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David, Sorry, I see that I was editing and adding references, while not realizing you were online, making comments and deleting. I have looked at your comments and see that I am not up to speed on technical issues, references, and other details. I'm not a tech person and Wiki is fairly complicated. I have just looked at the reference maker link you left ( http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/?ddb=&type=pmid&id=17632164) and it will be a big help. I will stop editing for now and review these things. I could use some advice about the edit war with the commercial website ChronicProstatitis.com and the false accusations of sock puppetry he has made against me. Reasonablelogicalman 19:11, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
I am not asking David to replace the link to Prostatitis.org. But, I am asking him to delete the link to ChronicProstatitis.com, the commercial website, on the prostatitis page and on all other pages of Wikipedia, such as the pelvic myoneuropathy page. I look forward to the sock puppetry charges being proved false. Reasonablelogicalman 19:54, 30 September 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reasonablelogicalman ( talk • contribs) 19:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi David, sorry for any ill will that may have come from the melatonin article. As you may already know, the article has been nominated for Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Collaboration of the Week. I am sure you would agree that this article badly needs an overhaul. Thus, I am wondering if you could vote to nominate this for collaboration of the week. Sincerely, God Gnipael| |Talk 00:50, 03 October 2007 (UTC)
You recently commented on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Psychiatric abuse, which was closed as delete. The article has been nominated for a deletion review at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 October 5#Psychiatric abuse. Please feel free to comment on the decision there - as a contributor to the original AfD, your input would be welcomed. -- ChrisO 09:19, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi David, thanks for your edit over at Metformin. I was wondering if you could fill out reference 15, which is currently just a blue link to http://bnf.org/bnf/bnf/54/4185.htm? I'd do it myself, but I don't have access to the BNF since they limited free content... MedicinesComplete is way too expensive if I'll only use it for editing Wikipedia :) Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 00:36, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for adding a source at Goitrogen and glad a physician (or that *someone*) has finally discovered the article, and can add to it. The sources do seem to conflict, and, as you say, many sources are not very good. Any reliable information you can find regarding these foods (avocado, coconut, saturated fats, caffeine-containing foods) would be great. I think it's possible that coffee, for example, might disrupt the thyroid in complex ways, which may explain why some sources say it suppresses, while others say that it increases, thyroid function. Badagnani 20:28, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
One question: is there a term for foods that are the opposite of goitrogens? Because it might merit its own article. I have found no such term in any source. Badagnani 20:34, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, some people apparently see thyroid-stimulating foods as some sort of "antidote" to hypothyroidism, whereas in fact they can be as disrupting/damaging, just in an opposite way. Badagnani 21:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Should goitrogens be described as "anti-nutrients" (in that they interfere with iodine uptake)? I don't know the proper term.
Should L-5-vinyl-2-thiooxazolidone, which is apparently one of the actual goitrogenic compounds in Brassica vegetables, be mentioned? Badagnani 21:23, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I just came on to wikipedia and got some message about abuse- you need to get your fact sraight —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.36.102 ( talk) 14:15, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi David. The individual (Reasonablelogicalman) intent on getting his many websites, all registered as charities in the US, onto various WP pages (prostatitis page, human cloning page, and others), is becoming seriously disruptive. He has now broken another WP rule by consensus stacking here. If you look at the history of the page on prostatitis, you'll see that I have worked on it over a very long period and turned it from a stub-like page into a quite good page. His only contribution to WP is to add his links to the encyclopedia — a bannable offence. Today he made another inflammatory edit, removing a link to a site that uniquely hosts images and full published papers very useful to men with chronic pelvic pain, simply because that site links to another site with which he seems to have a vendetta. I urge you to use your admin powers to stop this editors self-serving and disruptive campaign to promote himself via wikipedia. Thanks. Skopp 22:19, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dr. Ruben, I just found your message to me. I am somewhat overwhelmed by all the rules that go on here at Wikipedia since I have little time to spend here. However, I am learning, mostly thanks to your comments and URLs to tools. And, I would like to contribute, and have in the past, by doing well-referenced posts on etiology. I continue to recommend the removal of the commercial link, which has possibly taken copyrighted photographs, covered them with spam links, and surrounded them with spam links. If the person responsible for that link is not commercially motivated, why not remove the link? The pictures of prostate muscles are not central to the prostatitis page. Reasonablelogicalman 04:08, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: this diff, my apologies. I was under the impression i was reverting the testicle edit (see my edit comment) - no idea how i ended up restoring it. Thedreamdied 23:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Here are a few updates in the realm of WikiProject Pharmacology:
