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[edit] Doctors

Hi DBach, I should have noticed before that you're a doctor! Would you join the local staff at the WikiProject "Clinical medicine"? There's also a WikiProject "Psychopathology", but I'd rather lure you away from there, because you seem to know a lot about somatic medicine as well. Then there's WikiProject "Drugs", which is presently being populated and which attempts to knock the pharmacotherapeutical side of this project into shape. JFW | T@lk 15:29, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

What has to be done? Well, some neurology pages have been written up nicely, but others contain lay vocabulary and lack recent research. Ophthalmology pages (probably not your immediate interest) are largely the product of spammers who wanted to advertise their LASIK clinics, and could really do with work.
Otherwise, irritable bowel syndrome is still a bit messy, and could benefit from an approach that we've followed on many other medicine articles (see e.g. angiodysplasia). JFW | T@lk 18:50, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] IBS Discussion

I agree that you don't want to scare people by suggesting that they might have something worse than what they really have. In my case, I would be overjoyed if I learned that my problem was celiac disease, because at least then I could do something about the problem. Since my physician can't give me any answers I am left to wondering and trying to figure it out for myself. Sorry I took out my frustration on you. H2O 21:11, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Loperamide

On a different note -- here is a puzzle for you -- about 10 years ago I was in Honduras for a couple of weeks and got diarrhea. I took a standard dose of loperamide and afterward experienced mild disorientation and hallucinations. For this reason I have never taken this drug again. Now I am reading that this drug cannot pass the blood-brain barrier. Do you have an explanation for this? Just curious. H2O 21:54, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the response. I had heard of leaky gut, thought there might be such a thing as leaky brain. That would explain a lot. Take care. H2O 19:42, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] IBS

Impressed by the IBS page. Very good work has been done there. I am not very good at neurogastroenterology, so I trust your insights. JFW | T@lk 10:39, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Old revisions deleted

As a developer I've removed the versions of your user page wich contained your name. If you want the remaining revisions deleted any admin can take care of it (unless you're unlucky and the early one happens to be caught up in another compression run, in which case, please ask me on my talk page and I'll take care of removing it). Jamesday 04:21, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Are there still any of your user pages that need to be deleted? Let me know if you need assistance with that. Joyous 23:01, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] Copywrite and fair use

Fair use says "Fair use makes copyrighted work available to the public as raw material without the need for permission or clearance, so long as such free usage serves the purpose of copyright law, which the U.S. Constitution defines as the promotion of "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (I.1.8), better than the legal enforcement of claims of infringement."

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from [2] illustrates the principle of extracting part of a work being covered by fair use.

The New York Times itself quotes others.

"Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself; it does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work." [3] therefore a quote that essentially lists facts isn't even covered by copywrite in the first place.

Wikipedia primary servers are in the US.

While it would be nice to have no legal complications, the rich in this world are seeking to own everything including math equations (which is what software patents are).

Don't help memes that block the free flow of information. Help memes that promote freedom. Fair use is one such doctrine, law and meme. WAS 4.250 13:48, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Wineries of the Holy Land

Hi Dbach. I have changed the category to Category:Wineries of the Middle East. There is now more than one article in this category. Scharks 13:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article on Beit Shemesh

Hi Dbach. I noticed you changed Beit Jimmel to Beit Jala in this article. Are you sure that the original author was not referring to the wine made by the residents of the Beit Jamal convent?

--Shlomo 08:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Might be - however the sentence read: Cremisan cellars in Beit Jimmel. Cremisan is in Beit Jala. I know that Cremisan processes Beit Shemesh grapes, I have no idea about Beit Jamal - might be. Dbach 08:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007

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Thank you for the warm welcome :) though I have been active for a couple of years and have made a couple of hundreds of edits Dbach 20:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)