User talk:Delldot/Archive 20

DYK for Facial trauma

 * Wow—great work! I saw this on DYK and thought "this has Delldot written all over it" ;) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:52, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, it's an excellent article. &mdash; BillC talk 20:10, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Impressive indeed. --WS (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Seconded. I saw this on DYK and guessed immediately it'd be you! —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 22:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Aw, thanks so much folks! What a wonderful thing to log on and see!   delldot   &nabla;.  04:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thoracic aorta injury
I saw on your to-do list that you'd like to create thoracic aorta injury. I'd love to get involved in that, in fact I may create a stub/start later today or this week. Do you think PMID 9017797 would be a good starting point? —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 10:59, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Aw, busted: that's been on my to do list for like a year and a half. The thing that's been stalling me is I gotta figure out exactly what the connection is between that and traumatic aortic rupture; is the latter a subset of the former?  But yeah, if you want to figure out the relationship and create it, go wild! (Also, there's thoracic aortic rupture). The review looks great, free full text and everything.  Is there anything more recent than 97?  It can at least play a part either way.   delldot   &nabla;.  01:55, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, and thanks much for the new article trophy nom! :D  delldot   &nabla;.  01:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem :) Traumatic aortic rupture is a subset of thoracic aorta injury. The aorta can be injured by other mechanisms as discussed in the article. It might be worth merging the two articles eventually. Thoracic aortic rupture will certainly be a subset of thoracic aorta injury for the same reason. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 10:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:Manchester United F.C. trophies
Hi there. Thanks for closing the deletion discussion on Template:Manchester United F.C. 1998-99. However, that template was moved to Template:Manchester United F.C. trophies during the deletion discussion and was not deleted. Any chance you could do that for me? Cheers. – PeeJay 15:57, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, I'm a moron. Got it now, thanks for pointing that out.   delldot   &nabla;.  05:01, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. – PeeJay 10:34, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Infobox Chubut
See WP:TFD. This, that and the other [ talk ] 06:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for doing this, I've been avoiding it because it's a giant pain. I use the   and , so put capital for type and the name of the capital for the name.     and   are actually probably better for the capital though. There's also   and blank1_info for fields that are missing.  You can use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_Settlement for ideas, and of course feel free to ask me if you have any trouble.  Thanks again!   delldot   &nabla;.  05:46, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Epidural haematoma
Thanks for reminding me about Image:Epidural hematoma.png. Remember the case vividly. Wasn't actually traumatic, which was the weirdest thing. I do indeed hold the copyright; the image is anonymised so there are no privacy concerns.

While we're talking, I'm finishing work on meningitis, which has been my pet project over the last two weeks. With some luck I will be submitting it for GA fairly soon. I might still learn something new here. JFW | T@lk  07:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm a bit hesitant to ask but will do so regardless. I know you're really busy with the TBI page, but could you have a look at meningitis? It's up at GAC at the moment... JFW | T@lk  12:11, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your GA review, and for (unexpectedly) passing it straight away! You're awesome. I'll try to comment at the TBI peer review when I have some time today. JFW | T@lk  06:44, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Seconded :) If that's even a word... —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 17:48, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem JFW, it's another high quality article from you. Your responses at /GA1 are fine. Thanks Cyclone!   delldot   &nabla;.  23:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Keeping tidy...
Hey delldot, I am trying to keep the page manageable, I think I have addressed teh first section of queries you raised, so if you could strike and collapse that would be great, and if you are not satisfied let me know. Sorry to nag but just trying to keep the page manageable... Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep, everything looks fixed now. Thanks for dealing with all that, sorry to give you so much work to do!  delldot   &nabla;.  05:10, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Head trauma
hello there delldot!

This is Dr. Doug Watt, you left a message for me. E-mail me at . then we can talk. It does look like you've done a lot of work on your head trauma article but I haven't had a chance to look at it, and right now I am just too busy to offer a whole lot of editorial assistance. When I come up for air I can try to send you a PDF summary of some of the salient issues in head trauma. best,DFW —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.180.129.233 (talk) 21:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds great, I'll definitely email you. Thanks very much!   delldot   &nabla;.  23:39, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Misfit
hey dell, weirdly enough I only just see your comment a year after the fact. What's up? Still in SRQ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Misfit (talk • contribs) 11:11, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Great meeting you!
It was great to meet you at the protest today, and great to get to talk to you. Hopefully we'll get to get together before too long. SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:01, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Definitely, agreed on all counts.  delldot   &nabla;.  05:10, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Carnegie Mellon Rugby FC
I believe you locked my page.

