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Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:48Z

Barnstar

It was a while ago, but I haven't forgotten.

<Moved to trophy cabinet> :)

ref:deletion Satish Babu

Hi, The page Satish Babu was deleted on 13th of February.It was about the contributions of a journalist to the Regional Media. Can you let me know how it could find relevance and where i can find the deleted page? User:Madhuritalluri(talk)

Admiration

I admire your image works !

Thanks!

thank you very much!!! You´ve been very useful, keep in touch! blitox

RfA Thanks

I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent RfA, was unsuccessful with 61 support, 25 oppose, and 4 neutral. I've been taking the advice of the Opposes into practice and hopefully I can improve myself. Once again, thank you. ^_^

Thank you

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

April 2008

OK :)

could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Misplaced Pages be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Misplaced Pages, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Misplaced Pages according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Misplaced Pages, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW 13:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, here is the link

Pretest webpage

If you have any question during pretest, please contact me.

Please finish it before 25 June. Thanks a lot. :)

JnW 14:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, the questionnaire is completed. Link:

evaluation questionnaire

thanks for doing this questionnaire, and I hope that you will feel interested about this. :)

JnW 04:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, just remind you to complete the questionnaire.

My thesis's oral defense is on next Wednesday. So please complete it as early as you can. I believe it would just take you 5 miniute. Thanks a lot. :)

JnW 07:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thanks a lot for your help on filling out the questions on the pretest and questionnaire. In order for us to interpret the answers you gave, I have three additional questions to ask you. In the questionnaire, you check ‘free’ for the compensation of answering the question. Now there are some scenarios:

1. If the users need to pay for asking questions through our knowledge service, will you still answer the questions for free?
2. If the users pay a certain fee for each of his/her questions being answered, will you receive the compensation for answering the question or allow us to donate it to the charitable institutions?
3. Do you have any comments on the knowledge service which we plan to develop? In this knowledge service, we will allow users to ask their questions, and the system will forward these questions to the users who edited wikipedia and were identified by our system as the domain experts. Which business model do you think is more proper? The expert can be compensated by the fee paid by the seekers or do it for altruism with no charge.

JnW 13:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

1. No.
2. Donation.
3. I'd leave that decision to the individual expert involved.

Is this a thesis defense or a business plan? Tim Vickers (talk) 14:35, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Moved to trophy cabinet.

Thanks!

Moved to trophy cabinet

Ketogenic diet

Many thanks, Tim, for your review and tweaks/additions. I'll start working through the points later this evening. Colin° 18:40, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I think I've addressed most of your specific points. The more general improvements to the prose will take me a little longer. Colin° 22:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

CIITA

What do you think? I can't make heads or tails of it. OrangeMarlin 19:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine

Greetings. This week's Dispatches column in the Signpost is just excellent. Thanks for all the useful information, and especially for the "breast cancer" example and the links to various tools. Great work, – Quadell 16:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU, Status, and you!

As you may know, the StatusBot responsible for maintaining the status of the Highly Active Users was taken offline. We now have a replacement in the Qui status system. This semi-automatic system will allow you to easily update your status page found at Special:Mypage/Status which the HAU page code is now designed to read from. If you are already using Qui (or a compatible) system - great! - no action is needed (other than remembering to update your status as necessary). If not, consider installing Qui. You can also manually update this status by changing the page text to online, offline, or busy. While it is not mandatory, the nature of HAU is that people are often seeking a quick answer from someone who is online and keeping our statuses up-to-date will assist with this. Note if you were previously using your /Status page as something other than a one-word status indicator, your HAU entry may have been set to "status=n" to correct display issues. Please clear this parameter if you change things to be "HAU compatible". Further questions can be raised at WT:HAU. This message was delivered by xenobot 22:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for the nice welcome to Misplaced Pages. I am also active in the German Misplaced Pages and I hope that I also can contribute here. Thank you and have a nice day. --Martina Steiner (talk) 13:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

What's the problem?

What's all this vitriol for? Are you that annoyed by a simple biological principle. The human population clearly meets all conditions necessary for evolution. You have mentioned that the races are a social concept, but how can you explain the prevalence of Tay-sachs disease in the Jewish population or the fact that all the major scientists so far have been white. A list of the 100 greatest scientists is perhaps the strongest proof of race in determining scientific achievement. The top 100 scientists most notable include Francis Crick, Alfred Binet, James Watson, Francis Galton who all believed in eugenics and dysgenics. This is not to say blacks or asians dont have their own strengths. You should read more, perhaps, to gain an understanding of the current scientific mainstream. I'm not trying to change your personal views, but the main human article should certainly include all prevalent views. Verwoerd (talk) 23:56, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

SLE

Hiya Tim, wishing you well as always. Another lupus favour - ; note Wolff's edit summary in the previous version. Revert? Thanks, WLU (talk) 18:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

