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Doubled and quadrupled commas
Hi, I noticed your use of Doubled and quadrupled commas, a notation which I have never seen before. If you invented this notation, I am interested in its genesis. It reminds me of Jacqueline Kennedy's letter-writing style (she tended to avoid periods). Perhaps you might illuminate its meaning for me? What I thought of when reading the edit, was that you were thinking multiple phrases that you were intending to fill in later, but then you cut your edit short, leaving the commas. --Ancheta Wis   (talk  &#124; contribs) 16:30, 21 September 2014 (UTC) I will amend such irregular comma proliferations in the future, I thank you for bringing it to my  attention--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you! /(wikiproject med)
very kind--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:45, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

== ebola fres== {| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="8" style="width: 100%; background-color: none; border: 1px solid red; vertical-align: top; border-radius: 8px; -moz-border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75); -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75); -webkit-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);"  _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ~ Category:"Part of a series on" sidebar templates Ozzie, if you've the time, go around to the other articles and let them know about the ivote on the title. Drop a note on the talk pages with a link so they will easily get to it. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 22:39, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks, yes

ebola article 2, Navarro College ,Texas/(cover)
Might that not be better placed, due to the low relevance of a singe college in Texas in relation to the wider epidemic, in the U.S. sub article instead section "Call for suspension of visas"? As an example of how (not) to quarantine the virus? Also it doesn't fit with the timeline since the letter was dated to 2 October per Slate.--Alcea setosa (talk) 22:22, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

note
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 * Thank you.





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A barnstar for you!/ebola
Hi Ozzie10aaaa i second this nomination. It is a pleasure working with you... Greeting Brian BrianGroen (talk) 20:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:01, 22 October 2014 (UTC)


 *  Bfpage &#124;leave a message 11:22, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:48, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Halloween greetings!


Happy Halloween!

'''Hello Ozzie10aaaa: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. Have a fun Halloween!'''   –  SW3 5DL (talk) 16:40, 27 October 2014 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:29, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

RE
Hi, This source is not reliable. It uses Wikipedia as a source. Read it carefully. --Max24 (talk) 13:16, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

you are correct--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:26, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Can we be friends?/ ebola
I wanted to make sure there weren't any hard feelings about the Ebola article. You're clearly a WP:Good-faith editor, and I don't want to upset or wrong you. The new information about the Liberian infection rate was important and useful, and I hope you don't mind my revising it. I was trying to improve it according to WP:TONE and WP:MOS, as I have needed other editors to fix my own edits.

As to allegations of sockpuppetry, I recognize that I've been unusually active for a new-ish user (evidently I need more of a life). I can totally see where you're coming from, and going to an admin seems like a great response. You're welcome to go through my past and future edits, and follow instructions on Sockpuppet_investigations to report me if you find evidence of misbehavior. Thanks for your efforts!

I wish you the best, and apologize again for any offense I've given you. FourViolas (talk) 02:47, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

all opinions count, as does yours--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:32, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

RE/ Hemopurifier /(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie I researched this. a) it's an early stage product which may never come into general use ( http://www.aethlonmedical.com/products/hemopurifier/index.htm ) b) it must be attached to a kidney dialysis machine - not many of those in W Africa !! ( http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/14/aethlon-hemopurifier-ebola/ ) c) the patient was receiving multiple therapies and his viral load was already in decline ( http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/14/aethlon-hemopurifier-ebola/ ) Cheers, Bob. Robertpedley (talk) 15:22, 15 November 2014 (UTC) Hello again, Ozzie! Please don't take my edits personally. I spend an average of 1 hour researching before I make any edit. I'll only add material if it enhances the value of the article to the reader - it's important to maintain the reputation of WP and of the Ebola pages. I'll remove any edit which doesn't meet WP guidelines or is not relevant to the page. Robertpedley (talk) 11:32, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

CONAKRY Hi Ozzie The BBC lead says "Clinical trials to try to find an effective treatment for Ebola patients are to start in West Africa next month." The serum trial hasn't started yet.Bob Robertpedley (talk) 15:13, 19 November 2014 (UTC)


 * ANI(decision)That's a content dispute. ANI isn't for content disputes.

reviewing this diff though you are correct that his stance is not logical. The material in question was the USA answer and precautions to the Epidemic in west Africa. So it is related and belongs in the article. But that is only my opinion. I think they are suggesting you should put it Ebola virus cases in the United States. This isn't unreasonable. You really just to get with them and talk. Take it to the talk page. If that don't work open an RFC or take it to the appropriate noticeboard. There are plenty of ways to get a consensus.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 17:08, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Some climbing equipment for you!/medicine
 Because you've climbed quickly to a respected position on the most highly read page on Wikipedia, and I want to make sure you stay safe. Hang on to WP:AGF (and WP:ATWV!) when you feel knocked off balance by other editors. And, of course, let them use the mountain too, even if it's inconvenient to share the path. FourViolas (talk) 13:38, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings
thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:19, 30 November 2014 (UTC)({{Subst:Xmas4})

my apologies/ ebola
Sorry Ozzie i did not see your netherlands edit... I have updated it a bit and moved in Alphabetical order.. You may slap my hand, permission granted BrianGroen (talk) 11:34, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

I think you added to it, in a positive manner--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:13, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Ozzie


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thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!
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thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:22, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Happy new year Ozzie.... Hope you have a Fab year.BrianGroen (talk) 14:37, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much - same to you. Happy editing in 2015! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:16, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:38, 1 January 2015 (UTC

Happy New Year, Ozzie!


Happy New Year! To Ozzie, Happy New Year, Ozzie. Wishing you all the very best in 2015. SW3 5DL (talk) 22:41, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:41, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

RE/Dyslexia/GA (wikiproject med)
Hi Ozzie10aaaa

Due to my own dyslexic issues my copy editing skills are next to zero, but i can help provide links to supporting citations and and worldcat IDs for books. I found out about my poor copy editing abilities when i tried ot edit the dyslexia article back in 2009 - 2010. There was a Dyslexia prject set of pages with a few suggested future updates. Not sure if it si still accessable. best wishes dolfrog (talk) 12:08, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

It is slightly dated but some of the ideas may be useful WikiProject Dyslexia and my most recent set of dyslexia links including some research papers can be found on my new Useful Dyslexia links web page which represents more my personal perpsective. Currently I am busy elsewhere but i will try to keep up with your progress with the article dolfrog (talk) 18:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

I would be honored to assist,thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Definition of Dyslexia
Hi Ozzie10aaaa,

While it's true when it comes to dyslexia the diagnosis is clinical and scientific, the treatment is educational.

That's why my hope is to find a home for the NICHD definition of dyslexia. In 1994 and again in 2002 the IDA lead the Definition Consensus Project in partnership with the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The resulting definition helped align the professional community and laid the groundwork for important public policy initiatives going forward.

Todayl, this definition is the cornerstone for important legislation in the U.S. that is leading to early screening, evaluation and help. It took an extraordinary commitment from a large dedicated team to reach this important milestone and it would be great to find a place on Wikipedia for this important information.

Please advise.

Best,

John Mayo-Smith — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayosmith (talk • contribs) 17:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)                                                      (see answer above)

Your GA nomination of Dyslexia
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Dyslexia you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Bluerasberry -- Bluerasberry (talk) 14:00, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:43, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Dyslexia
The article Dyslexia you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Dyslexia for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. DoctorJoeE review transgressions/ talk to me!  15:23, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Template:Did you know nominations/Dyslexia--Moxy (talk) 15:57, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:41, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Dyslexia
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Dyslexia/GA2
Thanks for the thanks! Have just noticed: what does "sounding out words" in the second line of the Lead mean? ~ P-123 (talk) 12:32, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * P-123 dyslexics go by different routes of learning they need "sounds" to ascertain what it is they are saying or being said...in this case it simply means an emphasis on the word..example -the train is coming,,,a dyslexic would say - t-h-e    t-r-a-I-n     I-s     c-o-m-I-n-g to get a full appreciation of the sentence, it isn't easy, thanks for asking--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:49, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I thought that is what it meant. ~ P-123 (talk) 15:10, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think "sounding out words" in the second sentence is clear enough for the general reader, but I cannot think of a better way to say it the moment. ~ P-123 (talk) 15:30, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * P-123 don't worry, and thanks again for your valuable help --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:03, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

RE/ FYI Complementary and Alternative Medicine/(wikiproject med)^
—Given that the remedy has just been enacted, I am providing this notice to everybody who has participated in the discussion on Jimbo Wales' talk page for their information. HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:44, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

thank you, for informing me on this controversial med subject--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:16, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

west Africa/ebola
Hi Ozzie.. I think that Perhaps these 3 do need a little rearranging.. Guinea with the lowest cases, but the index case has to stay first, Sierra Leone second sounds good, with Liberia last Mostly because of the total case counts. The daily Case counts must be viewed cautiously, how many times has it happened that case counts slow, just before it resurfaces in a new region. Also i'm concerned about the 'Suspected case' counts that are still increasing, as well as the slowness of reports coming out of Liberia. Then again it wont move to "Contained" until WHO confirms... So I see no real problem with a little reshuffle.. GremlinSA 13:30, 9 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Just a quick note update.. Looking at latest released figures from Liberia.. Feb 28th http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/documents/Sitrep%20289%20Feb%2028th%202015.pdf - suspected:4354 Probable:1877 Confirmed:3149, and March 5th http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/documents/Sitrep%20294%20March%205th%202015.pdf suspected:4479 (+125) Probable:1879(+2) Confirmed:3149... thats 127 cases in 5 days. GremlinSA 11:14, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

MEDDATE /(wikiproject med)^
You cite MEDDATE in a lot of discussions, so I wanted to take a moment to clarify that "rule". It's meant to be a rule of thumb, rather than an absolute requirement. It doesn't say just "five years"; it says "five years or so", and those last two words matter. It also says that the rule was written for subjects that receive the most attention, like Hypertension, and not for rare diseases or other subjects that don't see much research attention.

What you really want is to consider the last few high-quality secondary sources, which (depending on the subject) might be professional-level books or review articles. We want to take advantage of what MEDDATE calls the "full review cycle": Alice published a review, Bob published a primary study, and Chris read both Alice's and Bob's papers and wrote a new review. If it took ten years to get through a full review cycle, then MEDDATE actually wants ten years, not five. Conversely, if you get three good review articles every month, then MEDDATE would rather than you used this year's or last year's best publications, instead of going back to anything that was no more than four years and 364 days old. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:13, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

your correct, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:51, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Humans and the Environment
Hi Ozzie10aaaa. A notification came up that you asked me a question, but I then saw you reverted it so assumed you changed your mind. I only just now noticed that you asked it in another format. I know gave an answer at WT:MED, but since that thread is getting quite long and relatively stale I though I would give my 2 cents here. Feel free to move it back there if you think that appropriate.

The interactions between GMOs and the environment then the environment and humans are complicated so a straight answer may be difficult. Some of the main environmental concerns covered at the controversies page are; insects developing resistance, horizontal gene transfer to other plants, death of non-target organisms, loss of biodiversity and secondary pests becoming more prominent. The effect of these on the environment are hard to accurately predict, let alone whether they will have any indirect effect on human health. Glyphosphate-resistant weeds resulting from gene flow are unlikely to develop outside of crops as they do not provide any selective advantage in the wild, but insect resistant ones might. Loss of biodiversity is a problem with all agriculture and so is the death of non-target organisms. Everything is interconnected in some way so I can't honestly say something occurring to environment through genetic engineering will never effect human health at some point. I feel that would be true for any technology though. Most people when thinking about human health and GM food are more concerned with the direct relationship. If I eat this will it be harmful to me. I think the article is better off distinguishing between the environment and human health the way it does.

You gave an example that increased pesticides used on GM crops may lead to increased risk of cancers. The theory being that GMO crops have increased pesticide use and high levels of pesticide are a risk factor for some cancers. Currently there are two main groups of GM crops on the market (Bt crops and glyphosphate resistant crops). Bt crops actually use less pesticide since they are modified to be insect resistant (so need less synthetic pesticide). The Bt toxin itself has been shown through multiple studies to be harmless to humans and even non-target insects. Glyphosphate is relatively safe to humans (see Glyphosate) compared to other herbicides. Any chemical application is going to be regulated under various governmental acts designed to keep toxicity levels below a certain level and this will apply to all crops including GMO ones. You also have to take into account that most toxicity studies are done using straight round-up or a similar product, whereas in practice the final food product will at most have only residue of the chemical and in most cases virtually none of the pesticide will remain. Again all this is all regulated (with-holding periods and the like) and not unique to GMO.

Anyway, I am not trying to convince you to become a supporter GM. I don't even really know where you stand on the issue. I personally see huge potential and most of the risks as being speculative, especially those related to human health. I knew a group of researchers that were trying to put vaccines in bananas. One idea being that they could be used to vaccinate kids in regions with unreliable or no power. I think this factor and many other similar ones get overlooked and the discussion is dominated by Monsanto's involvement and much of the opposition is because of them. AIR corn (talk) 05:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

RfC on GM food
Note about this RfC where you !voted. I tweaked the statement to make it more clear that it is about eating GM food and health. I'm notifying each person who !voted, in case that matters to you. Sorry for the trouble. Jytdog (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

(redact)this is an important topic. thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

(wikiproject med)
thank you (especially coming from you)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:49, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * NP my friend!! . On a side note I noticed you edit Ebola articles...new book out  and..last month they also digitized  -- Moxy (talk) 17:56, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

you are the best!..thanks!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:23, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you! /(wikiproject med)
thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:14, 8 May 2015 (UTC)


 * It looks like you deserve that cup of coffee! I left a note on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Disagreement_at_Psychosurgery_and_History_of_psychosurgery, thanking you as well for your note about my "valuable" opinion. If there is an emerging consensus perhaps it would be useful if you left a note under Talk:History of psychosurgery as well to prevent deletion of those useful references at least under that heading. Philipegalite (talk) 16:09, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

and thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

I also appreciate the way you tell people that you've commented on a discussion and encourage them to do the same. Please keep it up. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

thank you WhatamIdoing, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:42, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

for you!
Although we have not directly communicated with each other I have followed your diligent, fair and outstanding work towards making Wikipedia work in an otherwise unintelligible labyrinth. WikiProject Medicine is working at its best, better than formerly because of the team work you have promoted. I quit editing last year disappointed but you have tackled the same issue with more success and fairness. Stay vigilant for scholarship and justice! In the meantime have a cherry coke and a cheeseburger from me! Thank your for the vindication of my previous editing work! LeBassRobespierre (talk) 16:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
 * }

thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:14, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Waid's note.../ebola
Ozzie, I've had your page on my watch list because we work on the Ebola article together. I noticed that you deleted Waid's note. Was it by accident? I've known Waid for years and can hardly say how many times I've gone to her for advise. IMO, she's one of our best editors and I've never seen her to display the arrogance and lack of good intent that is not uncommon for this project. If she tried to help me I'd consider it an honor that she was willing to spend the time on me, a less experienced editor. Gandydancer (talk) 14:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * actually it was to place inline cites on articles that need it, which I will,(some individuals simply have a different way, though she is professional), ,,BTW now that I have your attention I wanted you to know its always been a pleasure to work with you (and I spoke with Brian he added some info to the article...he's OK), --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:58, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * It's okay. I know he's thinking about it.  There's no need to keep it visible.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:02, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I thank you for any advise... thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Your work is appreciated! (wikiproject med)
thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:30, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Liberia/ebola
"On the same day, the tree were the outbreak began, was identified." That reference is about Liberia, so should I move it out of the Guinea section? Art LaPella (talk) 16:29, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Art LaPella..Art its this ref and its in Guinea.thanks for checking I wish everyone were like you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:36, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Reedited. Art LaPella (talk) 16:46, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks Art--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:50, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Can I barrow your thoughts? Comment /Collaboration of the Month/(wikiproject med)^
I have been working on Stab wound for a little bit and I am working to get it up to GA status hopefully but I really am sort of limited in what else I can add. It is a very niche subject and I have juiced all my sources dry. If you have a moment would you mind taking a look at it and giving your input? Anything is valued. Peter.C •  talk  •  contribs  14:20, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * absolutely, thank you for asking (and Myasthenia gravis )--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:13, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

MG
I just want to thank you for all fo the hard work you put into MG over the past week, we have made a lot of progress. What else do you think we need to tackle before trying for GA? Peter.C  •  talk  •  contribs  20:47, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Peter.C •  talk  •  contribs  I would nominate it for GA now (it takes a while for the process ..in the meantime we could get a good CE on it)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:04, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, before I do that though I want to try to find a proper source for the physical exam, probably need to find a review article from Up-To-Date or some other source. Will also try to expand the lead a slight bit and remove the refs to conform to MEDMOS. Will try to nom by the end of day. Also - know any good CE who could do a quick run through of it?  Peter.C  •  talk  •  contribs  14:36, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Peter.C •  talk  •  contribs  WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Requests this is the official CE,..aweaome...good luck (collaboration of the month, as well)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:48, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Medical References /(wikiproject med)^
You recently edited the article on Heyde's syndrome and added a lot of 'medical reference needed' tags with no explanation or anything else. Could you please check the talk page for that article and let me know what I need to change? There are a lot of old references in the text, but I think they are valuable. Thanks for your help. Michael Dacre (talk - contribs - email) 17:18, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * thank you for asking--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Minimally invasive/(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa - just to say I've written on talk page. cheers --Iztwoz (talk) 07:35, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 09:08, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

for you!/(wikiproject med)^
The page looks so good compared to this morning, great job! If you need any more help(on anything), just let me know, I am glad to help you out! XxX ellen

EllenvanderVeen (talk) 20:56, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


 * thank you (Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney article benefited alot from your input)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:04, 28 July 2015 (UTC)



Can you help on Post Ebola Eye image/ebola
Hi, I've uploaded an image to commons for this article, but being new to this stuff I wasn't able to provide necessary information on the copyrights status. The image actually is all around the internet and I'm fairly sure it's free. An admin on the commons told me that my only chance is to contact the original creator and ask for permission. I traced the image to | here.(NYtimes article attributes it to them) But I was unable to find the image on that site, nor could I find the creator of the image.(though I found who the eye belonged to) I'm overwhelmed by the amount of work this needed and I feel like it's a newbie mistake. Is there an easy way to do this? The image obviously not essential, but I think it would be nice to have it. Hope you have time, thanks in advance. Darwinian Ape talk 21:07, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Darwinian Ape talk yes, thanks for asking--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:13, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks again, for your help. Darwinian Ape talk 22:45, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion /ebola
Hi Ozzie i need your input here User:BrianGroen/Ebola_virus_disease_in_Nigeria .. Kind Regards Brian BrianGroen (talk) 17:30, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * absolutely, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:44, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! (wikiproject med)

 * thank you very much!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:11, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Shielding lotion Clinical Studies/(wikiproject med)^
Thanks for taking time to reach out to me regarding my article. I do have a question regarding the Clinical studies section. I happen to have the clinical study documentation on hand, but I'm not sure these have actually been published online. How do I cite this properly? Can I just include the study title, ref number date and company that conducted the study? Thanks for your help. James Schultz (talk) 15:14, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

I just read the article about Medical Citations and it stated that studies where animal test subjects are used do not qualify as a "Clinical Study" and should be referred to as "Pre-Clinical Studies". Each of these studies were conducted on laboratory animals. Should I list them as "Pre-Clinical" rather than "Clinical"? Thanks James Schultz (talk) 15:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * James Schultz (in response to both posts) ...yes you may list them consistent with Manual_of_Style/Medicine-related_articles but first it needs to be PubMed indexed, (it needs to not be a primary study only with exceptions, are they included per Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)), any article (journal) needs to be a review or meta-analysis thus a secondary source (I should point out that it is important that you not have a conflict of interest with the article either as primary, secondary or corresponding author)....you may also use a source such as a position statement from CDC,WHO,HHS,NIH and so forth or a medical textbook, please feel free to ask should there be any questions, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:33, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ozzie10aaaa. Don't quote me on this, but I believe the initial studies referred to were primary studies conducted for a particular manufacturer. In any event, I have removed them and found some on ClinicalTrials.gov. I only used completed studies with documented results. Thanks again for your help. If you have further suggestions to improve the article, I'd really appreciate it. James Schultz (talk) 16:01, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * will respond on article talk page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:25, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Philly Medlibs Event Planning /(wikiproject med)^
Thanks for your comment on my WikiProject Medicine Announcement. Is this something you would be interested in participating in? Not sure of your location- or would the project or the Wikipedia Foundation support or sponsor someone involved to attend and present? Feel free to contact me or pass along this request to others who might be interested/available on-wiki or by email (richardjam *at* gmail *dot* com) Richardjames444 (talk) 17:01, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Richardjames444 ...while I do live in Florida, I would probably have little problem attending (Spring 2016)...in regards to Wikipedia Foundation and funding probably DocJames would be most knowledgeable, in the meantime I will in fact pass this along to a couple of editors which should be interested...thank you for this very kind gesture--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:39, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the input, and I'll update you as more details emerge.Richardjames444 (talk) 14:50, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!/ebola

 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:38, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Dispute resolution needed for Talk:Health care in the United States/(wikiproject med)^
The discussion regarding an issue on article neutrality is currently occurring in: Dispute resolution noticeboard. 2601:647:4601:4634:D455:1D6A:4C07:B030 (talk) 22:34, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * thank you for notification, will comment--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:51, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!/(wikiproject med)^
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * have voted--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Happy Holiday/New Year
Thank you kindly - the same to you. Keep up the good work, and happy editing! :-) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 12:59, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you so very much for the very kind holiday wishes. You always so kind and courteous toward me - your positive attitude has a lot to do with my continued editing. Best Regards,
 * Barbara (WVS) (talk) 13:40, 5 December 2015 (UTC) aka Bfpage
 * thank you, Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:22, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ozzie
Thank you for the xmas greetings. Dont take this the wrong way, but the bright red is so bright, and fugly, that I'm going to remove it as it hurts my eyes. It was nice of you though, thanks. -Roxy the dog™ woof 17:21, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:05, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

It's that time of year....