I realise there was information that was not in English and I will remove that. However the quotes you refer to are not exactly quotes but the nicknames of the players in the team. I fail to see what gives you gentleman the authority to tell our team that our nicknames are inappropriate. We have had this webpage for ages now and nobody has updated it to include our team roster. The team finally decided to take action and uploaded the team roster. If you want us to link it to a reference sourse then I will do so with ourwebsite www.carnegiemellonrugby.com. The website is partly done and will be finished soon.

I would appreciate it if you unlocked this page so Carnegie Mellon Rugby can edit this page as to our own requirements - rather than those of Wikipedia administrators that - although they have good intentions - know absolutely nothing about or team and team culture.

Email me back at ashhadk@andrew.cmu.edu

Sincerely, Ashhad A Khan CIT - Chemical Engineering Club Secretary - Carnegie Mellon Rugby Football Club Director of Risk Management Delta Tau Delta (Delta Beta) Carnegie Mellon University Class of 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reddevilz 14 (talk • contribs) 23:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I just wanted to mention Delldot didn't lock your page. I will go into more details on your talk page. Thanks, TheDJAtClubRock :-) (T/C) 03:15, 16 November 2008 (UTC).
 * Replied delldot   &nabla;.  05:10, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't understand
I always give cookies to users but they never gave me one. How unfair. What i did to the users?



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 * I think we can do better than that... delldot   &nabla;.  04:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

*hugs*



 * Aww, heeeere ducky! delldot   &nabla;.  22:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Canada goose young 1.jpg|300px]] *hugs* -- Gurch (talk) 06:39, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Awwwww! The cuteness!  I can't take it!   delldot   &nabla;.  04:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

To a nice person
Its Christmas! Ho Ho Ho!! You are being so friendly.. So you deserve this.. Rogerchocodiles (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)Rogerchocodiles


 * Mmmmm, thank you! delldot   &nabla;.  22:39, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Serafino Ghizzoni
Hi, dear. Could you please have a look to this article (written by me)? English is not my mother tongue, so I might have made some mistake... :)  Sergio † BC™  (Write me!)  17:32, 18 November 2008 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackcat it (talk • contribs)


 * Sure thing! I'll leave a note on the talk page. delldot   &nabla;.  03:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiLove


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wikiformatting
How do I get drop down (eh what do you call it?) just like your userpage? I tried to use but apparently it is only for Talk page archives. Also I don't understand any coding on your userpage but its similar to what I want..|--Unpopular Opinion (talk · contribs) 03:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * There's a bunch of templates that use the navbox collapsible thing. Probably the easiest would be .  You can set the background color with |bg1= set the header with |header= and set the formats (borders etc) with |contentcss= |headercss= and then what you want to go in the box with |content=. so for example,  will give you:

enjoy! delldot  &nabla;.  04:31, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Unpopular Opinion (talk · contribs) 05:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

hey
loong time, you right.

But I got more regular access to a computer now. email me gracerkeller at ymail dot com Hope life's good... we doing a street medic training in new orleans in december if you're mobile. Gobblehook (talk) 00:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Main page
Congratulations! I too am delighted to see "Pulmonary contusion" on the main page. :-) Axl  ¤  [Talk]  11:21, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Molluscum contagiosum
hello again. been a while. i've been very busy with non wikipedia stuff, you know - life? anyway aconflict has arisen over the titled article. 2 guys who claim no medical expertise want to include a paragraph on 'non-medicinal treatments' i have explained to one of them that these violate wp: not a manual. they either disagree or just don't care. on top of everything else,the rx it speaks of sounds like a generally bad idea, although it claims a microbiological basis. in any event, wp shouldn't be advising kids to burn their skin lesions with a heated pin! please take a look. i undid it again just now, so you may have to look in the history. pax vobiscum. Toyokuni3 (talk) 18:36, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Good to hear from you again! Yep, it's unfortunate that reverting is going on, but hopefully that'll cool down.  It'd be great if you and the other two people could begin a discussion on it, I don't see anything on the article's talk page.  Have you tried contacting them?  I'm leaving them notes to see my response here.


