User talk:Richiez

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By the way, are you interested in Medicine? (I saw your edit at Inflammation. I'm an EMT, thinking about going to physician assistant school. Anyway, Let me know on my talk page if you have any questions or want to discuss anything.

Again, welcome!  Peace, delldot | talk 20:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inflammation is not infection

A tag has been placed on Inflammation is not infection, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. MarcoTolo 01:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

To contest deletion, consult Wikipedia:Deletion review. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 11:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
That was a bit too fast for me to apply the hangon marker, I am not online 24 hours to check for such requests. Ok, learned a bit more.. should have placed a stub marker on the page when I created it I guess.
Anyway I have a new version of that article ready and will recreate it unless someone gives me other than formal reasons why it should not be there. Richiez 21:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)\
Well, first of all, what content would your proposed article provide that isn't already in the main Inflammation article? -- MarcoTolo 21:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I have uploaded a draft in User:Richiez/test1. It is short and says nothing that is not fairly obvious, but before saying it is unneeded try a search for "*itis is an infection". I found way too many instances even in "professional" literature. The intended use is to provide it as a link in places where this kind of confusion is frequent - a link to the main inflammation article may not be easy enough to understand for someone trying to figure out whether hepatitis is an infection or inflammation. Richiez 22:51, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I doubt neither the confusion issue nor the validity of what you've written on your test page (you do need to cite your sources per Wikipedia guidelines, but that's another issue) - but I do think creating a new article as you propose is unlikely to be the best way to solve the problem. Most of what you've written could be added to the Inflammation and/or Infection articles, either in-line with current text or in a Historical (or perhaps Usage or Confusion) section. While I understand your desire to "make it easier to find", I think the opposite is more likely to happen: very short pages can easily get "lost" - other editors are much more likely to prefer linking to the main articles. I'm happy to continue to discuss the options with you - whatever the outcome. -- MarcoTolo 23:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Maybe an "infobox" that could be placed on relevant pages would be better than a main article? Never created any infobox so that would be a bit over my head atm. The infobox could provide a link to a more verbose explanation somewhere else.Richiez 12:06, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Infoboxes are seen by some editors as visually distracting, especially when several infoboxes appear in the same article (personally, I'm fine with one or two, but more than that can get to be a little much). It is possible to link to an article section (Smallpox#Infection would be an example) - you might consider proposing, say, a Usage section under Inflammation that could be pointed to as needed. -- MarcoTolo 21:03, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
If the infoboxes don't seem such a good option I would prefer having it a separate article. It does not fit into neither infection nor inflamation very well - it is a different subject and should be more of an introductory style. It will have one, maybe more subsections which would make it unfitting for the introduction part of the article. The inflammation article is already long enough that some parts of it are in separate main articles. Richiez 11:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Mastitis problems

I should have been a bit more bold, but I do not have the time to repair that, nor was I aware that particular citation style was outlawed, I just knew it wasn't correct. In either case, it'll be fixed. There's no problem. Khargas (talk) 00:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

No need to be more bold but beeing more specific would help, also this does not belong to my talk page but rather Talk:Mastitis. The article is not perfect but the citations are mostly ok. Anyway I have started converting the citations to a different style. Richiez (talk) 17:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)