Leevanjackson

Hello

HD article

Hi Lee Van, You may have noticed my somewhat random postings on the HD talk page, and that I put Huntington's original "On Chorea" on Wikisource. The reason for my interest is that I have a just given a lecture on HD to a group of specialists, as part of a clinical presentation of "interesting cases" (HD patients with chronic intractable pain). The talk belongs to me, and was given with no intention of publishing it elsewhere, as it is no more than a review of the clinical presentation, pathology, treatment difficulties and possible future treatments for HD - suitable for a medical newspaper or refresher course, but not the stuff one publishes in journals. So apart from the specific clinical patient descriptions, it is not "original work", but it still represents many hours and days spent researching the literature to develop a talk that would stand up to peer criticism (as is the nature of these talks!). It seems a bit silly for me to hang on to stuff which has no further use for me, apart from possibly being reworked for a future talk. You seem to be most active at the HD article. Where do you think would be most appropriate to post the (edited) parts of the talk the way I wrote it? My thoughts are:

• While the format of the article is quite similar to the WP article (and indeed to most reviews, which I no doubt followed, consciously or not!), it differs sufficiently to be thought of as a whole new article. It would be arrogant of me to do that, and probably counter-productive.
• The HD talk page does not seem appropriate for the whole presentation to be posted.
• My style and order of presentation is different from the article as it is, and the _target audience was quite different. Some aspects (like symptoms and signs) I have approached quite differently, possibly too detailed for WP use.
• I try to reference every fact, which may lead to very long lists of refs. In the WP edited version this would be aggravated by the problem that many of my statements were illustrated by reference to actual cases, as opposed to literature descriptions, the former being excluded form WP use. Similarly, my own management recommendations would disqualify their use, being "original work" or "opinion". I would need to add or change refs there.

Should I place it on my user|talk page and ask for comments, or on the HD discussion page, section by section? Is there a separate place where collaborators collaborate, where the "suggested change" or "different writing" can be presented - specifically for the "collaboration of the week"? I would appreciate feedback by user page or e-mail. Regards, --Seejyb 20:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Medical Genetics WikiProject

Anybody can post news, announcements. Welcome in the team! :) If you need any help regarding the projects' templates, just let me know. NCurse _work 14:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

SCOTM

You voted for and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia science article.

NCurse _work 05:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

News Update: Medical Genetics Wikiproject article assesment

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Medicine Collaboration of the Week

NCurse _work 13:38, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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Medicine Collaboration of the Fortnight

NCurse _work 19:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Medicine Collaboration of the Fortnight

NCurse _work 16:59, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

On Dysphagia

You reverted the notification on the top of the article about the misuse of Dysphagia in the article. Please discuss why you did that in the talk page. Stephen Holland, M.D. Kd4ttc (talk) 02:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

• will do - it looked like vandalism at first glance

Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Genetics

I'm so glad to see you again! Could we revitalize the project? :) NCurse _work 18:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

• Hello! was never really away - and have net access in all locations I stay in now! :) What do you suggest - I have been noticing the cellular biology has been expanding and now covers a number of subjects we originally had in genetics and a protein/ gene box semi-bot doing it's rounds, so wasn't too worried about actual; content and accuracy relating to genetics was on the ebb. Do you think we should rationalise subjects covered to be more specialised or continue expansion making closer links with crossover projects, or both--Leevanjackson (talk) 18:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message! You're right. We need a new project dedicated totally to genetics. It should be under both biology and medicine wikiprojects. What do you think? Are we ready to announce it at the wikiproject council? NCurse _work 16:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the long silence, now I'm back in action. I think the first step should be to have a wikiproject dedicated entirely to genetics. It shouldn't be a subproject of anything else. We can express our opinions on the page of the Council. What do you think? NCurse _work 21:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hi, Lee. You deserve a barnstar. Axl (talk) 16:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Medicine Barnstar
		To Leevanjackson, for contributions to medical articles. Axl (talk) 16:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Medicine Collaboration of the Forthnight

NCurse _work 10:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Amazing

... how you managed to turn an entire section from crud into something useful, and still keep the article size exactly the same! diff JFW | T@lk 14:33, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Whoa... freaky ! LeeVJ (talk) 14:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Genetics

I've created the Wikipedia:WikiProject Genetics page, please join if you're still interested! At the moment it's pretty bare looking, but I figured everyone could chip in with things to add to the page. Madeleine ✉ ✍ 18:39, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Medicine Collaboration of the Fortnight

NCurse _work 08:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

RE: Long term effects of alcohol

You suggested perhaps two articles should be made for long term effects dependent upon consumption levels? Do you mean, for example, Long-term effects of excessive alcohol consumption and Long-term effects of light or moderate alcohol consumption? Regards, CycloneNimrod^Talk? 18:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep, that's it exactly! LeeVJ (talk) 11:50, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Ping!