 * I agree that the material that sounds like it's giving medical advice should go, as should the unreferenced material. In addition to not being a how to manual, WP doesn't give medical advice.  (WP:MEDMOS has guidance on how to write medical articles).  However, there's nothing wrong with the article describing treatments used by medical practitioners--in fact it's important content--it just needs to be cited to a reliable source, preferably a textbook or review article. Also, I would have kept the cited info about where in the skin the virus is (possibly move it) if the citation checks out.  Good luck working this out among yourselves, any of you should feel free to ask if you'd like any further involvement or advice from me.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  21:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Err, I left a note for Wolfkeeper, but who's the other person? delldot   &nabla;.  22:00, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I think for something like this, provided it's not a how-to, and provided it's well referenced we shouldn't be removing descriptions of medical treatments.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 03:58, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, those are my thoughts exactly! :) delldot   &nabla;.  16:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * problem apparently solved. i never suggested (or didn't intend to suggest) that all descriptions of rx available be removed. only the do-it-yourself section. but i have heard from the other party and we are apparently all in agreement. thanks. friede mit dir. Toyokuni3 (talk) 17:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Great! :D  delldot   &nabla;.  21:32, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * So, it's agreed, so I've reverted it before your deletion.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 22:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Um, but that section is completely unreferenced except for the first sentence. How about  you re-remove the unreferenced material until reliable sources can be found for it?  Also it should be reworded to avoid uses of words like "should" to avoid howto sounding.   delldot   &nabla;.  22:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * For the record -- I agreed with Toyokuni3 upon his explanation and citation of policy.Plhofmei (talk) 05:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Metabotropic glutamate receptors
I finally found a moment to implement my proposed changes and adapted the first chapter in the "Group 1" paragraph according to my last suggestion. I definitely was active in the field of neuroscience.Defincom (talk) 14:49, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Great, thanks for helping out the project and lending your expertise! Hope to work with you sometime soon.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  03:18, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

AfC news
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 * 1) Msgj and Tnxman307 are organising the AfC challenge! It's a little competition to help improve some of the articles created through AfC and we are hoping that everyone will get involved. For level 1, you just need to bring a stub up to Start-class. Level 2 is improving a Start-class article to C-class. And so on. To get involved or for more information please see the competition page.
 * 2) Those of you who haven't reviewed an article recently might not have noticed the new process that was implemented this year. Reviewing articles is now more enjoyable than ever :) You might like to give it a try. All articles waiting for review are in Category:Pending Afc requests. (Please read the updated instructions.)
 * 3) Please consider adding AFC status to your userpage to keep track of the number of articles waiting for review. At the time of writing we are officially backlogged, so help is needed!
 * 4) There is currently a proposal to bring the Images for upload process under the umbrella of WikiProject Articles for creation. The rationale is that both processes are designed to allow unregistered users to take part more fully in Wikipedia, and partipants in each process can probably help each other.

Peer Review 3 (Odexed)
Thanks for assisting in the improvement for the article Odex's actions against file-sharing, and please accept my apologies for the previous lack of response and edits due to dealing with real-life issues. I'm pleased to let you know that the third PR for the article is now up, and looking forward to hearing feedback from you so that it can be brought over to FAC soon. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 22:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

And now, for Fvasconcellos' traditional nonsectarian holiday greeting!
Aw, thanks much FV! A good one to you too. delldot  &nabla;.  05:25, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy holidays!
I just popped in to wish you a very happy and healthy holiday! I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season with good health for the next year. Take care Dell, -- Crohnie Gal Talk  12:40, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks a bunch crohnie, Great to hear from you. I hope you have a good holiday and happy and healthy new year too!   delldot   &nabla;.  15:40, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

No need for explanations
You did not have any need to give me your note. I knew that FAC was not very close. However I intend to take it with you to FAC, but I do not know when. In the Alzheimer's disease I was working for a year before I took it to FAC... so we have plenty of time. I like to center in only an article or two at a time until they become the best of wikipedia. When I heard of your article I felt this could become my new project for FAC since at that moment I was not very sure of what to write about. However from now on, with the new year, I am going to change how I edit this article. Instead of continuing a Peer-review I will edit myself some of the remaining sections and ask for your help in those cases when I am not to sure how to do it. I feel that way the article will advance faster toward our aim. I really have fun doing this kind of improvements in important articles which do not have edit-wars, neither there was a need from you to say that you would pay back my help; nevertheless now I know when I can ask for help if needed. Best whishes, merry Christmas and happy holidays and new year.--Garrondo (talk) 10:48, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * My reply delldot   &nabla;.  18:29, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

