User talk:Jfdwolff/Archive 6

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Ummm..... I was just having a hard time decoding the chemical notation from the wiki notation. I suppose the single square brackets could be interpreted as external links, right?

like the page sez: "What do I do if I encounter valid unclosed square brackets, or other wiki syntax? Some example of valid use of unclosed square brackets are: The mathematical notation [a,b) or (a,b] The use of "[" in tables of character sets Articles about the languages of Africa where they make click noises, and apparently [ and [[ are common ways to spell the clicks. These are all valid, so please don't close the brackets. Instead, please enclose that bit of text in tags - for example "<nowiki>[a,b)", or "[[". These nowiki tags will ensure that the software will know that it should ignore those unclosed brackets the next time that it is run." Gzuckier 20:41, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

HMG CoA reductase pathway

Hi JFW. Can you take a look at the pathway diagram on the HMG-CoA reductase pathway please. Axl 13:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

JFW, there's one more thing on the diagram that I missed when I last looked at it: can you change the squalene > lanosterol step into 2 steps, please. Axl 19:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for correcting my typo in the And the Band Played On article. Uranographer 08:36, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What are you talking about?

What nonsense have I supposedly been adding pray tell?

Please see your talkpage. JFW | T@lk 20:42, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello, no, I know the methods here, thank you for it and your welcome :) Regards --AnnaP 21:39, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much for your vote for my adminship. I greatly appreciate your support. ffirehorse 23:55, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hello Jfd, the subject is DNA damage checkpoints in S.pombe, so it's at the same time biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. I agree the Molecular Biology articles are not in a great state (one featured article on the subject is atcually pretty ... weird stuff). The thing is that I regard Wikipedia as a kind of hobby to escape from all the Molecular Biology stuff (doing a PhD can really put you off...), so I've been avoiding these pages so far. But once I'm done with my thesis, I'll probably put some serious effort into these pages. - pir 17:41, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi there, Yes, I agree that it would make the category medicine quite big, and would put articles in more directly relevant categories. But can there be a way, where all such content can be organized in a more streamlined manner. vogon77 02:32, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

hello Jfd, A solution would be to categorize it like a textbook classification, maybe not the ideal way, but it will reduce the confusion vogon77 08:50, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

hi there,

Let the primary classification system be based on organ systems. Multiple Layers of classification can then be added or in-built onto this, as we go along. The point I am trying to make is that the medicine page can be made easy to use and intuitive to navigate, if a simple broad layout is made. vogon77 10:50, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

Kallmann syndrome

Hi Jfdwolff, Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine shows you have a special interest in endocrinology. I have just created a brand new article for Kallmann syndrome and would welcome your feedback and/or contribution. Charm 11:23, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not actually familiar with the syndrome, but I will have a look. JFW | T@lk 11:59, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

reply to your note

Hi JFD I see from your personal page that you're very busy adding articles to the Wikipedia. I wish I had such energy! With respect to iridology, my own view is that it's the most complete rubbish. I'm usually preoccupied with other projects, but let me know if you need support at any given time.

I am amazed that people fail to see that iridology is exactly like ear-mapping and foot-mapping, and all the other 'systems' that claim to map visible signs of all the organs on to some minor part. Once you are aware of all these alternative systems that claim to be 'the only true way', you start to see how silly they are. There is a widespread human desire to have a simple, visible, magical correspondence between visible signs and disease. Of course, the scope of this desire is wider than disease diagnosis - I believe that all systems connecting visible signs with predictions have the same impulse, whether the aim is to diagnose disease or the future. They have in common the desire to avoid work (espec. the mental discipline of logic and dispassionate enquiry), but in a more positive light they also appeal to everyone's sense of wonder and delight, and they also tap a desire that there be some 'cosmic order' which is beyond our understanding but which nevertheless has a uniquely human, comfortable feel to it. The outstanding fact about the way Nature *really* works is that it is often rather challenging, uncomfortable and surprising. To my mind, a scientist is one who finds the uncomfortable truths of Nature to be more satisfying than self-deception.