 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:14, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks /(wikiproject med)^
Thanks for your edits to party and play. Kind regards, -- The Anome (talk) 22:27, 11 December 2015 (UTC)


 * thank you (it's a very good article)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:44, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!/(wikiproject med)

 * thank you ( as always)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Broken reference in Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa/ebola
Hi! Thanks for your recent edits to Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. I see that a broken reference has appeared in the intro to the article. I had a quick try at fixing it, but just made things worse, so I reverted my change. Could you please take a look to see if you can make a better fix? -- The Anome (talk) 01:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * your edit seems to have fixed it, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 07:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
To You and Yours! FWiW  Bzuk (talk) 10:59, 20 December 2015 (UTC)


 * thank you :-)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:05, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * thank you (Merry Xmas)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho


Doc James (talk · contribs · email) is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages.

Thanks for all you have done this year :-) Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:53, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


 * thank you for your guidance--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays...

 * thank you John, Merry Xmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:26, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

 * thank you, Merry Xmas (its very good to work w/ you)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:26, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Ebola errata
Glad you were able to track it down. Sorry I wasn't any help, but I was at the office all day. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:32, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * thank you anyway :-)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Alexa Brown/(wikiproject med)^
I made a vote on Talk:Clyde cancer cluster. I encourage you highly to vote on whether Alexa should or shouldn't have a separate article. Thanks. Philmonte101 (talk) 03:15, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * will comment on article/talk, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:20, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!


Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. – Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 10:35, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:52, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Neonatal infection/(wikiproject med)^
I want to thank you for all your constructive edits to my editing in the past. The article I created, Neonatal infection is scheduled to appear on Main page sometime in the "Did you know..." section in about a week. If you would like to help make it even better, please feel free to polish it up with me. Thanks again and Best Regards,
 * Barbara (WVS) (talk) 13:32, 15 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Barbara (WVS) I'm honored and will take you up on that, thank you very much--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Knowledge Engine (Wikimedia Foundation)/(wikiproject med)^/Search engine Meta

 * Wikipedia Discovery
 * Requests for comment/Vote of no confidence on Arnnon Geshuri/sig
 * voted...Revision as of 10:31, 22 January 2016 (edit) (undo)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into the local language

Thanks again :) -- Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


 * thank you Doc James, this means a lot to me,I am very grateful, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:21, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

question about RFC /(wikiproject med)^
I was about to respond to the RFC re: Deepak Chopra under your comment, but I wanted to make sure I'm doing it right first... Am I supposed to reply directly on Talk:Deepak Chopra or is there a separate page like for AFDs? Also, is that the right place to go into detail about anything in the lead that I have an issue with or do you think it's only for discussing POV issues? Sorry this is a dumb question. I guess I never participated in in an AFC before. Permstrump (talk) 01:33, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Talk:Deepak_Chopra, yes comment at the talk page (RfC), please read the top of the talk page first for more information, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:15, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Pertinence /(wikiproject med)^
I would suggest you think over your position concerning the pertinence of the image on bipolar disorder. It is present in numerous sources and strongly associated with the topic. CFCF  💌 📧 11:29, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I do believe you make a valid point, however Images should look like what they are meant to illustrate, I will think it over...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:41, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in. /(wikiproject med)^
This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding a content dispute discussion you may have participated in. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you! Wpegden (talk) 16:36, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * have commented, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey/(wikiproject med)^
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.
 * Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)


 * have answered, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! (wikiproject med)

 * thank you for the opportunity to help w/ such an important article--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:10, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Article on Medullary cystic kidney disease
Hey, I'm still working on the article for Medullary cystic kidney disease. Are you done with as everything you could think of? If so, I'll post on the WikiProject Medicine talk page to ask for additional input just in case. NJ (talk) 01:17, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * NJ ill finish it this week (ive been watching the article and you've made some great edits to the article!), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:36, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

for you!
Thank you so much for your work on medullary cystic kidney disease! I will learn a lot from your contributions. You have worked tirelessly on the article, and should be proud of your work. Cheers! NJ (talk) 22:12, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * thanks,NJ however I think this was a team effort, therefore thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:25, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Precious (wikiproject med)
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 3 August 2016 (UTC)


 * thank you, this is very kind of you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 09:08, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests/GA/ebola

 * WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Requests...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC)✅
 * Good_article_nominations....................................................................................................................✅
 * Template_talk:Did_you_know........................................................................................(eligible w/ GA article)

Your GA nomination of West African Ebola virus epidemic
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article West African Ebola virus epidemic you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Pbsouthwood -- Pbsouthwood (talk) 10:01, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:31, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of West African Ebola virus epidemic
The article West African Ebola virus epidemic you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:West African Ebola virus epidemic for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Pbsouthwood -- Pbsouthwood (talk) 05:41, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:11, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Good work, A pleasure to work with you. You are welcome to provide any feedback you think may be useful or appropriate on my talk page. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:05, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * it was my pleasure to work with someone so professional as you, thank you truly--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:11, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Issues with DYK nomination of West African Ebola virus epidemic
Ozzie10aaaa, I just had to remove the transclusion of a non-existent nomination template for this article from the DYK nominations page. You'll want to consult the DYK instructions for nominators and follow the steps there. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. You have seven days to complete the nomination. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Never mind: I've restored it—I just saw your post on the DYK talk page, and fixed the nomination template. I'm still not sure how you managed to get one name for the template page and another inside that very same template, but it's all set now. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:03, 31 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Template:Did_you_know_nominations/West_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic ...approved
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:08, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

DYK for West African Ebola virus epidemic
Materialscientist (talk) 00:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:57, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19/(wikiproject med)^/references
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti  Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Review of article? Draft:Dan Riskin/(wikiproject med)^
I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and would like to ask for advice from a top medical contributor. The page I've been editing is Dan Riskin. I think the page is ready to move out of draft space. Would you be willing to help me by reviewing it, providing feedback as needed, and moving it out of draft space if you think it's ready? I've been seeing a lot of bad information on people involved in value-based healthcare and would like to put up real, fact-based content. If I'm successful in this one, I want to move on to other key figures in the field. Thank you so much for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NimbleToad (talk • contribs) 23:52, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * have commented on draft/talk, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:50, 8 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for your comments! I'm only related in that I also work in value-based healthcare and am frustrated by how many people are claiming credit for hard work from a relatively small group of people.  I'd like to put up pages for key people.  I'll work on adjusting the article so it reflects why the figure is notable and only lists fact-based commentary.  If those changes are made, is it a reasonable next step to move it out of draft space?NimbleToad (talk) 03:00, 9 November 2016 (UTC)


 * as long as there is consensus on the talk page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:48, 9 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Your revisions are great and make the page much more readable. I updated formatting and added citations where missing. I don't see any objection on the talk page. Could I ask you to please help in moving this out of draft space? NimbleToad (talk) 23:46, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * will respond at talk/article, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:14, 23 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've asked colleagues and they feel the information is balanced and represents important history as we go through rapid changes in health policy and clinical data use. Unfortunately, I don't know other Wikipedia editors to leave comments. I haven't seen any objections to move the page out of draft space. Once this is done, I'd like to go on to work on John Halamka, another influential individual in the field. Thanks for helping me to learn the process! NimbleToad (talk) 23:33, 29 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I should have been more clear. I don't have permission to move this out of draft space. You offered to move it out of draft space as long as there is consensus on the talk page. You've made the article much stronger and there have been no objections in talk. Could you please help with the move out of draft space? Thanks! NimbleToad (talk) 16:49, 1 December 2016 (UTC)


 * posted at wikiproject med(if no answer, then ill have to move article, there should be more comments) in the future please comment at talk/article THX--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:13, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!/ebola

 * User:Gandydancer its you (and Brian) that led the way, and therefore your the one that should be commended (left note on your talk) thanks as always--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!/(wikiproject med)^

 * voted, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!/(wikiproject med)

 * thank you (they ask great questions b/c they have a great teacher in you Blue Rasberry)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:02, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for all your help re Influenza vaccine and health care workers. I will have time to sit down and go through your suggested references tonight. I greatly appreciate the helpful and positive feedback. JenOttawa (talk) 17:39, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
 * you are very welcomed, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:44, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

 * thank you(I know the WikiJournal of Medicine will be better than ever this coming year!)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Medicine /(wikiproject med)^



 * per /
 * at work and post on some editors/talk here
 * and have emailed several editors I know--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

xmas

 * Many thanks for your kind words - same to you, and a happy new year! And happy editing, too, of course. :-) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:22, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you, Merry Xmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:26, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy holidays!
Thank you so much for the holiday wishes! N. Jain talk to me 14:11, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#01902a; background-color:#fff; border-width:3px; text-align:center; padding:3px; height:211px; width:800px;" class="plainlinks"> Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! Hello, Ozzie10aaaa! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! N. Jain talk to me 14:11, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}
 * thank you and Merry Xmas/New Year!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:24, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays...

 * thank you Johnbod, Merry Christmas to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * thank you, Merry Christmas to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:10, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Yet another
<div style="width:90%; margin:auto; border:0.6em solid #00F; border-radius:2em; padding:2em; text-align:center; background-color:#000; color:#F33; box-shadow:0em 0em 1.8em 1.0em #00D"> <div style=" font-size:3em; line-height:1.6em; letter-spacing:0.2em; text-shadow:0em -0.1em 0.7em #FFF"> Merry Rexxmas

--RexxS (talk) 16:09, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you RexxS, Merry Christmas!Christbaumkugel.png--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:40, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:58, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * thanks again Bzuk (Merry Christmas x2!)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:21, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Season's Greetings


Season's greetings and best wishes for the coming year. (I guess that Santa felt that his reindeer needed a little rest before heading home.) Sincerely, Gandy
 * thank you Gandy, Merry Christmas and all the best in the coming year!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:47, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
<div style="border: 3px solid #FFD700; background-color: #FFFAF0; padding:0.2em 0.4em;height:173px;border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks">

Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.


 * Harry New Year to you too, all the best!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:42, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines/Review for Featured list
Wikipedia:Featured list criteria

(a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly
 * Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
 * Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
 * Comprehensiveness.
 * Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
 * Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
 * Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process


 * Nominator(s): Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 13:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Over the last 4 years a number of us have been worked to improve all 414 medicines on this list. The leads of each item now provides a decent well referenced overview of the subject in question and an article exists for each of the medicines / combinations. The WHO just released an image under an open license for use to us. World Health Day is April 7th and 2017 also marks the 40 anniversary of the EML. Would be nice to get this ready for the main page for that date. I also believe it meets the FL criteria. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)


 * comments Ozzie10aaaa

perFeatured_list_criteria


 * Criterion 1- is consistent with professional standard


 * Criterion 2- is consistent with Manual_of_Style/Lead_section (and WP:MEDMOS where applicable)


 * Criterion 3- a. covers the scope of WHO Model List of Essential Medicines very well
 * b. consistent with Stand-alone_lists and does not violate Content_forking


 * Criterion 4- African trypanosomiasis........ Medicines for the treatment of 1st stage African trypanosomiasis...seems to be "two" headers, would you be willing to merge or get rid of one of them?


 * Criterion 5- a.consistent with Manual_of_Style, makes good use of text layout, minimal redlinks
 * b.could use between 2-5 images to bring more interest in the "list" for our readers?

--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Criterion 6- is stable, no Edit_warring.............
 * Have adjusted the headers let me know what you think. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 10:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * perfect,and consistent with the rest of the list, thank you.
 * the other issue is images as indicated above (2-5 images) as our readers will be more interested when they see as well as read. --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay will pull in a few more :-) Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 12:02, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

as a result of and  in reference to this Featured_list_candidates nomination I therefore
 * support--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:29, 1 February 2017 (UTC)


 * passed on May 19, 2017 --Ozzie10aaaa (talk)...(will do 1 per year going forward)

Reflist(OpenBiome)/(wikiproject med)^
Hey O. Hope all is well. I think the "2" is deprecated with "32em" prefered. Have adjusted here. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 09:08, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:27, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Paratonia ?/(wikiproject med)^
I came across Paratonia on the WP:MED assessment page, someone's recently rewritten it and would like some help with getting the ugly tags off. They've said they're an expert in the field - could you please say hi to them? --122.108.141.214 (talk) 05:25, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * will look, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for checking the page on paratonia. I read the guidelines for references and citations, unfortunately there are no secondary sources available (maybe in the future I will publish a review!), what I wrote is the best I can doLuciomarinelli (talk) 18:44, 23 February 2017 (UTC)


 * have responded on talk /article, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I replied too, what you think? Luciomarinelli (talk) 22:01, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * the second link, indicates all books that are available(and more) if you go to next page(even if you feel the first link/book I indicated was not satisfactory, thank you...have posted at article talk as well)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:11, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello, I added a recent book among those you suggested. Luciomarinelli (talk) 20:20, 4 March 2017 (UTC)


 * looks good--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:39, 4 March 2017 (UTC)


 * shall we remove the "multiple issues" warning and the "stub" flag? Luciomarinelli (talk) 14:32, 5 March 2017 (UTC)


 * done--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:10, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Adjusted(MABp1)/(wikiproject med)^
Hey Ozzie. Have placed this article, MABp1 in WP:PHARM. IMO we should wait until a medication is avaliable / in us before adding it to WPMED. Your thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:44, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * agreed:-)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:57, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

I understand(Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine)/(med wikiproject)^
...the esteem with which Doc is held at WP Medicine, and I share it. But when entering a complex discussion, is it not better to fully understand the issues involved, before taking a side (even with as easy as voting and side-taking is here)? Your work on the various of your editing projects makes clear you are capable of sophisticated and subtle understanding. The issues of our allowing self-published medical imagery (and the associated matter of our seeming lack of concern for patient consent) are things that could sink the ship. Please, if engaging there, read through the arguments and examples, and them vote. Thank you. Le Prof 73.210.155.96 (talk) 18:00, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I did, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:36, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Health_effects_of_tobacco/(wikiproject med)^
Hey Ozzie,

Can you look the suggestion mentioned here ? KVDP (talk) 17:42, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * commented--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:08, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

New editorial board candidate/WikiJournal of Medicine (Wiki.J.Med)
Hello Ozzie,

We have a new candidate for an editorial board position: Talk:WikiJournal of Medicine As a peer reviewer, I'd like you to participate in the vote.

Best regards,

Mikael Häggström (talk) 15:16, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * done--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! (wikiproject med)

 * Doc James thank you!(you were missed)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:29, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Edit summaries(Video game addiction)/(wikiproject med)^
Hi there. This is just a friendly reminder that you should try to use edit summaries more often. For instance, in these edits you added and removed over 30,000 bytes. I see that you were just moving stuff around, but you easily could have explained that. That's all. Thanks for your contributions to that article! --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:36, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I see you might have been responding to my post on the WikiProject Medicine talk page, so thanks for that as well. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:37, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * good tip, yes I did leave a note,thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:26, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:07, 3 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Doc James its an honor, thank you for guiding this medical project--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

2605:6000:ef43:8500:8d1d:42a:ea65:9ef5 (Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak 2017)/ebola2
There is no need to discuss edits before they are made, per WP:BOLD; they should be discussed after they are reverted though, per WP:BRD. This looks to be a content dispute rather than disruptive editing. GiantSnowman 13:51, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ok I will then address the IP after they have edited, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 June 2017/WMF Elections (wikiproject med)^
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 9 June 2017 (UTC)


 * thanks(including newsletter below)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:28, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Precious anniversary (wikiproject med)
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * User:Gerda Arendt thank you very much, its an honor--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:26, 3 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Two years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 3 August 2018 (UTC)


 * thank you very kind!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 09:23, 3 August 2018 (UTC)


 * ... and three --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:56, 3 August 2019 (UTC)


 * thank you very much(time goes by fast)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:37, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Van Goethem syndrome/(wikiproject med)^
The template you used to request the deletion of this article is only used for pages which meet the criteria for speedy deletion, and this doesn't. If you want this article to be deleted then you'll need to use the proposed deletion or articles for deletion processes.  Hut 8.5  20:57, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ok thank you, Ill do that(Articles for deletion)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:06, 16 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry, the snowball clause doesn't work like that. If ten people had turned up to agree with you and nobody had disagreed then you might be able to argue that it could be closed early under the snowball clause, but one person isn't going to lead to an early closure. The discussion will be either closed or relisted after a week as per the usual procedure.  Hut 8.5  20:16, 17 August 2017 (UTC)


 * thanks for clarification--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:32, 17 August 2017 (UTC)


 * deleted August 31--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:46, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Participate our study to help recruit editors forWPMED?/(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa,

Thank you for responding my post on WPMED about our study, and hope you are interested in it. I wonder if you'd like to participate our study to recruit editors we recommend for WPMED? Please check out my user talk page for participation, and let me know if you have any question. Thanks! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:56, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * thank you for the invitation, I will consider it--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:22, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with the new Cochrane-Wikipedia Editors/(wikiproject med)^
Thanks for your help with those new Cochrane Editors. Cochrane ran an editing workshop and it looks like they drummed up some interest. How did you reply to the person who did not sign their page? I have not figured out that trick :)

I will be away from my internet for a couple of days, but will be following up with these people and will support them as new editors.

Thanks again for all your friendly assistance and support in my own Wikipedia editing initiatives.

JenOttawa (talk) 13:02, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * you are very welcome!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:21, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Moving content /Lissencephaly/(wikiproject med)^
If you are removing large pieces of content in an article, in order to replace them elsewhere in the article, please remember to leave an edit summary to that effect, so it will not be mistaken for vandalism. G M G <sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk   12:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * good point though I always put MEDRS/MEDMOS on second edit I will place it now before and after moving text, thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:21, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Ulnar neuropathy/(wikiproject med)^
Ozzie: why did you remove my information about ulnar neuropathy? I’ve been treating it for many years. Can we discuss this? That was not added lightly or spur of the moment. Asherah12 Asherah12 (talk) 18:22, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * have left a note on your talk page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:46, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Illogical reversion Dysautonomia/(wikiproject med)^
Ozzie: Why did you revert the placement of Mechanisms in Dysautonomia? I moved it because the section followed rather than preceded "The symptoms of Dysautonomia, which are numerous and vary widely for each individual, are due to inefficient or unbalanced efferent signals sent via both systems." The Mechanisms section explains "both systems"; it doesn't make sense to place the section after the reference. Shinju (talk) 00:38, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * have answered at your talk page(please see MEDMOS), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:19, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message?/{wikiproject med)^

 * have voted thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Would you be so kind and re-revert your revert of Glycogen storage disease type IX ?/(wikiproject med)^
According to the OMIM review on GSD IXd, Burwinkel et al. (2003) is the last word from the medical research community on the genetics of GSD IXd. Yeah, I know, that is kinda unsatisfactory – but then again, as I have written here, GSD IX is quite rare. If you have more extensive reviews, or newer research, I am all ears, and more than willing to include that – in the meantime, could you be so kind and re-revert your revert? Tony Mach (talk) 11:51, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * have posted at thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:59, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Please can you review ..Lytico-Bodig disease/(wikiproject med)^
.. this edit ?

Adding this to the infobox is misleading. It is clear from the article that it is NOT an inherited disease. Familial (or, rather, on the latest theory, commensal), but not genetic. Philip Trueman (talk) 09:42, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * have answered on your talk thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:32, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * It is clear from one of these pages you cite that there is disagreement among the primary sources. One ".. concluded that purely environmental, mendelian dominant, and mendelian recessive hypotheses of causation could be rejected." I repeat: adding this to the infobox misrepresents what the secondary sources are saying. It is not even certain that there is a genetic component at all. Philip Trueman (talk) 13:19, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * have posted at, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * have withdrawn image per --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:07, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
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 * thank you, Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:13, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you too!
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 * thank you, Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:15, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays...

 * thank you, Merry Christmas/Happy New Year to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:34, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

"tis the season...."
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Gandydancer (talk) 22:23, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks Gandy, Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:28, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for thinking of me and for leaving a Christmas message. I hope that you have a very nice holiday and I am looking forward to seeing you on WikiProject Med in 2018. Warm regards,

Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 03:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:07, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-radius: 32px; border-color:#009600; background: #FFFBC4; border-width:8px; text-align:center; padding:7px; height:210px;" class="plainlinks"> Merry Christmas !!

Hi, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,

– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas and the very best in the New Year to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:49, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry X-mas

 * Doc James all the best in the coming year, Merry Christmas!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:09, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Yet another
--RexxS (talk) 01:31, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * RexxS Merry Christmas & Happy New Year--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from Canada's Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * thank you, Merry Christmas to you(two cards are better than oneChristbaumkugel.png)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:29, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

HNY

 * thank you PaleoNeonate, and Happy New Year to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:42, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
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Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 00:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.


 * the very best 2018 to you and all your dreams!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:48, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Sources?Thrombocytopenia /(wikiproject med)^
Thought ADAM is hosted by the NIH they are not a very good source.