The Red Green Wiki
Hi there. I noticed you contributed to List of The Red Green Show episodes, so I wanted to invite you to join a new wiki devoted to that show. The Red Green Wiki is at http://redgreen.wikia.com, and it's just getting started. Eventually, the wiki will catalog virtually everything about the show, all of its trivia and production info, etc. If you're interested, please drop on by, create an account, and help me build the best fan site on the 'Net. :)

Thanks! &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 23:50, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Cite.php and cite journal
A question! Using this reference style, you basically have to put the full reference inline at the point of first usage, as unlike cite book there is no 'ref' parameter. Do I understand this right, or did I miss something? I seem to be able to put cite book references at the bottom of an article, but not cite journal. Cheers, Basie (talk) 07:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the convention is that since journal articles are usually short, it's not necessary to put the exact page number of the fact you're quoting from; you just cite the entire page range for the whole article. That way, if you cite a journal article more than once, you just use the same citation again and again (the reason for the ref parameter in cite book is that books do require the exact page number, so if you're using more than one page from the same book, and you don't want to cite the whole thing again and again in the refs section, you can just say "Fowler (1999), p.222" or something in the references, with a link to the whole reference in the texts cited section).  Pardon me if I'm explaining something you already know!  The way to cite the same journal article again is to give it a name once with the whole citation and then in subsequent uses of the same citation to reference it like this: "Blah de blah.  Blah blah."  I hope I've actaully answered your question rather than some unrelated question!  Definitely let me know if I can clarify that or help with anything else.  Thanks again for the work you've been doing on the article Basie!   delldot   &nabla;.  14:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * That's... sort of what I was asking! Essentially I was frustrated with having the entire reference typed out in the body of the article rather than at the end as you can do with cite book.  Edit pediatric intensive care unit for an example of what I'm grappling with.  It's only because I'm fussy, I was just hoping I could put all the templates at the end and just use  in the body of the article, but it seems with cite journal you must put the entire template at the first tag. Cheers, Basie (talk) 19:54, 8 January 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Basie (talk • contribs) 19:47, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually no, you can't edit that page for an example because I had to change it. Oh well, it was a minor point at best.  Cheers, Basie (talk) 19:54, 8 January 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Basie (talk • contribs) 19:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh yeah, I've always found that annoying, that the citations have to be in the body. Makes each one difficult to find and clutters up the edit window.  It'd be much better if there were a section at the bottom, the way there is for interwiki links or categories, that doesn't show up in the article but that contains all the refs.  Oh well.  In fact, you can't put the book or the journal references at the bottom; the "texts cited" section is only for books that you use more than one page number from.  Well, that's the case by this convention anyway; I guess that could change.   delldot   &nabla;.  00:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Gotcha. Just making sure I wasn't missing something obvious. Thanks!  Sadly, I have another question: if another editor makes a statement about a person and says in the edit summary, "he said it, I was there" how does one cite the personal communication?  Or is that something WP frowns on?  This is in a non-medical article.  Cheers, Basie (talk) 05:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

howdy
I'm Joe Decker, we were conversing (I think) in email. Just thought I'd say hi. :) --Joe Decker (talk) 06:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Obesity
Have made many changes to the article on obesity. Many more need to be done before FA but wondering if it fill the criteria for good article status yet. Many Thanks.-- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:43, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Good job on the article, I've been seeing you work hard on it. I'm sorry, I don't have time to re-review it.  It would be better if another reviewer looked it over anyway, why don't you resubmit it it WP:GAN?  Best of luck! Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  23:04, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism policy
Hi, Delldot. There's a consensus at Wikipedia_talk:Vandalism for a tougher policy on vandals. Since admins have to implement anti-vandalism policy, we need some input. Please respond there, and feel free to bring in other admins. --Philcha (talk) 11:45, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * My reply delldot   &nabla;.  21:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * As of the time I sent the message, there was a consensus. That's why I sought more inputs. I was not WP:CANVASSing, as I did not suggest what your inputs should be. --Philcha (talk) 21:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I see, maybe my response was a little knee-jerk. I thought the "tougher" wording was a little non-neutral, but looking at it again maybe it was fine.  I guess I'm always sort of suspicious when I get notes that invite me to discussions, sorry if I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  21:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, my trigger-finger sometimes gets itchy too, and I don't have the hassle that admins have. --Philcha (talk) 21:46, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

