise articles which others are in the process of creating. If you have concerns over vanity or determining the status of someone who is otherwise an "unknown" to you, please make use of the many tools at your disposal, such as Google or an appropriate lookup database for that figure. Also, if you believe something to be non-encyclopedic, be sure to state why on the discussion page to preemptively prevent an edit war.

Another suggestion would be to politely contact the original contributing author if the first edits were freshly made in the past 60 minutes. GRider\talk 20:59, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Cranial nerves article series

I left a question for you on the talk page for the Cranial nerves article. Qaz 01:41, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dear Brim:

I find Wik very confusing and hard to use. I appreciate Your fixing up my Caborn article. Maybe You could do the same for my Oneota article  ;~). 211.225.32.225 07:35, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abif vfd

Hi, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Abif. Thank you. IZAK 06:09, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Esophageal cancer

Hey Brim, I completely rewrote Esophageal cancer after having dealt with >20 cases in the last few weeks on the ward. Could you write a little more about chemoradiation? JFW | T@lk 15:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clofarabine

Hi Brim, I've just created Clofarabine, you might want to improve it. Rich Farmbrough 16:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Category

Added category physicians to your userpage. Hope you don't mind. --Nomen Nescio 00:02, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Einstein02 face.jpg

Hi, I've put Image:Einstein02 face.jpg on deletion as it doesn't seem to be used in any article and Image:Einstongue.jpg is a nice subsitute. Hope it's OK. –Mysid (talk) 07:29, September 5, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Paid Editing Project

Hi: My name is Tess and I work for a global independent research firm in New York. I am interested in hiring you for a Wikipedia editing project, based on your technology and medical experience and expertise. I attempted to email you through your user page. If you received it, please read it over and contact me with any questions. If you did not receive this email, please let me know and I would be more than happy to tell you more about this project. (You can call 512-651-1797 or email tfurman@glgroup.com). Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon! Tess - Gerson Lehrman Group 18:52, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Campbell-Stokes recorder

Should it not be "Stokes'" as in Stokes' law and Stokes' theorem? CambridgeBayWeather 05:00, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

It seems to be a matter of preference. Most grammar books I've consulted favor adding 's to any singular word ending in s (e.g. Tess -> Tess's) and adding an apostrophe alone to a plural word ending in s (e.g. boys -> boys'). However, certain historical names ending in a sibilant s (Jesus, Moses) add only an apostrophe in the possessive to become Jesus', Moses'. To me, both ways are proper. Interestingly, if you go to the category Category:Eponymous laws and search for "s'" you'll see that about half use 's and the other half uses s' (I didn't count the actual numbers). —Brim 05:12, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
I see what you mean. CambridgeBayWeather 05:43, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For the help on the muscles. --Arcadian 07:03, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] X rays and implants

Dear Brim,

The silicone used in an implant is a mixture of C, H and Si. This is different to silicon which is the pure element. Please could you recalculate for the silicone, I estimate that the empirical formula of the gel in an implant is likely to be (C2H6Si)n. Please also could you tell me where you got the table for the X-ray properties of different materials from.Cadmium 17:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Open source medical treatments

After the good job I think that you and me did on updating the implant page with regards to silicone and mamography, I was woundering if you want details of the more exotic forms of open source radiothephy which are currently experimental for your book ? Cadmium 20:28, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Emergency department

I wonder if you would consider supporting this article by voting for it at Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive to improve it towards feature article status. I hope to increase the profile of clinical medicine and related subjects on wikipeda. The current article is basic, in particular with regards to EDs around the world.--File Éireann 20:42, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization

Since these articles are the names of medicale conditions, wouldn't they be capitalized? I was under the impression that these are proper names...thanks for the help bcatt 19:30, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Per the capitalization issue for the heart defects -- I went ahead and deleted the redirect so I could move the page. But I think there still might be some extra copies of heart defect pages or pages in the wrong location -- I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what is where. In any case, though, I'm an admin, so if there's any way I can help out, just let me know. --Arcadian 21:09, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I find that Special:Allpages/name_of_article is useful for finding if there are similar article names with different spellings or capitalizations. —Brim 21:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thailand Articles

Thanks for catching those copyvios on those Thailand articles; I think a few of us were overlapping our efforts to clean things up. I was in the processing of giving them more appropriate names when I noticed you had begun to mark them copyvio, so I'll hold off on doing anything else in the meantime. Thanks. Peyna 07:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Legiopedia