I would use this instead https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/thrombocytopenia

Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 05:17, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks for improving the source, I agree--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:08, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Further reading and external links, wondering your thoughts on generally putting this together? They are typically the same / similar? Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 05:35, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * they could be placed together, however if the reader sees that one is at least, a subsection(=== ===)of the other to better define the difference it would be good... having said that should you feel strongly about joining both w/out any 'differentiation' I would agree and understand--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:08, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Multiple system atrophy/(wikiproject med)^
Hi, Ozzie10aaaa, not sure why you removed the external links from this article, as this is one place where they are deemed to be appropriate. Were they in some way flawed? Let me know, as I just replaced them in the relevant "External links" section.--Quisqualis (talk) 01:53, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Quisqualis,so...if we go to Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles it indicates Don't use external links...to web-based or email-based support groups for patients, professionals, or other affected people (even if run by a charitable organization)...(will post on talk/article as well)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:44, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Request for more input in Antibiotics Talk/(wikiproject med)^
Hello! I see you commented at the top of the discussion in Antibiotics Talk

I wonder if you could come back and lay eyes on the reference in question and comment on whether it's a reliable biomedical secondary source per WP:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine). I haven't made a lot of edits, so I may be applying my professional understanding inappropriately, but it seems like all four of the references I referred to in talk are considered reliable secondary sources here as well. You've been around for a while, so if you look at the actual references and say they're not, then I know i've misunderstood. If I can get some consensus on whether those sources are appropriate, then it will be worth my time to rewrite as suggested in talk. If not, I won't bother.

This is the reference that was originally used. It's a perspective's article published in Science (see the publishers requirements for that type of article: http://www.sciencemag.org/authors/science-information-authors

Here are the additional references mentioned in talk. I'll use web links here: Science, a news article (on the topic in general, not on the previous perspectives article) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/324/5935/1637.long

A review in Chemical Reviews, also on the topic in general (pub med central link to full text) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173521/

A more recent review (12/2017) in Cell Press, that includes a section on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=28688575 (pubmed link) http://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/pdf/S0966-842X(17)30148-8.pdf (link to pdf, requires subscription)

Please let me know if requesting a comment in this way isn't appropriate. I'm new at making edits, and I want to make sure any contributions I make to the community are done in the right way! Dbhall200:14, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * since I feel there is nothing further to add(I have been watching this talk/article)per would also suggest Dispute_resolution_noticeboard where I  would contribute, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:41, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Archiving?Help:Archiving_a_talk_page/(wikiproject med)^
Hello, I have noticed you have a tendency to add archives to talk pages. For example here and here. May I ask why you do this? Or if there is a specific guideline I can read about this? WP:ARCHIVE notes in the lead that when a Talk page exceeds 75,000 bytes it is recommended to archive per the talk page guidelines. Linked examples above were just 14,000 and 21,000 bytes respectively. --Treetear (talk) 20:57, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * so..if we look at and then Help:Archiving_a_talk_page the first sentence indicates... It is customary to periodically archive old discussions on a talk page when that page becomes too large. Bulky talk pages may be hard to navigate, contain obsolete discussion, or become a burden for users with slow Internet connections or computers....the last discussion on that page was Aug. 2015(2.5 years ago)....the aforementioned 'archive help page' further indicates , However, when to archive, and what may be the optimal length for a talk page, are subjective decisions that should be adapted to each case  --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:41, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the answer. If we use the same first quote with different emphasis:
 * It is customary to periodically archive old discussions on a talk page when that page becomes too large. Bulky talk pages may be hard to navigate, contain obsolete discussion, or become a burden for users with slow Internet connections or computers.
 * In my opinion, it is a bit overkill to archive Talk pages with only around 15 or less sections (each with only a few comments), seeing there are no active discussions popping up recently that could re-populate the Talk page. I see no use in having an empty Talk page with an archive, compared to a small Talk page with no recent discussion. The previous discussion is useful to have visible for readers and editors and should not be 'hidden' or be archived to give the appearance that the discussions are finished. Occassionally, comments are given on older discussions, especially on pages where there are not many sections on the Talk page. Even if no comments would pop up in 2.5 years, maybe what's stopping it is that previous discussions on a topic have already commented what the editor had in mind suggesting.
 * I think you may have misread the Guidelines and missed the necessary point that archiving suggestedly only should be considered when a page is large or "bulky", not necessarily when nobody has commented in a while. --Treetear (talk) 22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * perHelp:Archiving_a_talk_page, However, when to archive, and what may be the optimal length for a talk page, are subjective decisions that should be adapted to each case...is clear IMO, thank you(besides if there is any particular article/talk you think needs to be reexamined, just revert)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:05, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

TextWikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/(wikiproject med)^
This did not appear to format properly. Feel free to try again. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 14:29, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Doc James actually its suppose to look like a combination of both images WHO Rod.svg  ...what should I change?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:11, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hum. Not sure myself. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 15:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * ?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:00, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * continued on Doc James/talk--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:21, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * placed WikiProject_Medicine/Announcements--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:43, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Annular pancreas?/(wikiproject med)^
Hi, Ozzie10aaaa, could you check the voice, please? I have done many integrations, but my English is quite poor... Thank you--Frivadossi (talk) 14:00, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ok will answer at talk/article, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:19, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Section naming and ordering for symptom related articles/(wikiproject med)^
We generally use a different layout per Manual_of_Style/Medicine-related_articles

Thus I have switched some of your changes back around. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:27, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * in Chest pain and Cough you are correct( long day thanks)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:25, 17 March 2018 (UTC)


 * No worries. Thanks for all your updating by the way :-) Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 20:12, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Re: User_talk:Yair_rand/interwikiwatchlist.js/ for(wikiproject med)^
I am not currently using it. I do not know if it works now or not. Try it out. The instructions are at the top of
 * User talk:Yair rand/interwikiwatchlist.js

Ask for help there and at User talk:Yair rand - He is still editing. --Timeshifter (talk) 07:56, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I've tried several times(and left a message w/ Yair rand), thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 09:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Thrombocytosis /(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie - i asked for a page move earlier - Essential thrombocytosis to Essential thrombocythemia. This was because it was the name used on the page, in the infobox and in the refs. I've just looked at the page thrombocytosis which you edited recently - and thought i'd bring it to your attention - both pages ought to use the same name. Ngrams favour essential thrombocythemia but favour thrombocytosis. The page was moved - any thoughts? thanks (and a late thanks for all your past thanks) --Iztwoz (talk) 15:46, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * very good idea--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:20, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * But ought the thrombocytosis page be moved too? thanks--Iztwoz (talk) 17:24, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * tried to move but it says administrator needed? apparently Thrombocythemia exists as a redirect, and therefore needs an administrator(?Doc James) to move--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * i'll put it through Req moves page - best --Iztwoz (talk) 06:03, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Encephalitis /(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie,

You removed the link to the Encephalitis Society on the Encephalitis page? Can I ask why? And can you give me some guidance as to how we can correct it?

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewPitt (talk • contribs) 08:21, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * per Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles....

Don't use external links:
 * that lead to information already included in the article
 * to web-based or email-based support groups for patients, professionals, or other affected people (even if run by a charitable organization)
 * to local, state, or regional charities, hospitals, clinics, or programs, or to meetings or events in a single location
 * to personal experiences or survivor stories
 * that recruit for clinical trials, sell products, or raise money...thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Cheers, Ozzie.


 * I'd (respectfully) argue against some of those points which are relevant to us. Namely, that we are not purely web or email based: we are a dedicated society which provides accredited, evidence-based, peer-reviewed info. Indeed, some of the authors used as references are members of our Scientific Advisory Panel. We do exist in bricks and mortar (I assure you!) and provide global services. Along the same lines, we are not local, state or regional - we are an international organisation. Thanks - love to hear your thoughts! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewPitt (talk • contribs) 11:42, 12 April 2018 (UTC)


 * any further inquires should be taken to User talk:Doc James, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:39, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:26, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Doc James its your strength and leadership ability that has made this project one of the top and most viewed by our readers, so therefore thank you for your guidance--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:24, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Caudal regression syndrome external links/(wikiproject med)^
In this edit to Caudal regression syndrome, you removed several external links as inappropriate. While I might agree with some of your choices, might I inquire about some others? Specifically The first is the only known organization that deals specifically with this condition, and the second is a nationally recognized organization whose resources for rare diseases and conditions are widely valued. I believe these two links fall within the policy outlined by WP:EL for links that can provide the reader with more information than can conveniently be included within the encyclopedia article. Cousendux (talk) 14:01, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * international sacral agenesis/caudal regression association
 * Rarediseases.org
 * so...is a patient advocate, while is as well.Therefore, I would point out Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles... Don't use external links


 * 1) that lead to information already included in the article
 * 2) to web-based or email-based support groups for patients, professionals, or other affected people (even if run by a charitable organization)
 * 3) to local, state, or regional charities, hospitals, clinics, or programs, or to meetings or events in a single location
 * 4) to personal experiences or survivor stories
 * 5) that recruit for clinical trials, sell products, or raise money...thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Unicentric Castleman disease Article structure /(wikiproject med)^
I noticed that you changed the organization of the unicentric castleman disease article I wrote. Sorry to re-edit this question, initially I preferred the classification section rather than the signs and symptoms, but I think that does work. I did prefer having a separate section for classification at the beginning of the article as it is critical to understanding the disease. Please let me know if you are comfortable with me moving the classification section back. I am new to wiki and did not want to overturn your changes as you are a much more experienced editor. Thanks CDK55 (talk) 13:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * CDK55 per Manual_of_Style/Medicine-related_articles either way is fine,therefore please replace the classification  again at the start of body(of the article) thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:14, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak/ebola3

 * thank you(and to all who worked on the article)!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:14, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Monomelic amyotrophy peer review and transfer help/(wikiproject med)^
Hello User talk:Ozzie10aaaa. I'm lost in the labyrinthine process of swapping the revised article that we've been working on that is in my Sandbox: REVISED Monomelic amyotrophy for the existing one Monomelic amyotrophy. Thanks for your help improving the article.

GeeBee60 (talk) 16:00, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * will look,left note on your talk--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:14, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Looks like they resurrected Sinclair method / The Sinclair Method after that 2015 AfD /(wikiproject med)^
As per the suggestion on the closing admin's talk page, I am pinging active editors who voted on Articles_for_deletion/Sinclair_Method_(2nd_nomination) a few years ago about what happened to that page. Within a month of the original Sinclair Method (currently a redirect) article being deleted, The Sinclair Method (also a redirect) was created; that was moved to Sinclair method and finally made in to a "soft" (i.e. history preserved) redirect; here is the history of that article. I myself have restored Sinclair Method as a redirect, for pragmatic reasons: The page http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/26/alcoholics-anonymous-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ has a link to the old Sinclair Method article, and I think a link to a short summary is more useful for readers than a dead link. (I personally think The Sinclair Method probably doesn't work, since the same treatment has only shown a modest effect when other scientists than Sinclair try to replicate the results, but I'm biased towards 12-step approaches, WP:NOTAFORUM and all that) Defendingaa (talk) 14:01, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:08, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

geed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/(wikiproject med)^
Haha, I was wondering what "geed" meant. Because you put it in italics, I inferred that it was a deliberate spelling. Best wishes, <b style="color:#808000">Axl</b> ¤ <small style="color:#808000">[Talk] 10:35, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * yes it was a mistake when I sit a certain distance from the monitor I cant see too well(I seem to have myopia in one eye),unfortunately its not the first time Ive had unusual typos, thank you for mentioning it, should you see anything similar in the future please correct it as it undoubtedly will happen again at some point(I'm usually very close to the monitor to see clearly)thank you <b style="color:#808000">Axl</b>--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:47, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Please provide detailed explanation for revertCerebrovascular disease/(wikiproject med)^
No co relation with diabetes and acute cerebrovascular disease (Stroke)

1.	Total number of hospital stays in usa 32,371,800..

2.	Total number of hospital stays of diabetis as principal diagnosis 512,500. And diabetis is secondary diagnosis 6,290,000.

3.	Acute cerebrovascular disease (stroke) patients with diabtis as principal or secondary diagnosis 153,800. Finally Cerebro vascular disease occurred 2.4% of diabetic people.

4.	In this total number of hospital stays, 892300 patients  for stayed in hospital for Acute cerebrovascular disease (stroke).2.4%

5.	Final conclusion is Acute cerebrovascular disease occurred in same % in diabetic and non diabetic people.

6.	There is no any co relation with diabetes and cerebrovascular disease

Statastical and Research Evidence : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK63493/

If any one want to revert this ,please provide valuable explanation. I am medical doctor, i was submitted the same issue to world health organization and got appreciation from who. Generally stroke occurs at old age people. so old age general public and diabetic people suffer with chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Due to this reason a common miss concept occurs diabetes is causative factor for stroke. Please read some more information about this statistical records .If you want i can provide some more information on this concept.

(Subrahmanya preethamm (talk) 01:10, 30 May 2018 (UTC))
 * will respond on your talk/page, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:29, 30 May 2018 (UTC)


 * ThanQ ...i will provide 2017 primary and secondary sources to confirm my argument shortly (Subrahmanya preethamm (talk) 13:04, 30 May 2018 (UTC))


 * I was updated information(Subrahmanya preethamm (talk) 16:27, 31 May 2018 (UTC))


 * will look, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:09, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

RE Myasthenia gravis/(wikiprojedt med)^
I wasn't aware primary sources should be avoided. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I understand and appreciate the reasoning. However, I'd think for something like establishing a "relationship," a primary source would be acceptable. Metaquanta (talk) 04:37, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)is very clear on this--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:16, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

New Page Patrol?
Hi Ozzie10aaaa,

I've recently been looking for editors to invite to join New Page Patrol, and from your editing history, I think you would be a good candidate. Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; we could use some additional help from an experienced user like yourself. We could use a good medical editor like yourself on the team.

Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. If you choose to apply, you can drop an application over at WP:PERM/NPR.

Cheers, and hope to see you around, —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  21:19, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * will review processRequests_for_permissions/New_page_reviewer, thank you for the consideration!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:39, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted
Hi Ozzie10aaaa. Your account has been added to the " " user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or nominate them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is vital to maintaining the integrity of the encylopedia. If you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the deletion policy. If you need any help or want to discuss the process, you are welcome to use the new page reviewer talk page. In addition, please remember: The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In cases of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right may be revoked by an administrator. ~ Amory <small style="color:#555"> (u • t • c) 20:44, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Be nice to new editors. They are usually not aware that they are doing anything wrong.
 * You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted. Please be formal and polite in your approach to them – even if they are not.
 * If you are not sure what to do with a page, don't review it – just leave it for another reviewer.
 * Accuracy is more important than speed. Take your time to patrol each page. Use the message feature to communicate with article creators and offer advice as much as possible.
 * thank you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:58, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:12, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Not everything needs an infobox /(wikiproject med)^
I noticed that you've recently added a bunch of blank infoboxes to a handful of pages; if there is no content in an infobox, there is no point in adding it to an article. Would you please consider self-reverting those additions? Primefac (talk) 14:54, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * well actually, they are for diagnostic test and serve the fact that if information is available, then it can be added in the future--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:56, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, and if in the future there is information, the infobox can be added. Primefac (talk) 15:01, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * responded at at VPT--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!/ebola4

 * thank you very much Gandy!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

graph created for N. Kivu outbreak(second outbreak)


--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:02, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * File:Democratic Republic of the Congo Graph of total cases and deaths Kivu province(and additional provinces as they have occured).jpg




 * Graph_,2_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_Ebola_virus_outbreak_2018(North_Kivu_and_other_area).jpg--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:00, 6 October 2018 (UTC)




 * File:Bar graph of Democratic Republic of the Congo outbreaks 1976-present.jpg--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:14, 9 October 2018 (UTC)




 * File:2018 Kivu Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak (total cases-death as of Oct.16.jpg--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:33, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
 * The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:37, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


 * New scripts
 * User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing copyvio-revdel on a page.

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 * thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:54, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Dawn Sumner NPR/BLP(astrobiologist)
Thanks, Ozzie for reviewing this page. I have studied your edits and agree with many. I do think the External Links section is appropriate though WP:EL, without the Google Scholar link. What do you think? Okay if I try a revert of parts? BrucePL (talk) 17:45, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * responded thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:06, 24 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Ozzie. I'd like to try and revise the outreach section to make it more neutral. BrucePL (talk) 16:30, 28 October 2018 (UTC)


 * BrucePL if it is more neutral, then ok, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:34, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Request to submit Wikipedia article to Wiki.J.Med
I have nominated the some Wikipedia articles (that have significant contributions from you) for review through Wiki.J.Med. I need to ask you whether you would like to have your name (original name) with affiliations included in the list of authors, or at least your pseudonymous username, and whether you would like act as the corresponding author of those articles. It would be appreciable if you can join in and help to upgrade the article(s) as they undergo review. I myself would be joining in and would try to help though the review process (and possibly prior to that as well). Seeking your cooperation. You can respond to this message or contact me privately. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 18:19, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
 * have answered and would answer in the affirmative to your post above, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:25, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I have taken the liberty to add some code to your page to ease the navigation. Feel free to remove it if you do not like it. I also welcome you to archive some of the earlier discussions on your talk page. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 04:43, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:47, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I've now imported Dyslexia, West African Ebola virus epidemic and Hepatitis E to WikiJournal Preprints/Dyslexia, WikiJournal Preprints/West African Ebola virus epidemic and WikiJournal Preprints/Hepatitis E. Thank you for bearing with us whilst we sort out this part of the process. We're still working out the best ways for Wikipedia articles to be submitted! I've added the template:article info template to the top, which has a few parameters to fill in. It would be ideal if you could also fill in the template:fig template to add image attributions. I'm looking forward to seeing them progress! Whenever you're ready to submit one, just fill in this authorship declaration form. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 12:35, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * have /am filling out forms thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * have /am filling out forms thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

2018 Kivu Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak/ebola5
Hi there, looks like your recent edit of 2018 Kivu Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak added an odd reference. Please see here - it's the "xref" changes right at the top. I'd fix it myself, but I'm not sure how. Would you take a look when you get a moment? Thanks! Jessicapierce (talk) 03:37, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you very much for the notice, Im not entirely certain how it may have occurred, I suspect the mouse pasted a prior reference(plus I don't see very well from a distance), thank you again--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:38, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Dyslexia page Wiki.J.Med
Hi, thanks for nominating the article! Who will be authors listed on this? Forbero (talk) 17:46, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
 * it will be based on --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:09, 3 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Ozzie, I have not been editing on Wikipedia for some years now. Too many other editors banding together marketing various programs and outdated concepts. If only thye would base editing on international research best wishes dolfrog — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dolfrog (talk • contribs)


 * Dolfrog,it is great to hear from you, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:11, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Please clarify re: copyvio/NPR
Hi there. Regarding can you please clarify? --Muhandes (talk) 18:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * per beginning of paragraph, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:16, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I believe you got it the other way around. That article is using text which I wrote for Wikipedia, almost verbatim. --Muhandes (talk) 19:23, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * seems to be this source, its about 2 or 3 lines, if you want just paraphrase and put it back, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:36, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I believe you got things mixed. Here is from August 2017. The article was published in 2018. The article is the one who is violating  Wikipedia's CC BY-SA, don't you think? --Muhandes (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * User:Diannaa your opinion please? thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:58, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * You can see at the very bottom of this pdf version of the article that it was published in their September-December 2017 issue, and we have had it since August 2017. So they copied from Wikipedia rather than the other way around. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:07, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * thank you Diannaa, have restored--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:39, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Apology accepted ;) --Muhandes (talk) 16:50, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web /(wikiproject med)^
Hello,

I wanted to share a follow-up to an RfC you participated in from late 2016/early 2017. It was regarding making certain warning templates visible on mobile. The Readers web team has been working to improve how these templates appear on the mobile website. I shared an announcement with communities today that covers what is happening. If you have any interest, I encourage your support in giving feedback on the project page or helping update templates of this nature with some of our recommendations.

Thank you, CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:32, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:35, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:45, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message/{wikiproject med)^

 * voted,thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:19, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak/ebola5
Timeline of reported cases and deaths[27]

The case fatality rate on 2018-11-26 is 57, NOT 52. I know that in the article you are referring to it says 52, but that number is wrong.

241 / (374+47) * 100 = 57 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.99.216.43 (talk) 01:17, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * done, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:20, 2 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Not that it can be included in Wikipedia, but i have access to a neat powerpoint slide prepared for Kibali Gold Mine - that I do some consulting for - which puts into perspective the areas of both the outbreak and the military unrest. I was supposed to go there in November, but didnt, and i will wait for everything to settle down before i go there again. If i can somehow get an email address i can send it to you. Matilda Maniac (talk) 12:38, 15 January 2019 (UTC)


 * that is very kind of you, Special:EmailUser/Ozzie10aaaa it could prove useful for the article, thank you again--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

A Shaker Christmas greeting
-- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:01, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you, Merry Xmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you too!
Thank you for the holiday note. I hope that you have a very nice Christmas! See you (online) in the New Year on WP:MED. JenOttawa (talk) 19:22, 13 December 2018 (UTC)


 * thanks, Happy Holidays--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:27, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16
Hello ,

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
 * Reviewer of the Year
 * Thanks are also extended for their work to (15,059 reviews),  (12,760reviews),  (9,001reviews),  (8,440reviews),  (8,092reviews),   (5,306reviews),  (4,153 reviews),  (4,016reviews),  and  (3,615reviews)., , , and  have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while , with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top100 reviewers.