*hugs*
*hugs* :( -- Gurch (talk) 01:29, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow
That's truly the most impressive thing I've seen all day. Then again, I have been staring at nucleophilic addition of nitrile groups all day. Hi! How are you? —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 21:07, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Good good! Glad to touch base with you. delldot   &nabla;.  21:13, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Indeed, it's been too long. What're you working on these days? Sorry, I won't be very active at the moment I've got exams until thursday afternoon. Bad times. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 23:13, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I have hardly been involved in WP at all lately, I don't know whether I'll pick it back up again or whether my participation has found a new, much lower level. But I'm happy about it either way, WP had been dominating my life too much.  Best of luck on exams, I'm sure you'll do awesome!  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  23:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Just don't leave altogether, and I'm happy :) Thanks! Speak soon. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 07:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

TBI
Thanks for dropping me a line. I'm not a neurologist but I'll still take a peak at tbi when i get a chance. Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drchazz (talk • contribs) 20:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm a star?
Is that what you're trying to say?

Hello, old friend. I have a new alter ego, but the same good old over-inflated ego is still sticking around. Thanks for putting up with it.

Peace! Big Bird (talk • contribs) 15:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, so it's like my hand waving the handkerchief thingy _/~ . I get it now, thanks for the nice gesture.
 * So the thingy in November went pretty spectacular, as long as we don't count the fact that the bride found out 30 minutes before the wedding that she gets sea sick. Luckily, the ship captain keeps a bucket in the wedding chappel, presumably for exactly this type of occasion.
 * I thought of you last week; the wife was watching Wife Swap (in case you're wondering, she always watches it, we're not thinking about trading each other in just yet) and they had a freegan family trade places with some well-to-do executives or whatnot. I was thinking "hey, that could be Dell faking a British accent and riding around in her vegetable oil-powered RV". Then I thought that I should remind myself to ask you how the van conversion is coming along; so now I'm having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time -- I remember that I forgot asking you about it. So, please, pray tell. Big Bird (talk • contribs) 18:05, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh man, that's brutal. I'm pretty sure I'm going to hell for rofl-ing about the bucket in the chapel thing.
 * Man, how awesome would that be to be freegan and get to go live in an executive's house? My RV would be full of toilet paper, laundry detergent, trash bags...
 * The actual van is still pretty sucky. The conversion is done but it still has an air leak somewhere, and worse, no meteor has fallen from the heavens and crushed/incinerated the damn thing.  On the other hand, it did make it up here (I'm in Virginia), so I should probably stop complaining. Talk to you soon!  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  18:28, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy delldot day!
Awww! Thanks so much! delldot  &nabla;.  18:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Unblock request
Hi! Thanks for getting back to me. I, for one, would much rather unblock than block. Glad to do it and I'll leave word on the talk page. Thanks for offering to help this user. That's quite generous of you. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks much PMDrive! Good philosophy.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  03:07, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: Templates
IIRC I already removed the TfD tags. I'll double check just to be sure. Cheers! PC78 (talk) 12:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks much!  delldot   &nabla;.  16:39, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Nsaa (talk) 18:28, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up
Thank you for leaving a message on my talk page about my question being answered on WT:MED, very kind of you. :) 94.192.52.244 (talk) 21:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC) (aka londonsista)


 * No problem! Glad you got the info you needed :)  I'm very interested in brain trauma, so let me know if I can be of any help.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  22:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

*hugs*
*hugs* :( --Gurch (talk) 05:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * /me hugs Gurch ^_^  delldot   &nabla;.  05:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