Hello! I replied to your note on my talk. :) delldot on a public computer talk 04:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Another ping! delldot on a public computer talk 00:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

New single-purpose account User talk:Harlanjackson

A new single-purpose account User talk:Harlanjackson has just appeared, making edits on alcohol and health topics. I suspect this account is being used to push a particular POV and I would appreciate your help keeping an eye on him. Spiro Keats (talk) 08:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Collaboration

JFW | T@lk 06:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

MCOTW

JFW | T@lk 22:12, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Huntington's disease

Goodone121 (talk · contribs) decided to nominate Huntington's disease as a good article candidate.[1] I see you have worked on this for a while and tried to get it to GA status previously.

I am concerned that you might not be ready for GAC at the moment. I will happily review the article and offer advice, and I have in fact already left a couple of pointers, but please let me know if you'd rather I waited until you are actually ready for this. JFW | T@lk 10:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I had intended in the coming week to address all the to-do's including remaining points of the previous GA review by delldot talk (who expressed an interest in re-reviewing it). The references have taken ages and I suspect will be an ongoing task! Accuracy and accessibility are my main goals, so even if it fails GA the pointers help improve it anyway, and I can devote a fair bit of time this week... your call. LeeVJ (talk) 14:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Delldot is more familiar with the article after reviewing it the first time. I'll check but happily defer. JFW | T@lk 14:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

More on HD

I have now made a GA assessment of the HD article. Have a look at the comments. You will notice that I'm a bit unsure about its current potential of making GA, but I trust that you will take the points to heart. Do yourself a favour and try to enlist Medical geneticist (talk · contribs) - he might be relatively experienced as a Wikipedian but he will be able to separate the chaff from the corn when it comes to inclusion of material from secondary sources. I will keep an eye on the article and see what else I can do to take this forward. JFW | T@lk 23:24, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Well done on your work on the HD article. I've got a bit of a backlog at the moment, but hopefully I will be returning to the article in a few days and decide on GA pass/fail then. I can't really plan my collaborations ahead at the moment, but in case of a fail I hope to remain involved with the article. JFW | T@lk 23:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

thankyou! bank hols always cause backlogs ... but everyone needs a break sometimes LeeVJ (talk) 11:05, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Lee, I'm really sorry that I have to fail the article at the moment. If you want my honest opinion, I think it was indeed nominated too early and will definitely be ready for GA status in a little while. It is encouraging to see how much work is happening at the moment. JFW | T@lk 22:22, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah well, no worries, the review has highlighted some inconsistencies, given a more defined direction and stirred up some editing, possible collaborations and praise - not to forget the point about primary/secondary references reaching a wider audience in medmos, so I'd say the process was a positive success :) LeeVJ (talk) 01:21, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine Featured Topic Task Force proposal

Hey Leevanjackson, I've just set up a proposal for a new task force in the WikiProject Medicine called FTTF, or the Featured Topic Task Force. We aim to create a featured topic for medicine, most likely to do with an infectious disease of some form (the proposals so far include polio and bacterial infections in general) and become the first medical featured topic. The proposal can be found here and further discussion can be found at the bottom of the WikiProject Medicine talk page. I've very much appreciate your comments and possibly support of such a proposal, if you'd be willing to take part! —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 13:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, yeah sorry about that it changed over from a task force into a department. I completely forgot about it these past few days actually, should probably get started on it. Thanks for adding it to the watchlist, I look forward to your contributions. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs) 23:20, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your kind words. --Arcadian (talk) 02:45, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

HD and Goodone121

I was simply amazed about the fact that Goodone121 (talk · contribs) renominated the HD article for WP:GAN last night.[2] I have removed the nomination and asked him to clarify. Judging from his talkpage, you are presently of the view that GAN is too early and you're still working on the article. I would be thrilled to help out but my new job is much busier than before and I am focusing on stroke as this is of greater relevance to my daily practice at the moment. JFW | T@lk 11:31, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Just a heads up, I've brought their behavior to ANI after they reverted JFW and then myself. Sorry if this creates more stress for you, you've done a great job with the reviews and great work on the article, in addition to handling this with total maturity and poise. delldot ∇. 17:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou both for your support, I've no problem with the HD article becoming the most heavily reviewed article on the planet, but I dare say you GA reviewers have other articles to look at ..! LeeVJ (talk) 20:54, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Goodone121 has now chosen the way of GA review, something I find equally inexplicable. I can assure you that it is going to lead nowhere. This discussion has already greatly distracted me from planned article work on stroke. I would stay put and focus on the article while Delldot, Protonk and myself try to persuade this contributor that his course of action is not ideal. JFW | T@lk 21:29, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems board