...and again... WLU (talk) 21:54, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I've no idea but Wolff just reverted - I've no real concerns I just really dislike medical articles with unsourced content added de novo. That's not the right term...ex nihilo? Anyway, I'm fine with sources or outright removal but unsourced bugs me. Thanks! WLU (talk) 22:09, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Lyme's Disease

Hi Tim- Above is your message to me. I am adding this topic to the talk page. I did include a reference for my edit, which was to a CNN.com artice. The original source is a book. There are no peer reviewed articles on this theory, in fact that's not something that you would typically find as a peer review article. Do you believe I need assistance adding references? Is the one I added originally not enough? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amdurbin (talk • contribs)

User:Blazinpaddles

Hi Tim: Drifting about Misplaced Pages, I came across the "Dr Ward, User:Chuwils, User:Blazinpaddles" mass of verbiage. What I can't find, however, though I have read as much as I could tolerate of all parties' wanderings, is a legal threat by anyone. Could you provide the reference, just so I don't have to go back through all those words again? (Please note: I have no complaint. I am just curious as to who is threatening whom about what.) Thanks ៛ Bielle (talk) 05:11, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Call off the search team! I just found the discussion on WP:AN/I. (One day, I will learn how to do diffs quickly and easily.) Everything has been oversighted, I think. Sorry to have bothered you. ៛ Bielle (talk) 05:22, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Gene wiki

I figured you had a hand in the gene wiki stuff that's been in the news, sure nuff . Nice work. Interesting writeup here: -Ravedave (talk) 06:47, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Mesosomes

Hi. Today, I have updated the mesosome article at the spanish wikipedia (es:mesosoma), which has been forgetten for some time. I have just traslated the english article. Thanks you for the notice at the spanish disccusion page. Regards. Francisco 213.60.68.208 (talk) 18:11, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Virus versus Viruses

Tim, this has cropped up again, . Can we reconsider renaming the articles to the plural? Graham. GrahamColm 21:14, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Missing biochemicals

Tim, As a biochemist, could you help start articles uvaricin, rodiasine, or demethylrodiasine? All of these turned up as redlinks when I did an expansion of the page on the Magnoliidae, but are either new enough or specialized enough that they're beyond my ability to research well. If you don't have the time or background to start them yourself, could you perhaps point me to someone who likes to start articles on phytochemicals? (Biochemistry doesn't seem to have its own Wikiproject.) Thanks, --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:29, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Pulmonary contusion

Hi, I wondered if I could ask a favor. I'd like to take pulmonary contusion to FAC, but I'm not sure if it's ready. Someone recommended you since you've gotten a bunch of medicine articles to FA, and I've noticed you've worked on other lung-related FAs like tuberculosis. Would you mind having a look and letting me know what you think it needs before FAC? It would be much appreciated! Peace, delldot talk 00:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Well done

Moved to trophy cabinet.

Added at Newsroom Suggestions

FYI: SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, well; now they've got it twice :-) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

GeneWiki

Nice work. So do people show up on GeneWiki and edit-war to promote their favorite genes and defame other genes? Is there a GeneWiki Review where people can go to gripe about cabals and admin abuse? :) MastCell  21:14, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

"The most vicious fights in the world happen in Irish pubs and academic journals." Tim Vickers (talk) 21:18, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah yes. "The fighting in academia is so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." Actually, I prefer the remark of a famous physician-scientist, who said: "I knew I'd been in academic medicine too long when I was watching Amadeus and found myself rooting for Salieri." MastCell  21:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Questions about Combinatorial biology

Pete Hurd suggested that I forward my request for some comment on the article to you. Long story short, I saved an article on a molecular biologist, Richard A. Houghten from deletion. In doing so, I created a stub for Combinatorial biology. Reflecting on both of them I feel that I need a specialist look to see if I have done either subject justice. I feel that I probably have, but I don't hold a degree in the field or even in a related field, so given how thin the sourcing is, I would prefer to defer to authority. If you get a moment I would love it if you could take a look at either or both of the articles. Thanks! Protonk (talk) 21:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Image swap

Thanks for the notification! When I think of evolution, I guess my mind just automatically jumps to that picture. You would think that a university student would be able to distinguish evolution and progression. I think I've got some reading to do... hahaha, thanks for the revert though. Cheers! _{TIM KLOSKE|TALK} 17:19, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Youre Welcome

Lol, no problem. Just here to help. :D. CheersII MusLiM HyBRiD II (talk) 18:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

wiki template filling

Thanks for the advice and the template filling tool Ging3rnut (talk) 19:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Dysgenics