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
 * Less good news, and an appeal for some help

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
 * Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minutevideo was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Training video


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:36, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!/New Page Patrol

 * thank you, very good article--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:42, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry X-mas

 * thank you, and Merry Christmas to you Doc James--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:45, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding ~ to your friends' talk pages.

 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  13:03, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas and Happy new Year to you, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:27, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Peace Dove Christmas
These words pretty much describe you, my friend: One of the nicest and most tolerant people here and a true gift for Wikipedia. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you! Gandydancer (talk) 19:51, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * those are very kind words Gandy, Ive said it before you are the best medical editor Ive worked with and I consider having done so a privilege, Merry Christmas to you and the very best New Year ...Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:02, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

 * thank you, Merry Christmas to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:04, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Best wishes

 * Johnbod the very best Christmas and New Year to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:06, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!

 * Marry Christmas/Happy new Year to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:09, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Xmas

 * 2018 XMAS.pdf FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:08, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you and thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:29, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

 * thank you, Merry Christmas to you and your family and Happy new Year--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:47, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

And a Happy New Year
<div style="width:90%; margin:auto; border:0.6em solid #0F0; border-radius:2em; padding:2em; text-align:center; background-color:#000; color:#F22; box-shadow:0em 0em 1.8em 1.0em #0E0"> <div style=" font-size:3em; line-height:1.6em; letter-spacing:0.2em; text-shadow:0em -0.1em 1.0em #FFF, 0em 0.1em 0.7em #FFF"> Merry Rexxmas 2018


 * thanks RexxS, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:05, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Brain Preservation Foundation/(wikiproject med)^
Hello Ozzie. I don't have a lot of experience with Wikipedia. Can you please tell me why you thought the Prize section wasn't relevant, and deleted it? It's the biggest achievement from the organisation. Thanks. --Mati Roy 27 December 2018
 * answered on your talk, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:21, 27 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your response. I implemented the changes you recommend. I also wonder why you removed the logo? In their footer on their website they mention that they waived the copyrights. Please let me know. Thank you.--Mati Roy 27 December 2018


 * answered--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:50, 28 December 2018 (UTC)


 * It just seems more complete with the logo. No conflict of interests. Thanks. --Mati Roy 27 December 2018


 * thank you for response--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:20, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
<div style="border: 3px solid #FFD700; background-color: #FFFAF0; padding:0.2em 0.4em;height:173px;border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks">

Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Merry Christmas / Happy New Year 00:23, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.


 * and Happy New Year too you...   may all good things come your way--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:55, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

GGSE-1/New Page Patrol

 * thank you,its a very good article!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:52, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Help with editing a page N-localizer/(wikiproject med)^
I’m new to Wikipedia. I see that you have previously edited the N-localizer page, so could you please help me to edit that page?

I’ve moved Figure 1 out of the info box, added a discussion that ties Figures 1-3 together, and added a discussion of the Sturm-Pastyr localizer. However, Figure 3 doesn’t line up with Figures 1 and 2 but instead is lower on the page. Can you please help me to fix this problem? Thanks! Lunqvist (talk) 05:05, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * fixed,left message on your page,thank  you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:48, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Schinzel-Giedion syndrome /(wikiproject med)^
My brother has this rare syndrome, and has a very aggressive form of it as well. If there are any questions regarding Schinzel Giedion syndrome I would love to help as much as possible! Lexi mara (talk) 08:07, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
 * have answered, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:28, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

NORD/(wikiproject med)^
Does fairly good reviews of rare diseases. I think they are generally okay. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:16, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ill add it back to Hypocalcaemia--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Parameter 'thumb'/(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie, when you add an image to an infobox, like this one-Apocrine gland carcinoma, can you try to remember not to include the  parameter with the image filename, please? The infobox already deals with the image position and size, and the thumb parameter just gets treated as an invalid parameter. That places the article in Category:Pages using infobox medical condition with unknown parameters, which I'm trying to reduce from its present 469 members (so that I can clean up the template). It only had 466 yesterday and it's quite frustrating trying to get the number down. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 21:47, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * no problem, thanks for heads up--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

User contributions Crawdaunt Howardula aoronymphium/(wikiproject med)^
Hey,

Glad to fill in some blanks. I am loosely related to the topics as a former colleague of a researcher who works on the Drosophila*Spiroplasma*Howardula system. Crawdaunt (talk) 20:55, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * have left a note on your talk--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:21, 21 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I previously read and understood the context of COI, and am fully aware of the biases I can have consciously and unconsciously. I would like to know who can possibly write an article on the topics I contributed to (basic species information) without having been educated somewhat of A) their existence, B) their use in research. I did not declare COI because I as I said, I am loosely connected, but I am not an active researcher in the field nor do I have an active relationship in the field. If this qualifies as COI, I admit I am unsure of exactly what I can write about on Wikipedia. Please advise on how I can continue writing on topics of which I am knowledgeable without being blocked by COI concerns.


 * p.s. reading this... as text is void of inflection, please understand I am not trying to be snarky. I am just a bit perplexed where the line is between educated and unrelated vs. educated and related. Surely the degree of COI falls on a spectrum, where above some arbitrary threshold it can be deemed inappropriate. But this also implies below said arbitrary threshold it is appropriate. - Crawdaunt


 * answered on your talk, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:49, 22 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, Dr. Steve Perlman. However, if you look at the number of publications relating to D. neotestacea, you will find that a research group off-shooting from John Jaenike is responsible for almost the entirety of research related to D. neotestacea. It is not a highly competitive field. As far as I am aware, labs actively doing research with D. neotestacea include: John Jaenike's lab at the University of Rochester, Kellie Dyer's lab (former post-doc of Jaenike), and Steve Perlman's lab (former post-doc of Jaenike). I am happy to provide the google scholar search return for "D. neotestacea", which you will see returns results almost entirely from John Jaenike, Kellie Dyer, or Steve Perlman. Indeed, Jaenike is an author on every publication on the first three page of results directly related to D. neotestacea (owing to his starting in this field in the 1970s), many of which are co-authored with Dr. Steve Perlman pertaining to D. neotestacea*Spiroplasma*Howardula interactions. K. Dyer's lab and S. Perlman's lab also focus on population genetics in the species group. So pretty much all references to D. neotestacea with respect to Howardula, or Spiroplasma, are attached to J. Jaenike and/or S. Perlman. Please see Google Scholar search results, and particularly note in papers where D. neotestacea is in the title, the senior author is almost always either Jaenike, Perlman, or Dyer: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?start=0&q=drosophila+neotestacea&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5


 * I wrote the H. aoronymphium page after seeing it referenced in the Drosophila falleni page, but H. aoronymphium had not yet been created. I mentioned D. neotestacea on the H. aoronmyphium page, and subsequently wrote a page for D. neotestacea as one was not yet written in English (though D. neotestacea had an entry in 6 other languages). I hope this clarifies the reason why the authors attached to J. Jaenike, S. Perlman, and K. Dyer appear so frequently in the D. neotestacea page. - Crawdaunt


 * thank you for your response--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:04, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!
Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Doc James thank you for being the inspiration that helps all medical editors do their best!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:14, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations and Thank You!
I noticed the 2018 editor stats. Wow! Thank you for your dedication to this project! JenOttawa (talk) 01:40, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 * that's very kind of you, however we should collectively thank Doc James for leading by example for all of us, thank you again, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:19, 6 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I definitely agree . Have a nice day! JenOttawa (talk) 14:48, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Reference for "March hematuria" /(wikiproject med)^
Hi, you have reverted my adding a reference for the existence of "march hematuria", which I merely copied from mechanical hemolytic anemia. Your reversion edit did not give any information about why the reference is not applicable. I would be very interested to understand the basis for that reversion. Thanks, 192.118.27.253 (talk) 11:26, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * if you take a look at edit summary it says MEDRS, which can be seen hereIdentifying reliable sources (medicine).This applies specifically to the date of the reference in question as they may not be older than 5 years(older) from publication, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:32, 13 February 2019 (UTC)


 * OK, this is interesting. Does this mean I should edit the lead for HIV/AIDS, remove the three references, which are all older than 5 years old, which confirm that HIV causes AIDS, and add a "citation needed" instead? Somehow, I don't think that would improve that article. There are countless medical conditions which are no longer being studied because of advances in medicine or accepted medical knowledge, or other societal changes (for "march hematuria", for example, the replacement of marching with the use of better transportation methods in wartime) and there are no recent sources for them. Although MEDRS does not explicitly allow use of older references in this case, it hints at the necessity for them by saying that "History sections often cite older work". 192.118.27.253 (talk) 11:57, 13 February 2019 (UTC)


 * there seem to be references here and here--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:50, 13 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help for finding better references and improving my Wikipedia skills. Based on your edit, I still would like to hear your opinion of why a troll couldn't edit HIV/AIDS in the way I proposed and cite MEDRS as justification. 192.118.27.253 (talk) 06:58, 14 February 2019 (UTC)


 * your welcomed(it terms of HIV/AIDS its 1. semi protected and 2. I was unable to find your specific edit?)thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:59, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome/(wikiproject med)^
I responded to your edits on the talk page.

Thanks, Thomas pow s (talk) 19:38, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * have responded, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:56, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I responded again. Thomas pow s (talk) 20:00, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * as have I,in the future please respond at article/talk as I am watching it thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:24, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.


 * Reminders
 * NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD  because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.


 * NPP Tools Report
 * Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
 * copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
 * The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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 * thank you

External links? Klaus Peter Jantke/New Page Patrol
Hello Ozzie, thank you for reviewing and improving my articles, but I don't understand, why do you remove the external links? Could you please explain? --Allexkoch (talk) 08:28, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * external links are permitted however seemed to go somewhat "overboard", and begins to look like WP:PROMO. If you stick to one EL that would be OK--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:32, 20 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your explanation. I always have difficulties with these technical details and really much to learn. --Allexkoch (talk) 22:34, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for all the work organizing articles/(wikiproject med)^
When you added new section can you add a few lines of text rather than the "empty section" tag? CDC or WHO often cover the issue. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 12:44, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * good idea, will do so going forward, thank you Doc James--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:12, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Citation bot/(wikiproject med)^
Feel free to run again here. It does not work for me on this IP. Was reverting all the spelling changes by the IP before you. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 08:17, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Doc James thanks for 'heads up'--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:26, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Cantu syndrome/(wikiproject med)^
There is a graphic showing the inheritance of this condition. This graphic is widely used for other diseases. Yet you consider this inclusion to be disruptive.

Would you care to explain your logic? Virion123 (talk) 14:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * you've placed it twice where the infobox is suppose to be, Ill move it down and downsize it--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:56, 30 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a plan. I have a suggestion. Change the graphic. Cardiomegaly is not specific for this condition. Put this latter image elsewhere in the page. This would make this page consistent with other genetic diseases with known inheritance. Virion123 (talk) 22:07, 30 March 2019 (UTC)


 * according to NIH(which uses Orphanet) cardiomegaly is present 80-99%--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:19, 30 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I am afraid I don't really see the point of that last remark. It may be a common feature but there are many causes of cardiomegaly. Don't worry I am not going to move things around just because I can. Such things are so trivial its not worth my time bothering with them. Virion123 (talk) 12:13, 19 April 2019 (UTC)


 * the reference speaks for itself--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:07, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

List and thumb|left Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy/(wikiproject med)^
I can see what you are trying to do on Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy with the list, namely having it not clash with the image on the left by manually adding indents with. But manually positioning them with indents is not the way to do it: it makes life on other screen sizes, especially phones, miserable. There's currently no good solution to formatting lists with images floating on the left, and as something that goes down to the level of how browsers lays out text it's probably best to treat it as a bug we cannot fix now. (And honestly the fix does not work with all folks; I can't see any difference on my screen.)

In other words there is a trade-off between a minor visual itch for someone and seeing some huge empty space on the left for narrow-screen folks. I believe that the downsides of doing the indents outweights the potential benefits, so I removed it. I don't want to get into an revert war over this, so...

PS: great work on the article! --Artoria2e5 <small style="font-weight:lighter">🌉 03:44, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ok I see your point--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:12, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
 * Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
 * Reliable Sources for NPP

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
 * Backlog drive coming soon


 * News
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.


 * Discussions of interest
 * A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
 * There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
 * What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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 * thank you

CPVT order of sections Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia /(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie

You recently reordered the section in the Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia article with an edit summary of MEDMOS. In my opinion, the sections were better ordered in this particular case with Mechanisms preceding Causes as this gives the reader the context of understanding why calcium cycling is important before a more technical description of the genes which perturb this process. I think that MEDMOS is flexible enough to allow this so I'm going to change it back. Please let me know what you think. Thanks, PeaBrainC (talk) 19:16, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Manual_of_Style/Medicine-related_articles should always be followed...IMO (however I do see your the principle editor)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:36, 29 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I quite agree that MEDMOS should be followed (but am loathe to say always about anything!). My reading of MEDMOS is that it does acknowledge that section order may vary depending on the needs of an individual article:


 * A disease that is now only of historical significance may benefit from having its History section moved towards the top. Establishing the forms of the disease (Classification) can be an important first section. However, if such classification depends heavily on understanding the cause, pathogenesis or symptoms, then that section may be better moved to later in the article. If a disease is incurable, then the Prognosis section can be moved up, and a section called Management is more appropriate than Treatment.


 * But it's small beans in the scale of things I guess. PeaBrainC (talk) 20:58, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!/ebola5

 * that's very kind of you, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:16, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Dear Ozzie10aaaa, Thank you for your efforts in creating and editing articles about Ebola. Geraldshields11 (talk) 18:27, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Geraldshields11, thank you, I think everyone who has contributed to the article should be recognized including yourself(unfortunately it seems this topic is far from over), thank you again--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2018–19 Kivu Ebola outbreak
&mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:40, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you for recognizing this ongoing news event and every editor who has contributed to this article --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:03, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

proposed link fix in Eating article/(wikiproject med)^
Hi, Thanks for the note on my talk page. I wanted to fix a broken OMIM NIH link in the eating article, similar to fixes I made in various medical articles, but that article isn't editable for me. Maybe you could look at that for me. Details are in the note I left on the eating talk page. If you have a better fix, you might want to apply it to the other pages I changed. 72.211.204.66 (talk) 20:21, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks for note, will look--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:38, 20 June 2019 (UTC)


 * looks great now! Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.204.66 (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.19


Hello ,

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important. Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever. NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so  you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations. Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for  the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging. Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway. School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

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 * thank you

References Thrombocytopenia/(wikiproject med)^
Yes. I dont ask you to be believe me. Read the reference. Virion123 (talk) 06:05, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you for your response(Ill go over the reference again today)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:51, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Scavenger endothelial cell/NPR
Hi Ozzie10aaaa. I contact you because I published an article called "Scavenger endothelial cell" yesterday and I saw that you reviewed it. So I believe you are an experienced user and I would ask you one question (I am not experienced). In the article I published the same citation is used more than one time. By using "Error check" I found that 5 citations are used more than once. But the reference list at the bottom of the article is not organized such that each reference appear only once there. Is it supposed to be like that? Kjetilhe (talk) 12:21, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ok I left an example w/ reference #15...essentially the main reference takes on, while each duplicate reference takes on  --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:43, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Periods /ebola5
Over the years, I think I've made about 20 edits like this one, with a period at the end of the last sentence in a paragraph. I don't understand the problem, because it looks like Afrikaans sentences end in periods just like English. Art LaPella (talk) 17:45, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry Art, I'll be more mindful of the periods and grammar going forward, thank you, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:50, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

question/ebola5
Firstly, thank you for keeping the Kivu Ebola epidemic numbers up-to-date. Too few people are concerned about this epidemic. You dropped me a note. I wasn't sure if it was telling me "become a medical contributor or hands off the article." I'm not a medical professional, and I don't even have a Wikipedia account. I'm just acutely concerned about the Kivu Ebola epidemic. I noticed a discrepancy between the case number in the source and the one on the page. So, I corrected it. I don't intend to make any other type of changes.

I do have a question for you if you are a doctor who has been following this epidemic. Regarding the Merck ebola vaccine, the current number of available doses appears to be inflated based on the idea that the filled vaccine bottles can be diluted and given to multiple patients. That's a finished biopharmaceutical product for injection. Is this type of dilution something doctors do like ever? I was only in Quality Assurance for two years at Chiron Corporation (later bought by Novartis), but I cringed inside even with my very limited experience. The clean room used to fill biopharmaceuticals for injection have like 100 to 1,000 particles per cubic meter of air in there. If any bacteria are discovered in the cleanest part of the clean room during filling, that lot gets rejected. How could these doses possibly be diluted safely? 98.220.227.229 (talk) 20:33, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * no Im not a clinician, however I did publish ...ISSN 2002-4436...and my experience does not specifically include vaccine production, perhaps Doc James may have better answers than I can afford, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:30, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hepatitis E/ (wikiproject med)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hepatitis E you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 20:40, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Cas Liber thank you very much--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:54, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hepatitis E
The article Hepatitis E you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hepatitis E for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 14:02, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you Cas Liber it was a pleasure working with you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:05, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Are you thinking of taking it to FAC? As I think it has a good chance of passing (and would be good on front page) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:13, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * FA would be amazing however I would need time to think about it... it goes without saying that the opportunity would not be possible had it not been for your obviously strong review, thank you Cas Liber--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:48, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * So let's ask some folks on the talk page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:00, 23 August 2019 (UTC)


 * good idea--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:38, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Hepatitis E
— Maile (talk) 01:36, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:41, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

License tagging for File:DRC cases south and north kivu, ituri.jpg/(wikiproject med)^
Thanks for uploading File:DRC cases south and north kivu, ituri.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 16:30, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * have added tab 3.0 CC by SA, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:29, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Mark Boguski /(wikiproject med)^
Note that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talk:Mark Boguski has been closed as a malformatted nomination. You listed the talk page, Talk:Mark Boguski (rather than the article itself) for the AfD. Presumably you meant to AfD the article itself but you did not follow instrucions. Talk pages should be listed for WP:MFD (not WP:AFD), assuming you somehow do want the talk page itself deleted while the article retained. Also, when a page is listed for AfD or MfD, the appropriate tag needs to be placed at the page itself, with a link to the relevant deletion discussion. If you still want the article deleted, create a new AfD nomination, this time for the article itself, following the WP:AfD instructions. Note that if an article is listed for an AfD, the PROD tag should be removed. Also, please see my comments regarding the subject's notability at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talk:Mark Boguski. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 15:08, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Nsk92 that I may have malformed the deletion request is obvious, very similar to the 'obviousness' of the 'paid editing' which has led to an article that is a promotional article, thank you (BTW I had adjusted the edit to read written in a promotional manned)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:04, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Dr Harry Gosset/NPR
Hello, can you explain why the image of Dr Gosset has been removed from his page? Thanks. Acrestreet (talk) 09:22, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * have placed, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:04, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Spiracle (arthropods)/NPR
Good morning. Can you specify on the Talk page of Spiracle (arthropods) why you would like to see a citation and on what exactly. BoH (talk) 12:48, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * because the last sentence marked with "citation needed" has no reference at the end of it, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:49, 6 September 2019 (UTC)


 * That's not really a substantial answer, that's just a reference for the sake of a reference. Would you also add the citation request to The capital of France is Paris? BoH (talk) 15:28, 6 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Citing_sources, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:41, 6 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, and as you can read, it applies to any material challenged or likely to be challenged. Therefore, please substantiate the tag. BoH (talk) 16:41, 6 September 2019 (UTC)


 * refer to prior answer, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:10, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.20
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:39, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Caroline de Costa edits/NPR
Hi there, I'm a new wikipedian so apologies for my ignorance, but why did you remove the section on awards and recognition on the Caroline de Costa page? These were significant awards and I see similar awards listed on many other pages. Thanks for your help. --Dr JBW (talk) 05:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * yes you seem to be creating/expanding a few articles, in terms of that article it seemed a little promo that is why it was trimmed, should you have further comments please take to talk/page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:46, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you and assistance on moving/reviewing Draft:List of invasive plant species in New York please? / NPR
Thank you for reviewing my list of invasive species for Pennsylvania - it is such an urgent topic! I am wondering if you might also be able to help with my draft list for New York. Thank you so much - I am still learning and it's great to have mentors like you out there! User:Minard38 (talk)
 * will look when time permits, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:13, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Mariupol regional intensive care hospital / NPR
Explain please why you made this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mariupol_regional_intensive_care_hospital&diff=next&oldid=921380427 ? --Olegzima (talk) 19:37, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
 * 1)its not referenced, 2) What_Wikipedia_is_not--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:57, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Update dates in infobox/ebola5
Hi there Dr. Ozzie : can you please remember to update the accessdate in the reference for the Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS, whenever you update the table in the infobox for 2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic? Thanks. Matilda Maniac (talk) 23:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * no problem, thanks for heads up--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:43, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated Muskowekwan 85-28/ NPR
Hi, I'm Creffett. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Muskowekwan 85-28, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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creffett (talk) 15:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * have answered(apparently resolved)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:20, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Antas do Olival da Pêga /NPR
Thanks for reviewing. Just like to know why you deleted the external link to a Youtube page. Does this contravene Wikipedia rules? Roundtheworld (talk) 11:56, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Video_links & External_links--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.21
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
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 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:18, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Animal Testing: Contrary Scientific Views/NPR
Hi Ozzie,

I'm a new editor on wikipedia, so would appreciate your help in understanding the notice on the above article, and what I can do to improve it. The only words that are mine are in the introduction; the rest are a series of quotations, so I am not sure how to address this. While undertaking the research, I was not able to find any systematic reviews (SR) or meta-studies (MS) that did not raise serious issues, hence presenting them as contrary. Perhaps you or others may know of SR's and MS's that present more positive views? Is this matter worth discussing on the article's talk page? Thanks, Carlduff (talk) 12:39, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * please seeWriting_better_articles, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:45, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Your deletions and additions in the article on Nand Peeters/(wikiproject med)^
Dear Ozzie10aaaa,

On August 19, 2019, you trimmed the article on Nand Peeters (which I started) quite drastically, by over 6500 bytes. I assume good faith on your part, i.e., I assume you had reason to do so. But please assume good faith on my part, too, i.e., assume that I had reason to deem that information sufficiently relevant to insert it, and that it is correct.

