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SPI

Your report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mw0001 was exceptionally thorough and clear. Thanks. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:13, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

WP:AN3

Hi. At the edit-warring noticeboard, you stated that I had broken the three revert rule on Brad Marchand. The 3RR states that users may not have MORE than 3 reverts on the same page in 24 hours. Given that I have only ever edited the page in question 3 times, and have therefore not broken the 3RR, I'd appreciate it if you would retract your comment at the noticeboard. Cheers, Dawn Bard (talk) 04:42, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

My apologies. On my way. Higgyrun3 (talk) 04:44, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Much appreciated. Cheers, Dawn Bard (talk) 04:47, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

User:Brobb1

First, a good morning to you; concerning your last message on the users talk-page I disagree: he is indeed allowed to blank his talk-page ("Simply deleting others' comments on your talk page is permitted, but most editors prefer archiving....... removal of a comment is taken as proof that the user has read it."). So, I would have left his blanking alone. Just saying. He is plastering me with email half of the time, btw. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 06:57, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I guess I was being overzealous. I went back and undid my changes Attaboy (talk) 07:18, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, and no problem, of course. Lectonar (talk) 07:44, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Hi, I'm LuisCerni who wrote about Wernicke and it seems that you did not like. This disease is terrible and affects 2% of humanity. Oddly enough, is poorly studied and is convenient an updated Wikipedia page. Long ago I did with that page in Wikipedia in Spanish. Some say that I have much knowledge of the subject. I hope your help to edit and save many lives and suffering. Luis Luis cerni (talk) 17:46, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	hello again, about wernicke. I understand that the main text were missing references, but the final scheme was perfect. You need to understand the theme to give fair value of content and form. Luis Luis cerni (talk) 00:55, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Citation Barnstar

hello, thanks for your answer. My native language is Spanish language and appreciate your corrections. My research about Wernicke has been highly appreciated by the British Medical Society, which has distinguished me asking me to review other neurological research. Please do not fear for the conceptual content. Definitely make mistakes related to the rules of Wikipedia and lenguage. I have chosen to publish also in W. because it is a very fast channel to reach many people. .............. The value of the list is precisely the number of links, that makes sense, please do not remove it, is OK even to WP:NOTLINK .......... This disease is terrible, very widespread and poorly studied. I hope your cooperation in the changes I make in the near future. Cheers!! Luis Luis cerni (talk) 03:00, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

CONFUSION

	CONFUSION
	knowing your interest in the order in W. , We reported that 2 pages referring to the same and that should be unified. Obviously one is very complete and some not. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Only one difference capital letter in the title. Cheers again. Luis Luis cerni (talk) 03:20, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

antipsychotic

Hi attaboy, this article, even though has quite a lot of information, and is generally accurate, is a bit confusing for most readers. I am trying to add a simple paragraph summarizing the actions, and making ir clearer, as most people dont know what dopamine is. You should discuss it rather than just deleting the whole thing. Same thing happens with the dopamine article is too scientific and too much detail for most readers who will be put off. Discuss please. What I mean is, I am editting in good faith and dont want to scare the shit out of people, but the average mom and dad need to know, very clearly, what these drugs do. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Booklaunch (talk • contribs) 07:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for including the SPI

I'm not quite sure this rises to barnstar level, but as a regular AIV admin I thank you profusely for including a link to the SPI with your report on Angry4321 (talk · contribs). It's often difficult for us to follow when someone reports an "obvious sock" but we don't know who the sockmaster is nor can we tell. Including that information made reviewing the report (and, obviously, the ensuing indefinite block) so much easier. It's appreciated. Daniel Case (talk) 16:35, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

"It"

I noted a message you left for an IP editor at Talk:Physical medicine and rehabilitation#Article is flawed, where you use the third person singular. Whilst the gender of IP editors is impossible to determine without more information, and therefore "it" could be argued to appropriate, it could also be interpreted as disrespectful. You can still address the person in question, instead of seemingly talking over their head as if they were not involved in the discussion. Since your comment links to basic wikipedia policies, including one about being polite, do you feel that these do not apply to you when speaking to IP editors? Lesion (talk) 21:13, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

On second reading of your comment, it wasn't disrespectful at all. Apologies I just woke up, Lesion (talk) 21:13, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Beasley

FYI, his number is listed here: [1] Zagalejo^^^ 00:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

• WHO's list of Essential Medicines[2]
• Neglected tropical diseases[3]
• Key diseases for medical subspecialties like: oncology, emergency medicine (list), anatomy, internal medicine, surgery, etc.

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

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Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
  Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
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Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [4]

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2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship

Did you mean to nominate 2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship for deletion rather than its talk page? Everymorning (talk) 21:47, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Stub tags

Please take care not to add {{stub}} to an article which already has a correct specific stub tag, as you did in this edit. It just wastes other people's time. Thanks. PamD 21:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

My bad, I didn't look for the tag at the bottom of the page as I should have Attaboy (talk) 21:59, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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