You might be interested
Just in case you hadn't heard, sounds like it's somewhat up your alley. Hope you're keeping well. Long time no GA/FA! JFW | T@lk  22:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Aw, thanks for thinking of me! I actually started reading it and found the writing style annoying--too simplistic and, I dunno, emphatic.  But I may pick it back up later.  Good hearing from you, haven't talked to you in a bit!  Probably because I've been doing hardly any article writing lately, and my participation in the project has gone down.  Hope you've been doing well!   delldot   &nabla;.  22:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh no, one of my favourite content beasts doing less article work! Nooooooooooooo! I've been doing very well, and am still trying to do at least one GAC a month (lastly warfarin). Let me know if you're in the mood for some collaboratorive wrecking. JFW | T@lk  22:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Good job keeping GAN under control! I definitely will hit you up when I'm back in the mood for content editing. :)  delldot   &nabla;.  22:57, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

RE:Speedis
Please visit Possibly unfree images/2009 January 6 i tagged some files for sd and i am unsure if i used the correct tag I don't know i believe at least File:SilvSurf.jpg is F9--IngerAlHaosului (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

TFD assistance
I need some help formatting the templates for the expanded Feb 12 discussion on Political organization sequential leaders. The templates are not pointing where I want them to and I could not figure out how to change the TFD section.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:46, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If I understood your question right, the tags are fixed now. If not, let me know.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  05:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Just to say...
Hi Dell, just popping in to let you know I am still around. :) It's been awhile since I popped in to say hello so I thought it was time.  I am doing my own thing here and learning something daily which is a good thing I think.  My medical has caused me some problems lately with me being less active here, you can see on my user page, but overall the project is still good for brain stell stimulations and fun.  I hope you are well and please pop in too ocassionally.  You've always been so wonderful and understanding of me and I still remember all the help you have given me.  Take care, -- Crohnie Gal  Talk  13:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Good to hear from you Crohnie, you're always so sweet. Glad to hear you're still progressing with learning about Wikipedia, definitely let me know if I can ever be of any help!  I'm doing well, thanks! Talk to you soon I hope.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  00:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Xosé Manuel Budiño
Hi, just thought I'd say, can't see the original article so don't what it said but Xose is a real and notable person. He's a Galecian folk musician who's reasonably well known (just google him), so the article ought to be valid. Cheers anyway.


 * Hey, sorry for the late reply. I basically deleted this because it didn't explain why he's notable.  The article's allowed to exist, it would just have to explain why it's notable.  If you'd like to expand on what was there to give it a reason why he meets the notability criteria for music I'm happy to undelete it (there wasn't that much there though, just a sentence).  Let me know if you need any help working on the article, I'm always happy to offer help or advice.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  04:10, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Receptive field.jpg listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Receptive field.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Skier Dude ( talk ) 05:16, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Article on Spitoons
Hi Delldot. I'm the fellow who tried to add a couple of sentences to the article on spittoons on Aug. 24 and inadvertently deleted part of the article. Thanks for your kind note of Sept. 5. I did observe in looking at the spitoon article that my short addition (with documentation) about the spitoon collection at Duke Homestead State Historic Site has been deleted. Is there something wrong with adding that information? It's a free admission state museum, and anyone interested in spitoons would benefit from visiting it. I made another contribution to Wikimedia Foundation at the end of last year and use Wikipedia often. But I'm starting to wonder whether about the arbitrariness of whoever deleted my humble contribution, which I think is completely relevant to the subject of the article. If the rules are strict and arcane, I'm not sure the original intent of picking the world's brains will be fulfilled.