As the author of the text you deleted, I would like to know your reason for deleting it. You do not justify your deletions; you merely indicate that you deleted information that I still think is relevant. Would you please be so kind as to explain you reason(s)?

I also noticed you inserted four “citation needed”-tags. I don’t see the reason of the third, for you inserted that at the end of a sentence in the middle of which there is a footnote giving the two sources of the stories the sentence is about. The other three come at the end of paragraphs which contain bits of information of various kinds, all culled from Van den Broeck 2014. I intend to put Van den Broeck 2014 first in the list of sources, and follow it by something like: “The main source; unless otherwise indicated, all information in this article derives from it.” That is far more informative than simply to replace these three “citation needed”-tags by references to certain pages in Van den Broeck 2014, which would account only for the information in the last sentences of the three paragraphs followed by these “citation needed”-tags.

I look forward to your reaction. Polla ta deina (talk) 20:19, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * in terms of the 'citation needed' tagsHelp:Referencing_for_beginners Generally references are added directly after the information they support, at the end of the sentence and after any punctuation., secondly as for the deletions please see Writing_better_articles(please see above post from another editor, similar issues/and answer...not in mainspace anymore), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:30, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Dear Ozzie10aaaa,


 * In Help:Referencing_for_beginners I find the answer to my problem about your third "reference needed"-tag, but not about my problem with the other three.
 * The only section in Writing_better_articles that could conceivably have anything to do with which information is relevant in Wikipedia is "Stay on topic", but that is not helpful in my case, since all the texts you deleted in Nand Peeters were unambiguously about Nand Peeters. I could not make head or tail of your text between brackets, for three reasons. One, you used the noun phrase another editor, which, being indefinite, is a reference to an indefinite entity. Two, if it is no longer in mainspace, where is it now? I don't know, so I cannot consult it. Three, what is the meaning of the compound mainspace? I have never seen it. The absence of an article in front of it makes it a proper noun or a mass noun, but that knowledge does not help me.


 * I am afraid I must tell you that, with the one exception of your third "reference needed"-tag, my questions remain unanswered. Polla ta deina (talk) 17:24, 13 November 2019 (UTC)


 * MAINSPACE...in any event, should you insist on Nand Peeters please revert those edits where your opinion may be different( in the future please post at article /talk) ,thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:52, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message/{wikiproject med)^

 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:37, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Thrombocytopenia/{wikiproject med)^
Hi there! I've seen the cn tag in Thrombocytopenia. What that sentence says is pretty much the definition of thrombocytosis (also known as thrombocythemia) which is the opposite of thrombocytopenia. What sort of source do you reckon would best support that point? Do we still need a source if something is true by definition and we have an article about it? Sorry if the question is a bit basic, I'm relatively new. Thanks! Dr. Vogel (talk) 21:14, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * please seeWhy_most_sentences_should_be_cited, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:56, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Your deletions on Alexander Gillies/{wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa, You deleted the Family section on Alexander Gillies with no accompanying explanation. I wasn't aware that this contravened any Wikipedia guidelines and would appreciate learning your reasons for doing this. Thanks. Papamac (talk) 10:10, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * your correct, you may revert, however IMO this is a better version of the article,thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC)


 * OK Thanks. Will revert. Papamac (talk) 12:04, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Merry Christmas to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:34, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

 * Johnbod Merry Christmas to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
00:38, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas to you Bzuk!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.22


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course


 * thank youOzzie10aaaa (talk) 18:01, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Merry XMAS to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:02, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * thank you, all the best to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:52, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Fixing tables Immunotherapy/{wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie,

When you come across a malformatted table, like this, it's a good idea to check the page history. Very often the problem will have been introduced in a recent edit, often the last edit to the page (eg). That means you can easily fix the problem by reversion. That way you also repair any other damage that might have been done in the same edit.

Cheers and merry Christmas, Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 22:33, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * good point, thanks & Merry Christmas to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:12, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

 * thanks and Merry Christmas/Happy New Year!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Apologies - I'm a bit late with my cards this year. :-)

Happy editing into 2020, and beyond! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:04, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Ser Amantio di Nicolao Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:29, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

New Year

 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message


 * Happy New Year to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:10, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
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– Davey 2010 Talk 00:10, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * Happy New Year Davey2010--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank You Bastara/NPR
My Dear Friend User:Ozzie10aaaa, Thank You for reviewing the articles which i have published recently: Bastara, Junawai, Bitroi. DMySon (talk) 05:53, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * they each(article) meet the standard for review, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:02, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

further reversions at article on Western African Ebola virus epidemic/ ebola
A revert with no explanation of reason other than noting it is WP:GOODFAITH is insufficient; such a tactic is probably OK for removing vandalism; Yes, you are an expert on this subject, and yes, everyone praises your work here for good reason, but I also note that no-one reverts my edits on Wikipedia more than you do, and I think there are clearly issues around WP:OWNERSHIP that I think you need to be mindful of. The links provided to Ebola-related articles rather than a generic country article are appropriate; obviously I think they are more appropriate. Can you please discuss at the article talk page why you think links to the country article are more appropriate than links to the articles for that country on Ebola virus? Thanks. Matilda Maniac (talk) 21:39, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I accept your edit, the article is better with your links, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:57, 21 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank You. I am also looking at making such equivalent linking changes at those articles too (e.g. Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea, Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone), but perhaps not until tonight or tomorrow. As an aside, I'm back in Africa in two weeks time providing consulting and training to Barrick Gold at Moto Gold Mines in Haut-Uele; however, instead of going to the mine site now, I only go as far as Entebbe and get the trainees to fly there instead. Matilda Maniac (talk) 22:23, 21 January 2020 (UTC)


 * good luck at the work-area, anything you may be able to add to the articles is much appreciated, thanks againOzzie10aaaa (talk) 22:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Ozzie10aaaa/med_edit/lab
Hi. You may want to update some of the images on your med_edit/lab page (under "useful images/inheritance") to some versions that I made based on the original autosomal dominant and recessive images.

SUM1 (talk) 18:40, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * SUM1 thank you very much!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:50, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.23
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


 * Discussions and Resources
 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
 * A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
 * A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
 * A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
 * Refresher

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:27, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Croydon typhoid outbreak of 1937/{wikiproject med)^
Hi...Is this appropriate to add to list of epidemics? There are probably hundreds of events like this and I didn't want to add small outbreaks amongst all the massive ones. Whispyhistory (talk) 12:47, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * the answer is yes(and no), recently I had this conversation.....
 * Shouldn't there be some criteria that needs to be met to show up on this list?
 * For example, on the Epidemic page it states that an outbreak is considered an epidemic if the attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks.


 * Some of these listing don't meet that standard. For example:
 * 17 deaths in India in 2018 from Nipah virus
 * 1 death in Mozambique in 2019 from Cholera
 * The current coronavirus at 26 deaths. (The population of Wuhan China is 11.08 million)


 * These, and others listed, are not epidemics and should be removed.Jared.h.wood (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 23:37, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * you have a point, however it may take more editor opinions to realize a lower numerical limit--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 06:17, 25 January 2020 (UTC)......


 * having pointed out the above conversation, until there are more opinions on this, I would go ahead and list it on the article, thank you(BTW is non-stop)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:11, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks..I thought not so simple. I found CDC's definition so it would fit. Whispyhistory (talk) 15:14, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * My apologies...I don't know why I came back to this conversation..but I just noted the link. The typhoid epidemic took my attention because the first case didn't fit with the conclusion made at the trial...sort of like the 1st case of COVID in Wuhan. That's why I diverted from China to Croydon. Whispyhistory (talk) 17:35, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


 * no worries, your always welcomed on my talk page, these are trying times that may get better w/ time ;-)  Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)


 * User:Doc James thank you for inspiring us to be better medical editors, thank you always!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:17, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

so should item just be deleted if no reference can be found in 5 years?(Encephalitis)/(wikiproject med)^
first thanks on the info for health related sourcing on wiki. Even though i actually have degrees in the hard science, I ended up taking a different life path and haven't used that part of my brain in years. (some might say ever:) If no reference for that comment has been found in 5 years, maybe it should be deleted. I did quite a bit of searching to find what i did and I'll have to revisit it to see if there was anything else at all on point, but I would seem to suspect there isn't. That being the case, would deleting be more appropriate because if it ever is substantiated more, then it'll find it's way back.

thanks Mikethewhistle-original (talk) 10:52, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * per edit you indicated ......which is a case study. Per MEDRS Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine) we use reviews(about 5 years out), medical textbooks and organizations(NIH, CDC, WHO, NHS)...you may want to look for the reference in a textbook--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:03, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Should the comment just be deleted as I asked above? If there is no reference supporting it, then it really shouldn't stay should it? It appears the cite needed request went on in 2015, but how long was it on the page before that? Sometimes it's best to delete things, and if support for it ever does come available it'd find it's way back I'm sure.Mikethewhistle-original (talk) 11:24, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * will look for best reference, ASAP, thank you (however I'm certain a textbook can easily help it simply takes time, perhaps the article text also needs to be modified in the process)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * definitely not an asap item. my thought process was if in at least 5 years a source hasn't been id'ed, then maybe it's not factually correct and shouldn't be on the board. You're the expert so you definitely would know better than me whether it's something that's true but just needs a ref or if it's questionable and there's no ref to be found. I get the sense that you believe there's a reference so I'd guess it's the former. frankly the whole coronavirus thing to me deserves the bandwidth and probably many other things, so please please don't feel like i'm rushing you. I won't beat this horse to death any more and hopefully you know where i'm coming from.
 * I saw where you are 1 of the top 300 med contributors. I'd like to say a great thank you. i don't know if i've ever read anything you've contributed to because i honestly am very careful what i use as a source for medical info and didn't know that wiki had people like you and source standards over health issues that you educated me to. I'm an old dog so it'd be hard to change the sources i use which largely is email with my doctor if not in person, but i may start using wiki for something that i've really rarely used it for because of you. TYMikethewhistle-original (talk) 12:17, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!(wikiproject med)

 * that's very kind of you JenOttawa, we all work together, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:59, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * thank you so very much--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:01, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Anne Bertolotti/ (wikiproject med)^
I don't know why you did what you did to Anne Bertolotti, but us reporting the fact that a scientist is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, or where and under whom they obtained their PhD, is not "PROMO"; and removing their photograph - without giving a reason, at that - is utterly ridiculous. I have accordingly reverted your cuts. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:21, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * have responded of article/talk--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:22, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Arbcom Notification/ (wikiproject med) ^
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Arbitration/Requests/Case and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

Thanks, Sandy Georgia (Talk)  14:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:54, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine opened/ (wikiproject med) ^
You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 21, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:36, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Why Talk:COVID-19 drug repurposing research blanked?/ (wikiproject med) ^
Why did you blank Talk:COVID-19 drug repurposing research? I understand that all of the content is in Archive 1, but it was odd to see the Talk page with no content at all. Appears that before you acted, a Bot had archived just the older entries from the Talk page. David notMD (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * please see note on your talk, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

what I am doing 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic/ (wikiproject med) ^
Hi...no hurry with this. I saw a recent of edit of yours on the list of epidemics. I then found this but I don't know how to use this site or what it means. Is this how I can see what I have been doing? Whispyhistory (talk) 04:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * yes that indicates the articles you have contributed the most to. As you can see the current pandemic stands #1 on your list( when this is over you may want, along with other contributing editors,to take it to GA and then to Wikijournal of Medicine which BTW is applying for PMC)….additionally there is this link which you can find under 'edit count' at the bottom, this one tells everything, good luck--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:12, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you...I didn't know about this (was wondering how some people knew so much about me without me saying). Maybe slightly scary and I guess I don't need to keep track on my user page. I have a long way before catching up with you. I haven't edited much on the pandemic page for a while; it has become a little tricky, but maybe I will look again. btw...when i first started that...I had to keep looking at the ebola article to see how things were done, particularly the table of countries:cases:deaths (fyi). thanks again. Whispyhistory (talk) 15:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * no on the contrary, thank you for initially bringing the pandemic article to life no one could have seen where this was going, apparently you saw more than the rest of us--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:29, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Ozzie! How can I find mine?  Could you bring it up here?  Best regards, Gandy Gandydancer (talk) 15:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * User:Gandydancer did you mean this one or this?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:43, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, the second one is the one I want. How do I find it on my own?  Gandydancer (talk) 03:15, 16 April 2020 (UTC)


 * go then scroll down to 'top edited articles' on the bottom of the list is a button that says 'more'--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:12, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Picture of saura river/NPR
What was the problem? Satyabrat Shanu (talk) 12:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I assume you mean, which for a stub is just too many pictures(images). Should the article expand and become larger, then more images should be applied,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:04, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Question Dana Amir/NPR
Hi Ozzie10aaaa, how are you ? why did you deleted Dana Amir's books ? she's a renown Israeli poetess, all of her books published in an established publishing houses and she awarded prizes for some of them. Tzahy (talk) 08:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * will respond on article/talk, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Tks Tzahy (talk) 13:14, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

WPMED assessments / (wikiproject med) ^
Just a reminder that when you assess articles, all articles about people get  from WPMED. (example) We can send a bot through if the category gets out of control, but if you're editing it anyway, it's as well to get it all done at once. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:51, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you WAID--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Accidental rollback WPMED / (wikiproject med) ^
In case you have revert notifications on, please ignore the one I just generated at you - I somehow sausage-fingered the mouse and have re-reverted :P ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * it happens to everyone... (stay safe/pandemic)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:59, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Cheers, you too :) &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 19:04, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Citation Needed Tags 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Illinois/ (wikiproject med) ^
Hello, I just wanted to inform you that I have removed the citation needed tags from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Illinois article. I am not sure if your edits were an oversight, but the information within those paragraphs were clearly referenced within the same paragraph. — Mr Xaero   ☎️ 03:11, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * citations(references) go at the end of the sentence per this, my last edit on that article, can you point out which 'citation needed' did have a reference at the end of the sentence?...thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 03:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I may be missing something, but I couldn't find anything in that diff about where citations are supposed to go – can you clarify?  MOS:CITEPUNCT also doesn't say they need to go at the end of sentences, but does provide examples with <ref ></ref>s in the middle of sentences – is that incorrect?  JohnnyMyself (talk) 12:11, 28 April 2020 (UTC)


 * example from before I inserted 'cn'....... Officials announced that there were three new deaths related to the disease of which claimed the life of two men from Cook County that were in their 80s and a McLean County woman in her 70s. Jo Daviess, Livingston, Rock Island, and Stephenson counties all reported their first case of the disease on this day....where was the ref for this text?(its under 'March')


 * OK, I see, as in . I think  is saying the  earlier in that paragraph is the same source for the text you quoted; so in this example, do you mean that the same ref should also be repeated at the end of the paragraph?


 * as for reference placement.....This page shows you three alternative ways to insert effective inline citations using 'ref tags'. Each results in a superscripted footnote number at the end of the relevant sentence, like this:[1] plus a correspondingly numbered reference (footnote) automatically appearing in the 'References' section near the bottom of the article. Help:Referencing_for_beginners--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:58, 28 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Right, thanks for pointing that out. But I notice it doesn't say that references must go at the end of the sentence – merely that that happens to be the result of those particular instructions.  Plus, a few other things mentioned in that same guide add to the confusion:
 * Generally references are added directly after the information they support, at the end of the sentence...[emphasis added]
 * 2. Position the editing cursor in the text where you want the numbered link to your citation to appear. This should be at the end of the relevant phrase, sentence, or paragraph that the citation is verifying...[emphasis added]
 * ...the next step is to add an actual reference into the article text. The code to do this goes at the end of the relevant phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers...[emphasis added]
 * From these, it sounds like references are OK following a phrase in the middle of a sentence? Sorry for being pedantic – I'm fairly new to editing, and trying to learn how to do it correctly, but I'm still confused about this discrepancy, and just want to make sure I get it right. — JohnnyMyself (talk) 08:52, 29 April 2020 (UTC)


 * for my part I always insert 'ref' at end of sentence, though I will keep your valuable information in mind going forward--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:53, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * thank you very much. that is very kind of you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:52, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Need help with the coronavirus article/ (wikiproject med) ^
Ozzie, I need some help with the coronavirus article. I'd like to work on improving the South America section but when I try to edit it I'm having problems with the first paragraph. If I try to edit it using visual editing it becomes "blue" and I'm unable to work with it. When I try to edit it with the way I usually do it doesn't even turn up on my screen--only stuff from the second para and on shows. (The same thing happened on a few other world listing sections as well.) Can you help me figure it out? Gandydancer (talk) 18:54, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Gandydancer the problem is some editors on the article are using Excerpts as you can see looking at, personally I dislike 'excerpts' and don't touch them(Im not sure how to adjust the wording, Id have to figure out what other editors are doing). However what I did do was add a sentence after it--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:08, 23 May 2020 (UTC)


 * took a second look their using Template:Excerpt--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:35, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

PAGE ]]) 23:17, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ozzie, that is just mumbo-jumbo to me. I wonder if user:whatamIdoing could explain it to me -- I think that she helped to write visual editor and so must know about this as well.  Any sort of fix must be very simple or I will not understand it.  My hands are sort of tied if I can't figure out how to edit those sections.  Gandydancer (talk) 21:50, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Gandydancer, the way that you edit the first paragraph of COVID-19 pandemic is by going to COVID-19 pandemic in South America and editing the lead. Anything inside the "onlyinclude" tags is automagically copied over to the main article.  It looks like this edit by User:Ahecht set it up.  (You'd think people wanted a full-fledged content management system instead of a wiki here.)  WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:07, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say I set it up. I just tried to make it more efficient. If it were up to me, those sections would just be summarized in the COVID-19 pandemic article instead of using the fragile excerpt system. --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * to be frank I don't like them--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:19, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

OK, so good so far -- sorta. I did make some changes but I had wished that I could just wipe out all the copy and start over. Considering that the WHO has now called S.A. the epicenter it seemed like a good project. (Also, I feel some pity for them as they seem to be suffering from the same lack of good leadership that we in the U.S. are faced with.) Oz and WAID, I have a question that I'd usually ask on the talk page but not knowing anyone there I'm feeling a little shy...  Do you guy know why the article lists Africa and Oceania separately under Pandemic by country? I would have thought they'd all be together under National responses. I dare say if I could have figured out how to change it I would have and let anyone complain if there actually was a reason. But it won't work when I try to do it with "normal" methods of editing. Thoughts?

8	National responses 8.1	Asia 8.2	Europe 8.3	North America 8.4	South America 9	Pandemic by country 9.1	Africa 9.2	Oceania

Gandydancer (talk) 00:32, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * actually your right, I hadn't thought of that, they should be together under National responses--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:40, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ozzie, I want you to know that I so often think of how good it was to work with you on the Ebola article -- we really made a good team, didn't we? With all the grief that we sometimes need to put up with here nothing is more important than feeling friendship and bonding with another special editor, IMO. OK, as for this article, do you know how to put them all together? Gandydancer (talk) 01:07, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * have added to talk, while I could boldly do it myself, it would be wiser to get consensus on the talk page first (BTW Gandy Kivu Ebola epidemic is still ongoing due to transmission via a Ebola survivor and yes one does 'bond' when writing together for such an episode as West Africa Ebola. Fortunately that one ended, this one remains an open question...IMO)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:49, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ozzie, I appreciate the support at the article. As you can see I continue to experience difficulties.  Please see the note I left for Waid and join in if you have anything to add.  Gandydancer (talk) 13:59, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * done--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:13, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Template:Excerpt is a big problem with COVID 19 artciles... definitely not conducive to new editors or keeping articles updated. They have talked about the problems on IRC. They were thinking when things settle down we can fix the main article to flow better and drop  the plagiarist templates  when stats stabilize.-- Moxy 🍁 14:24, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * it would be a good idea--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your input Moxy. It seems that no changes are expected for some time.  If you've ever been in a similar situation you know that it  is not easy to enter into a group of editors who have established a circle of those who are editing a fast-moving article, but this makes it impossible for me.  After being an "insider" for so many years it is a new experience for me to essentially be locked out and I do feel bad about it...  Gandydancer (talk) 14:54, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * One of the problems we have is new fulltime editors not concerned with the ability to edit individual articles but rather consistency over many articles. This causes two problems.... discussions about change of content on wrong pages and coding that leads to ownership of articles by default. Its never a good thing to have to waste our time with chats of this nature. Cant find it now...but someone somewhere linked a CBS article about how our main pandemic article was very accurate and informative but reads like clip-its rather than an overall article.  It's a bit embarrassing for an academic endeavor but these pages are still growing and will evolve on their own in time without Template:Excerpt when things stabilize and our medical editors copy edit the articles. As of now the article is dominated by non-medical editors and it's shows.... unfortunately  many of us Old-Timers see the problem... but don't have the medical expertise to jump in. WP:Med will fix most  problems over time but they're overwhelmed by enthusiastic new editors.-- Moxy 🍁 15:16, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * yes true...have is new fulltime editors not concerned with the ability to edit individual articles ... they lack ALOT of experience--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:10, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) Again I so appreciate your input. I've worked on several fast-moving articles and the BP oil spill comes to mind here.  If you have worked on something similar you know how one gets caught up in the breaking news -- like we are real NYT or WashPo journalists!!  It is almost intoxicating.  The other editors are our fellow journalists and we share a  camaraderie with them as though we were out in the field working for a major news service. This can be a very good situation because, for example thinking back to the BP spill, one can spend several hours in research to produce only one line of copy.  But you need a circle of editors that have learned to trust your edits and do not instantly jump in and challenge you.  But it is bad if the established circle tries to keep other new editors out.  I've never seen that happen but in this case where I do not understand the basics of how to edit I am less than equal to the other editors.  It does not seem very fair to me.  pinging user:WhatamIdoing  Gandydancer (talk) 16:24, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you...