Rhd 06:00, 2004 Oct 30 (UTC)

Traumatic masturbatory syndrome

IMHO Doug was an idiot not to leave well enough alone. He should have been very pleased that he managed to get a link to his site into Wikipedia. I actually pointed out to him that there is no such thing as bad publicity and that despite the disclaimers, the article said clearly this is the theory, this is the purported cause, this is the purported cure, and this is a site where you can find out more. I voted "delete" originally, BTW. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:06, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Your revert of Genesis

I agree the guy was a bit pedantic but you could have given some reason as to why you reverted him. Unless he was flatly wrong, you could have just neutralized his prose a bit. Unsigned by User:Yeago

Links

Absolutely right in your comments - I had no idea... but I just read an article there, and it's clear that they reproduce the fulltext to act as a reference for their articles.

I had thought that this was merely a source for the Soncino translation - which is why I have links to it in many of the Talmud articles... should I remove these?

Fintor | talk | November 1 08:11 UTC

Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Pediatrics

I just wanted to say that your comment "because people are bound to try this (especially Americans)" is a bit insulting. The phrase "bound to try" seems to imply that the thing being done is stupid and/or ridiculous, which an American spelling Pediatrics as such is not. That is how it is spelled in American English. One can't expect an American to spell "color" with a "u" or pediatrics with an "a". [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 04:03, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Six degrees

According to the cache, there are (so far) 3 queries which needed more than 6 hops:

*************************** 1. row ***************************
sr_from: Thrush
  sr_to: Flush
sr_hops: 7
   path: +Thrush+The Man From U.N.C.L.E.+September 22+1928+Poker+Poker jargon+Flush
*************************** 2. row ***************************
sr_from: Squash
  sr_to: Wikipedian
sr_hops: 7
   path: +Squash+Squash (sport)+Zambia+Politics of Zambia+Non-governmental organization+Consultative Status+Wikipedian
*************************** 3. row ***************************
sr_from: Baruch Epstein
  sr_to: Signet cell
sr_hops: 7
   path: +Baruch Epstein+Lithuania+1998+Alice Faye+Stomach cancer+Krukenberg tumor+Signet cell

This only counts from yesterday, though - the paths from the old version aren't included (as it didn't remember them). I think I'll add a "longest paths" list as well as the 'recent queries' one... — Kate Turner | Talk 18:37, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, missed. Linking accounts lets you enable history graphing (example) on your account (in the 'Prefs' option) - there were some privacy concerns about this, so it's opt-in rather than allowed by default for everyone. — Kate Turner | Talk 20:27, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks, Jfd for your advice. From your advice, I will promise to work harder and try my best to meet the expectations that you stated. But how do you know that one is involved in cleanups and vfd (what is it and teach me how to work with it). Please reply my message as soon as possible.

Thanks, User:Chan Han Xiang

192.197.71.189

I just banned him too. Hopefully third time's a charm... If not, I'll contact a developer. --David Iberri | Talk 18:06, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

Odd. He seems to have simmered down for the moment. Maybe I can glean something from the developers on IRC. --David Iberri | Talk 18:11, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

I haven't received any helpful responses on #mediawiki, and BugZilla doesn't show any related open bugs, so I'm at a real loss as to why the blocks aren't sticking. I don't see any contribution-merging happening though. It's just that sometimes the anon's most recent edits aren't being displayed, and the sandbox edits appear at the top (I checked and he really did edit the sandbox on the three of those dates that I checked). I'll keep my IRC window open, but I'm not holding my breath... --David Iberri | Talk 18:36, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

Fact and reference check

Hello, many people want to move forward with the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check project instead of waiting for 'smart' footnotes to be coded into MediaWiki. The first step is agreeing upon a formatting template used to fact check new articles. Several candidates are up for vote, and everyone is encouraged to vote and/or submit their own proposal. Comments on proposals are also very much welcome.

