User talk:Orinoco-w

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Hello, Orinoco-w, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

I appeciate your thoughts in Lung and Blood. If you are interested in collaborating on medical topics, you might want to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine and help with the Collaboration of the Week.

Again, welcome! Novangelis (talk) 17:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine!

I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities:

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, or feel free to ask me on my talk page.

Again, welcome!  JFW | T@lk 18:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tildes in edit summaries

There is normally no need to add ~~~~ to edit summaries. The wiki keeps your name in the page history after each edit anyway. Tildes are useful when leaving comments on talk pages. JFW | T@lk 09:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I'm just learning my way around this thing. I need as many tips as I can get :-)Orinoco-w (talk) 09:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have. I might have useful answers for you.

Peace, rkmlai (talk) 01:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] respiratory disease

Hello, my interest in reading and editing medical articles waxes and wanes, and right now my desire to edit them is pretty low, but I did quickly read through respiratory disease, and I think you've done a fine job expanding and restructuring the article. I do suggest giving short definitions of such terms as parenchyma and sequela rather than just linking them, because I feel it improves readability... but that's just my personal opinion. Good work! --Kyoko 19:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello, if you would like some guidance about how to structure a medical article, you should look at WP:MEDMOS, which is a manual of style for medicine-related pages. For that matter, you might be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, if you haven't already done so. --Kyoko 14:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cardiology

Since you made the "mistake" of mentioning a cardiology-related example on the WPMED page: I need someone who actually knows something (read "anything") about Ventricular hypertrophy to decide whether it's finally made it to B class. It's been on the "needs reassessed" list since January, and our normal turnaround time is rather faster than that. If you're willing to try this, then the process is pretty straightforward: you scan through the article, and if it looks basically okay and seems to have no really major gaps, then you declare that it's B class. If it has significant problems and/or major gaps, then you leave a note on the talk page about your concerns.

I can usually sort out most articles, but cardiology is entirely opaque to me. As for my thoughts on this article: if VH is actually a disease, then it's missing way too much for an upgrade (i.e., pretty much everything about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis). If, on the other hand, VH is better described as a medical sign or a lab finding, then it might be good enough as it stands. You should, of course, completely ignore my views in favor of developing your own.  ;-)

If you don't want to do this, that's fine, too. Thanks for considering it, WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

"I'm impressed! It's quite a nice little article, although I'm itching to have a go through the language and making it more "layman's terms" if at all possible. However, I'm hesitant just at this stage given the previous comment ->GA (and given my own efforts to date have been much more modest). Well done KC Panchal! Orinoco-w (talk) 23:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)"

Thanks for going through the article, commenting and encouraging. I've made further changes in the article, and also added another image. Did I make too many mistakes with grammar, or just that it was unnecessarily complex?
Actually, I had started the article 14 months back, which had remained a stub, and was an eyesore for me, so I actually finished the article on the "spur of the moment", though, now I think it actually took a lot of time and effort (almost the entire article has been completely written and "drawn" by me).
Hope to get more feedback and specific suggestions from you.
Regards.
Ketan Panchal, MBBS (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citing dissertations

Awadewit is on wikibreak so I dug around and found a solution for citing dissertations. It is at User_talk:Awadewit#References_and_Dissertations Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] An Invite to join WikiProject Genetics

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We look forward to working with you in the project! – Liveste (talk • edits) 13:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Dissertation citation

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you. I've been away. Did you figure out how to do the dissertation citation? Ruhrfisch left a model on my talk page in MLA style. Is that the style you needed? Awadewit (talk) 18:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)