User talk:Aku-PDF-Finder

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You are welcome.

Fylindfotberserk (talk) 07:32, 17 November 2019 (UTC) 

Hi I was looking at my talk page and I couldn't remember why you had left this message. I checked my alerts and notices and it must have been after I made this change on the Ayodhya page. I hope I can get a service award one day for all the links I've found to research papers, archived links I've added and permanent dead links I've fixed. Thanks for your message!

Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 17:41, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of GerdaOS


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thank you
I just wanted to say thank you! :-) 86.134.212.26 (talk) 18:54, 10 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your message! And thanks for your recent edits to the Kawasaki disease page! It would be nice if you made a User Page instead of just being an IP address. After that we can thank you from individual revision pages :) --Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 20:00, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Archive URLs
Please add the url-status parameter when adding the archive-url parameter. By default, if archive-url is used, dead and the main link is to the archive. Whywhenwhohow (talk) 04:05, 28 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Before my edits on the Remdesivir page, the link to "How Remdesivir, New Hope for Covid-19 Patients, Was Resurrected" shows I have to make an account to read the full article, unless I toggle Reader View in Firefox at just the right moment before the page has finished loading. When the main link goes to the archive, it opens in full instantly, so I think it's more accessible this way. --Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 22:08, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Correct formula for calculating active cases
Good afternoon Aku-PDF-Finder,

The formula for calculating Active cases in the Irish COVID-19 article is Total cases – Total recoveries – Total deaths and NOT Active cases + New cases. Leave the de-notified cases alone because it has nothing to do with active cases.

On my talk page, you mentioned that on 22 April, you see 6,669 active cases in the timeline graph... What timeline graph exactly? We don't have a timeline graph; we only have a Timeline section on the main article and an entire Timeline article. The correct term for the daily cases, deaths and recoveries graph is template chart; which I have triple-checked, and found nothing wrong.

On 20 April, it is 15,652 total cases – 687 total deaths – 25 total recoveries = 14,940 active cases NOT 14,965.

On 11 August, it is 26,801 total cases – 24,000 total recoveries – 1,773 total deaths totalling 1,028 active cases NOT 1,029.

On 12 August, it is 26,838 total cases – 24,000 total recoveries – 1,774 total deaths totalling 1,064 active cases NOT 1,067.

This active cases method have been used on this article since April. There shouldn't be any mistakes whatsoever for active cases on the article.

I hope this helped. Thanks. Edl-irishboy (talk) 14:23, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Edl-irishboy, now I see it's the subtraction method being used. On the COVID-19 page for Ireland, I see 24,000 recovered has this source. How did you get 24,000 recovered from 36:36 in that video ?


 * The Worldometers and Corona Scanner websites show Ireland has 23,364 recovered cases, so it's 2,119 active cases there.


 * For 22 April, where I see 6,669 active cases on the template chart: https://imgur.com/DpR0Sel, is that correct ?


 * Thanks, Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 20:19, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Aku-PDF-Finder, I am extremely sorry for the very late reply (one month later)!!!. I understand why you don't understand how I got 24,000 recoveries from this source I cited, however, the Acting Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn (shown in the video), stated that there was 264 active cases in Ireland at that time.... On 30 July, 26,027 cases and 1,763 deaths had been confirmed. If you subtract 26,027 (cases) from 1,763 (deaths) and then from 264 (active cases): the total will be 24,000 – meaning the total recoveries figure is 24,000. For 22 April, you saw that the active cases figure on the template chart was 6,669, this is correct because if you go to the 21 April date on the Timeline article, you'll see that 8,377 + 856 people had recovered. On 22 April, a further 631 cases and 49 deaths were reported, bringing the totals to 16,671 cases and 769 deaths. 16,671 (cases) subtract 9,233 (recoveries) subtract 769 (deaths) totals 6,669 active cases. I hope this helped, Thanks. Edl-irishboy (talk) 19:43, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Awards!
Congratulations, Aku-PDF-Finder, you have earned a service award! I'd put it on your user page, but I don't know what format you'd like. You are entitled to any of these formats: Service awards. And you can give them to yourself, unlike WP:barnstars. You have made nearly 700 edits (without any trace of editcountitis), so you will soon be entitled to a higher level of award.

The personal webpages of academics (and sometimes their institutional repositories) are also a good place to find free fulltexts.

I appreciate your adding URLs; access indications are often ignored in citations, and they are really good to have. You've saved other editors and readers time, and helped stop fulltexts from disappearing.