Thanks for your interest in our project, I hope you will vote :o). --ShaunMacPherson 22:46, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion

See these six categories up for "votes of deletion":

Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Palestinian_terrorists and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Palestinian_terrorist_organizations and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Middle_East_terrorists and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Terrorist_organizations and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Islamic_terrorist_organizations and this one too: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Jewish_terrorist_organizations

IZAK 10:10, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm not voting for categories anymore. Too many edit conflicts. JFW | T@lk 13:40, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

SMILES

SMILES will hopefully be implemented into Wikipedia at some stage. Until then I really think the CAS code will be sufficient. JFW | T@lk 23:51, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have found a way to hide the longer SMILES strings in a scroll field, see strychnine :-) I think the SMILES string make alot of sense if you want to create or recreate molecule images in your molecule editor. Copy and pasting the SMILES string is way faster and less prone to error than trying to draw the whole structure over and over again. The CAS number does not do this. Cacycle 00:52, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Psychopharmacology

Hey Cacycle, you seem to be into psychopharmacology. Could you pinpoint some useful articles on Wikipedia where I could learn more? Specifically interested in depression, but then psychosis etc also has my interest. JFW | T@lk 23:51, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm primarily interested in hallucinogens and have no idea what can be found about depression or psychosis here. If you are really interested in something I would go to the library :-) Cacycle 00:52, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Opinion for IZAK

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IZAK/Evidence. Thank you. IZAK 06:59, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Avraham Danzig

You reverting 3 times on Avraham Danzig, as an administrator pls. ban yourself :)--Emax 13:26, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have responded on your talk page. JFW | T@lk 14:13, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cyproterone

Done. I just removed the 200px thumbnailing, because my formulas are small enough. Regards, Mykhal 22:09, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Dating welcome messages

To welcome, I type in {{subst:User:Meelar/wel}}, which places in the contents of User:Meelar/wel. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to minimize typing thusly while still having a correct date. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:35, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Port of call

I'm interested in bringing peace to the Middle East, but I'm not sure it's possible to get enough people to agree with making me an "arbitrator". I am an interested party to the dispute (having 2 Jewish grandparents and a Jewish mother).

I aim rather to facilitate understanding and communication. --user:Ed Poor (deep or sour) 15:52, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

203.199.213.194

This person continues to vandalize the Wikipedia. I saw your "last warning" on their talk page. If you can, perhaps you should ban him/her. JEL 21:46, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome edits

Your edits on Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are making the article better. But, perhaps you should read over the "Signs and symptoms" section, which now has considerable repetition of material. Some of the paragraphs almost seem like different versions of each other. Is this what you intended? Paul August 21:59, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Having looked more carefully I see that the duplication has to do with your merging the text from the original "Description" "Lesch-Nyhan syndrome in males" and "Lesch-Nyhan syndrome in females" sections into one "signs and symptoms" section. Anyway Larsie has now reinstated the original organization. If you feel strongly about this I guess you should discuss this with him. But perhaps you could content yourself with more incremental/less ambitious edits? Your new intro (which is better than what was there before) has with some tweaks, been reinstated by me - with Larsie's agreement (I think). I have reintroduced a bit of your rewordings myself, and may do more. Perhaps you could address the "genetics issue" as a separate edit?. Paul August 04:54, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, you left a message for Larsie on my talk page. You should try him. Also, if you are going to entirely re-organize an article according to some standard, you better make darn sure that is the standard the majority really want, and not just the way a few people have written some other articles. Maybe Larsie's way is better and the other articles should be re-organized. Anyway, talk it out on the talk page, or comment at the featured article candidate discussion. - Taxman 13:16, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

No, this is primarily something for the article talk page. JFW | T@lk 14:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re, what you left on my talk page, that is all I was saying. Make sure it is an accepted standard, ie a wiki project, not just the way a few other articles conform to. It appears it is the accepted way, so then that is for the best. - Taxman 16:16, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Hey there jfw what do think is it finished or what? --Larsie 20:00, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

well thank you for all your help and i look forward to what the good doctor has to say! --Larsie 20:10, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Opioid revert

