User talk:Tmwmd

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Todd Wider
I've done what I can to "wikiify" your article, and it looks fairly good. I recommend you read WP:N and WP:AUTO (two policies that are relavant to anyone writing their own article. Any questions, just holler :) Gl e n 04:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Janet's Law
Todd, I think you're misinterpreting my objections to both the breast reconstruction article and to your entry. Mentioning of your particular patient is really peripheral to a overview entry on breast reconstruction. You could (and should) arguably include mention of it on the entry specific to that legislation where it is germaine to that issue. In re. to your personal entry, to avoid wikipedia from devolving into collection of "everything" (which is not the role wikipedia nominally serves) you have to do some kind of editing. There are skeletal standards suggested for notability, for which I though your own inclusion was marginal but it's been thru the review process and kept, so be it. I have no animus towards you personally, I just keep an eye on the proliferation of biographies in our field to try and define some kind of standard of notability for inclusion. If you'll notice my history, I've brought about a dozen articles up for deletion, as well as initiating biographies a a few surgeons I personally thought noteworthy (Bunke, Rod Rohrich, Hiram Polk, Joeseph Fischer, among others). Please accpet my apology if anything I've done has appeared to be offensive to yourself. I'm thrilled any other Plastic Surgeons get interested enough in Wikipedia to become contributors. Cheers! Dr. Rob Oliver Jr. Droliver 20:17, 4 December 2007 (UTC)