Dr. Cash 22:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Inflammatory_diseases_of_unknown_etiology — Candidate for speedy deletion? This is WP:OR as well as unnecessary, IMO. Skopp 23:29, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi David. Admin Rlevse left me a message saying that user:Silverye was blocked as my likely sockpuppet and a SPA. He is NOT my sockpuppet, and I resent the charge. What possible evidence is there? That the user agreed with me on a Talk page? This action is capricious and unfair. I now feel responsible for another user getting blocked for no reason other than his agreement with me on a Talk page! Ye gods. Skopp 22:52, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Dear David Ruben, Thank you so much for tidying up that weird section that seems to have got into both the articles on glycemic index and diabetic diet. Perhaps people involved with medicine who are Wikipedians had better keep close scrutiny on articles on related topics - there seems to be some one determined to insert personal opinion somewhere, and I note that contributor is signed as having a B.Sc. in chemistry, but not in bio-chemistry and does not appear to have medical qualifcations. ACEOREVIVED 20:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
This paper PMID 17961909 would be a worthwhile addition to the reading list. I do not have access to the full text, do you? Skopp 08:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi David, I thought I should inform you that I have given Guido den Broeder ( talk · contribs) a further warning for WP:NPA violations on Talk:Chronic fatigue syndrome. If I hadn't clashed with him in the past I would probably have blocked him, given that you already issued {{ uw-npa4}} to him on 2007-10-27. JFW | T@lk 14:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Dr. Ruben, user:CCradick, I am very new to Wikipedia. In a site under Fibromyalgia:Archive 1, I wrote about my Fibro and other health related issues. I didn't realize that I wasn't suppose to be dicussing anything pertaining to myself. All I wanted to do is find a place on Wikipedia to have conversations with other people with similiar conditions or syndromes. Like I said I'm new at this and a person named Meg in the article Fibromyalgia:Archive 1 responded, in my opinion kind of rude, and so I too responded to her in a rude sort of way. The reason I'm writing to you is to ask you if you could please remove what I wrote concerning my health,etc. Meg said it wasn't the proper place for the subject. After my rude responce(which I am truly sorry and I do apologize for my behaviour), you commented after mine to Meg. I need to know if there is any place within Wikipedia that a person can talk to other sufferer's of Fibromyalgia and other conditions such as arthritis, oesteoporosis, etc. I'm sorry, for not introducing myself. My name is CCradick, I'm only 48 yrs. of age with alot of health problems. I'm also sorry for ranting on, but I want to know if you could please remove what I wrote in the above mentioned sight, since it does not belong there in that part of Fibro. Since this is coming directly to you, I'm not sure where to look for your response. Thank You so much and I hope that you can be helpful to me since I don;t know where to go for these conversations. Have a good day Sir and I appreciate your time. Thank You and God Bless! ' CCradick 19:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)'
You returned attention here would be appreciated. Thanks. -- ZimZalaBim talk 03:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I made the incorrect reversion. -- Jab843 02:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Your comment on my behaviour on the RfD page for another page is not relevant there in any way. If you want to alert me to actions you see as "belittling" (viz. saying that I was surprised an admin had not seen OR immediately), then surely my user page is the place for that? Currently that comment, where it is, makes your argument there confusing, at least to me. Skopp 08:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
After deciding the author would never do it radically enough, I went & reworked it; you may wish to comment at the AfD. DGG ( talk) 20:51, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Per your question if you go to the HIBC web page you will find that they call themselves the operational arm of MSP of BC. ie: they are contracted to perform the admin and operational process fo MSP of BC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.180.218.80 ( talk • contribs) 02:01, 26 November 2007
Dr Ruben, Please forgive my being a bull in a china closet. I practice in rural South Carolina. I see mostly older patients and am a daily student of heart disease. Foundations of theory are difficult constructs but many of the pieces to Systole and Diastole are already there in Wikipedia. Understood as determinants of myocardial performance, the bricks start to fall in place. One may next imagine an external, non-blood exposed pacemaker for diastolic heart failure and parasympathetic amputation deployed in the pericardial space as a web of electrodes. This is a pacemaker that depolarizes the myocardium from the "outside in" versus the traditionally understood sinoatrial mechanism of "inside out". Quite a few WIPO and US Patent Applications addressing myocardial autonomic insufficiency are pending at this time. Publications based on large animal testing are politically unpopular but probably necessary. This technology is imminent and should be interesting to watch unfold in the coming year from a Wikipedia perspective. I thank you for your previous edits, I remain greatly interested in mathematical representations of systole and diatole. Best (general) sources are Arthur Guyton, Carlos Chaga, Carolyn Thomas, Charles Peskin/David McQueen, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Francisco Torrent-Guasp, Gerald Buckberg, Randas Batista and Paul Lunkenheimer. Lbeben ( talk) 02:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Looks like I have a partner...lol...hey let me make the changes because I can phrase things better and because I'm better at grammar.