Can you justify your revert of Opioid? Unless you do I'm going to revert back. Fugg 10:07, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have reworded the article slightly for neutral point of view, not all addicts are 'recreational users' and not all recreational users are 'addicts', changed to user in one case rather than either recreational user or addict /changed another instance to chronic user as, addiction is not required for "ramp effect" and "ramp effect is not typically noted in the mere 'recreational user' , furthermore, the term "recreational" is misleading , see Recreation would prefer either simply user, when appropriate, or chronic user, or even non-medical user, but I think this version should feel good for all of us.Pedant 22:43, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)

I've extended the abuse section, and added a recreational use section to clarify this issue. As an operator, you should know that Wikipedia's NPOV policy states that, "one should write articles without bias, representing all views fairly." To censor the recreational use POV violates the NPOV policy. 5000+ years of recreational opium use cannot be swept under the carpet because your view is narrowed to only seeing the effects of heroin abuse. --Thoric 22:18, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Polycythemia vera

I have been using Medical Qigong to addrees my polycythemia vera:

Case Studies of Walking Qi Gong on Chronic Diseases

Sure beats the leeches. Unsigned by Ed

Ed: as long as your hematocrit remains acceptable you're a lucky man. JFW | T@lk 14:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

filling the red

what would be good is if we could fill in all the red in the article for LNS, i think really there is not that much, pretty much the other syndromes like cornelia delange or whatever it was, and others. i think it would not be too difficult. --Larsie 20:42, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

i just checked there are 5 red links. --Larsie 20:43, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards

I have drafted a proposal for a new voluntary association on Wikipedia (joining groups like the Wikipedia:The Business and Economics Forum and the Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club) to promote discussion of a sort of system of expert review on Wiki. Please take a look and add your ideas. 172 02:33, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wonderful idea! I have joined. I will let some others know. Thank you. IZAK 03:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Matrilineality article

Could you please take a look at the recent changes to the Matrilineality article? There's some editing going on there that I dispute (and I think you might too), but I don't have time to deal with it right now. Jayjg 17:53, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, that looks good; we'll see if anon agrees. It might be worthwhile to check his other edits, he has made quite a few. As for me, I'm still spending time on the Arbitration, and battling vandalism. Jayjg 18:55, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Additions to Bible article

You might want to take a look at the recent anonymous additions to the Bible article regarding the occurence of YHVH in the Bible; it looks to me like it's the work of a Jehovah's Witness with a POV to push, and it's not particularly noteworthy, certainly not for the introduction. Also, anon is messing with Matrilineality again. Jayjg 22:47, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:tramadol

G'day Dr de Wolff, if you have some time, would you mind having a look at the "antidepressant effects" section in Talk:Tramadol? I'm interested in what your thoughts are with regards to the discussion I've been having with 69.139.141.134. Techelf 08:47, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. Techelf 09:10, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Flecainide.

Jfdwolff, you asked me to stop reverting "your" work. What you have up on flecainide right now is not your work; they are words that you have stolen from someone else. I am going to put the copyvio notice up until you have the opportunity to write an article yourself. If you copy and paste words from another website, or from previous versions of this page that contain copyvio material, the page will be reverted again. I look forward to an origional article written by you. If you do not have the time or expertise to do it right now, we'll just leave the copyvio notice up until someone does have the time. Matt 03:35, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

INR link

I have put ONE link in the NPT bit of the INR article, just to make you smile! :) 138.37.188.109 16:00, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh! And here's something which I hope will make you laugh out loud. Did you know thrombosis has clinical uses? I was delighted to read on Roche's website that it does, as I previously just thought it was a big pain. But no - see this and check out the second link, after Birmingham. Good eh?? 138.37.188.109 16:21, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry about who I am - I'm an ex-user, and an irrelevancy! (sp?) :) I work in a medical college, am not a medic, and am lifetime anticoagulated - hence the - ah - interest in the topic...

