User talk:Birchmore

Speedy deletion

I have tagged the two articles you contributed for speedy deletion, as they appear to be blatant advertising.Blueboy96 13:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Spam in Group Analytic Society

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Group Analytic Contexts

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Short article with no context, also links to spam article

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Category creation

Hi Birchmore. I have noticed that you are creating new categories, but are naming them incorrectly. Please review the naming convention policy Wikipedia:Categorization#Category_naming. Categories you named like Category:Family Therapists should read "Family therapists" because, like the policy explains, the category name involves the use of a regular noun. Only capitalize a proper noun in the name of a category, please. It will save the time of administrators who have to nominate the category for speedy renaming. Thanks! - Gilliam 07:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

P.S. You may also want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories.

Sorry about this, I'm a relative newcomer and need to learn the ropes. I'm not sure what I can do about this since I set up these categories with the capital letters. What can I do?

"Censorship" over at Child and adolescent psychiatry

I've made some comments re: your comments & edits over at Talk:Child and adolescent psychiatry#Removal of content. Chupper 17:04, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't personally attack me. That quote you applied to me - Someone, somewhere, said that it is the easiest thing in the world to criticise and destroy, the difficult task is to create and build. is quite insulting. I've given a lot of time to Wikipedia, just no major contributions to "your" article. Take it easy. And you are accusing me of censorship again - wow. We obviously have differing opinions - thats obvious to anybody. But instead of saying I'm censoring you - what do we do? We call in a third person, or we go through a dispute resolution. But obviously I've pissed you off and its also quite obvious you have absolutely no respect for me. I guess you do think I'm here to "get you". So the article is all yours. Take down those tags if you like - I won't make any further comments on "your article". Chupper 03:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh dear Chupper. I was only commenting on differences of opinion and your apparent wish not to allow one pole of the argument to feature in this article. After all, I put all the material you are objecting to in the "Critics of Child Psychiatry" section, and I do suppose that we have a responsibility to give these people a voice and to represent accurately what they say. Don't you think so?

It really is no use trying to pretend that they do not exist. After all, critics are often the forces driving change and advancement in any area and challenging complacency and false assumptions.

It really is not "my article" and I would welcome you adding to it or anyone else, I was just pointing out an imbalance, additions are fine, attempting to suppress part of the whole area of knowledge and debate are not.

Oh dear Birchmore. After all, I put all the material you are objecting to in the "Critics of Child Psychiatry" section, and I do suppose that we have a responsibility to give these people a voice and to represent accurately what they say. Don't you think so? As long as that "voice" is in the majority. This is where we differ in opinion. To be blunt, I feel your opinion is in the minority, while my opinion, that child and adolescent psychiatry uses psychosocial considerations, is in the majority. Now that may be a huge conflict of interest (stating my opinion is in the majority). Hence the reason why I'm not editing it :). In addition, I do feel "criticisms" should be included, but they should be included in the proper context and be integrated into an article. You feel that criticisms of that profession are about 50% of its existence (based upon your contributions). But again, I don't want to "criticise and destroy" as its the "easiest thing in the world to [do]". Chupper 00:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:39, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Clinical Depression, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Collectonian 08:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Patrick de Mare

Hi Birchmore - you have added a lot of interesting material about de Mare but unfortunately not referenced. Someone is bound to start putting citation tags on. He deserves a worthy article and thereby deserves sound references as well. Regards Motmit (talk) 19:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah I see you have added some - but if you could convert them to in text citations, that would be really useful. Regards Motmit (talk) 19:30, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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