User talk:Fvasconcellos/Archive 13

happy Mango season
  'TIS MANGO SEASON.... Have a shlice of mango cheek...well, I am up to my armpits in the things. Yuletide means lots and lots of mangos, as well as turkey and ham and ice-cream and pressies. Were on special so I bought 3 crates for AU$20 and now I have both crispers in the refrigerator full and even with everyone eating two of the ##$@& things every mealtime... I am a bit mangoed out so I thought I'd spread the goodwill around....cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Fvasconcellos
Here's your New Year's greeting from me. :) Acalamari 18:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey Fvasconcellos thanks for the re-rating and the touch ups on the DET page. If you could convert the external links into references (I don't know how to yet) that'd be great, if not I'll take care of it when I learn how.--Astavats (talk) 12:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the references myself using the link you supplied - sorry to bother you and thanks again!--Astavats (talk) 13:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Belated Happy New Year
Have a great 2008, Fvasconcellos. Colin°Talk 16:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

HNY 2008
Hi Fvasconcellos, thank you for your wishes. I wish you and your loved ones also a happy and successful 2008. All the best, Crum375 (talk) 22:12, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, from me too! I hope you have a wonderful year!
 * (At least you can be sure you won't be affected by my newest project). --DO11.10 (talk) 23:09, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * As well from me! I hope you have a great new year and may all the best occur for you.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 08:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks from me as well, cheers for the message.Mr Bungle | talk  07:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks... --Garrondo (talk) 08:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:SpeedTree.svg)
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thanks
Hi there, thanks for the greetings, I hope you have a great year too! -- Kyok o  17:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Quite random message :P
Hello Fvasconcellos! I was just wondering, would you permit me to use this? Thanks in advance, Rudget . 17:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Your spam
Here is a spam thank you message! :) NCurse work 19:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

You can, of course
If you plan to contribute to the GLab, the you are encouraged to put {User Wikigraphist} on your user page ;] Yug 210.203.62.182 (talk) 00:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Image:Milnacipran.svg
I don't mind at all - go ahead and move it. I'm not quite clear on the whole thing with copying images to the Commons, but I'm assuming that it's done because other Wikipedias can't use English Wikipedia images in their articles, for whatever reason(s). If this is the case, wouldn't it make sense to put newly created images in the Commons to begin with, and then use them in the English articles as usual? If this is possible, let me know how, so I can save everyone some time. Fuzzform (talk) 22:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Please go here
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A note of thanks
Thanks for taking care of my talk page, Fv. I've got to prepare to travel now, although I may just end up sitting un a runway in the snow. I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring wrt me and Wiki; at some point, I have to consider first my family's wishes to not see me going through this anymore. All my best, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 18:33, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Hehe
It reminds me of those people who try to get days off work for every holiday possible... "Today's, uh, the Old New Year. And tomorrow it'll be... Pongal. And the day after it's National Religious Freedom Day... I'm gonna need the rest of the week off, really." ;) Thanks for the unexpected surprise! ~ Riana ⁂ 01:52, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Multicultural family = lots and lots of holidays ;P Fvasconcellos (t·c) 12:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy Old New Year
Happy Old New Year to you too! I thought they only celebrate that in Russia, not in Brazil.:) Paul gene (talk) 03:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the good wishes! And welcome to the Graphics Lab, by the way! --Slashme (talk) 05:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, guys. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 12:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

HNY
And to you, sir. That's some purple when you access the full-size image. Tony  (talk)  11:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like you could use the R&R. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 12:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

С новым годом!
То же самое к Вам, друг! Поздравления, Slade (TheJoker) 16:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC) FreeTranslation.com :D
 * А уместно ответить ;) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 20:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC) Language Tools
 * Ебёна мать! Didn't realize you spoke the language (with the help of Google). MastCell Talk 23:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, I love Google. Thankfully, the Language Tools haven't quite put me out of a job yet ;) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 23:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: happy new year
From Belgium, I wish you all the best and "een gelukkig nieuwjaar" as well! Hope to see you around! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:22, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 23:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Reactive attachment disorder
Dear Fvasconcellos, SandyGeorgia peer reviewed this article for us and left us a list of things to do before we try for FAC. Some of the discussion with her is here and some is on my talkpage here. She advised us to come to Colin, you or Eulibides for a further review when we'd completed the work. I think we're done now as far as we are able and we'd be most grateful for your review and advice. We have struggled a bit with some of the WP:MEDMOS sections, specifically mechanisms and outcomes, as RAD is relatively recent and poorly researched in some aspects. Thanks. Fainites barley 07:01, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

SandyGeorgia said not to until we'd had it properly reviewed by someone like you! Or Eulibides! I'll try him, but if not, then Monday would be fine. Thanks. Fainites barley 18:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome
Glad to do it. JNW (talk) 15:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

DrugBank and Wikipedia
Did you notice that DrugBank has begun including Wikipedia links on all their pages?

What exactly is the copyright status of DrugBank? I'm guessing that David Wishart is the copyright holder on most of the DrugBank articles (since he presumably was the creator), but I can't find any reference to a copyright anywhere on the site. What I have been finding are Wiki articles that are copy & pasted from DrugBank (although, now with DrugBank citing Wikipedia, who knows where all the info came from in the first place?). This type of circular referencing makes my head spin.