But I am glad you liked the link. I hadn't thought of that particular "clinical use"! 138.37.188.109 10:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Stress (medecine)

Sorry, but when I see this "great quote" in your user's page:

"In theory, yes. And in theory, theory is the same as practice, but in practice it is not"

I have some difficulties to understand that you censored the only practical link in that article, under the pretence of "accumulation"

Is that article the property of medecine academics only, as the only one having notions about stress? In that case it should be labelled as such. --Pgreenfinch 16:47, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've replied on your talk page. JFW | T@lk 17:08, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

What you say, Jfdwolff, is interesting, and thanks for explaining. But it would have been more to the point if you had discussed with me before supressing the link unilateraly, and then giving "accumulation" as a surprising reason, as only that link was aimed at, two things I don't really find to be examples of witiquette. Then we could have seen together the pros and cons whether this link has value or not. Well, the possibility stays open. --Pgreenfinch 19:01, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply in my user's page. Btw, you might be right about the overlinking issue, which is the topic of an article currently in VfD and for which I voted "keep". As for the antistress link, it is really an aside in my site, with about no synergy with my main topic. It was just that I thought it could be useful. If I see, after a few weeks, in my stats, that it is not much used, I will erase it. Also your idea of an automatized google link giving the most popular links about a wikipedia topic seems interesting. --Pgreenfinch 16:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I voted merge + redirect. It's a jargon issue, which belongs in hyperlink. JFW | T@lk 17:24, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Melarsoprol

My mistake. I wasn't sure whether it still constituted a US Government document, because the electronic USP DI stuff seems to be copyrighted to Thomson Micromedex Inc. these days. Thanks for reverting it. -Techelf 09:37, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikiproject "Clinical Medicine"

Hi JFW, thank you for the invite for the Wikiproject "Clinical Medicine"! This is my first talk page, so go easy... I'm a bit unsure about what it means to be associated with the Wikiproject "Clinical Medicine". What's expected of participants beyond what I've been doing so far (i.e. writing articles on diseases that interest me?). BTW, I have PhD in biochem & molec. bio & worked in a research hospital a while ago. -hfwd

OK - count me in. I'll focus on expanding stubs on diseases & biochemistry. My scientific field of expertise is amyloid & prions, both of which have pretty good explanations in wikipedia already. How do you input the "talk" on the four tildes? I've looked into the help pages, but couldn't find the info (sorry to bother you on simple things like that) Hfwd 23:57, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks but ...

Thanks for your kind comments, but I really am trying to stay away, to not log in to my old user account, etc ... cold turkey. Wikipedia is great - utterly brilliant, in fact - but not so great for people with addictive personalities and I found that I was spending too much time, and, worse, caring about it too much ... hence the reluctance to be involved very much more. I still use it as a reference source, which is why I came across warfarin and all the other cloggy articles and couldn't resist, as it were, a quick fiddle. So thanks, but ... :) 138.37.188.109 09:04, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Tophi

Hello, I notice in the tophi article you changed MSU to uric acid. It is my understanding that the crystals are, in fact, sodium urate and not uric acid. Do you disagree with this? Osmodiar 09:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Melarsoprol

There's a little note for you at the above page. :-) Best wishes as always, and I hope your autumn has been/will be a good one. Jwrosenzweig 17:50, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Metabolic vs X

I have not ever learned to distinguish syndrome X from metabolic syndrome. How do you distinguish them? Note I'm not arguing, just curious. I assume you don't mind if I expand your MODY article. alteripse 12:41, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi! Can you take a look at this and knock off any of the articles you can. I am trying to bring to 50 percent done. Thanks. Danny 15:39, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reno 911!

