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Volume 4, Issue 43 — 2008-11-10

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Well done

		The Original Barnstar
		For Countincr's quality contributions to the image collection and fantastic edits to Fatty liver. Fantastic additions and well referenced! -- talk - 02:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

David Duchovny

I tried to put an image I got off of the X-Files article, onto his article but it didn't take. Could you help me out? Outside of the image it says the code from the image itself, and also another pixel number that I didn't input (I don't know why). So could you check my second to last revision and tell me or fix what I did wrong. Thanks. Lighthead 22:34, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

The image I put originally is fixed

The image I put in there from flickr is fixed. But thanks anyway. Somebody must've fixed it. Thanks. Lighthead þ 04:33 August 7, 2007.

Discriminant function

Nice article! Do you do GI? -- Samir 07:04, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

yes indeed. thanks-- 14:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

MCOTW

Thank you for your support of the Medicine Collaboration of the Week. This week Infectious mononucleosis was selected. Hope you can help…

JFW | T@lk 11:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks-- 13:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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Deletion review

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 09:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Talk:List of environment topics:0-9

The recent tagging of Talk:List of environment topics:0-9 by a bot, as being in the field of medicine, seems to be in error. -- Wavelength 00:22, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks.reverted-- 10:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

WPMED Stub

Hi Countincr - hope yo don't mind, but I've just moved your new WPMED assessment template to {{WPMED Stub-Class}}. Thjere's a big difference between Stub-Class templates and stub templates, so we try to keep them named so there's no confusion between them. If there's any problems with my move, please contact me, but hopefully you'll have no objection to it. Cheers, Grutness... 00:52, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

WP:MED template

Hi Countincr. I noticed that you've been tagging a large number of articles with the WP:MED article template lately. Surely, this is valuable editing, and your work doing so is much appreciated. However, I wonder if you might watch the tagging a little bit closer in certain instances. For example, you have tagged Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry/Stub sorting at its talk page three times now. Since this isn't an article (and is, in fact, part of a different Wikiproject), it probably shouldn't have the WP:MED article tag. In any event, I encourage you to continue tagging other relevant articles. Thanks. · 19:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. Ideally this page should have a "<noinclude></noinclude>" tag to avoid bot associated mistakes. Note that because of this the page is included in at least 10 medicine related categories.-- 21:20, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Amygdalohippocampectomy

I noticed that you failed this article back on October 21, but didn't add the {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}} template to it's talk page indicating its status, nor did you remove it from the WP:GAN listing page. I went ahead and did this for you, but I just wanted to remind you so that you don't forget in the future. Cheers! Dr. Cash 19:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Heads up

Hi Countincr, I'd very much appreciate your input on WT:CLINMED, where we are discussing some major changes in the way we work on medicine-related articles. Your experience with tagging {{WPMED}} articles is very relevant to this discussion. JFW | T@lk 10:27, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Baldness

Hi Countincr, I'm curious about your decision to tag Baldness as having top-level medical importance. Do you think it's equivalent to, say, Myocardial infarction and Antibiotic? Is it more important than Influenza and Fever?

Since I'm assessing a bunch of articles myself, I'm very curious what critieria other editors apply in these cases. Baldness is a particularly interesting case study, because it is very interesting (to men, at least) but pretty unimportant to overall health -- unless the balding person hurts themselves in an attempt to "fix" the perceived problem. I guess my fundamental question is how much weight to give the likely popularity of the topic. (I'll watch this page if you'd like to reply here.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

as mentioned in the project assessment page( under importance scale) importance is gauged against the need for an average wikipedia user to look up in an encyclopaedia which may or may not be of interest to an expert or student of the subject. Thanks-- 00:15, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but do you think that the average reader is looking up baldness as a medical issue, or for some other reason (fashion, for example)? WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:32, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

40% of men at 40's or 80% at their 80's are said to be bald. So I thought they or their partners may want to look it up either as a health issue or from fashion perspective.Why someone needs to search is less of an issue, whether they expect it in an encyclopedia is the question-- 00:41, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think I can agree to that. If importance simply reflects overall popularity, then we could trivially assign importance with a bot, based entirely on the number of hits a page gets. Furthermore, all projects would find each page to have identical importance. For example, WP:WikiProject Iowa and WP:WikiProject Cities would both need to give Des Moines, Iowa exactly the same rating.

I'm thinking that the Iowa state capitol could be very important in terms of Iowa, even if it's not really important at all compared to all the other cities in the world -- and, similarly, that perhaps baldness could be a very popular page without being "extremely important, even crucial," (to quote the assessment guidelines) to medicine. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:36, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

My understanding was: importance should be judged for the encyclopedia as a whole (presumably for global audience) not just for one project and as such should be uniform across projects. Having said that, I went through version 1.0 page and am not so confident any more, you might be right. Once consensus obtained on merging issue, we can put the question to project members.-- 21:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Reverting

When you come across a page that looks like this, please revert the vandalism before adding your own stuff. Thanks. Richard001 (talk) 03:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Image:Livertransplant.jpg

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Congratulations and thanks!

Hi! I really liked your user page, but that's not the reason I'm writing to you. I really liked the liver and biliary tree image that you'd uploaded and have used it in the article ascending cholangitis, which is the Medical Collaboration of the Week.

Thanks for the image, and of course, you're invited to contribute to the article.

Regards.

15:29, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Survey Request

Hi,
I need your help. I am working on a research project at Boston College, studying creation of medical information on Wikipedia. You are being contacted, because you have been identified as an important contributor to one or more articles.

Would you will be willing to answer a few questions about your experience? We've done considerable background research, but we would also like to gather the insight of the actual editors. Details about the project can be found at the user page of the project leader, geraldckane. Survey questions can be found at geraldckane/medsurvey. Your privacy and confidentiality will be strictly protected!

The questions should only take a few minutes. I hope you will be willing to complete the survey, as we do value your insight. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Professor Kane if you have any questions.

Thank You, Sam4bc (talk) 22:43, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

A discussion

A discussion on Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. You are receiving this note as you are a member of WikiProject Council -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 12:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

MedRevise.co.uk

Hey, I thought you might be interested in this, since you are medically active here on wikipedia. With a colleague I have set up a Medical Revision website, called MedRevise.co.uk. It is not trying to compete with Wikipedia, but trying to be something else useful, different and fun. If you are interested, please read our philosophy and just have a little look at our site. I would appreciate your feedback, and some contributions if you have the time. Thanks a lot! MedRevise (talk) 18:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force

I wanted to know if you (or any friends of yours) are interested in dermatology, and would be willing to help me with the WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force? Kilbad (talk) 15:31, 18 October 2008 (UTC)