User talk:Nbafan1

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. ThreeOfCups (talk) 02:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Syphilis has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you.  Weeliljimmy  talk 22:34, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Syphilis. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 22:41, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Mr. T. La Pianista (T•C•S) 22:44, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Disease vs infection
I've removed your good-faith edits to syphilis. Syphilis is indeed a disease, and not just an infection. The difference is this: if you have a disease, you are always sick. If you have an infection, you may feel just fine. It is possible to have infections that produce zero symptoms; this is what happens when you're exposed to the common cold or other disease that you've had previously. You're technically infected, but your body fights it off so rapidly and easily that you never notice. The "STI" language has been adopted largely because HIV infection is asymptomatic for so long. HIV+ people are "infected" but not "diseased".

This isn't the case for syphilis. A person with a Treponema infection is not just infected, but actually made sick by it. Thus it's an "STD", not just an "STI". WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:27, 6 November 2008 (UTC)