Make sure you look at the "What links here" section before listing a thing as being out of context. While both of the articles you recently listed as being out of context were, a few words in each put them into context. -- user:zanimum

So when you edited Captain Duane Hernandez, why couldn't you include some context?? :-) JFW | T@lk 21:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I did. Reno 911 is the context, all the context that it needs. -- user:zanimum

OK, I meant Lieutenant Suzy Kim. I doubt all these characters need special articles. Can't we simply redirect the whole kaboodle to Reno 911? JFW | T@lk 21:32, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Which I've also put into context. I am doubting we need article on these minor characters, as they had fairly limited runs, but this is a completely different and more justified reason to delete. -- user:zanimum

Merging two articles

Please assist with merging the following two articles: Bioethics of neonatal circumcision and Circumcision and law - Robert the Bruce 16:32, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No, I will not touch the circumcision-related articles with a bargepole until all annoying POV-pushers have left Wikipedia. I avoid editing Yasser Arafat for the same reason. JFW | T@lk 22:03, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Coward ;-) - Robert the Bruce 05:27, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
BTW, I've added another study to Cervical cancer. Thought you would find it interesting. - Robert the Bruce 05:29, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

SARS

If you had checked the Talk page before contacting me, you would see that I already gave my reasons for moving the page. The issue should be discussed there. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 00:52, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

I reread what I wrote above, and sorry for coming across rather terse. I appreciated that you let me know about your removing the page. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 00:57, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Eicosanoid

Er, the diagram in eicosanoid doesn't look any different to me. :-/ The most important change required is inclusion of the missing LTC4. Axl 10:12, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Prostate Cancer

I note the following study is not included in the Prostate cancer article which I believe it should. Maybe you would insert it in the most appropriate manner.[1] Thanks. - Robert the Bruce 13:21, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It is an old study of little relevance. I'm rather disinclined to clutter the article with hypotheses that have not been validated in large, cross-sectional studies. JFW | T@lk 08:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:21, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Redirect you created at "Malkuth"

Hi, you created a redirect from Malkuth to Malchut by moving Malkuth to Malchut, but there is currently no article at Malchut. (It must have been deleted since the redirect was created.) Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Malkuth on WP:RfD If you want the redirect to stay, you will need to create something at Malchut (even a stub will do), or else the redirect will go away. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there), but if you do, just delete the entry for Malkuth. Thanks! (Technically, you moved this to Malkhuth, but that's since been moved, and made into a redirect to Malchut, and this one's been adjusted to point there too.) Noel (talk) 00:21, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I moved it to the correct spelling: Malkuth disregards the khaf. The redir can be deleted if the article was removed. JFW | T@lk 08:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

CheeseDreams

Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/CheeseDreams#Users_certifying_the_basis_for_this_dispute? --[[User:Eequor|ᓛᖁᑐ]] 23:14, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ten Commandments

I'm not going to get into an argument about Jewish perspectives on abortion, so I won't dispute your edit. Can you at least edit it to clarify the grammar? What do you mean by "this law is based upon other sources"? The Jewish position against abortion is not based on the "do not murder" commandment but on other parts of scripture? I think just changing the words "this law" to something clearer would fix the problem. Thanks. -leigh (φθόγγος) 20:54, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

New "Israel-stub"

Hi Dr. Wolff: Is your Email working? Please see the new {{Israel-stub}} Template:Israel-stub [2], and use it where applicable. Thanks. IZAK 13:37, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My email is fine. Thanks. JFW | T@lk 14:27, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The "dr" Email address bounces back sometimes. IZAK 14:42, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Here is an up-date:

New "Judaism-stub"

See the new Wikipedia {{Judaism-stub}} Template:Judaism-stub [3]. Please use when coming across relevant "stub" articles. Hope it all helps. All the best. IZAK 14:42, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, was just trying to fix it

I was orginally on IP - 213.105.224.17. I wasn't trying to vandalise anything. A friend of mine's sister originally vandalised it, not knowing what she was doing. Said friend mentioned it to me and i attempted to fix it. Sorry for any blunders i may have made, i was only trying to help (first stuck something meaningful there and then realised i could set it to what it was originally by copying what was in the history, i didnt know how to revert (im guessing i have to have an account for that (only just registered to message you)). Unsigned by User:Aeternus

See your (new) talkpage! JFW | T@lk 20:28, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Gerovital

I would very much appreciate any help with the article on Gerovital H3, a venerable quack anti-aging drug currently under discussion in VfD. The original article was a short, advertising-like stub.