I guess Wikipedia is beginning to have more credibility, more clout. Perhaps in ten years, it will be an acceptable practice to include Wikipedia in one's citations in a scholarly paper. Fuzzform (talk) 02:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The most recent article that I've come across that was copy & pasted from DrugBank was Monobenzone. I changed the wording a bit, before searching for the drug on DB and realizing it was copyied. This doesn't constitute "significant portions of the database", but it's also word-for-word copied, which isn't the same as citing something. I'll continue the rewrite when I have time. Fuzzform (talk) 00:17, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If there aren't already (which there most likely are), there will be. Sometimes it will be just a sentence or two (and occasionally they can't be worded any more concisely) and sometimes it'll be whole sections. Fuzzform (talk) 00:42, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Zopiclone.svg
The proper title of this image should be Eszopiclone.svg, since it depicts the S enantiomer. Could you change the title so I can upload an image of the racemic compound instead? Fuzzform (talk) 05:17, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Final product distinction
You're right, the homeopath starts with what some might call a "token" amount of the product and then ends with something totally unrelated.

There are really two issues at hand:


 * 1) Homeopathic remedies are so controversial as to be considered by many reliable sources as unrelated to the substances that they attempt to utilize.
 * 2) Homeopathic remedies are simply not an important aspect of the descriptions that are provided by most reliable sources of these substances.

That's not to say that homeopathy should be excised from this encyclopedia. Far from it. Rather, we need to be careful about where we discuss homeopathy. A reference to homeopathy that appears on a page about a particular chemical or plant that can only be referenced to a believer in homeopathy fails all the tests of WP:RS, WP:FRINGE, and WP:NPOV (in particular WP:WEIGHT). If, however, we find secondary sources (see WP:PSTS) that document the promience of homeopathy with respect to the mainstream article, then we include it. Therefore, on the malaria article, for example, homeopathy is discussed because mainstream sources independent of the homeopathy community discuss the connections between malaria and homeopathy. However, on the strontium chloride article there are no reliable sources about strontium chloride which mention its homeopathic "uses".

ScienceApologist (talk) 01:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for this. Can all the .svg images you created be added to that article now? -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

RAD
Any more? Fainites barley 21:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much - although I'm a little depressed about your view that we're 'not exactly a stones throw from FAC' (unless of course you meant less than a stones throw but that seems inherently unlikely). What do you suggest? I have tried to explain or link more difficult words but its hard to rewrite technical statements without losing the import - particularly on such an amorphous yet controversial subject.Fainites barley 12:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for all your help. Fainites barley 00:17, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Carbetocin
When you illustrated the molecular structure of carbetocin, you made two small mistakes: first, in the lower right benzene ring, there's a hydroxy group in the para position; this should be a methoxy. Second, in the amide bond closest to that benzene, there's an N-methyl; this should be an N-H. I contacted another user about fixing it, but he was of the opinion that you probably have the original ChemSketch file, and that modifying that would be easier than re-doing the whole thing from scratch. DS (talk) 03:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry to bring up this molecule again, but I have found a third mistake in the structure. The tyrosine-like residue at the lower right is shown as joined to the isoleucine residue by a --CH2--NH-- linkage, which should be corrected to a --CO--NH-- (peptide) linkage as is more usual in biochemistry. The peptide link is shown in both Merck Index (13th edn, structure 1804) and PubChem (CID 71715). Dirac66 (talk) 20:19, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't apologize; it's my turn to do so. Please see my reply to Ed below. Best, Fvasconcellos* (t·c) 20:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the correction made today (Feb.18). I believe the structure is now correct. Dirac66 (talk) 00:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome; it seems right to me—let's hope it is indeed :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Rotavirus
Hi Fv, good luck in the new house. If you get a break in between packing, could you take a look at Rotavirus ? I plan to take it to FAC around the 9th or 10th of March and would greatly value any comments you have. Best wishes, Graham. --Graham Colm Talk 20:24, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll probably be available by then :) Fvasconcellos* (t·c) 20:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Netilmicin.svg
When you get the chance, can you take a look at Image:Netilmicin.svg? It is missing the stereochemistry at the one carbon that has both a methyl and a hydoxyl. I hope moving house is going well. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Moving house is... going fine ;) Should be all settled next week. I'll check on the structure as soon as I can, but that (i.e. computer with ChemSketch et al.) may be a while, so feel free to whip one up yourself. Fvasconcellos* (t·c) 20:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, ✅ Done. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

hi
Hi. I found you in categories of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) I see that you are bilingual (English and Portuguese); that is so awesome! learnportuguese (talk) 18:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Will do; nice to meet you :) Fvasconcellos* (t·c) 20:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

RAD
Just to let you know I nominated this for FAC. Fainites barley 21:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for the note. I'll have a look soon. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for greetings, and...
...I would like to ask you (again...) to take a look on the article opioid, its discussion and what the user User:Thegoodson makes there. He's refractory to any kind of discussion, reverts edits that were made in a consensus, so, I'd like to ask you, what to do about it? Should I consult WikiProjects Pharmacology and Chemistry boards to review the classification opiate/opioid? And, if did so, could the article be put under protection? Thank you in advance.--Spiperon (talk) 04:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * He persistently renames the semisynthetic derivatives to opiates, without discussing the subject at all. Also, now we have papaverine classified an "opiate" in the opioid article,...well. I just left it there instead of removing it, because my impression is, whatever I do there that Thegoodson doesn't accept, will vanish. Nevermind, I brought the topic in WP:Pharmacology portal as a subject in need of attention, so, we'll see. Thanks anyway:)--Spiperon (talk) 19:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Drug names at MEDMOS
FYI,. Are you moved yet? Sandy Georgia (Talk) 21:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Genesis vandal
Hi there. I was thinking about this and I think a good approach would be to fully-protect the page at the first sleeper account edit and alert a checkuser, who can then find and block the sleeper accounts and hardblock the IP. After that is done we can switch back to semi-protection until next time. Tim Vickers (talk) 00:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)