Bob Healy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.3.249.96 (talk) 03:44, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Bob, glad to hear back from you! I couldn't see anything wrong with your edit, I think that everyone else had just forgotten to reinstate it. I don't know why I didn't reinsate it at the time, but I did just now.  Did you try to re-add it yourself?  I didn't see it in the article's history if you did.  My advice is to be bold, and if anyone gives you trouble (which I kind of doubt), don't be shy about just asking them the way you did with me (you can find them in the artice history).  I can also help with this if you'd ever like me to talk to someone about something like this.  I agree really strongly with your point that WP shouldn't be strict and inaccessible.  I think this case isn't representative though, I bet it was just an error that got overlooked.  So I definitely encourage you to contribute more and let me know what your opinions are!  I'm happy to help if you need anything.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  04:46, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Cardiology task force
-- MifterBot I (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 20:41, 27 May 2013 (UTC) Maen. K. A. (talk) 09:40, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Your Archive 5
You asked that it not be edited. Ok, but it has categories and user pages should not have those categories. Would you please edit your archive(s), removing or nowiki'ing category entries. Thanks tooold (talk) 05:10, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks for pointing that out. :-)  delldot   &nabla;.  16:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Template:sourcebible
Hi, on Templates_for_deletion you have closed it as delete based on a single comment, but Sourcebible has not been deleted (yet?). I urge you to reconsider this, as I dont think it is a POV to choose to link to a sister project rather than another website that might host the same content. (Surely, it should be encouraged rather than discouraged?) Note that Wikisource links to other editions of the same chapter, and the sourcebible template can be expanded to allow for other editions to be selected. If you do believe it needs to be deleted, the current invocations need to be updated to use bibleverse which has a different calling convention which is unsuitable for linking to Wikisource (at present; maybe I can fix that). John Vandenberg (chat) 02:15, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Further digging around suggests that there is a better solution in the works: Template_talk:Bibleverse.
 * John Vandenberg (chat) 02:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hm, I did delete it on the "looks like there are no objections" grounds, so I don't mind undoing the close and relisting if that's what you want. (The reason it hasn't been deleted is it's sitting in the holding cell waiting to get orphanned).  But I don't get what you're saying about the better solution: was that a go-ahead to delete?  I'm happy to do whatever, just let me know.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  14:06, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * How will it be orphaned? Will someone replace it with another template call?
 * Sorry I didnt explain the better solution. It looks like  will be setting up a toolserver script, and it may mean that bibleverse would work with Wikisource, deprecating sourcebible. John Vandenberg (chat) 07:12, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it was supposed to get replaced with Bibleverse. Is that ok with you to go ahead and replace and delete now, or should I wait?  delldot   &nabla;.  21:04, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

question
Hi,

Would you be interested in volunteering some time and expertise to help the Wikimedia Foundation in a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health? I unfortunately do not have a lot of details to give at this time, but in short, I'm looking for a group of Wikimedians (primarily US or UK based, but that's not a requirement) that have interest or expertise in various medical fields, to help participate in a Wikimedia Academy event with the NIH. Even if you don't think you'd be able to attend the event, but would be interested in helping out online in any capacity, I'd love to hear back from you. Please leave a message on my talk page at User talk:Swatjester if you are interested. Thank you. &rArr;  SWAT Jester    Son of the Defender  14:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_September_15
Hi Delldot, I noticed this TFD back in September. However, at that time, my hands were tied. If I was present at the time, I'd have argued that while, yes, the template can be replaced with Infobox character, Infobox character is complicated, and hard to use, while Infobox 24 Character is simple, and easy to use. I think this means the template is useful, and useful enough to have it undeleted. I'd have taken it to DRV, but as there was only one person (besides the nominator) supporting deletion, I thought I'd ask you directly. I'm happy to convert the infoboxes back, you don't have to worry about that. What are your thoughts? Steve Crossin Talk/24 08:22, 29 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I think it was a pretty clear-cut delete. It's in line with a lot of other discussions that have taken place with wikiproject-specific templates (e.g. the 24-specific cleanup templates).  I think bringing it to wider discussion will reveal a pretty wide consensus against having project-specific templates of this nature.  I suggest bringing it up for discussion, maybe on the talk page of TFD if you can get anyone's attention there.  Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  22:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, I might have gone overboard with the cleanup templates, but the infobox is useful. Look how complicated Infobox character would be for newcomers? Then have a look at the Infobox 24 Character template. Isn't convenience of use a reason for keeping the template? I could take it to DRV, but I see nothing actually wrong with your close of the TFD (judging consensus). Steve Crossin Talk/24 22:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it wouldn't get overturned at DRV. I think the way to go about recreating something that was deleted through a discussion is to bring it back up as a discussion and see whether consensus has changed in favor of recreating it.  I'd recommend bringing it up with WP:24 and others to get an idea of the wider consensus for this. Peace,  delldot   &nabla;.  22:14, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Meningitis
Thanks for your kind message. Yes, the meningitis article fared well at FAC and is now in the showcase. Sadly, I was given no warning at all so I will now go to assess the damage of being on the mainpage. From previous experience I have come to believe quite strongly that mainpaged articles should be at least semiprotected. JFW | T@lk  20:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)