It seemed regrettably clear that it is notable enough to be kept so I've been trying to NPOV it.

Two things I'm trying to get a handle on.

1) Is it legal? (In the U. S., that is). It is clear that in the 1970s and 1980s the FDA considered it an unapproved drug, illegal in interstate commerce. But I haven't been able to find out what the current status is. Suppliers imply that it is a nutritional supplement, and thus presumably legal under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. But I haven't been able to find any definite statement about this. Maybe it's in untested limbo? The FDA's own site seems to have nothing on it beyond a 1994 (odd coincidence) article in FDA Consumer magazine saying it's worthless.

Do you understand the 1994 act? Can anything be a nutritional supplement? Is it even wildly reasonable to call procaine a "nutrient" or (!) a "vitamin?"

2) Is it safe, though worthless? This is one I think you could really help on. It appears that the stuff is basically procaine with some other ingredients that are supposed to "stabilize" it and make it more effective. One supplier seems to be suggesting that its tablets and ampoules each contain 100 mg of procaine, and suggest two tablets per day by mouth or three injections per week. Random Googling gives me the impression that the dosages used for local anesthesia are much higher, maybe 500 mg or more, and that the minimum dose at which adverse effects are observed is 19.2 mg/kg (oddly precise, that figure) which would be 1000 to 1500 mg for an adult. It would be insane to say in the article that the stuff is safe. Right now I'm quoting the FDA consumer article as saying some people have experienced problems, while noting that suppliers (of course) say it is safe. But if I'm right about the dosages it might be appropriate to say that the dosages used in the (worthless) treatment are five to ten times lower than those used in anesthesia. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 03:16, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Responded on your talk and Vfd. JFW | T@lk 10:08, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

PE, warfarin dose, etc

Thanks for your kind note and for agreeing to look at the ideal dosage question. I really am, however, trying to disengage - not without some regrets - from my previous very busy, nay obsessive, involvement with WP. See "Thanks but ..." up there somewhere, which as you probably realised is also me. :) Gonegonegone 08:18, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I know exactly what you mean. As with alcohol, Wikipediholicism is an absolute thing. Once a Wikipediholic, always a Wikipediholic. From a professional point of view I would recommend that you disengage again, before you get sucked into that big black hole of >100 edits a day...

The developers would do well to install a function that autoblocks notorious Wikipediholics after 40 major or 80 minor edits :-) JFW | T@lk 10:08, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, on both counts. :) (I mean the wiki stuff comments above, and the rewording about post-PE dosage, which is great.) Gonegonegone 07:21, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Electromagnetic spectrum

I'm 40 and have a BS in imaging and color science. Whoopie. I quit! ha! I want to do MRI/cat scan stuff (no $$$) or Physical Pherapy (big $$$) but I'll be old when I finish school

I slaughtered your Electromagnetic Spectrum. You can't use visible with the word light. no. no no. I added a little more down to earth example of how the psychophysical phenomenon of our eye/brain combo works to allow us to percieve different cominations of frequencies as unique colors.

You'll hate it. Fine, change it back.

But read my def. on Metamerism (color) it's sweet, simple, informative for all levels.

I'm going after Fast Fourier Transforms, with regards to image processing next. (NOT!)

Email address removed for protection against web spiders.

I'm not sure why you're addressing this to me. JFW | T@lk 10:39, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I thought for sure you were the electromagnetic man!!!

So have you decided for me?

MRI, CAT scanning, X-Rays or Physical Therapy?

Please take a wild guess, given I'm 40, and have one BS