Medicine proposed decision / (wikiproject med) ^
The Medicine proposed decision was posted -- Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  14:31, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

AbCellera logo /NPR
Hi ! I'm wondering why you removed the logo from the infobox on the AbCellera article? Thank you for the clarification. Daylen (talk) 20:29, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * in medical editing I always try to tone down anything that may give the impression of WP:PROMO (should you wish just add it back, thank you)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:43, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine closed
An arbitration case Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:


 * Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles. Any uninvolved administrator may apply sanctions as an arbitration enforcement action to users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.
 * CFCF is reminded to avoid casting aspersions and similar conduct in the future.
 * Doc James is prohibited from making any edits relating to pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing in the article namespace.
 * QuackGuru is indefinitely topic-banned from articles relating to medicine, broadly construed.

For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 15:15, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard


 * thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:44, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I am formally notifying anyone who was originally named as a party in the case. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:57, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 03:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject banners / (wikiproject med) ^
Using the rater.js script would avoid errors like this. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:42, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * done, thank you very much!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:03, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Question about removed cite from Coronavirus disease 2019 symptoms table/ (wikiproject med) ^
Hi, I was looking at the "Symptoms of COVID-19" table in Coronavirus disease 2019 and I noticed it had been tagged with citation needed, but in the history up until it seemed to have a citation that pointed to a page from the CDC providing the same info as listed in the table (minus apparently more technical phrasing for some of the symptoms); in that edit you replaced the ref with a citation needed tag.

I'm not an experienced editor and you appear to be so I figured there's likely some reason why the previous cite was unsatisfactory. Since I wasn't able to find any mention of it in the talk page and the edit summary was vague, I wanted to inquire about it to find out why the existing cite was unsatisfactory and what would be necessary to replace it.

Thanks! --Surinna (talk) 19:19, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * if you look at the edit there was an error cite on the article which was linked to those references that were therefore orphaned, so they needed to be removed( I wasn't the editor that removed the original referenced, I removed the errors that were left behind )--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:32, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Ah, you're absolutely correct. Sorry about the mix-up. --Surinna (talk) 03:31, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.24
Hello ,

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference. In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:07, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 pandemic / (wikiproject med) ^
Hi Ozzie! Reaching out since you were the one who replied here. Would you mind taking a look at this edit? I've already reverted this editor before and I'm trying to avoid an edit war, but they and a few others who objected to current consensus item 13 seem pretty determined to keep removing the video (the hidden text warning was also removed the other day here). Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 18:32, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * agree and done--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:29, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - July 2020
Ajpolino (talk) 21:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:54, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

National Public Health Emergency Team / (wikiproject med) ^
You asked for a ref for the opening statement, I have added one, the information is given in a PDF on the webpage linked. Is this enough, or do I need to change it? TIA Arnkellow (talk) 12:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you very much!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Copyvio? Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States / (wikiproject med)^
How is this a copyvio? I wrote it?

In addition how is this a copyvio either? These are literally citations using reputable databases (DOI, WorldCat). ViperSnake151  Talk  04:20, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * have answered on your talk,thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:30, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

copyvio Catamenial pneumothorax / (wikiproject med)^
This paper https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0 (full paper without paywall https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0?sharing_token=-Kdjc4Vwp59b3KZ6uHgDave4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY4zL2q_VjfJmW6twqPCXJPXlqW5_aE7qZ7HWX3KWOmI1rC75-j9MEV2tAZ8OTJF9lboVHukkDv5VdfLmO0zcnoLBg8bHnV0lkHKl54JJc8mrfhI3-WubEpLDKrsjp-W8dg%3D) mentioned plagiarism in this article Catamenial pneumothorax , You was the person who copy paste the text from https://fertilitypedia.org/edu/risk-factors/endometriotic-cysts#

https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Catamenial+pneumothorax&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0

I invit you to modify your previous contributions, LaMèreVeille (talk) 14:46, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * have left note with User:Diannaa--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:19, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello LaMèreVeille. You have made a mistake. This page is a copy of several Wikipedia pages, including Catamenial pneumothorax. Content on this page must have been copied from Wikipedia, as we've had that content since 2006. . It was not added by Ozzie10aaaa. If you wish to review Ozzie10aaaa's edits to the article, you can do so here. — Diannaa (talk) 21:36, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you Diannaa--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:01, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

WP:MED Newsletter - August 2020
Ajpolino (talk) 20:41, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you, very good newsletter as usual--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:41, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary 4 (wikiproject med)
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:27, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you very much!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:38, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Ain't microbiology better together? / (wikiproject med) ^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa, I've seen edits from you pop up on a few microbiology articles recently, and I also bumped into your GA Hepatitis E last week. Any interest in working on an infectious disease article together? Many of the ID articles could use a bit of care, and it'd be nice to have the help of someone more medicine-interested (I'll admit I'm more interested in the molecular biology side of things than in the actual medicine...). I'm happy to push something towards GA (or FA if you're interested) or just cleanup and remove some tags. If you're interested, you pick the article and the goal, and I'll make some time. I hope you're doing well during these crazy times! All the best, Ajpolino (talk) 05:23, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you for considering me, I will look at a few articles and get back to you, thank you again--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:49, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter – September 2020
Ajpolino (talk) 02:34, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:44, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

WP:MED Newsletter - October 2020
Ajpolino (talk) 00:45, 4 October 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:55, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

October harvest
thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:01, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Gerda Arendt thank you for the inspiring image--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:09, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

WP:MED Newsletter - November 2020
Ajpolino (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:07, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Notice of Dispute resolution noticeboard discussion/ (wikiproject med) ^
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 * thank you, have commented--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:24, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message /{wikiproject med)^

 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 03:54, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

November 2020
Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines; "Large talk pages are difficult to read and load slowly over slow connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." - this talk page is KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. --HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 14:57, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - December 2020
Ajpolino (talk) 01:34, 3 December 2020 (UTC)


 * thank you, very good newsletter--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:11, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.25
Hello ,



It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to and  who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to, , and who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 * Year in review

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 * Reviewer of the Year

As a special recognition and thank you has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Flyer22 and WanderingWanda arbitration case opened /(wikiproject med)^
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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:16, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Is this sort of referring to external sources acceptable? Cluster of differentiation 15s/(wikiproject med)^
In this section, a certain editor has referred the reader to graphics contained in a research paper. I have never seen this format before in a Wikipedia article. While it may be a convenience for the reader, the fact that this is new to me and the editor in question is controversial have led me to wonder if this violates no external links. Your feedback is appreciated. (Also asked on User:Doc James's talk page)--Quisqualis (talk) 18:01, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I would defer to Doc James opinion, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:53, 16 December 2020 (UTC)


 * He seems to be busy at the moment. Would you recommend another editor? Thanks.--Quisqualis (talk) 19:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * other than Doc James?...no I would not--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:47, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion for future NOTFORUM reverts COVID-19 pandemic/(wikiproject med)^
Here, you asked if the "semi-protected edit request" is vandalism. That surely isn't: the OP just thinks talks are appropriate for sharing experiences (I've seen these dozens). Sure, it's not a forum, but... I mean... "it's bad if u get it"... I think that's accurate. I'll prolly cite not-forum rather than mark it VDL.  Gerald WL  16:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * yes your right, Ill do so going forward, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:30, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays

 * thank you Johnbod, Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * thank you and Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:18, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Davey2010, thank you and Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:05, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year

 * Whispyhistory, Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring you every wish--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:37, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#01902a; background-color:darkred; border-width:3px; text-align:center; padding:3px; height:262px; width:800px;" class="plainlinks"> Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Hello, Ozzie10aaaa! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! <b style="color:orange">Linguist111</b><sup style="color:purple">talk 23:38, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}


 * thank you and Merry Christmas/New Year to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:15, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
-- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:19, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Ser Amantio di Nicolao Merry Christmas to you and the best in the New Year--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:19, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message


 * thank you and Happy New Year to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

De-escalation Arbitration/Requests/Case/Flyer22 and WanderingWanda/Workshop/(wikiproject med)^
Hi there, Ozzie10aaaa. We may have got off on the wrong foot at ArbCom, so I thought I'd try a different approach. You seem to have a very different experience of Flyer than I do. Since I understand that both of you are active MED editors, I was wondering if you could point me to any articles where you've collaborated, so I could see for myself why you have such a high opinion of her contribution? Newimpartial (talk) 15:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * best to keep all questions at Arbcom, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:12, 5 January 2021 (UTC)


 * The problem with that response, Ozzie, is that one is always supposed to raise concerns directly with the party first. Approaching you directly about concerns is more appropriate than posting something to the arbcase.  I have a different concern than perhaps does  about your evidence.  I have edited around and alongside you for many years, have participated with you at WT:MED, WT:MEDMOS, and WT:MEDRS, and in articles, and in an arbcase, and having observed your characteristic edits and writing style, know that you have almost never, ever, anywhere on Wikipedia written something of that substance or in that style or that long. (And the edit count tool verifies this. Most of your longest contributions on Wikipedia are where you cut-and-paste between sections in your MEDMOS adjustments.) I have to inquire whether the analysis you posted of Newpartial's evidence was written by you. Here is a more typical example of your writing. I would much prefer that you respond to that here on your talk page than to have to raise it on the arb pages. The serious problem this raises is that, since Flyer is not participating in this case, if the arbs were to think that you are proxying for Flyer, that would bring a lot of harm upon Flyer.  Regards, Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  19:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Sandy Georgia (Talk)  19:29, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This looks to me like a failure to assume good faith, and also personalizing the dispute. Ozzie is not on trial. The only one with this idea is you and it is clearly casting WP:ASPERSIONS. Crossroads -talk- 19:33, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I fully agree with Crossroads. I regard all these people very highly (Flyer, Ozzie, and Doc James) and Sandy as well.  Sandy needs to apologize to Ozzie, IMO.  It's a terrible, hurtful thing to accuse a fellow editor of deceit.  Gandydancer (talk) 20:11, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, Gandy. I am not sure what you are suggesting about Doc James; I don't see him mentioned here ??  Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  20:29, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Seriously. I feel like I lost my secret decoder ring. Newimpartial (talk) 20:33, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The concern there is whether Gandy is intending to imply that Doc James is somehow involved in this particular query. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  20:41, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Sandy, sorry my mind was wandering... Gandydancer (talk) 00:44, 6 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not proxying for Flyer.


 * I saw the case and have been passionate about it. I've typed long before.. If I'm passionate enough, I will type long. In this case, I analyzed the issues more than I analyzed issues at the med Arb case and took the time to draft up a comment offline.


 * I really don't appreciate this accusation on my talk page. I find it harmful and hurtful. I have defended Flyer before. Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:31, 5 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, Ozzie, the first example of your previous long post is the one I gave above, and is characteristic of your writing style when long. The second example also is characteristic of your posts, when short. There are distinctive elements to how you write, that are consisent.  And I realize that you have defended Flyer before; that is OK, many people have, and that is not what I am questioning.  My question is that I have never seen you write something like in the analysis of Newpartial's evidence, either in tone, substance or style, and I have edited with and around you for years.  It would help if you can explain that difference, and I think it very important for Flyer that this gets cleared up.  Regards, Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  20:45, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * As someone who has read very many of Flyer22's talk page posts, I can assure you that this is not Flyer22's style whatsoever. It in fact looks very much to me like Ozzie10aaaa's most common style, just longer. It's to be expected that he would use less complex formatting like others do after the experience gained since before. Crossroads -talk- 20:50, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Newimpartial should you have further questions we can discuss... SG to be frank I dont recall I have edited with and around you for years (which you wrote above)...anything further you SG have to say can be done elsewhere(your not welcomed at my talkpage, should you continue Ill contact an administrator)...Newimpartial I indicated above that it was best at Arbcom for obvious reasons, but should you wish to talk here...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:57, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * My question was simply, Since I understand that both of you are active MED editors, I was wondering if you could point me to any articles where you've collaborated, so I could see for myself why you have such a high opinion of her contribution? I don't see any reason why that would be a question for me to ask at the ArbCom page, since it doesn't relate directly to the analysis of evidence presented at the case. Newimpartial (talk) 21:50, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * SG I feel that you are unfairly pestering me. My entire like isn't on Wikipedia. I usually type short and succinct on Wikipedia to save time. If I need to really analyze something and am passionate enough, I will type longer and clean up my text for syntax and flow. That is usually what I do in real life. I wouldn't type like I do on Wikipedia on a professional form.I told you, "If I'm passionate enough, I will type long. In this case, I analyzed the issues more than I analyzed issues at the med Arb case and took the time to draft up a comment offline."Please stop this. Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:29, 5 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Sandy it is hardly fair to judge Ozzie by whether or not he has collaborated with Flyer. Flyer is one of those that I hold the highest respect for and I watched over the years as she  supported fair treatment of women in our woman-related articles.  Only a few times have I joined her in talk page discussions and even less in article work but I always kept abreast of what she was doing. Gandydancer (talk) 00:44, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This appears to be blatant WP:FACTION harassment (especially since the editor already asked you to keep this at the ArbCom page) of an evidence-provider in an ongoing RFARB, on the ultra-flimsy basis that the editor is somehow, over a seven-year span, not supposed to adjust their writing style to better match our talk-page norms.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  10:13, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - January 2021
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:49, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:21, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Interview request COVID-19 pandemic/(wikiproject med)^
Hello, Ozzie10aaaa!

My name is Daniel, and I’m a senior at Harvard University currently writing an undergraduate thesis about Wikipedia. I’m particularly interested in how the Wikipedia community decides what facts are relevant and/or notable enough to warrant inclusion on a particular article — especially in regards to articles on contentious topics.

I noticed that you’ve been quite active editing the “COVID-19 pandemic” article over the past few months. So, would you mind if I send you a few questions (via email or right here) about your work editing that article, and the approach that you take? I’d really love to hear from you.

Thanks so much! --Dalorleon (talk) 16:14, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * sure email is fine(however you should keep in mind that this is always a work done as a team, which means that while one editor may have done more edits, every editor counts), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Just a note to Dalorleon, I have worked with Ozzie in the past, most extensively on the Ebola pandemic, and IMO Ozzie's ability to work as a team player is one of his most outstanding capabilities. In my experience at the COVID article a few, or perhaps one, editor took ownership of the article in the early stages of it's appearance here and that resulted in the lack of experienced editor's willingness to spend time helping to build the article.  Eventually the editor that took charge of the article burned out and dropped away only to come back later and complain that no one was watching over the article and it had gone to crap.  If articles are left to just go a little crazy in the early stages certain editors emerge that are willing to stick with the article long term to build  a good article.  I could go on but I will leave it at that. Gandydancer (talk) 20:32, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Gandy thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:26, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up, Gandydancer! That's very helpful to know. --Dalorleon (talk) 22:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, Ozzie10aaaa!
 * Thanks so much for agreeing to speak with me. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to view user emails, so I'm posting my questions below; let me know if you need me to clarify any of them. You can respond right here, or send your replies to my email at danielleonard@college.harvard.edu — whichever works best.


 * 1) How long have you been editing Wikipedia? And how long have you been an active editor of the “COVID-19 pandemic” Wikipedia article?
 * 2) When adding content to the “COVID-19 pandemic” Wikipedia article, how do you decide what facts are relevant / notable enough to warrant inclusion?
 * 3) When removing content from the “COVID-19 pandemic” Wikipedia article, how do you decide what facts are irrelevant / non-notable enough to warrant deletion?
 * 4) Are there any particular Wikipedia policy / guidelines pages that you rely on to guide your editing? (Like “Wikipedia:Editing policy,” “Wikipedia:Writing better articles,” etc.)
 * 5) Do you feel that Wikipedia’s “official” editing guidelines are helpful, or do you generally ignore them? If you prefer forging your own path, do you feel that Wikipedia offers you that flexibility?
 * 6) Has adding or deleting content from the “COVID-19 pandemic” Wikipedia article ever brought you into conflict with another Wikipedian? If so, how were those disputes resolved?
 * 7) Do you identify more as an inclusionist, a deletionist, or neither / something else?


 * Thanks again for agreeing to help my research! Feel free to weigh in on anything I didn’t specifically ask in regards to your editing practices. I’m primarily curious to learn about what factors you consider when deciding what content ought to be added / removed from Wikipedia articles.
 * Finally, if I do include your responses in my thesis, would you prefer to remain completely anonymous, or can I include your username? I really appreciate it! --Dalorleon (talk) 22:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * will send to you by email, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:37, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - February 2021
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:02, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:08, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Your JA nomination of Kivu_Ebola_epidemic
The Kivu_Ebola_epidemic article has been imported to WikiJournal Preprints/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic (per WP:JAN). Whenever you're ready to proceed:


 * 1) Fill in the  https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic?veaction=edit  at the top (often easiest in VisualEditor)
 * 2) Fill in the authorship declaration form to submit as ready for external peer review to be organised.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 07:14, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Dr Shafee thank you, have filled the above--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:59, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

You're invited! Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE - February 6th, 2021 -
--Wil540 art (talk) 21:24, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - March 2021
Ajpolino (talk) 18:55, 6 March 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:11, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kivu Ebola epidemic/ (wikiproject med)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Kivu Ebola epidemic you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 23:41, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Best of luck with your nomination Ozzie. I will help if there's anything I can do.  Best, Gandy  Gandydancer (talk) 05:10, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * thank you Gandy, its good to have your help always!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kivu Ebola epidemic
The article Kivu Ebola epidemic you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kivu Ebola epidemic for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 19:42, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * thank you it has been a pleasure working with you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:47, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Kivu Ebola epidemic
— Maile (talk) 13:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:15, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * thank you Whispyhistory for your help on DYK, I very much appreciate it--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:17, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - April 2021
Ajpolino (talk) 02:24, 4 April 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you as always Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:25, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Help with removal of redirect/NPR
Hi Ozzie. I see you're doing admin work (you've recently dealt with a redirect set up by me, En Prat, thanks for that). There is a large number of editors interested in the article Khan al-Ahmar (village), Israel-Palestine issues are heavy like lead, I've finally got people to approve of something, but now it's stuck in a technicality. Maybe you can help me/us out? I have fully prepared a disambiguation page for Khan al-Ahmar ("the Red Inn"), it's all ready to go, but the address is blocked by a superfluous, counterproductive redirect: Khan al-Ahmar -> Khan al-Ahmar (village). The discussion and the material for the disambiguation page is here. Once our "dean", Nishidani, has given his OK, those having reservations have all fallen in line. I'm not good with technical stuff, my removal request for the Khan al-Ahmar redirect might not be 100% "clean" according to Wiki templates, but it says all that it should. Could you please help out? Thank you! Best regards, Arminden (talk) 02:24, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not an administrator, good luck --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 03:59, 26 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I will. Have a great day! Arminden (talk) 11:31, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - June 2021
Thanks, Ajpolino (talk) 17:59, 3 June 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:49, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

A goat for you!/medicine
Did you know that a goat's horn is able to withstand a 17000N force? Keep up the great work!

V. E. (talk) 12:33, 6 July 2021 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>
 * Visnelma, thank you very much (17000N is quite alot), --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - July 2021
Thanks, Ajpolino (talk) 19:21, 7 July 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you very much---Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:36, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - August 2021
Thanks, Ajpolino (talk) 02:29, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you as always--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:23, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
... on the day I was named awesome Wikipedian by Rlevse --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you very much!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Help in making a critical change to a Wikipedia page Histiocytoma/(wikiproject medicine)^
The very brief page, histiocytoma, lists myxofibrosarcoma as a type of histiocytoma and links myxofibrosarcoma to this page. However, the World Health Organization (2021) has reclassified myxofibrosarcoma as a type of fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumors rather than a histiocytoma. I want to create a page for Myxofibrosarcoma but before doing so I need to remove its linkage to histiocytoma. How do I do this? Thank you for your help. joflaher (talk) 17:56, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors...and why remove linkage...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:46, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - September 2021
Thanks, Ajpolino (talk) 20:24, 8 September 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:35, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.26
Hello ,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our  Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but  there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:02, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

November 2021 backlog drive

 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:11, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message /{wikiproject med)^

 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Heterologous prime-boost vaccination Heterologous vaccine/(wikiproject medicine)^
need plain english definition from a reliable source of "Heterologous prime-boost vaccination", "Homologous prime-boost vaccination",  "Heterologous prime-boost immunization",  "Homologous prime-boost immunization",

For: Heterologous vaccine = Heterologous prime-boost vaccination

I tried.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heterologous_vaccine&oldid=1043907228
 * .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 23:44, 10 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I would defer to the same post you placed at Doc James page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:30, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a survey about medical topics on Wikipedia
Dear fellow editor,

I am Piotr Konieczny, a sociologist of new media at Hanyang University (and User:Piotrus on Wikipedia). I would like to better understand Wikipedia's volunteers who edit medical topics, many associated with the WikiProject Medicine, and known to create some of the highest quality content on Wikipedia. I hope that the lessons I can learn from you that I will present to the academic audience will benefit both the WikiProject Medicine (improving your understanding of yourself and helping to promote it and attract new volunteers) and the wider world of medical volunteering and academia. Open access copy of the resulting research will be made available at WikiProject's Medicine upon the completion of the project.

