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Sigma-finite measure
I reverted your edits at Sigma-finite measure as they were not right. A sigma finite measure is not necessarily finite. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And please use a edit summary to explain what you change. It is easier for us to read that way. Thanks! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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That's just the house style. :) And also, a good idea is to use edit summaries, it helps us understand what you changed. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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Orange Wednesdays
Hi, I noticed your edits to Orange Wednesdays. I'm not sure that the information you provided is entirely correct as OW is not a lottery, instead preference is given to those that have a higher average monthly spend with Orange. RaseaC 19:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, while I fully support the whole discussion thing, I don't think it's necessary in this instance: I reckon we can crack this one ourselves. Basically I see it this way:
 * I can't find a source (reliable or otherwise) to support the 250'000 thing
 * I can find a reliable source (T&Cs) to support the higher spend theory
 * I'm not sure that, sourced or otherwise, either of the above are particularly noteworthy and so I for one would suggest just having a link to the Orange Wednesdays website and letting people read the nitty-gritty T&Cs for themselves. RaseaC 12:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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Fields Medalists
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Are ALS patients "nice"?
Hi there, thanks for your interest in the ALS page - I hope you'll consider reviewing it for good article status! I too have been interested in this topic, but for GA status we need to pretty much only use claims that are backed up in systematic reviews, rather than primary individual studies. I have seen that study before, and several others over the years, about the question. For instance I was perplexed by a psychodynamic study from Italy that used Rorsach tests and essentially blamed patients for having their own disease as a manifestation of their unconscious repressed desires =(

Anecdotally I do worry a bit that any such effect is mostly volunteerism by those who opt to take part in such studies, and also perhaps the limited contact that professionals have with patients. If you only see the doctor once or twice a year and they're going to give you hope and access to treatments then perhaps you put on a brave face for them. But for the last 20 years or so I've spent a long time in online patient communities, and the marked contrast between the "positive stoic" and how people really feel at 2am seems quite significant. I wonder if on some levels we as professionals *want* people to come across a certain way, and so this is also a social expectation bias. About a decadea ago I unexpectedly became a caregiver to a family member with the condition and so got to see it from both sides of the table.

Anyway, if there has been a systematic review on this topic then of course we can go back and add something, I have access to the Wikipedia library if there's anything you can't access. Thanks again, PaulWicks (talk) 06:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Paul, I was sorry to read about your family member. Good luck with the GA status, which seems an excellent ambition -- I wish Wikipedia had more GAs! In the criteria I don't see a demand for systematic reviews, which is good because these don't exist for every interesting aspect of the disease! Fortunately, Brain and Behavior is a reputable journal and the article in question seems a useful contribution in this exciting and evolving field.
 * Thank you for the offer of bringing the library to bear -- perhaps as a next step you might like to include a link or two to findings balancing those of Jane Kullmann et al. Mebden (talk) 12:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Reverted for now, off to find a better review on the topic will report back PaulWicks (talk) 20:26, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you in advance for the search, PaulWicks. I've written a placeholder paragraph for now, and if you have thoughts of reverting it may I invite you to instead open a topic on the ALS talk page to gather more input, so we can as a group weigh the benefits of GA status against including notable aspects of a disease? Mebden (talk) 13:18, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, all good plans for naught. Started, then developed multitudinous pet / child issues and got distracted.
 * Right, so coming back to this. Thank you for the placeholder, it does a nice job of outlining the key arguments. And I wasn't right on my first stab at GA, it doesn't prioritize systematic reviews per se. Where I read that was actually (let's see if I can do this right) WP: No Original Research where it said "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources, and to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources. Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources. All analyses and interpretive or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary or tertiary source and must not be an original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors."
 * Happy to open up a talk page thread if useful to broaden the discussion but essentially my thinking was:
 * 100's of things have been suggested to cause ALS
 * The only ones with a "visible to the naked eye" basis are genetic, which is now well described in the article
 * The plethora of chemicals and traumas and other exposures only roughly increase risk by 50-100% in a rare disease, which is far from a smoking gun
 * We've got links out to the ones that come up repeatedly in systematic reviews of solid causes, of which personality is not one of them (trust me - I do think it's interesting! - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793262/)
 * On a sentence-per-effect size basis in the main article, then we're just using single words for causes with good evidence of weak effect, but ~60 words for a putative cause that does not survive systematic review is unwarranted emphasis.
 * Perhaps in a sub-page we could go to town blowing out all these causes in more detail (e.g. the sports and military stuff is intriguing) like we've got with Genetics of ALS, but that too needs work and could just be a 5,000 word repeeat of recent reviews.
 * Sorry, that was long. Too much coffee. PaulWicks (talk) 11:10, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Civil pride
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Concern regarding Draft:Normative modeling
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 17:06, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Normative modeling


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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 16:36, 19 July 2024 (UTC)