User talk:Sqlman

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KY -> GA
Thanks for this correction. Abecedare (talk) 00:35, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates_for_deletion
I have nominated Template:2009 swine flu outbreak table for deletion. I have notified you because you are freqent or recent contributor to the template. Barnaby dawson (talk) 16:40, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Question
You mean the cumulative total of the cases, include or DOES NOT include the newly confirmed cases? Yongjianrong (talk) 03:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I am getting really confused. Then, I guess I'll just have to revert back the Sweden, New Zealand and United States ones. Yongjianrong (talk) 03:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Case Counts
Could you give me some examples (refs) where countries do so? | FHessel (talk) 14:45, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Your recent updates
Hi, I am afraid, that you have not seen my alert on the talk page. Several sites have been massively changed, possibly vandalized by a certain user. It is the same one, who tried repeatedly to insert unreferenced high numbers for Brazil and Argentina. The Canadian numbers are affected, too. Unfortunately I think, that we have to check all edits of this user. What about checkmarking everything one of us has done on the talk page? FHessel (talk) 19:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi again, I reduced the Indonesian fatalities back to 1. This has the following reasons: the news source was citing an relative as source for the third case. This is not an official confirmation. We cannot know, what reasons are behind that relative's statement, whether he has the expertise to assess the case, whether he wants to be in the spotlight, ... So better to wait, until there is an official confirmation. The second case happened in Saudi Arabia. It is well possible (and probable IMO), that this woman is one of the four Saudi Arabian cases. I think it is noticable, that the news report does not cite any health officials in this case either. Happy editing, FHessel (talk) 08:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your message! Regarding Indonesia: First I was confused, too. The ref next to the fatalities was 'ecdc' and it was confirming 1 death. But the ref next to the confirmed cases told a story about 3 deaths. This was the article I was referring to.

Regarding the totals: I was assuming, that you are using some kind of tool. It would require a calculating addict, to recalculate this table manually several times a day. I use Excel as tool and I have created an worksheet, that fulfils exactly the same purpose: I just copy/paste the whole table into the worksheet and I get the totals as result. It was pure coincidence, that I recalculated the totals, while you were updating the table (I did not look up the history).

I know, that I can trust your edits. There is one reason I rechecked Indonesia: I had seen this news report citing the relative yesterday and I had decided not to use it. So I was curious, whether there had been another confirmation.

FHessel (talk) 12:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back!
Hey, have you been frustrated or have you been on holiday?

Anyway, nice to see you back again!

FHessel (talk) 10:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Holiday? I wish! ;-) No, just a lot of personal stuff going on--moves and the like--along with frustration at the way the table has been demoted in importance (as though the regional death counts are the only thing that matters). Oh, well... Anyway, thanks for the nice welcome! Sqlman (talk) 11:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)