User talk:Melba1

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Dr Anderson Image
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I would like some help with improving my new page about 'Female surgeons' which is in my sandbox) and preparing it for publication. Melba1 5th July 2009 Melba1 (talk) 08:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC) Melba1 (talk) 08:22, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Melba1! I'll link the sandbox here, so people can easily find it: User:Melba1/Sandbox. decltype (talk) 12:13, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The article at present does not have sufficient sources to support the information given, and therefore it is not suitable for inclusion on the live Wikipedia.


 * A topic must have "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". "Significant coverage" means that sources address the subject directly in detail, and no original research is needed to extract the content. See WP:GNG for details of this. The present references are not about the actual topic of the article, so they do not constitute 'significant coverage'.


 * The article presently looks like original research, which is not permitted. It would require 'inline citations' to reliable sources - for my own tips on how to make these, see user:chzz/help/ref.


 * You might also want to read WP:FIRST, which explains more about making your first article.


 * For more help, you can either;


 * Leave a message on my own talk page;
 * Use another here,
 * Talk to us live, with this or this.


 * Best wishes,  Chzz  ►  13:04, 7 July 2

Thanks, Chzz :-) Melba1 (talk) 07:04, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I would appreciate help with finding 'reliable sources' as suggested. Melba1 (talk) 07:04, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Melba, you can use the find template, which produces:
 * PhilKnight (talk) 11:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * PhilKnight (talk) 11:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Reliable sources
(edit conflict) Hi - I noticed you were looking for reliable sources for the article you are writing on Female surgeons. I had a quick search and came across some articles which may or may not be useful to you:










 * Howard University College of Medicine Celebrates 140th Anniversary as a Leader in Producing Women Surgeons and African-American Physicians. This press release from December 2008 briefly mentions statistics of female surgeon graduates.


 * Covidien Launches New Initiative to Champion Female Surgeons Another press release with some statistics


















 * Mary Edwards Walker, the first female surgeon in the US Army

I got these results with a LexisNexis search and a journal search for "female surgeon". I've only gone back to 2005, so I imagine there is more information available. All of them should be accessible to anyone (apart from the ones noted above). From the quick read I gave them, it seems like some of these might support the statements in your draft article, while others might provide additional information. I hope that some of them might be helpful to you. Please let me know if you need more information, or if any of the links don't work etc! -- Kateshort forbob  12:32, 8 July 2009 (UTC) PS. I've taken the liberty of altering your "Help Me" notice to show that your query has been replied to. You can always re-add the Help Me template to this page, or ask questions at the Help Desk.

[User_talk:Kateshortforbob| forbob ] Excellent help, thanks Kate!! I am just starting to learn the ropes, as you can see :-) Melba1 (talk) 05:29, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks also to PhilKnight. Melba1 (talk) 05:29, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * No problem, Melba1. As I said, let me know if you need any more info, or any help with the article. Good luck! -- Kateshort forbob  10:44, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

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Oxygen paradox
Someone with scientific credentials needs to write a page on the "oxygen paradox", namely, that oxygen is essential to most forms of life, but is also poisonous in certain forms and concentrations.--Melba1 (talk) 01:54, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Please move to the incubator. --Melba1 (talk) 03:08, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi there Melba1!


 * I've moved your request for help here, to your own user page - we like to discuss 1:1 on your own page, and keep article talk pages for discussions between editors, re. the article. For one thing, this way, you get an alert when I leave you a new message.

So - re. Oxygen paradox - I can't see any actual content in the page history, except your suggesting that 'someone create an article' - so, there's nothing to move to the incubator, from there, at least.

Incubation is for articles already begun; I don't see anything. If I missed something, let me know.

Otherwise, you probably want to start a user-space draft or something.

For more help, you can either;


 * Leave a message on my own talk page;
 * Use a - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put , and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~ at the end;
 * Talk to us live, with this or this.

The last of those is particularly useful - please try it; pop in now and say hello.  Chzz  ► 03:42, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

James Martin Brabazon
(I have copied your question back here to your talk page - usually, I like to reply wherever the question was asked (which would be my talk, but in this case, I think it's better if I respond here, so you have the links, etc  Chzz  ► 08:41, 25 June 2010 (UTC))

Hi Chzz :)

I am creating a new article @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Melba1/James_Martin_Brabazon#References and wondered if u have a minute u could check it over & make suggestions. (I'm not very good with inserting refs as u can see.)

Thanx in anticipation (Good luck at the World Cup!) Melba1 (talk) 08:13, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Re. User:Melba1/James Martin Brabazon


 * First, I must ask - are you the subject of the article - or closely associated with the subject? If so, please read WP:AUTO - and I strongly recommend that you edit some other articles, before tackling the very difficult business of being neutral when you have a conflict of interest.


