User talk:CarsonsDad

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, CarsonsDad! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  TheSavage Norwegian  01:29, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, that's awesome! You're one of the only users that responded to my welcome. If you have any questions, just ask. I might not have the answer, but I'll try to help as best as I can.

PS. I didn't actually type up that welcome myself, I used an amazing program called friendly to do it.

Happy editing!

 TheSavage Norwegian  02:32, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikify
To quote the Wikipedia:Glossary wikification is
 * Wikify, wfy, wikiize, wiki-ise, etc.
 * To format using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia. Noun: wikification; gerund: wikifying. See also How to edit a page, Category:Articles that need to be wikified, Guide to layout and Make only links relevant to the context.

So your changes probably need clarification my adding links into the text. For example, when you left that message about Orexin, just put two brackets around it like this: Orexin and the link will send you to that page. But what if it's plural, like Orexins? Then put a line between the two words; the one that you want it to say, and the one you want to direct it to, like this: Orexins

By the way: I spent all day yesterday on Wikipedia, but I don't do nights. That's when I have dreams about wikipedia.

PPS: Are you related to Carson?

 TheSavage Norwegian  19:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

You're doing great!


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You certainly know your stuff, so be bold and edit away!

By the way, you're signature can go wherever you want it to go, like right after the message.  TheSavage Norwegian  22:24, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Orexin
Welcome and thanks for your addition to the orexin article. Please don't hesitate to further modify my edits. Sometimes I tend to over simplify things. Accuracy is of paramount importance and if I slip up, please correct it. Cheers. Boghog2 (talk) 19:15, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Hypocretin
Thank you, sir! I have 2 questions...

1. Has the Orexin/Hypocretin naming cleavage been resolved? It seems to me the "brain guys" prefer hypocretin, but I am looking at the tip of the iceberg.

2. Is there any particular trigger that causes an entire section to be rewritten or is it just when someone takes a notion? As I told TSN, I can see that entire sections (If not entire articles!) need to be rewritten from time to time. As a newbee, I would not be so brash as to undertake that task. At least not until next week! ;-) CarsonsDad (talk) 15:50, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. Concerning your first question, the short answer appears to be no.  Orexin and hypocretin are of course synonyms for the same gene/protein. While I am not an expert on this gene/protein, hypocretin  is the perferred HUGO gene name and orexin  is the preferred protein name.  Concerning your second question and my edits to the orexin article, I was being bold (and so should you!).  I did make some major changes to the text you added that were meant to make the text sound less like a press release and more encyclopedic.  In particular, the WP:MEDMOS guideline states:


 *  Do not hype a study by listing the names, credentials, institutions, or other "qualifications" of their authors. The text of the article should not needlessly duplicate the names, dates, titles, and other information about the source that you list in the citation.


 * The exception to this rule is perhaps a history section which list the original discovery and key events (e.g., Nobel prizes) in the development of the subject. Cheers. Boghog2 (talk) 22:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply and please do not feel that Q2 was in any way related to the changes you made to my "precious" paragraph. I assure you that my tongue was firmly in cheek when I chose to use that adjective in my note to TSN, if you happened to see that.

Actually, Q2 is a "big picture" question. Taking our focus to a different article, I see that the narcolepsy article is clearly in need of wikification and, IMHO, needs to be rewritten in places because it is somewhat disjointed. I'm not critizing anyone over this, only observing that, as time goes by and edits pile up, there comes a point when an article, or certainly parts of it, need to be reworked. If I correctly understand your advice to be bold, you mean that anyone is welcome to have at it. CarsonsDad (talk) 00:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

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 * Please go ahead and edit the narcolepsy article. Having a large number of editors is both a strength and weakness. The masses can spot and correct errors, but articles can often lose cohesiveness with many contributors. Often what is required is a single dedicated editor whip an article back into shape. So please, if you have the time, "have at it"! Boghog2 (talk) 19:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

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Editing Narcolepsy
As a narcoleptic myself, here is my first attempt... :-(( CarsonsDad (talk) 00:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Narcolepsy is a neurological condition characteri zzzzzz ed by sudden and earr resistable attaxxx of day thyme sleppiness (yawn)

Oh, sorry, what was I saying? Oh, yes... sleepiness, also nown as EDS. A narcoleptic will most likely experience disturbeddd ...(yawn)...

Sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention there for a moment. As I was saying, disturbed nocturnal sleep, which is often confused with insomnia, and disordered REM or rapppid eyyeee movvvveeemeennt sleep. (yawn)

In edition, microsleep is zzzz also zzzz  quite zzzz  common zzzz  in zzzz  marcoleptix zzzz. Marcolepsy issssss ssss sssss sss sssss ss s s s s

Oh! Yes! It is one of the dyssomnias. The term was created by Dr. Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau (1859-1928) after a severe bout of French fatigue.

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 * Just a comment (since I am here at your page anyway): The reason for the odd configuration of these comments (which made me laughzzzzzzz....) is that there is a space at the beginning of the sentence. Delete that space and they will go back to normal Wikipedia layout. --MelanieN (talk) 14:53, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Need help with detailed content about Atlanta
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Pink slime
Hi, CarsonsDad, and thanks for your contributions to the article Pink slime. Just a comment about the recent little "edit war" over whether or not to mention political contributions by the founder of BPI. I objected to including that information at first, finding it irrelevant, and you later deleted the information several times. Please note that you should NOT delete it again; you could be blocked for violating Wikipedia's three-revert rule intended to avoid edit wars. There is a discussion about the subject on the talk page, and I have accepted the current version, which puts the contributions into context and does not mention Romney or anyone else who is not part of this story. I hope you will accept this version as well, and in any case I urge you not to remove the information yourself because of the three-revert rule. Discuss it at the talk page if you still have issues. Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm cool. WolverineLawyer ( aka Mr. Politico ) and Scopecreep acted as a tag-team in that little flurry and each of them reverted twice. The numbers were against me. CarsonsDad (talk) 07:37, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * All is well! CarsonsDad (talk) 04:50, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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