What was your first language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by NightShade15 ( talk • contribs) 00:45, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
I just read over what I sent you and I'm embarrassed that I didn't realize it was blatantly offensive!
Thank you for your welcome. I really enjoy wikipedia.
I have one question though--is there any way to semi-lock the page so that no one can come and delete the hard work we just put in?
thanks for the welcome, and good working with you, NightShade —Preceding unsigned comment added by NightShade15 ( talk • contribs) 01:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi David. I got your message about the copyright violation. Yes, I am very sorry about that. I did that back when I was a relatively new wikipedia contributor. Since then, I have become much more familiar with the rules and I can guarantee you that won't happen again. Thanks.—Preceding unsigned comment added by DM7 ( talk • contribs) 14:51, 30 November 2007
Dear Sir, As a respected editor, where do you stand on inclusion of theory within the framework of Wikipedia?-- Lbeben ( talk) 02:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Greetings. I was cleaning out some CAT:TEMP pages and came across User talk:75.34.149.99, that you'd indefblocked. I've been told that, normally, we don't indefblock IPs as such. The reasoning is that if the user changes ISP and the blocked IP were eventually assigned to a new computer, it would in turn be indefblocked. Would you consider unblocking and reblocking them say, for 6 months or perhaps a year? Thanks for your consideration, -- Bradeos Graphon ( talk) 22:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
david, you had started a question of notability to the entry belaray dermatology. this started a discussion thread attached to the article, which you can see on my talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Spamwatch the topic has since been deleted, but it is not clear to me that the discussion was considered. i was hoping that you might reconsider this topic. perhaps you had not seen the discussion that followed your original question of notability. happy holidays Spamwatch ( talk) 15:29, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello David, In regards to the notability tag added to the article Positive Expectation Policy, I would like to ask for a more detailed explanation. I am relatively new to writing Wikipedia articles and had been under the impression that Wikipedia distinguishes itself from other encyclopedias because of its broad range of covered topics. I have read Wikipedia:Notability and am unsure of a course of action. Your help is much appreciated. Merry Christmas! OneElitePenguin ( talk) 11:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Sorry! I was doing anti-vandalism patrol and apparently reverted the wrong article. Sorry for the trouble! KathrynLybarger ( talk) 03:22, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out the citations and fixing the talk page. The article isn't in great shape and this whole business has encouraged me to be more active in improving it. Colin° Talk 16:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Happy New year to you sir and my congrats in linking my patent application to the discussion. Followed in detail you soon see that my application is probably legally dead at the US Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] but (for reasons unclear to me) remains viewable there as well as other sites (also translated into Kanji). The provisional application (entitled Pericardial Augmentation Device #60/442,480) was first acknowledged by the USPTO on 1/27/03 and claimed a means to augment electrical systole from an external electrical/grid pacemaker deployed in the pericardial space. The contested intellectual property regarding an external pacemaker remains well represented by many other US and [WIPO] published applications. Computational solutions to electrical insufficiency in heart failure remain outside the intellectual property claimed within the grid but integrally tied to performance of same. It is my opinion that one of these applications will be awarded a letter in the next year or two. I further suggest that Wikipedia is uniquely positioned as a public observer of published developing technology and could make this process much more transparent. At this juncture I am only a bystander. I have not intentionally set upon a course to raise your blood pressure by using single instead of double brackets. I am not a corporation or similar entity, I am an independent inventor. This is the source of my curiosity regarding the subject matter. My primary interest in the congestive heart failure article is consensus regarding literal rendering of autonomic influence of the myocardium. Given my acknowledged COI, would it be agreeable for me to refrain from further discussion regarding heart failure and transition to edits upon the artcles regarding the autonomic nervous system? I remain further interested in literal elaboration of [torque] within the [myocardium]. I would appreciate further discussion. -- Lbeben ( talk) 03:28, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear David,
My name is Nicholas Lock and I'm the one who wrote the short piece about asthma being the result of chronic dehydration. I am an asthma sufferer but have been doing remarkably well since I started drinking more water after reading ABC of Asthma Allergies and Lupus. I no longer have any need for medication.
As far as I can tell you are the one who removed my contribution. Can you please provide an explanation? My e-mail address is nwmlock@yahoo.co.uk.
Many thanks,
Nick —Preceding unsigned comment added by NWMLock ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 8 January 2008 (UTC)