User talk:Samir/Archive 1

Re:career
Thanks for your nice comments on my talk page. I don't know what profession I'll be pursuing. I'm confused between computer engg. and medicine, so it may turn out I'll need your help. Thanks.-- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  15:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey
You seem to be of the gastroenterological persuation! Welcome. Don't forget to create an AFD page for splenic-flexure syndrome and to list it on WP:AFD. At the moment, nobody knows why you want it deleted.

We have a lot of doctors hanging out at WikiProject Clinical medicine. You're free to join. We work collaboratively on major articles and do some streetfighting with quacks as well :-). JFW | T@lk  09:06, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your kind comment. I'm a bit of an old hand on Wikipedia, and as an administrator I may be able to help in difficult situations. Does your colleague also have a login name?


 * Endoscopy images will be very welcome. Some GI pages are in an abysmal state (e.g. the IBD pages). While I have an interest in gastroenterology, I've found the task too daunting to attack the subjects head-on. Steven Holland (User:Kd4ttc) is also a GI doc. JFW | T@lk  09:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada
Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 01:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Deep Dish Pizza
Samir, I will personally reccomend the largest chain, which uses the telephone number (403) 531-3131. I will also reccomend green peppers, pepperoni, and mushroom.

Question
Hey, Sam, where did you get the picture of the therapeutic endoscopy group. And is that my picture in the bottom right? Barry Zuckerkorn 18:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Fecal bacteriotherapy
I have no objections to the NPOVing of the article, I know I sometimes get too carried away in prose ;) I'll consider adding something in the future as more information becomes available, but for now, I think you did a pretty decent job of making it sound more encyclopedic. In any case, time will tell if this becomes a viable alternative to immunosuppresive and anti-inflammatory therapy. Dr Weinstocks marvelous succes with Helminth therapy certainly seems to suggest that best treatments often come from most unexpected sources. Oh yes, and remember - be bold ;) --Dr.Gonzo 15:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
My first barnstar, thanks a bunch. :) - dharmabum 09:20, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Humour
Was on RC patrol, and saw your revert comment on stupidity: "Revert vandalism. Maybe 194.83.172.69 should be added to the content" - Great comment, gave me a good giggle this morning! MartinRe 10:01, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Just came to say you a big hello. --Bhadani 14:53, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Samir. Thanks for your kind note. I have now moved the comments to the talk page. Thanks for spotting that - too early in the morning for me! :) Cheers TigerShark 09:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting my "Gay" article revert. I think Wiki Alf and I must have been reverting at the same time or something. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 09:54, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks abakharev 10:41, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism barnstar
Thanks for this I appreciate it. Keep up the good work as well!. ¡Dustimagic! ( T / C ) 18:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A barnstar for your much appreciated kindness to others. Thanks for your excellent attitude. ¡Dustimagic!  ( T / C ) 20:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Your welcome. You deserve it. ¡Dustimagic!  ( T / C ) 06:53, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD (from User talk:Joturner)
ASAK, I just wanted to commend you on your calmness regarding the AfD that you recently recommended. I understand that some users are trying to downgrade the points that you've made, in a questionable manner. Your arguments were cogently stated and we appreciate that more than the sophomoric attempts of others to dismiss them. Please keep up the good work. -- Samir  धर्म 05:44, 21 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your comment and support. joturner 06:00, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for your support of my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA ultimately succeeded with a final consensus of 52/1/0, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any comments regarding my editing, or I can help you at any point in the future, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you! └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 11:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA
Thank you for supporting me in my successful RFA. Please drop a note on my talk page, should you need assistance with anything, or have questions about any of my actions. --Aude ( talk | contribs ) 01:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
thanks ... --Falcon007 08:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again
… and thanks from me too. It is good to know that someone is seeing what I do so soon in my Wikicareeer! Tithon 13:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)(Talk) 02:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

AFD
Hello Samir. I took note of your objections to the guild, and improved the guild, i hope. i wonder if there is any other improvements the guild need to have in order to not meet the crieteria for deletion? Thanks. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Striver (talk &bull; contribs).

Thanks!
I just wanted to say thank you for voting for my RFA, of course if you ever need a hand, let me know :) - cohesion &#9733; talk 00:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi Samir,

Thank you for your kind words. I don't feel that I need administrator privileges to be able to keep doing what I do for Wikipedia. --YUL89YYZ 18:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Also, thanks for appreciating my contributions! - Liberatore(T) 12:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Fast
Thanks, I just finished it :) SirIsaacBrock 00:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Stefan Burgess
I saw you reverted the prod removal on Stefan Burgess. Don't do that. Prod is only for uncontroversial deletions, so any objection means it should move to AfD or simply be kept. See Proposed deletion. I didn't move it to AfD for you because apparently I was lazy, which I now feel bad about, but you can still do it yourself. NickelShoe 03:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