So here's a barnstar, too!

Hi HLHJ, thanks for my first service award!

I like the format shown to the left here, or the Userbox version which also shows a star. Could you put it on my user page? I'm not sure how to show it at the top on the right side.

Adding URLs and fixing dead links also lowers the carbon footprint of Wikipedia users, since they don't have to look for working links via Web Archive etc. See this: Calculating The Carbon Footprint Of A Google Search and Carbonalyser. It would be interesting to see the difference on Carbonalyser for two people opening source material, one person having to search bare citations versus a second person opening direct links.

Thanks for your barnstar too! I appreciate you noticing all the free fulltext URLs I've added/fixed. Do you remember from which edit or article you found my user page and contributions?

Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 16:34, 29 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I think it was List of unproven methods against COVID-19. I've put both formats on your userpage, with a commented-out demonstration of a third method (which puts all your userboxes in a column on the right). You are also entitled to display a Burba lv3 Ribbon. I hadn't come across that browser add-on, just the manual calculations; thanks! To keep bandwidth down, I find browser firewalls such as uMatrix (learning UI and config takes some effort) or uBlock Origin (low-effort) are quite useful. The trend for simple static websites is also lowering bandwidth, though sadly academic publishers are mostly not really into low-bandwidth hosting yet. HLHJ (talk) 00:32, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Cool, I left you a thanks for this. However I would have written "various retailers".

Thanks for your edit on my user page, I didn't get any notification for that, but now my user page looks better, thanks for your userbox suggestion! I'll leave out the Burba Level 3 ribbon, better to keep adding/fixing links.

I tried the Carbonalyser addon for fun but later noticed it paused analysis by itself, so I stopped using it.

Thanks, I already use Ublock Origin. Dark Reader, Livemarks, Wayback Machine, EPUBReader, Hoxx VPN Proxy and Invert Colors are also useful addons.

And if you're interested in Linux, I'd recommend Solus Mate, it's rolling release, fast, light and very stable. Might save you a lot of time and hassle from Windows' updates and virus risks.

Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 14:14, 30 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I agree on "various", changed. I'd never have objected to you changing it, either . When I edited your userpage, which I wouldn't have done without permission, I didn't revert you or mention you in the edit summary, so it makes sense that you got no notification. You can put your userpage on you WP:watchlist if you like. I don't think I've ever used Windows on a computer of mine; I find Linux has a more powerful command line, runs faster and has excellent if informal tech support. But some people are fond of Windows and I hope they do open-license it someday. Democratic software is good. HLHJ (talk) 02:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Archive urls
Please see this edit I made, correcting your earlier edit. Don't change urls in cite templates to archive urls. Kingsif (talk) 19:34, 22 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Kingsif, I was not sure if I could set url-status to dead there, even though it is live. At least now the PDF opens in the browser instead of getting a download prompt. I'll add it as archive-url with archive-date and url-status in future edits. Thanks! Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 15:40, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Why
Why you delete You need to say to me 애국심 존중 (talk) 10:04, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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PDFs and copyright
I notice you add PDFs to articles. A laudable goal if the PDF is legitimate - but what checks do you do to make sure you are not adding a WP:COPYLINK? This edit for example appears to point to an illicit upload accessed via a student account. Bon courage (talk) 18:35, 31 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, I noticed you reverted my edit on John Campbell's page, before leaving this message. I added "Campbell's Physiology Notes" and "Campbell's Pathophysiology Notes" as free access books from Archive.org. And "Campbell's Physiology Notes For Nurses" as a Log In and Borrow book there. Not sure why it should be reverted.
 * I don't check about copyright, I just add a link to the full research paper or book. Hopefully someone following that page and looking for that paper (Recovery of cytopathogenic agent from chimpanzees with coryza) notices my addition and saves a copy of the PDF. Nice to see the current version of Respiratory syncytial virus still has that PDF link visible. Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 22:50, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Not checking about copyright is a problem, as Wikipedia takes WP:COPYRIGHT extremely seriously. The Campbell PDFs also look like illicit copies. Bon courage (talk) 07:12, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * I noticed you have been editing some health-related articles recently. A bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, and you're welcome to join us.  It's also a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style.  There's also the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19 group.  Feel free to put them both on your watchlist if you haven't already, or stop by to say hello some time.   WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:40, 15 January 2024 (UTC)