 * The biggest problem I see at the moment is a lack of independent reliable sources - brabazonarchive.com is a primary source, imdb is not a reliable source; the Independent piece is self-authored, and the others do not look independent.


 * I have added one 'fact' referenced to the newspaper, mostly to show how inline references work.

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! How references work

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837, in Footown.

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates
You can put anything you like between, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.
 * }


 * I also removed the heading at the top - that's not needed - and began with James Martin Brabazon (b. 18th February... - the three apostrophes go around the article subject, to put it in  bold .


 * I hope this helps; please do feel free to ask more questions.  Chzz  ► 08:41, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

July 2010
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Did you know
Let me know when you finish with the article so I can nominate it to appear in the did you know column on the main page. -- Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 17:57, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

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Nora
 Chzz  ► 03:43, 3 July 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, well, best of luck with it :-) And please do ask, if I can help further. If you can make it >1500Bytes (about 3 paragraphs) then it'll make a very nice entry for "Did you know..." on the main page - it has to be nominated there within 5 days of the article going live. WP:DYKS.  Chzz  ► 06:37, 4 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello Melba - I saw your post about this at Renata3's talk page. She's a very busy person... If you're willing (since it's in your userspace, I wouldn't do this without your approval), I'd be happy to work on the article. Reference formatting has given me a lot of grief in the past too, some of my edit summaries include @*$#!&$% -s, so I'm quite sympathetic to the problem. Thanks for writing it, as Chzz says it will make a nice DYK. I can cough up a couple more third-party refs in Lithuanian, here's one in English with career details. Novickas (talk) 19:44, 7 July 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, I'd love to work on it. Will start soon. Doesn't he look like the sweetest guy ever?


 * But you shouldn't email the pic(s) to me, but rather have him send it/them to WP; see Requesting copyright permission, specifically Requesting_copyright_permission. It's a hairy business, you might want to contact one of the people listed at Category:Wikipedia OTRS volunteers. It might take a week or so to get processed...Later, Novickas (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey, sorry for a late reply. I tend to forget things :) I will look into the article further. I found this bio, but do not have the time at this moment to dwell into it. Renata (talk) 16:56, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Melba - I made some changes to the now 'live' version at Mindaugas Piečaitis‎. If you have any questions about it, like was some info lost, pls let me know. And thanks for writing it. Novickas (talk) 16:14, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

GetUp! as a partisan organisation?
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 * Sorry if that sounds confusing. What I was trying to say is GetUp! is a partisan group and it's also left wing. Ozdaren (talk) 11:01, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

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Seasons Greetings

 * Cheers! Nice to hear from you. Keep in touch.  Chzz  ► 13:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Smile!
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RE: Burt Rutan
I've looked through the references in the article and most of them seem to be intact (about four or five are broken links). The two "as of" statements clearly need to be updated, but that shouldn't be too difficult. I'm quite busy right now but I'll try to make a few changes if I have time. Thanks. --Jatkins (talk - contribs) 15:25, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Passchendaele (Queensland, Australia)
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Thanks for pointing that mistake out - it was unintended as you say :) I'll fix it. Melba1 (talk) 15:09, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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About Rhoda Roberts
Hi Melba1.

I was doing a little research to start "Vox Populi (SBS Current Affairs program)" earlier today, and noticed that Rhoda Roberts was the program's presenter from 1990 onwards.

I thought, "What, there's no Wikipedia article for Rhoda Roberts? How can that be? I'll write it when I get home."

Different computer: first GHit was your draft article. It would be the wrong thing to do, to start the article myself and ignore your work.

Would it be OK with you if I worked on your "userspace draft" and then moved it into "mainspace" later?

Pete aka --Shirt58 (talk) 10:22, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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Microglia
I saw your edit to Talk:Microglia asserting that "females don't have microglia" and am wondering on what basis you make such an assertion. Did you mean that no female of any species has microglia?--Quisqualis (talk) 03:10, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Quisqualis. I refer to studies of pain response in mice: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772157/ "The research was conducted by teams from McGill University, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), and Duke University, and looked at the longstanding theory that pain is transmitted from the site of injury or inflammation through the nervous system using an immune system cell called microglia. This new research shows that this is only true in male mice. Interfering with the function of microglia in a variety of different ways effectively blocked pain in male mice, but had no effect in female mice." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150629110800.htm There have also been clinical observations with human chronic pain sufferers. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2017/09/sfn_20170902.mp3  Melba1 (talk) 05:25, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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