thanks thanks thanks
thanks. it is very irritating to see a mountain load of excruciating work be destroyed in line of vandalism. thx thx. I'm new here so please teach me (yoroshiku onegaisimasu-GTO) love from indonesia. Tasfan 04:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Holi greetings
Hi, I am wishing you a happy Holi, the unique Hindu celebration of color and brotherhood among all members of the humanity. The festival falls on 15th March 2006. I have collected A Gift Pack of Quotations for you contained in the sections Do things Differently & Something More , which are part of the on-going discussion pertaining to my nomination of Idleguy for adminship. You are aware of the tradition that if you throw colored water on flames of burning Holika, you enable a Prahlad to emerge from the flames!!! I again convey Holi greetings to you and your family!!!--Bhadani 14:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you.Basically I was passing through this list of rare diseases in Wikipedia when I suddenly saw this entry.This disease is a bit less rare than the very rare diseases it is listed alongwith.So I thought to make an entry.You are up so late in the night?Bye.--Dwaipayanc 08:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, there is no separate article on Gastric lymphoma.You should start building one!--Dwaipayanc 08:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi! The Gastric lymphoma needs more work.The treatment section is virtually nil.You can add some operative aspects of the treatment.I do not know much about that aspect.Please edit.Bye.--Dwaipayanc 16:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi! That was splendid job in Gastric lymphoma, a specialist touch !I think most common medical topics have been covered in Wikipedia, have to find out if any rather common entity, like this one, is missing.Bye.--Dwaipayanc 19:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

MALT lymphoma may contain some related content. JFW | T@lk  23:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Glycogen storage disease type III
Appreciate your good additions! I ended up at this article while working on WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Missing diseases. I came across "Forbes disease," but then found it was just another name for GSD-III. Happy editing! --Rewster 07:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK Gastric Lymphoma
Hey! Did you see that Gastric lymphoma appeared today in the Did you know section on the main page? That's great.Thanks for your fantastic input and also the photo.(they considered the photo as too graphic, and did not put it on the main page).However, what I could not figure out is who proposed the article for DYK ! Did you? I didn't.Anyway, the article proved to be interesting enough to feature in DYK. Bye !!--Dwaipayanc 06:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Richter's transformation
I have a query?In the section diagnosis of gastric lymphoma you have third-bracketed "checked" and linked it with Richter's tranformation, which is - so far as I know - the transformation of SLL to DLCL. Is it detectable just by hematologic parameter?--Dwaipayanc 08:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at Local gigantism. I nominated that for DYK.Thanks.--Dwaipayanc 09:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I also came to know that Richter's is transformation of CLL to NHL, particularly the DLCL type.Some others say transformation from SLL to DLCL (which occurs in ~ 5% cases).However, since CLL and SLL are more or less same thing pathologically, it comes down to the same point.However, that portion needs some clarification.I do not have much idea, please see ! Bye!
 * Very less is available about local gigantism in the net.I thoght in general surgery texts like Schwartz more info may be available.Let's see if it makes in the DYK.--Dwaipayanc 12:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, Local gigantism has made it into DYK, along with the photo!--Dwaipayanc 15:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/List of Muslim athletes (2nd nomination)
Regarding "(no fair depicting Mohammed in your basket! Must wear a burqa when weaving outside!)": it is silly, yes. Check out more of that same silliness in Islamic athletics. In that article the bit about a game of chess being equivalent to covering oneself in pig blood is particularly hilarious, and the reasoning behind it even more so!

"Are these people Muslims because they really are or because they live in countries where they are likely to be beheaded for not acting like one?" is far from tongue-in-cheek. In some countries (at least Yemen, Iran, Saudi Arabia) leaving Islam is a crime punishable by death. In some countries causing another person to leave Islam is also a capital offense. In a number of other countries, although not officially written down as a law, it is just standard operating procedure:.

So I think it is perfectly valid to ask what "Muslim athlete" is supposed to mean in the article. And does the article give the reader the right impression: Muslim does not at all necessarily mean a practitioner of the religion, but rather that the person lives under a legal system where his only choice is death. Weregerbil 13:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, your comments were inflammatory. -- Samir  धर्म 00:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

New username
Congrats on your new username, with more capitals as well! As you may have found, I have an interest in gastroenterology. Are there any articles on your hitlist for the same magic touch as UC? The whole IBD article is rather faecal, and the Crohn's article is overloaded with speculative concepts. Then there's always celiac, and the liver universe of course.... JFW | T@lk  22:25, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Category
Added you to the medical community on wikipedia. Hope you don't mind. Nomen Nescio 00:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * It merely helps the NSA so they can find us MD's more easily. But fortunately we can use it too.[[Image:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg|25px|Holland]] Nomen Nescio 00:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar!
Having only been a regiestered member of WP for a little over two months, the barnstar you recently gave me means a lot! Thanks! -- Zsinj Talk 01:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
That anon IP vandalized and I reverted, they have been trolling me for a while, I don't want to feed the trolls. -- Tawker 05:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Hugh Owen Thomas
Thanks! Eixo 00:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Separated at birth
Put it up for deletion if you want. I figured it was harmless enough. It started with a discussion I had with someone about Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain. Richard Herd and Karl Mauldin are also discussed elsewhere on the internet as being mistaken for each other. I could research them all if necessary. The one guy removed Pawlenty-Cage. I reckon he's right. But there was a photo that used to appear in the Pawlenty article that made them look similar. And there have been books written on this subject. I left out one cover illustration, which was Mick Jagger vs. Don Knotts as The Incredible Mister Limpett, which I thought was a bit much. Wahkeenah 03:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC) P.S. I'm from the Beaver State, so "OR" is in my blood. :)
 * How 'bout dose Sens, eh? Better watch for my Carolina 'Canes in the eastern semifinals, Sir. >:) Thanks for your contribution, as I was beginning to wonder if anyone else would notice. You've kind of put me on the alert about the validation, though. Once somebody does put it up for delete, as they inevitable will do, then I'll post some defence references... after which, they will still put it up as being "not notable". C'est la vie, y'all. :) Wahkeenah 03:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)