All questions are optional. The survey is divided into 4 parts: 1 - Brief description of yourself; 2 - Questions about your volunteering; 3 - Questions about WikiProject Medicine and 4 - Questions about Wikipedia's coverage of medical topics.

Please note that by filling out this questionnaire, you consent to participate in this research. The survey is anonymous and all personal details relevant to your experience will be kept private and will not be transferred to any third party.

I appreciate your support of this research and thank you in advance for taking the time to participate and share your experiences! If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me at my Wikipedia user page or through my email listed on the survey page (or by Wikipedia email this user function).

The survey is accessible through the LINK HERE.

Piotr Konieczny Associate Professor Hanyang University If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:24, 13 December 2021 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:14, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Merry Christmas to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:43, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

 * Johnbod Merry Christmas to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:59, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
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 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you a griffin's claw full of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages.


 * Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:52, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Davey thank you, and Merry Christmas--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Whispyhistory Thats very kind of you and I want you to know its a pleasure to work and learn from you everyday, lets hope the coming year sees an end to the pandemic. All the best to you and your family, may your every wish come true! Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:28, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
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 Ozzie10aaaa , Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:30, 31 December 2021 (UTC)


 * – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.


 * Thank you so very much, and may this year bring you every wish!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
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Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Talk 00:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

– Davey 2010 Talk 00:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you and a very Happy New Year to you, may this new year bring health (and happiness) to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:42, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * thank you Whispyhistory, and I am proud to work with you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

GLE 1 Lethal Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Arthrogryposis-Spinal Muscular Atrophy
My son is 19 years old and lives with Lethal Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Arthrogryposis. He has a tracheostomy but has gotten stronger over the years and has done really well. I saw you were the last one to edit this article do you know much about it? 2001:56A:7662:9200:6909:DB87:C647:F056 (talk) 19:47, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I looked at the linked article above and did find Spinal Muscular Atrophy, however was unable to find the article you mention, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

You might like
WP:REPLYTOOL is probably going to be deployed next week, but you might like turning on the whole set of Discussion Tools at Special:Preferences. It adds signatures and counts colons for you automatically, and in the wikitext "source" mode, it gives you a live preview of what you're writing. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * thank you WAID, turned on everything excerpt 'translation'--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:37, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for your efforts(wikiproject med)

 * this is very kind of you, thank you very much--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:32, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


 * this is twice as kind of you, in the end we all contribute to make medical articles better, I'm humbled by your gesture, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:32, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Alleged undercounting RFC (COVID-19 pandemic)/(wikiproject medicine)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa, please can you read the discussions that led to the RFC. There was a lot of gish galloping in both discussions, which I describe here, and there is also possible socking. If the RFC doesn't resolve this dispute, I will have to request an ArbCom case so that the RS can be properly scrutinized. The allegations were fully attributed, and the claim that they relate to methodological challenges is blatant WP:OR. CutePeach (talk) 16:36, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I will take a look, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:10, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Close at #RFC on removal of alt-text related to COVID-19 lab leak theory/(wikiproject medicine)^
You state that "clearly, there is no consensus", but you do not provide any reasons why, and it doesn't seem at all obvious to me. In fact, it seems that most editors favoured removing the link in question and replacing it with a more general one. Not only that, but you seem to have forgotten you actually participated in the discussion (thus making you technically involved?). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * RandomCanadian, while the rest of the above points I dont entirely agree with...I agree on the last point, (I am involved) therefore will revert, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:14, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.27
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:41, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.28
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


 * Reminders
 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
 * To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
 * Notes

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:09, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

NPP drive award

 * thank you, it was a pleasure--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:51, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Gerda,thank you as always--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:56, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.29
Hello ,

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators and, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
 * Backlog status

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.


 * Coordination: and  have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out.  will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.


 * Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.


 * TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.


 * New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.


 * Reminders
 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
 * To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:31, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Covid-19 Pandemic/(wikiproject medicine)^
I was not certain if the date should be changed. I don't know if I should try to change or not. Cwater1 (talk) 02:51, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * please seek more opinions from other editors(due to the importance of the article), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:13, 16 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I can try to ask an editor that often edits the page. Some knows more more than me. Cwater1 (talk) 02:21, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * that seems like a good idea, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:02, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

NPP message
Hi ,

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
 * Invitation

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)


 * done, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:40, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award for 2020
Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2020. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are just getting caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:52, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 * thank you its a pleasure to review articles/redirects--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:16, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - August 2022
Ajpolino (talk) 21:28, 26 August 2022 (UTC)


 * User:Ajpolino great newsletter(very informative), much appreciated, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:58, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award for 2019
Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2019. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are almost caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:12, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * thank you, its always a pleasure--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:09, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
(t · c)  buidhe  21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:42, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Your JA nomination of COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic article has been imported to WikiJournal Preprints/COVID-19 pandemic (per WP:JAN). Whenever you're ready to proceed:


 * 1) Fill in the  https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints/COVID-19 pandemic?veaction=edit  at the top (often easiest in VisualEditor)
 * 2) Fill in the authorship declaration form to submit as ready for external peer review to be organised.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 00:15, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Dr Shafee, thank you (it will be GA process)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:19, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - October 2022
Ajpolino (talk) 03:32, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:16, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.30
Hello , Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to ), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: and  have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved. Suggestions:
 * There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
 * Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
 * Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
 * This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

Backlog: Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!


 * Reminders
 * Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
 * If you're interested in instant messaging and chat rooms, please join us on the New Page Patrol Discord, where you can ask for help and live chat with other patrollers.
 * Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
 * To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.


 * thank you-Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:47, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Neurooncología in Spanish/(wikiproject medicine)^
I wrote the article Neurooncología in Spanish. The Usuario:Linuxmanía has 99% deleted only the article exists. In comparison you see the https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroonkologie version. Can you normalize the article? Hello, Wname1 (talk) 09:17, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * yes your right, Ive left a comment--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:38, 25 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your activities. Usuario:Linuxmanía had completely deleted the whole article (everything) that was also written in Spanish (Oligodendroglioma anaplásico), which e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaplastic_oligodendroglioma is also available in English. Wname1 (talk) 13:14, 25 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I'll keep an eye on that article--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:18, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your reviews/New Page Patrol

 * Thank you, this is very kind of you,(have done more redirects lately) Ozzie --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:24, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Maintenance barnstar (wikiproject med)
Consider this a barnstar in spirit for your efforts in maintaining the COVID-19 pandemic article and talk page. I can't get the wiki code to work :) SmolBrane (talk) 15:23, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ok, (its the thought that counts) thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:18, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message /(wikiproject med)^
<div class="ivmbox " style="margin-bottom: 1em; border: 1px solid #AAA; background-color: ivory; padding: 0.5em; display: flex; align-items: center; "> Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:10, 29 November 2022 (UTC)


 * done, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Merry Xmas

 * Merry Christmas to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:13, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#FF4646; background-color:#F6F0F7; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks">Happy Holidays text.png Hello Ozzie10aaaa: Enjoy the holiday season&#32;and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Mikael Häggström (talk) 01:23, 18 December 2022 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message Thank you for your jolly holiday wishes. I hope you and family will have a great time, and thanks to you too for your contributions! Mikael Häggström (talk) 01:23, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Dr Häggström, thank you and Merry Christmas and may all your wishes come true!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:20, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding ~ to your friends' talk pages.

 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  21:58, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you and Merry Christmas!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

December music
Thank you for your wishes for the season, - best wishes for you and yours! My card is in the making. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The best of the Holiday Season to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
 * We sang Charpentier's delightful Messe de minuit pour Noël today, which was on DYK yesterday, - a first for me, pictured. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:44, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Awesome, yes Messe de minuit pour Noël is one of a kind...Merry X-Mas, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:52, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you! - Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:43, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Of interest indeed, I find DYK always very informative, thank you for sharing, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:50, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * thank you ;) - did you see the discussion? - I hope for less arguing in the new year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sure the coming year will bring peace, Happy New Year, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:09, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

 * Johnbod Merry Christmas to you and all the best!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:25, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

X-Mas
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#FF4646; background-color:#F6F0F7; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks">Happy Holidays text.png Hello Ozzie10aaaa: Enjoy the holiday season&#32;and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:11, 25 December 2022 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:11, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you and Merry Christmas!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:30, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

2023

 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message

CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:35, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you and May all your wishes be granted!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:06, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
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Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Talk 00:43, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.


 * Davey2010, may the New Year bring you all your wishes!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
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Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

— Moops  ⋠ T ⋡ 02:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

— Moops  ⋠ T ⋡ 02:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you may the New Year bring you peace and joy!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 03:12, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.31
Hello , The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day. won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
 * Backlog
 * 2022 Awards

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from  to

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as and  have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.


 * Reminders
 * Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
 * There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
 * Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
 * If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
 * To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:14, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation project to improve PageTriage /NPP
Hi, as an active New Page Patroller, I wanted to make sure you were aware of an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation project to improve the PageTriage extension. We recently published results of user interviews, and have some findings that we would value patrollers' opinions on. If you haven't yet, please consider adding the project page to your watchlist to stay up to date with our progress! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:17, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:06, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

BeiGene Pharmaceuticals/(wikiproject medicine)^
Hi, I work for BeiGene, a pharmaceuticals company, and have a disclosed COI. As you are an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, I was hoping that you might be interested in having a look at my edit request on BeiGene's Talk page. If you agree that my edit request is helpful and improves the page, I would appreciate it if you could implement it. Thank you very much! LexBGNE (talk) 13:41, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * will take a look if it merits--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:21, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi. This is a gentle reminder to please take a look at my edit request as mentioned above. Thanks again. LexBGNE (talk) 21:28, 24 April 2023 (UTC)


 * yes I've taken a look, however after giving this some thought, I'll have to pass on your edit request, thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:35, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:57, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of COVID-19 pandemic/(wikiproject med)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article COVID-19 pandemic you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shibbolethink -- Shibbolethink (talk) 16:43, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:43, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of COVID-19 pandemic
The article COVID-19 pandemic you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:COVID-19 pandemic for comments about the article, and Talk:COVID-19 pandemic/GA4 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shibbolethink -- Shibbolethink (talk) 13:21, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * thank you very much, you are a great reviewer!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:25, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Miscellaneous shoutout: Great work by and  at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic/GA4. Now that's a review! (Thebiguglyalien)

WikiProject Med Newsletter - Issue 21
Ajpolino (talk) 04:10, 19 May 2023 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:13, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

May 2023 NPP Drive Awards

 * thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:39, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * thank you, however all editors that contributed to this article deserve to be recognized as well... thank you again, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:15, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to AfC!
Hi Ozzie10aaaa, noticed your note at the WT:AFC and glad to see you are dipping your toe in. Funny because just the other day I almost left you note about reviewing because I have come across a few drafts on which you left helpful comments. S0091 (talk) 15:07, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * yes, its a new experience and I'm getting the hang of it, thanks, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:11, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.32
Hello , Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by  and  with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:41, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Half a barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * thank you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:22, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Review of sub-standard article/AFC
Hi. I'm a bit puzzled by your acceptance of this article. All the warning messages are still present in the published article, which doesn't look good. You may not be aware of the forum shopping and other techniques being carried out by User:Ajayraj890 - see the warnings on his Talk page. Deb (talk) 07:43, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * yes actually your correct I was not aware of this editors talk page, I thank you for pointing it out--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:34, 26 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Mam/Sir. The warnings on my talk page is my past. I learnt a lot about Wikipedia and improved a lot. I deeply apologize what I did in my past. I wasn't aware of that and i didn't know much things about creating an Article. User:Deb have warned me in the past and I realised I was wrong. Thus I started learning and making pages. He/She haven't mentioned the part where i did mistake in the Article. Ajayraj890 (talk) 14:20, 26 June 2023 (UTC)


 * And yet you are still doing the same things... Deb (talk) 14:27, 26 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I felt this as a personal attack. Can you give an example where I did the same thing? You haven't given a single part yet. If you show that, i could edit that. Ajayraj890 (talk) 14:50, 26 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree with Deb(I also copyedited it to bring article to standard)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:20, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

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Archive /(wikiproject medicine)^
Hi, you archived at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in this which documents WP:RFCBEFORE for the ongoing Talk:COVID-19_pandemic. I would think it would get left there until the RFC closes, unless you are in a hurry to archive it. Comments? Jtbobwaysf (talk) 09:46, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * done--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Syneilesis intermedia (Hayata) Kitam/(draftspace)AFC
Please return Syneilesis intermedia (Hayata) Kitam to draftspace. It is a synonym of Syneilesis hayatae (per PoWO), and it has a malformed title; if it was an accepted species, it should be just Syneilesis intermedia. Thanks, Abductive  (reasoning) 05:31, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * done per, ( I had used (and ) which indicated it was an accepted name, hence use as a redirect?!) Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:55, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Wikiproject Plants uses PoWO and only PoWO for flowering plants. If there was an article for Syneilesis hayatae, then Syneilesis intermedia could be a redirect to it, but as far as I know I'm the only systematic creator of such redirects. Abductive  (reasoning) 18:10, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * ok, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * PS it got accepted--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:48, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Lja2248 (15:57, 25 July 2023)/ Mentorship
Hi, mentor! Could you please check my first edits and tell me whether I am on the right track? Thanks! --Lja2248 (talk) 15:57, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Lja2248, have answered on your talk, thanks, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:54, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Ozzie,
 * Thanks for your reply. I see how it's done now. A reference as in usual scientific papers, and a link to the text in the reference itself. I'll do the ::same for Weidler's and Lalande's books. Thanks! --Lja2248 (talk) 17:33, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * no problem,feel free to ask, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:37, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Bdjetairways (09:10, 26 July 2023)/ Mentorship
Hi Mentor! How to create a table using source code in my sandbox page. --Southern Pacific Airways (talk) 09:11, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi,Bdjetairways I answered your question on your talk do not hesitate to ask questions and thank you,Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:31, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

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Concern regarding a draft/AFC
Hi there @Ozzie10aaaa,

I wanted to let you know that I nominated the page Draft:Zorro (2024 TV series) for speedy deletion. While I agree with your comment that it's decently sourced, the creator was blocked from editing. Just giving you a heads up! Losipov (talk) 03:15, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * yes it's probably best to delete, thanks, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:13, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Since you do a lot of citation work.../(wikiproject medicine)^

 * Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-01/In focus
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-01/Tips and tricks

These pieces might interest you. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:49, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Headbomb, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:31, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Gerda Arendt, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:24, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Eva Andersson-Dubin/(wikiproject medicine)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa, I am working on updates for Eva Andersson-Dubin, who is a physician and founder of a medical center, as well as a breast cancer survivor. As you show interest in women's health and medicine, I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my edit request on the article talk page and the relevant conversation there. I would appreciate your input and assistance with implementing the remaining requests. Thanks so much, AM for Dubin (talk) 13:15, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * will look, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:37, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Kiwanuka dk (13:34, 12 August 2023)/ Mentorship
I need to add my personal information --Kiwanuka dk (talk) 13:34, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi,Kiwanuka dk, please see User page design guide/About you, please feel free to ask questions, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:08, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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Requesting expert help on Renal hypoplasia article/(wikiproject medicine)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa,

I found you by going to WP:EXHELP to here to here, you were the only person on the list. Not sure if this is the proper way to request for expert help. (Would love to know how to do it properly next time.) Would you mind expanding the article Renal hypoplasia? (I'm aware that you worked on it in the past few years.) I at least want it to be a C-class article. I was dissatisfied with how little information the article had, so I expanded it a bit, but I had no expertise on the topic. Thanks, AxiumWiki (talk) 08:58, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * did a few edits (I actually am better at molecular bio, however I will edit any medical article) let me know if you have further questions, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:30, 16 August 2023 (UTC)


 * “I actually am better at molecular bio, however I will edit any medical article”
 * Oh I see, thanks for the edits. Would it be better if I requested expert help on WT:MED? AxiumWiki (talk) 01:27, 17 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I dont see why not...there may be a editor (that specializes in nephrology, you never know)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:24, 17 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Alright, thanks. AxiumWiki (talk) 12:36, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from CalvinCandy (14:40, 24 August 2023)/ Mentorship
Hello @Ozzie10aaaa, I'm working on my first article about famous freeskier - Cody Townsend. As of now I've got a draft version, however, I'm still working on updating the bio section, adding more references etc. Can you please take a look at it in my sandbox and let me know if you have any remarks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CalvinCandy/sandbox Thanks! --CalvinCandy (talk) 14:40, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * CalvinCandy. will do, and thanks for asking, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

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Question from JWilMommy (20:59, 28 August 2023)/ Mentorship
Hi, I tried adding some information and I was told it was considered promotional. Can you tell me what makes something promotional? --JWilMommy (talk) 20:59, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, JWilMommy PROMO is where you need to look at, don't hesitate to ask questions, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:56, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:37, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:48, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

It wasn’t finished, yet/AFC
Could you please undo the page redirect on that Susquehanna 142 draft? I don’t know whose idea it was to submit that draft, but I wasn’t finished editing it, yet. The history section is still incomplete Someone who likes train writing (talk) 23:02, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Someone who likes train writing... I just picked it at random and accepted it (it was notable and well sourced), I'm not certain I can 'undo the accept' ...I, of course did not submit it, you may want to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation or just continue to add to the article text until its finished, in its current form, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:17, 24 September 2023 (UTC)


 * its apparently been moved back to draft (b/c it wasn't finished?)..will check at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation and here--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:12, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Akile1970 on Prison blogs (07:16, 1 October 2023)/ Mentorship
When someone was sentence to death innocently and the appeal Court discharge the case and aqueted after 14 years no conpesation nothing what can person do to the goverment? --Akile1970 (talk) 07:16, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Akile1970, will answer on your talk (BTW I don't see your name on my mentor list ) ,thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:20, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Computing Homestudy Level 2 (09:07, 9 October 2023)/ Mentorship
Hello, how do I create a new page? --Computing Homestudy Level 2 (talk) 09:07, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Computing Homestudy Level 2, will answer on your talk ,thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:54, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Kipkemoi jared (11:00, 20 October 2023)/ Mentorship
help to insert table of contents --Kipkemoi jared (talk) 11:00, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Kipkemoi jared, will answer on your talk ,thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:21, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Sdkch (17:02, 20 October 2023)/ Mentorship
Hello, how can I replace a photograph in a Wikipedia entry? --Sdkch (talk) 17:02, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Sdkch, will answer on your talk ,thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:08, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Alqidof (04:32, 28 October 2023)/ Mentorship
Hello Im New And was wondering if there is a easy way7 to insert images --Alqidof (talk) 04:33, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Alqidof, will answer on your talk ,thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:20, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive
<div style="border: 2px solid #484898; background: #FFF; background-color:#98FB98; padding: 1ex 1ex 1ex 1.5ex; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; font-size: 99%"> Hello Ozzie10aaaa:

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There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:02, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

John Oghalai/(wikiproject medicine)^
Hi! I see you are a member of WikiProject Medicine. I am seeking assistance in a matter regarding the page of Dr. John Oghalai. W12SW77 (talk) 03:59, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * will look --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:15, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Jdsuther21 (18:23, 7 November 2023)/ Mentorship
Hi - I'd like to add a company to Wikipedia (Sonix https://sonix.ai).

