User talk:Robin S

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Hello Robin S! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Runcorn 22:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Most recent common ancestor

Hi. I temporarily removed most of your additions to this article. Please see Talk:Most recent common ancestor for details. Fred Hsu 17:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit to Phoberomys pattersoni

Yikes! This was indeed a mistake. Thanks for brining it to my attention... I'd never have known otherwise. I'd been doing semi-automated disambig repair, with 2 windows of Corhomo open at once; not sure how the mistake actually happened though. I'd better check over all my other difs.

Thanks again! –Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 03:50, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism at the Shaffer paragraph atricle. Appreciate it! =-D -- Penubag  01:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Always a pleasure to be of service! Robin S 02:04, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hair of the dog

In the Hair of the dog article you requested a citation for the statement "A hangover is due partly to poisoning by the toxic chemicals into which alcohol is converted by the body and the other components of the alcoholic drink, and partly to the body's reaction to withdrawal from alcohol." You must have missed the fact that it was immediately followed by "See Hangover". The Hair of the dog article is not about hangovers, there is a separate article for that. It is that article which ought, and I suspect will, fulfill your need to understand the immediate (as opposed to long-term) physiological effects of having alcohol in the bloodstream, and then removing it. You should note that withdrawal and addiction are not the same. --Bejnar 18:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

• For example the Hangover article says "When one is drinking, the blood vessels in the face, the capillaries, will dilate, giving the person a flushed appearance. When the hangover starts, the capillaries will close up again, contributing to the headache and fatigue that is often experienced in a hangover." This means that when a person ceases to drink alcohol, the body processes out the remaining alcohol and part of the physiological changes that occur with this withdrawal of alcohol are a shrinkage of the capillaries. --Bejnar 18:25, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV terms in Israelite articles

Hello. I notice that you have had some recent discussion with user:FDuffy about the undue weight he may be giving to some aspects of Biblical scholarship (see my comment on his talk page) and archaeological hypotheses. I have started an attempt to provide minor rewordings that will reflect a more neutral position while also stating the higher criticism view, but I do not wish to do so without at least some consensus from others who have been active on these pages. For now, I am generally only inserting terms like the word "some" before phrases such as "Biblical scholars believe..." but I am looking for more suggestions to best portray these things in a more objective light. Any input would be appreciated. One option may be to revert the article to a previous version and insert a section like "Tribe of X and higher criticism," which would then include the source(s) recently cited. ◄Zahakiel► 07:09, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Except that following that option would be turning the article into a "debate" (according to the manual of style), which the manual considers to be a bad thing. Also, you are not meant to revert articles without good reason, and certainly not because you disagree with the presentation.

I'm a bit curious, to be honest, why you consider the academic view to be non-neutral; I'm not one to favour politicising science. --User talk:FDuffy 15:43, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

I have replied to this in the appropriate section of FDuffy's talk page. If this user has any further questions to ask me, my talk page is available for comment (this is Robin's space). ◄Zahakiel► 02:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sound of Drums

Thanks for the link to the article on British spelling; the information about the OED was particularly illuminating. BTW, congratulations on getting into Cambridge. :-) Pericles899 00:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biological imperatives

It looks as though the creator, Pom-something (forgive me for forgetting if you read this Pom) really wanted to change the name of the original article (and had a decent reason for wanting to do so) It might be best to do a sort of semi-merge, and cut and paste the references from Biological imperatives to Biological imperative, then move the Biological imperative page to Biological imperatives, with a resulting redirect. Just a thought. Anarchia 08:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)