I deleted this article but for the reason that it met CSD A1. Please don't just put "non-notable" with a db| because it is not one of the criteria listed on WP:CSD and therefore no admin should delete for that reason. Thanks. gren グレン 12:01, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

The same goes for Non trivial. It has to be voted for transwiki on AfD for a dict-def to be automatically deleted. gren グレン 12:05, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Posterior nucleus

Consensus here was to delete. "Posterior nucleus" seems like a valid topic that could be expanded. As a courtesy, I've copied the text from the deleted stub into your sandbox. Best wishes in making an article of it, featured perhaps. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 12:05, Dec. 27, 2005

[edit] Raf

I googled Raf on wikipedia, and noticed you've got a link about it on your user page. Are you working on an article on it? dsws 04:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zonules of Zinn

Hi, Brim - thanks for the advice. Adambrowne666 08:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Karyotypes, Chromosomes and Notation

Hi Brim,


I stumpled over some of your additions to wiki on the subject of translocation notations. I have corrected a little, but I suggest you take a look at www.iscn1995.org if you have problems with the notation.

Regards, Madsh

[edit] Prod warning

[edit] Removing db tags

I liked the template you used to notify a user about not removing db tags. I can't find it. Is it a standard template? If so, what is it? Thanks. SkerHawx 20:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

That's it. Thanks! SkerHawx 22:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zander Vaubel

In regards to your warning about notability: He has been written about in three news sources thus far, including the The New York Times and the New York Daily News. The subject definitely passes on verifiability. --Howrealisreal 23:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Notability (people) is not Wikipedia guideline. Even so, under the Alternative tests heading it lists Verifiability, which states: "Can all information in the article be independently verified now? (some say) 10 years from now?" The answer to both is yes. The subject is notable because it is verifiable. It was already judged for its notability when it was originally reported in credible well-known news sources. The point of Wikipedia is to be NPOV and chronicle the facts from sources like those; why should we place subjective restrictions on things that are already established as notable? If so, there is a slippery slope, and established information that some editors don't like can be censored for being "not notable enough?" Wikipedia is not censored for any reason. Regards --Howrealisreal 03:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
So much for discussion, you've already tagged it for AfD! --Howrealisreal 03:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that as some time has passed, there has been a lot more coverage of Zander Vaubel's death. There's even a Robert Longo exhibit dedicated to him. [1] (In case you don't know, he's a notable artist too.) I don't understand your impulsive rush to evaluate topics while their articles are still in development. You didn't even try to discuss my concerns with your notability tag, you just jumped to place it on AfD. I understand that wikipedia has rules and ways of doing things, but you seem to be on a power trip to see how many articles you can delete without even trying to know more about the subject. --Howrealisreal 02:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] prod

When you add the prod template to an article, like you did NASCAR Sim Online you need to subst the template, basically adding the template with:

  • {{subst:prod|REASON}}

rather than:

  • {{prod|REASON}}

That way it displays properly and categorises in the prods by date categories. I hope that explanation makes sense. If you don't subst the template, it looks like this, which isn't pretty. :) Steve block Talk 18:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hemicrania Continua

Thanks for the edits you made on Hemicrania continua. It's my first attempt at actually beginning an article.

--TeriRobert 19:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Potatoes

(Hint: edit this section, you'll get it.) Nice catches there! --SB_Johnny|talk|books 21:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Ophthalmology invitation

I would like to invite you (per your contributions in Vision and Eye care), to contribute to the long awaited Wikiproject Ophthalmology - to get some really good articles, raise them to featured status and turn the project on Vision & Eye care into a resource which is one of the best in whole of Wikipedia! EyeMD 05:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SFD notification

This message is to notify you that a stub category that you created (Cat:physiology stubs) is up for deletion at WP:SFD. Please join the discussion. Thanks. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 14:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Come and join us

Please consider coming to [2].Cadmium

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Wooden Award trophy.jpg

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[edit] Eicosanoid Peer Review

I've asked for Peer review of Eicosanoid. Since you've helped the page, I'd like your input.David.Throop 23:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lesion

I see you visited Lesion and you have a medical encyclopedia! Do you approve of the changes I made to the article? If so, I think I can remove the expert tag. --Mdwyer 16:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Hey, has no-one awarded you a barnstar yet?

The Barnstar of Diligence
Brim, for numerous contributions to medical articles. Axl 17:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of WFSS-FM

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[edit] Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 00:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~


[edit] Speedy deletion of Maui Tacos

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