How do I do that? --Jdsuther21 (talk) 18:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Jdsuther21, will answer on your talk page,thank you --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:47, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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Mentor Welcome template/ Mentorship
Hello, I just wanted to let you know that you recently left a message on User talk:Dog24424 using Template:Mentor welcome but forgot to substitute the template, as well as leave a signature. --  Cosmic6811  🍁 ( T ·  C ) 01:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * thank you for catching that, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:21, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Rqkaiju2 on Data I/O (20:14, 9 November 2023)/ Mentorship
How do I make it not seem like an advertisement? I really don't see any peacock terms or anything... --Rqkaiju2 (talk) 20:14, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Rqkaiju2, if you have a COI your not suppose to edit the article please see .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:42, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Koko1234567810 (18:04, 12 November 2023)/ Mentorship
say hello how do i edit --Koko1234567810 (talk) 18:04, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Koko1234567810, will answer on your talk page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:49, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from ONEAL09 (04:57, 20 November 2023)/ Mentorship
Hello 🤩 --ONEAL09 (talk) 04:57, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, ONEAL09 should you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:18, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Lulu.com/AFC
Hello. I'm following up on 's post (Special:Diff/1185987251) with some added context. You approved the draft for Norfolk and Western 2050 (Special:Diff/1181035420) with the comment that it was "notable and well sourced." One of the two sources is a book published through Lulu.com. Lulu is a self-publishing platform, and per WP:LULU shouldn't be used on Wikipedia. There is a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents concerning the behavior of the creator, who has managed to submit several low-quality drafts through the AfC process. Best, Mackensen (talk) 12:19, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * thank you for bringing this to my attention, I commented at the link you have provided, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:03, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mellan Praxy on Indifference curve (21:14, 21 November 2023)/ Mentorship
hello,,can you please explain to me on the concept of indifference curve --Mellan Praxy (talk) 21:15, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, Mellan Praxy will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:06, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Nicker Nifty (04:42, 23 November 2023)/ Mentorship
How can I claim my artist profile --Nicker Nifty (talk) 04:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Nicker Nifty, I would usually answer on your user page however in this case you should see ASAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages ,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:46, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * thank you, have voted--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Six-planet resonance/AFC
I'm a bit concerned that you promoted this article, not so much because of the multiple grammar and spelling errors and overlinking, but because the image clearly has an invalid attribution to the article editor, and on the Planet S site appears to have a non-commercial licence, so there is a copyright issue. Don't we normally sort out these things before promotion? Thanks <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - <i style="font-family:arial;color:green">talk to me?</i> 14:15, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * yes your correct the image issue did get by me, and I am in  your debt (the individual who posted it as "own work" should be warned/blocked..IMO), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:47, 3 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I've posted a warning, that's normal for a first infringement, usually a competence issue rather than malice <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - <i style="font-family:arial;color:green">talk to me?</i> 08:58, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation/(wikiproject med)^
Hi Ozzie10aaaa :) I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 12:46, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * done--Ozzie10aaaa (talk), thank you 13:44, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Locomotive articles on AfC/AFC
Hi Ozzie, please note that this AfD thread was closed with consensus to block the IP and to delete any future drafts they create as G5. They have continued to create drafts under IP socks; you accepted Grand Trunk Western Class K-4b. I recommend taking a close look at any drafts about American locomotives created by IPs that geolocate to Australia, as they're very likely by this user. If you're unsure about a draft, feel free to ping myself and/or. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:33, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Pi.1415926535, thank you for the heads up, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:51, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Seyed Farhad Anvari (08:14, 16 December 2023) Mentorship
Dear mentor, it is my glory to join here. i would like to add an article about IELTS education in Tabriz City. --Seyed Farhad Anvari (talk) 08:14, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Seyed Farhad Anvari, will answer on your talk page, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:30, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question from CreeperOnSmoker (20:02, 20 December 2023) Mentorship
Hello I would like to know how to edit --CreeperOnSmoker (talk) 20:02, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi CreeperOnSmoker, will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:05, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * Thank you and Merry Christmas to you, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:23, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Davey2010 thank you and Merry Christmas!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:54, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

December greetings
Thank you for your "card", - Here's mine, to be updated! - Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. - I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Gerda Arendt, Merry Christmas to you and the best 2024--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Johnbod Merry Christmas to you and all the best in 2024!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:32, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting
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 * WOW..Sdkb, the card is beautiful thank you very much, and may you have the best Christmas ever and a great 2024!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:37, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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 * Thank you and Merry Christmas to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Season's greetings!
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 * Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Harry Holidays and a great 2024!, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:55, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#01902a; background-color:darkred; border-width:3px; text-align:center; padding:3px; width:800px;" class="plainlinks"> Merry Christmas! ''Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส!'' ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete! Hello, Ozzie10aaaa! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas and the best 2024 to you!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:03, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Chicken linguistics (20:29, 31 December 2023) Mentorship
Hi. How are you? --Chicken linguistics (talk) 20:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Chicken linguistics, please feel free to ask any questions (will leave note on your page), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:04, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

File for plate of cookies
Hello. I have a question. Where can I find the file for the plate of cookies so I can include it on my userpage? Chicken linguistics (talk) 19:53, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, have answered on your talk/page, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:32, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Hello Ozzie10aaaa: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC) <small style="margin-left:15px">Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year snowman}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.

CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * CAPTAIN RAJU may you have the best 2024! --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:06, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
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Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Talk 01:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.


 * Davey2010, may 2024 bring all your wishes!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:16, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ozzie10aaaa!
<div style="border: 3px solid #FFD700; background-color: #FFFAF0; padding:0.2em 0.4em; height:auto; min-height:173px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks">

Happy New Year! Ozzie10aaaa, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Abishe (talk) 14:06, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 14:06, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you and all the best in 2024 to you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:09, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikiproject Medicine Barnstar(wikiproject med)
Mvolz (talk) 12:26, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, this is a great honor,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * A very big well done for being a well deserved number One. Whispyhistory (talk) 17:13, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you Whispy, thats very kind of you, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

== Question from ChloeV in a nutshell on Tetration (17:27, 3 January 2024) Mentorship  ==

I edited Wikepedia for Tetration, there's a few sentences that was added, I just wanted to ask, if it was proper and okay for me to add those sentences. I wanna improve and help more people comprehend subjects, and if it was okay. Thank you. --ChloeV in a nutshell (talk) 17:27, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi ChloeV in a nutshell, will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:40, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from King Ayan Das (18:00, 9 January 2024) Mentorship
How can I request page protection for an article? --King Ayan Das (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi King Ayan Das,you may want to look at, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:35, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft/afc
I've fixed all the sources. Could you review it now? &#39;&#39;Flux55&#39;&#39; (talk) 16:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * thank you for your edits, will look (as time permits)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:19, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

== Question from Aya1904 on Steve Andropoulos and Betsy Stewart (13:50, 24 January 2024) Mentorship  ==

How do I edit? --Aya1904 (talk) 13:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Aya1904, will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Site Alpha (21:17, 2 February 2024) Mentorship
Will you please review the revert of edit made on this particular page before my re-write, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Carraro, as I believe it is unwarranted and likely made with some sort of personal bias between the editor and the subject. Clearly the subjects article does not follow in any form with other former State Senators on the site. I also have a form for the page of a copy of a resolution with minutes adopting the said resolution that need to be archived. How does one go about that? --Site Alpha (talk) 21:17, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ozzie, I've addressed this user's amazing first edit on their talk page. The Carraro article has a long history of UPEs/socks adding unsourced and poorly-sourced peacock puffery, and this account is just the latest one to pop up and do the same. It's even clear from the edit summary of this latest one that it's Carraro himself that's somehow responsible for all this, one way or another. Fred Zepelin (talk) 05:39, 3 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Fred Zepelin, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:37, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Smithml on Lorraine Mair (09:25, 6 February 2024) Mentorship
Checking if I can delete DOB. Please --Smithml (talk) 09:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Smithml, will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:41, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sadhu98 on Gandhabanik (08:13, 10 February 2024) Mentorship
The caste mentioned here is totally misinformation and wrongly added without no knowledge and proof. --Sadhu98 (talk) 08:13, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Sadhu98, will answer on your talk,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Bjoe8 (08:05, 13 February 2024) Mentorship
Hi --Bjoe8 (talk) 08:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi,Bjoe8 I left a note on your talk/page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:16, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Aleerajai (18:43, 22 February 2024) Mentorship
Hello mentor, i want to add a company details and and the Owner (CEO) details to Wikipedia so that it will appear on search engine when people search about it, can you please guide me what i have to do for that --Aleerajai (talk) 18:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Aleerajai, I will answer on your talk/page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:26, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

March 2024 GAN backlog drive

 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:15, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Penbraya /AFC
It appeared from your comment that you were requesting technical assistance in dealing with the redirect from the title to the more general article. In the future, if you want a redirect deleted so that a draft can be accepted, please tag it for speedy deletion with db-afc-move, which is a Twinkle option. I have moved the redirect out of the way and tagged it for deletion and accepted the article. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Robert McClenon, yes your correct, thank you for accepting the article ( in the future I'll db-afc-move, to be frank I didn't know), Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I thought you didn't know. That's why I explained it to you.  There are details that are not well publicized.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:53, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * thanks again, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from EditorRechts (21:48, 5 March 2024) Mentorship
Good morning. I'm trying to reach you because I submitted a new article – the name of the draft is Mondex Corporation. Is there any way I can usher it more rapidly to review and, hopefully, publication? --EditorRechts (talk) 21:48, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi EditorRechts, I will answer on your talk/page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:26, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gladissidley (manual request) Mentorship
Hi, can you help me with my recent submission that got declined?Gladissidley (talk) 07:07, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, Gladissidley, please see you may also re-submit your article, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:47, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sadikul Masduq (13:02, 18 March 2024) Mentorship
Hello sir, can you help to add a biography on Wikipedia ? --Sadikul Masduq (talk) 13:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, Sadikul Masduq will answer on your talk/page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:19, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Agrave13 (20:59, 24 March 2024) Mentorship
Hi Ozzie, I have had my account for quite a while now, and I've made seven edits to various pages. But I still don't see an option to "move" (or publish an article) from my sandbox. Any suggestions? Thanks! --Agrave13 (talk) 20:59, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Agrave13, will answer on your talk page, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:49, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from The Music Arena Africa (21:10, 26 March 2024) Mentorship
Hi, I'd like to setup a company profile page with subcategories and links to the other companies it owns --The Music Arena Africa (talk) 21:10, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi The Music Arena Africa, you should be advised of COI,please read--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from FinalImpact2 on Jennifer Nicole Lee (01:57, 28 March 2024) Mentorship
As recommended and for practice, I made some minor changes. Most of them are punctuation-related. I would love to hear your comments. --FinalImpact2 (talk) 01:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi FinalImpact2, will answer on your talk page, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:35, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.34
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:27, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

== Question from Sani raj sharma on List of Hindi film actors (09:37, 8 April 2024)  Mentorship  ==

Hello --Sani raj sharma (talk) 09:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Sani raj sharma, did you have a question on List of Hindi film actors, please let me know--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

MEDRS review needed/Vascular dementia(wikiproject med)^
If you've got a few minutes, would you mind going through Vascular dementia and tagging or removing the worse of the outdated or obviously MEDRS-non-compliant sources? So much of it is outdated that I think just identifying the worst of the worst would help a lot. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:43, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * WAID, no problem, Ozzie✅--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:36, 10 April 2024 (UTC)


 * for your help. I really appreciate it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:41, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!(wikiproject med)

 * Dustfreeworld thank you, that's very kind of you, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from DoutimiFiepre (10:11, 12 April 2024) Mentorship
Hello mentor, Please, I'd like to know more about editing and benefits of having an account here on Wikipedia. --DoutimiFiepre (talk) 10:11, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi DoutimiFiepre, I will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Slippyplumpotato (01:25, 22 April 2024) Mentorship
Hi. I just made an account as I wanted to link my anonymous edits together - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=81.108.69.245&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50. They are currently under my IP address. Can they please be reallocated? --Slippyplumpotato (talk) 01:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Slippyplumpotato, will answer on your talk page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:02, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

== Question from S. S. Kondiram Badhe Maharaj on (16:32, 22 April 2024)  Mentorship   ==

How to upload an imege to publishing --S. S. Kondiram Badhe Maharaj (talk) 16:32, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi S. S. Kondiram Badhe Maharaj will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:09, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from VanityLane (19:39, 27 April 2024) Mentorship
I don't want to become an editor I just want to put up a name, and a few news links for Harold P Kopp Who invented the surge suppressor. It was originally called the Zap Trap, and was patented.

He went on to do so much more: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/buffalonews/name/harold-kopp-obituary?id=6416685

May 31, 1941 - Aug. 16 2018 --VanityLane (talk) 19:39, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi VanityLane, the important thing is if you have a COI in so doing, please read link, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Max Elliott1 (10:20, 2 May 2024)  Mentorship
Dear Ozzie10aaaa, Could you please check my draft article. I made several improvements two days ago and I'm worrying I did something wrong and the approval would take another million years((( --Max Elliott1 (talk) 10:21, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, Max Elliott1 I will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:21, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

was my article removed? If yes, how to extract the text?
Hi Ozzie, I can't find the draft of the article I've been writing. Was it removed? If yes, how to extract the text back? Max Elliott1 (talk) 19:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:40, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C
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 * You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. 

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

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 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:29, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Scjones86 (21:48, 6 May 2024) Mentorship
Hi there! Trying to add x2 links to Mike Wilson's Wiki page - - and struggling a bit: https://venturebeat.com/games/medicinal-media-highlights-links-between-games-and-healing/

And this one: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230501005476/en/Medicinal-Media-This-New-Nonprofit-Is-Going-to-Show-You-How-to-Bring-Media-Into-Your-Wellness --Scjones86 (talk) 21:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi,Scjones86 will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Draft:N767BA
> N767BA /AFC ==

Hello there, Ozzie10aaaa! I cannot thank you enough for accepting my draft into the article work space! I was astonished to see it already accepted since I literally created and submitted the draft that day and I was preparing to wait for over a month, which I did with Air India Flight 829. Thank you very much, sir! CreatorMH (talk) 16:16, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * the article was well sourced, written and no copyvio, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:43, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikiproject Medicine May 2024 Newsletter

 * Issue 22&mdash;May 2024


 * WikiProject Medicine Newsletter

Hello all. Another irregular edition of the newsletter. I was inspired to collect this after seeing several medicine-interested editors nominate their first good article. Please review a GA nomination if you have time, and help support our colleagues' efforts:

WP:MED News
 * Good article reassessment is back in business, with a new process and new coordinators. If you see medicine-related GAs that may no longer meet the GA criteria, feel free to nominate them for attention/reassessment (please, not too many at once, lest we get overwhelmed). I'll incorporate them into the listings above.
 * Maintenance category of the month: Articles with topics of unclear notability (I've listed just the 36 that start with "A"; there are 398 total).
 * Note for the curious: 24,211 of the 57,554 articles (42%) tagged as part of WP:MED have some maintenance tag.

Newsletter ideas, comments, and criticisms welcome here.

You are receiving this because you added your name to the WikiProject Medicine mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Medicine at 21:22, 25 May 2024 (UTC).


 * thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:40, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Naageshwarg (17:35, 27 May 2024) Mentorship
I want to edit an article called 'Narendra Modi' --Naageshwarg (talk) 17:35, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Naageshwarg, will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:48, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from BradLeyDLawson (02:06, 29 May 2024) Mentorship
Cam you change the title to mine Forge (software) to Forge & Table it needs to be scanned and cookied. Also, I have many others I can’t find them all, May you find them? --BradLeyDLawson (talk) 02:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi BradLeyDLawson, could you clarify your question its not entirely clear--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:31, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from BradLeyDLawson (02:19, 29 May 2024)
I’m an M.D. Q.M.Tech.Engnr. --BradLeyDLawson (talk) 02:19, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi BradLeyDLawson, did you have another question about an article, please ask --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:38, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Anthony Gunadi (14:13, 30 May 2024) Mentorship
Hello, I am new and I was testing uploading images on sandbox. As a quick test I put "testing" and "test" in the title and description, but I didn't know that the images uploaded there would be immediately uploaded to the public. I would like to upload them later in a real article, but would I take down these pictures for now? --Anthony Gunadi (talk) 14:13, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Anthony Gunadi, I will answer on your talk page,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from Bumagga (05:15, 5 June 2024) Mentorship
Hello. What is the etiquette with respect to restructuring an existing page? Is it preferable to make several small changes in sequence, or to make one large change? For example, in adding references and citations to existing content, I am also encountering additional statements of fact. These additions would justify additional sections (i.e., prompting some content to move). For instance, a current "History" section might be split into sections for "History" and "Facilities". Thank you. --Bumagga (talk) 05:15, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Bumagga, will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:48, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Miri1966 (21:09, 6 June 2024) Mentorship
Hi I'm trying to get a page restored that was soft deleted. Do you have any advice? --Miri1966 (talk) 21:09, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Miri1966, I will answer on your talk page, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

== Question from Habibullah Mohammad Khan Abdul-Siddiq Gondal Sameer (13:23, 9 June 2024) Mentorship  ==

How do you add images on a page? If you need clarification or more detail, please let me know --Habibullah Mohammad Khan Abdul-Siddiq Gondal Sameer (talk) 13:23, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Habibullah Mohammad Khan Abdul-Siddiq Gondal Sameer, will answer on you talk, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Max Elliott1 (12:15, 11 June 2024) Mentorship
Hi Ozzie, I need to delete all my drafts urgently. Could you help me with that? --Max Elliott1 (talk) 12:15, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Max Elliott1, I will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from DarbieIsANerd (17:50, 12 June 2024) Mentorship
How to know if your edit is proper? --DarbieIsANerd (talk) 17:51, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi DarbieIsANerd, I will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from EgoBoros (01:38, 20 June 2024) Mentorship
Hi good evening, I have a question on how to implement links embedded to words in the edits, I am unsure how to do something like that. if you can provide any assistance it will be very helpful. thanks in advance! --EgoBoros (talk) 01:39, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi EgoBoros, I will answer on your talk page, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:36, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Page Francesca E. DeMeo/AFC
Thank you @Ozzie10aaaa for your contributions and acceptance of the Francesca E. DeMeo page. Francesca is known as Francesca E. Demeo and Francesca DeMeo. But the link Francesca DeMeo directs to "Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000". Can I change the redirect? Thanks in advance. Amage9 (talk) 12:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * the article in question was notable...in terms of the redirect should help,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks Amage9 (talk) 13:44, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lost-in-an-internet-vortex (16:34, 22 June 2024) Mentorship
Hi! I just realized I have a mentor here. That's nice, thanks for your support :). I just edited the page on Pinky Cole to add a section about her book 'I Hope You Fail', only I don't know if I did it right or polished up enough considering I'm adding a whole new section. I have intents to add new articles in the future so I'd like to be able to know whether or not I'm doing this part correctly initially, would you mind taking a look at that edit? Thank you again! --Lost-in-an-internet-vortex (talk) 16:34, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Lost-in-an-internet-vortex, I'll answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:46, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ctorres1995 (13:57, 26 June 2024) Mentorship
I was trying to created a page someone already has the name but hasn’t been published is there a way to use it --Ctorres1995 (talk) 13:57, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * not to my knowledge, I'm afraid I need to agree with --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Citing social media comments/COVID 19 pandemic
Hey, what's up with this? That source is just a comment on an NYT article left by, which is him mostly just talking about Wikipedia. I'd assume that was a mistake and you didn't intend to cite his social media commentary -- do you know what happened there? (See here and here for additional context). Endwise (talk) 08:23, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * IMO due to the editors real life merits (and the significance of the topic)I though including it was 'borderline', even though it was not a journal...however in retrospect you are correct, thank you,Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:15, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I see, all good. Endwise (talk) 12:20, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Perla.oh (21:36, 3 July 2024) Mentorship
Hi, there is one article that is peovising false information about a person. I can say this as rhw person was my grand grandfather and based on all the documents that we vot as a family the post on wikipedia is shaming him and providing details which are false. I have tried updating it several times but instead bot traffic is reverting or updating immediately. Is there a way to make lasting changes and protect the article from bot ? --Perla.oh (talk) 21:36, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi,Perla.oh- I believe you should post your request at the talk page in question, and discuss this with other editors on the article, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from AnthonyL1947 (22:49, 3 July 2024) Mentorship
Hi Is there any research on stem cell treatment for continual post nasal drip? --AnthonyL1947 (talk) 22:50, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, AnthonyL1947- please see our stem cell treatment article, to see if it has the information you are requesting, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:15, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Scjones86 (02:34, 7 July 2024)(Mentorship second question see above)
Hey, S. Jones here again. Sorry to bug you! Added x2 more recent stories to the Mike Wilson profile on Wikipedia, including a link to a Forbes story and a link to a Gamesbeat story. Links are hypertext for the moment. Unsure how to add the links to the References section at the bottom. Can you kindly assist? (Grateful for your assistance!) Best, S. Jones in Vancouver

These are the two links: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jiawertz/2024/06/07/how-purpose-driven-entrepreneurs-shape-the-future/

https://venturebeat.com/games/medicinal-media-brings-in-jada-pinkett-smith-and-adriene-mishler-to-board/ --Scjones86 (talk) 02:34, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Scjones86, will answer on your talk page, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:50, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

RNU4-2 Syndrome/AFC
Hello

I am fairly new to Wikipedia. You declined my draft article Draft:RNU4-2 Syndrome on the grounds that the phrase RNU4-2 Syndrome does not appear in PubMed. However, a search does return 3 results, these are to two papers and a pre-print. See here. The proposed article cites the two publications describing the disorder. This is a new disorder only just discovered and neither publication proposes a name. RNU4-2 Syndrome is the most parsimonious choice of name, because the disorder is caused by mutations in the gene RNU4-2. An alternative choice might be 'NEDHAFA', which is an initialism assigned by OMIM (here), the leading reference database for inherited genetic disorders. However, this is rather an unnatural word to use as a name. HumGenofessor (talk) 19:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * the article in question can be resubmitted (however I would wait for better/more sources),preprints are not ideal, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:33, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Two of the papers are published and peer-reviewed. They contain very very strong evidence: 73 unrelated individuals is an enormous number for rare disease research. HumGenofessor (talk) 12:48, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I've just noticed that the pre-print has now been published here so I will add it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07773-7 HumGenofessor (talk) 12:50, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I have now resubmitted the draft with the updated citations. Thanks. HumGenofessor (talk) 13:30, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Alphamoses (12:22, 12 July 2024) Mentorship
How do I create a wiki page about somone --Alphamoses (talk) 12:22, 12 July 2024 (UTC) :Hi Alphamoses, will answer on your talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:15, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from GAbhuk obesity fat blogger (12:47, 21 July 2024) Mentorship
Hello my mentor I have created 6 citation edits but all my edits are reverted why? Please suggest me. --GAbhuk obesity fat blogger (talk) 12:47, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi GAbhuk obesity fat blogger I will answer on your talk page, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:54, 21 July 2024 (UTC)