User talk:Canuk72

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Canuk, I moved your links to the sentence re patent and appeal. The summaries you appended to the links were argumentative, trying to support the patent claim. My edit summary had a thinko -- I meant to say "without" and it came out "with". Zora 19:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Zora, I think this is the way to reply with you. I just signed up today Dec 26. I had to smile that you have been accused of being a Canadian... its not all that bad! I understand your point regarding the links may come across as argumentative but I disagree. All they are is legitimate links about the patent problems XanGo has had. [User:Canuk72 15:09 EST Dec 26 '2006

Canuk, anyone can apply for a patent. Many thousands of complete kooks do. Applying and being turned down is no sign of validity. If it's been turned down once, is the appeal going to be successful? I doubt it. I can't find data on appeals of patents not granted -- there's a lot more info on appeals against "improperly" granted patents -- but I suspect that it's going to be hard to claim originality on a process of turning a fruit into a juice. Humans have been doing that for many thousands of years. There are other mangosteen juices. Zora 20:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Zora, Why are the links that I put under reference part of the main part of the article? I am new to this site, but are the links not reference links for the XanGo article? Is there a particular format that needs to be followed? Thanks. [Canuk72 Dec 27 9pm EST]

I moved the links so that they would still be there, as references for the sentence re the patent claim. However, they now don't have descriptions. I thought the descriptions of the references were argumentative. I hope that you will accept this compromise. Zora 01:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. The explanation is much appreciated. If I wish to write to you do I leave it here? I posted on your discussion board 12. You can delete it if I put it in the wrong place. Initially, I honestly felt a little provoked. Now I'm just grateful for helping me out. Now that I think about it, the links fit nicely into the main article since it is related to the subject matter. [Canuk72 Dec 27 9:38pm EST]

Well, usually I post on your talk page and then you post on mine, which splits up the discussion. It's not the best way to do it, but it's the way things are done here. It might have been better if we'd had this discussion on the article talk page, but I wasn't sure that you would see anything there, being new and all. It does take a while to get the hang of this place. I hope that now you're here you'll investigate some areas where you might have special knowledge (as opposed to opinions, which are already in over-supply here ;)). Local history, movies that don't have articles yet, that sort of thing. Or perhaps you're a whiz at Topology -- I dunno! Zora 03:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)