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Sonatina
I see you've turned sonatina from a redirect to a proper article. Hooray! Exactly what I needed when I was looking for it all those months ago. I have one suggestion for expansion. I notice you mention "piano sonatinas". For what other instruments are/were sonatinas written? I am sure everyone who has taken a few piano lessons will have encountered sonatinas. Are they as prevalent in lessons for other instruments? Thanks for starting the article. Telsa (talk) 14:01, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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I think the Babel Language codes need an extra level between 1 & 2, e.g. "de-1.5 -- reads and writes German sehr langsam with a dictionary in one hand and a large glass of beer in the other". I'm only half-facetious here; I can (e.g.) exchange emails in French & German, or even read technical documents, but only laboriously.

File permission problem with File:Under Milk Wood 1972 Poster.jpg
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 * I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that a facsimile of a publicity poster widely available on the web would be fair-use. I will try & track down the original source. D A Patriarche (talk) 20:01, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It is fair use, but wasn't indicated as such. Another contributor has made the required changes. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tiberius
Hiya. I removed the couple of paragraphs about Kirk's middle name. Mainly, it's a pretty trivial detail about the character: the middle name really doesn't play much of a role at all, which is kinda the main reason it wasn't until 25 years into the franchise that his middle name is even confirmed on-screen :). A couple of paragraphs, too, on the topic is disproportionate to the overall tight summary of in-universe plot & trivia we have on Kirk. I think a few years ago when we were overhauling this article, we reached a minor (i.e. only a few of us working on it) that even the tangent about the R middle initial error wasn't worth getting into, since it is kind of "non-information" about the character. Also, this doesn't pass muster as a reliable source: for one thing, looks like it's a user-voted/-weighted site, and on top of that it's quoting Memory Alpha, another wiki which itself isn't a reliable source. --EEMIV (talk) 13:55, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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Williamson story
Hi, D A Patriarche. I read your query at the Teahouse; but since it's rather old and you seem to have solved the matter yourself, I thought I'd respond here. I think your reference, giving both a link to Project Gutenberg and the original place and date of publication, is fine. I just thought you might like to read WP:SAYWHERE, as it deals with the general question. Deor (talk) 22:08, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

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Go to Special:Preferences. I shouldn't have clicked on the first "talk". But the second "talk" worked. There should, of course, be only one.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  21:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)✅D A Patriarche, BSc 06:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure now what the problem was here, but I seem to have ticked it done...perhaps it was because I had/have two separate accounts under slightly different sign-ons (my bad).  I marked the other account as inactive but left it in existence to avoid bollixing up history.  I see now I should have put a note on this User Talk page too. D A Patriarche, BSc 01:53, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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question about half-life
hi, in regards to your concern....

help using or expanding the drugbox template. ''On the page I want to edit, "Methocarbamol", the drugbox displays "Biological half-life". However, in editing mode, the parameter is called "elimination_half-life". This is confusing as the elimination and biological half-life may be construed differently (see below). The figure given for the half-life and referenced is indeed the elimination half-life, or more explicitly the serum half-life, as opposed to the protein-bound or effective half-life. For this article, I need to know how to change the text displayed to "elimination half-life" or something more explicit.''

''I am further concerned about the confusion of terms affecting all WP drug articles. WP itself is consistent: The definition of Biological half-life in the eponymous article is clear and is the same as the serum or elimination half-life. This also agrees with a Johns Hopkins presentation on Toxicology: Elimination (http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/publichealthtoxicology/PDFs/Lecture1_Trush.pdf) But "biological half-life" may also be construed as "effective half-life" (which for some drugs can be very different); e.g. Dictionary.com says "...biological half-life. Pharmacology. the time required for the activity of a substance taken into the body to lose one half its initial effectiveness". This could result in confusion, particularly for the lay person (I myself was confused). The best overall solution IMO would be to revert to the more explicit term "elimination half-life", and add the effective half-life where data is available. --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 23:59, 11 May 2018 (UTC)''

.............what do you believe would be best approach going forward?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:45, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

I believe the template parameter elimination_half-life should display in the article's drugbox as "Elimination half-life", everywhere in WP. Alternatively, display it as "$t_{\frac{1}{2}}$". I find "Biological half-life" woolly and ambiguous, even though it has some currency in the literature.

I see WP differentiates Biological half-life and Serum half-life, so I was wrong in equating them in my original post, which just demonstrates how tricky these quantities are to pin down in a single term! On further consideration I'd go with "$$t_{\frac{1}{2}}$$", with a wikilink to Biological half-life. Neat but not gaudy, and any ambiguity is resolved in the wikilink. --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 12:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you, will post to MED:WP for further opinions--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:17, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry to keep shuffling you about, but I've raised the issue at Template talk:Infobox drug, as that is where any solution will need to be carried out. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 13:19, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Anthony, thanks for starting a conversation about this. I appreciate it, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:59, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Anthony, thanks for starting a conversation about this. I appreciate it, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:59, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Precious
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A year ago, you were recipient no. 2954 of Precious, a prize of QAI! - I plan an article today for a woman who moved me to tears by playing Sonatina with her husband. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Medicine arbcase
Hi, D A Patriarche. I am a party to the Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence, where you submitted evidence. I thought you might want to review the Guide to arbitration on submitting evidence; when evidence is submitted without diffs, that evidence is likely to be discounted or not even reviewed by the arb committee. Best regards, Sandy Georgia (Talk)  02:31, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Sibelius's Kullervo
Hi! I came cross your comment on the Kullervo talk page regarding editions of the score. At present, I am in the process of writing an improved version of the article: User:Silence of Järvenpää/Kullervo. My goal is to complete it sometime this summer and to achieve, at least, GA. [My profession is as a political scientist, so I only write on Wikipedia as a hobby.] I am not a musician myself (just a devoted Sibelian), and so I thought your knowledge of the score could be very useful in a couple of ways.

First, I can only get access to the score on IMSLP, and while I believe this is the 1961 "edition" (i.e., facsimile of the copyist's score), I don't know for certain. I would like to know when it was first copied from the autograph manuscript. My understanding, is that there is also a 1966 edition by B&H with a forward by Jussi Jalas, but again, I cannot obtain access (I would love to read Jalas's forward). Ideally, I'd be able to see how the 1961 and 1966 versions are different. And of course, Goss's critical edition for 2005 has superseded the 1966 edition. Would you perhaps be interested in writing a subsection, under Analysis or under History, on the various editions of the score? I think it'd be a great service to Kullervo enthusiasts.

Second, I am not the best at writing musical analysis, which any GA or FA on a composition needs. When I did the FA for The Oceanides, this was the hardest section for me to piece together. As such, with respect to Kullervo, this would be a section I would happily outsource. Any interest?

Best, and hoping you're well, Silence of Järvenpää (talk) 21:52, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Mum's birthday
Share quote from Crichton's Zero Cool -- see gmail. --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 14:09, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

You should add the kidney section
to cat health page 2800:484:4F8A:8000:FD03:8CB0:8C3A:31B2 (talk) 15:13, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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