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Your editing of Anorexia Nervosa article
You removed a substantial amount of material from the Anorexia Nervosa (AN) article, I believe your editing greatly reduces the article's quality. Substantial edits should be explained Talk Pages and approved by other editors. With regard to the "relationship to Autism" section I added, I would have liked to have explained to you why is is important. I have instead reinstated the section on the "Relationship to Autism". You're welcome to discuss any further edits on the articles talk page. --Diamonddavej (talk) 17:15, 27 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your correspondence. Yes I have indeed done quite a lot of editing and pruning of the anorexia article. Whether it reduces the quality of the article I seriously doubt it. The article a while back was an absolute shambles. If you look back over the history of the article I think people have basically just added bits and pieces over the months, most of it was just anecdotal hearsay and superfluous..and it was certainly not suitable for a medical article.. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia and I think now it looks a lot tighter and reads with a lot more accuracy ..Best Wishes...StevieNic (talk) 18:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I have looked at previous versions of the AN article, and it did become very messy after I added my section on autism and anorexia, I was not aware of how messy it got. But that said, I think you went too far in your edits and some important material was removed, especially the relationship to autism section, which is the basis of the Maudsley approach to treating AN - the only treatment that has substantial and long lasting benefits. --Diamonddavej (talk) 18:50, 27 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Just to follow up on your recent reinstatement of Relationship to Autism Section and Yes, checking cited sources and other medical articles.(google.scholar & pubmed) and there does seem to be credible evidence (as per WP:MEDRS) that supports Family based treatments so this does deserve a mention in the main article. However we must take care not to give 'undue weight' and maintain a NPOV within WP guidelines. There is already mention of family based treatments in the 'Treatments' section.StevieNic (talk) 22:50, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Anorexia Nervosa
StevieNic (talk) 09:51, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi there!

Thanx for sniping that stray 'genes'. I would like to expand the genetics section even further, please give me your opinion on if you think this is needed.

Thanx again! Matterask (talk) 10:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


 * By all means, it probably could do with a bit of expansion, but only if reliable sources can be cited and as long as the section doesn't get too bloated,StevieNic (talk) 15:48, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Problem user(s)
Hi StevieNic

I noticed you reverted a contentious mass edit at CFS earlier. Can you look into the following?

Recruitment, or reactivation here: followed by:


 * Mass revert at CFS


 * Deletion of other users's comments about KCCO's problematic editing at WPI:


 * Unsubtantiable claim that I attacked her, with a threat of blocking, on my userpage.

As you're more involved with these issues, and WP procedures in general, you might know how to check whether these two accounts are in any way connected. Thanks, Sam Weller (talk) 16:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the communication..StevieNic (talk) 15:06, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Please see Sockpuppet investigations/Keepcalmandcarryon. Sam Weller (talk) 08:41, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Whittemore Peterson Institute
Steve, it's great to have a new pair of eyes looking at this article from a fresh perspective. Can I ask you to have a scan through the talk history on this. The article has been hacked around so much through Keepcalmandcarryon's mass reverts that we've lost some references. In the case of the the ref your just added, I've switched it to the later version of his article search the talk page for my post TSed "18:35, 6 February 2010" to see the discussion of this.

If you need electronic copy of any of the refs and can't access them then PM me and I'll email you a copy. -- TerryE (talk) 23:27, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, Thanks for the communication. I shall have a look through to see if anything has been lost or misinterpreted..Thanks..StevieNic (talk) 10:39, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
I appreciate you reverting back the CFS page. I'm just trying to make the CFS page better and more accurate, and in so doing help patients to get the best information available. --sciencewatcher (talk) 18:12, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Removal of information from Chronic fatigue syndrome
I have reverted your removal of the information recently merged to Chronic fatigue syndrome. Please do not remove the information until we have a consensus. I have started a discussion on the talk page. I do not feel the discussion you pointed me is consensus enough, and there is no guarantee it would have been closed as delete in afd. Tatterfly (talk) 20:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I call 7 to 1 a consensus, so therefore I've deleted it again..StevieNic (talk) 21:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring over a Proposed Deletion notice
Edit war over a Proposed Deletion notice one more time and you will lose your editing privileges. If a Proposed Deletion is challenged, Proposed Deletion is not the mechanism to use and the notice must not be restored. Uncle G (talk) 12:29, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Edit warring
 * Proposed deletion


 * How can I be on a warning when I was just restoring an edit which was going against a consensus.?.If I have caused any problems then I do profoundly apologize..What more can I say. I hope you've issued warnings against other editors involved in this as well ??StevieNic (talk) 13:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Never, ever restore a Prod notice that's been removed, it's that simple. Prod is only for non-controversial deletions, and this one is definitely controversial (even if only a minority dispute it). If a redirect is reverted, the solution is to go to AfD to get a proper resolution to the dispute, which I've now done. I should've done that in the first place instead of starting the discussion on the talk page. Fences  &amp;  Windows  13:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response,,I will take that on board. Best Wishes..StevieNic (talk) 14:29, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

easily ?
About your edit. I'm confused by your edit summary, "I don't think the word 'easily' even comes into it". Could you elaborate? Thanks. Ward20 (talk) 20:30, 1 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Apololgies...My mistake...I've just reverted it back again..I thought I was removing the word 'easily'.Instead I was just re-adding it.StevieNic (talk) 21:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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