I believe I have acted in a professional manner, however, your personal beliefs have railroaded many articles such as Human. Dysgenics is a concept explored not only in science, but in many other disciplines as well. Perhaps the most important goal of evolutionary science is ultimately the betterment of mankind, and what better way than to treat humans rightly as any other species, meaning there is great genetic variation, and it is possible to breed out the bad and breed in the good. Humanity is imperiled, and despite my best sources, you, Ramdrake, and Alun have tried to stifle me by attacking me, not the ideas I and many scientists uphold. Verwoerd (talk) 23:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Sharing

Problem resolved (as far as it can be) in evolution. Thanks --Candy (talk) 08:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Amateur Station Operator's Certificate

About the copyright infringement: Please see Talk:Amateur Station Operator's Certificate#Alleged copyright violation =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:37, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Tuberculosis

You've made quite a few edits there. I found this FA to have an awful lead focusing on epidemiology and not providing a basic summary. I've written one now, but in the interest of brilliant prose, could you have a copy-edit? Thanks. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:14, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

I'd be honoured to be nominated by you, thanks. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:19, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Creation-of-Heaven

I think wikipedia should allow OR especially if it is verified, and especially if it is verified with wikipedia information. If A plus B can denote C, and it is recognizable shouldn't that be added to the human body of knowledge. I'm just saddened by that wikipedia doesn't allow referenced OR. It shouldn't matter where the original information came from - be it a blog - if it has references explaining that it's true it should be accepted. The quote that is referenced in verifiability is not nice and you shouldn't go by that, " I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons. –Jimmy Wales " Please review your policies.Creation-of-Heaven (talk) 20:57, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Southern tick-associated rash illness

On 19 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Southern tick-associated rash illness, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 21:01, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Scale of changes

Hi. I see you could give me short info about this: does DNA pass small modifications in global meter, which are then transferred while reproducting. It means that for example one gene switches on and off and on sometimes, but this change is done in all DNA instances in body, somehow, and final state is inherited in children with probability. I am asking after reading this article. To now I thought DNA is only modified in reproduction - and also this way doesn't give a sense (I am programmer: how are value modifications stored temporarily if not in DNA?). Could you give me some general info on scales of DNA changes? Thxkonikula —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.77.118.227 (talk) 07:31, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

You can get an overview at introduction to genetics. The process is called development (biology) and is controlled by the mechanisms controlling gene expression. However, this is impossible to explain in detail in less than a book! Tim Vickers (talk) 14:53, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Thx. But anyway. There (and in other related articles) is no general answer to this question. I suppose you maybe didn't catch what I asked properly (my english can get problematic). For example when DNA goes in reproduction process that is DNA modification. Yes, transcriptions to RNA can differ, it is very useful info of course. But I want to know, if all DNA instances, which are meant to have same coding goes thru some changes in single life. Example could be "If you eat this poisoned pill, your body in order to keep itself alive, tries to invert gene HX 1200. When risk is minimal again it is returned back and solution is "saved" by some other modifications in DNA.". I would also accept if there is possible to find some examples of such permanent expression modification, that it directly involves DNA synthese in reproduction: Body evolved new expression protein for this and that DNA sequence, which will persist until reproduction. Because of this protein present to DNA replication and synthesis this and that variations of inheritant (child) DNA will be surpressed/forced to express.. Am I wrong if: I suppose none of this things is possible, and only local DNA modifications (mutations) happen during single life. So DNA is being modified only at local/mutation, synthetic/replication and virtual/expression level. In short there is no gene accessible as an variable to body, it is only accessible this way to 'intelligent machine' above class process consisting of many lives and replications. THX konikula —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.77.118.227 (talk) 01:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Laveran

hello. they were comment out because they are not references, but just a data dump without any context. i kept the references used to support the text and claims made in the article. cheers! --emerson7 00:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

that's why i didn't remove them altogether. i was hoping someone knowlegeable on the subject would do just that!--emerson7 00:30, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

WIKIPEDIA DOES NOT GIVE MEDICAL ADVICE

Outside of the title, I was unable to find an injunction to what I added to Agkistrodon piscivorus. I note that you already removed the text, and I will certainly accept that, based upon what I perceive to be your far superior knowledge about both the subject & Misplaced Pages policies. However, I am unclear as to both why this is disallowed & why it may impair the quality of the article. I am aware (after your message & reading the Misplaced Pages:Medical disclaimer) of the inherent danger of attempting to offer medical advise of any kind; yet it seems to me that the basic mention I made might be expected to be found in an encyclopedia. Either way I appreciate your kind editing advice (and by now have bored you quite to death), and desire, if you could, a clarification about thisSnideology (talk) 03:03, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Dysgenics

Hi Tim. What I meant to say was that I vote either for merging or deleting. Am I right that your point is that it has to be one or the other, but cannot be both? Or have i misunderstood you (and WP policy)? Slrubenstein | Talk 16:49, 21 July 2008 (UTC)