Hi. :) With respect to your note at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 August 30/Articles, I'm afraid that the place where you've expressed concern is not really the proper place to discuss it. That board is used to list articles that may contain copyright violations that need to be removed. If you have some questions about User:Jamesday's position on his own contributions, you may want to discuss it with him or, alternatively, to ask for general information at the talk page of the copyright policy. I would myself probably start with him. He seems imminently approachable at his user page. I note he says, "Please don't hesitate to ask me to explain why I write what I write about any legal matter." Given that, I would expect him to be open to conversation about it. Thanks for noting your concern. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:07, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Will do.. and thankyou for your time. LeeVJ (talk)

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar. I hadn't noticed it earlier... Keep up the good work. JFW | T@lk 10:18, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Informal mediation

Is what it's called. It's tricky though! I hope I do ok. --Kim Bruning (talk) 00:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Where there's a will, there's a way ... good luck :) LeeJ (talk) 22:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I dont really understad nd the purpose of it please expl bit more clearlyian t a

"No ownership"

Hi, are you getting anywhere with User:Leevanjackson/noowntemplate? I'd be happy with version 4. -- Philcha (talk) 22:16, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Had left that version ont he wp:own talk page for further comments, and taken a leave of absense, but Am happy with that version too... includes the main premises of wikipedia succintly and fairly worded, we need further opinions of it's suitability to use it I think, but as it standss the wp:own does need expanding to give direction to such situations... it is on my list of things to make right :)? LeeVJ (talk) 00:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Meningitis

Thanks for the warm words. This seems to be my predominant editing pattern at the moment. Lots of patrolling and bickering, then deciding an article needs a heavy editing spree and not stopping until it's been submitted for GA. This certainly worked for subarachnoid haemorrhage earlier this year, and certainly did no harm to ascending cholangitis and hypopituitarism. JFW | T@lk 00:23, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

It seems your method works ! LeeVJ (talk) 17:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

UserTalkback template

Hi, I've noticed your comment on the Talkback template talk page: “I was wandering if adding a pointer to username would be a good idea to the mesage box placed on one's own talkpage, i.e.{{Talkback|your username}}…” This is exactly what I thought when I found this template.
I've added a new option for Usertalkback: “hint” – if set to “yes” then usage pointers will be included.
Would you care to try it? Regards, Skarebo (talk) 12:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
P.S. I've changed it to use “hint=yes” by default. Skarebo (talk) 00:58, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Looks better, will get to test it shortly, tad busy at mo.. LeeVJ (talk) 00:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for the barnstar Lee! Much appreciated. As for when do I sleep, I am about to go and try to sleep now haha!--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 01:58, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

autoblocked by IP

Err.. I thought I'd be able to edit since I'm logged in? LeeVJ (talk) 13:07, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:List of media covering a topic

Category:List of media covering a topic, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 04:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Tutorial redesign

Yeah, it got implemented, then evolved to today's version. The sub pages could/should probably be deleted. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 03:28, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: How to win an edit war Essay

Please do not edit other people's userspace contrary to their wishes, especially editors you are in conflict with (and it's hard to say you aren't when you actually reported him to AN). Regarding [3] (edit summary: "removing from cat: user essays until intent has been proven") , you have a bone to pick with this editor for some reason. But that's not a good reason to rather illogically demand "proof" that something he designated as a user essay is indeed one. --C S (talk) 05:07, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

At the time I'd had no prior communication or response to my question from the editor ( so not really in conflict?), I cynically thought it'd stay that way until I went away ( a tactic contained in the essay), so I made the change until a response was received - oh and I might of had a little too much pop :( ! LeeVJ (talk) 18:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

It is ridiculous to ask someone to "prove" their intent in tagging their essay to be an essay. I would think it's common sense that you don't revert someone's edit to their own userspace like that. You wanted to provoke him, as you say, and that's never a good reason to do something. --C S (talk) 04:24, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't remember ever categorising it. It's just a satire of some of the tendentious users that experienced content users have to deal with. I seriously doubt anyone's gonna learn anything from it or want to. Read especially the opening paragraph. The sarcasm is obvious ... I would have thought. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 06:21, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

This has no information on how to win an edit war! I think I know; just keep at it for a while & then just stop. no warning, no given reason, just leave the page alone. then go back to it a week or 2 later & re-edit to be how you want it to be, but don't tell your nemesis. Fortunately i Have a life, so i have never been involved in one of these stupid wars. J (talk) 18:11, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Full genome sequencing Comment

Thank you, I do appreciate it! This is a very important topic and one that will have a tremendous impact upon our entire civilization. More data on the technology and the companies still needs to be completed but at least it's a start. Thank you again for your comment. --DoctorDNA (talk) 19:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Meningite.png

Lee, further to your offer on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Meningitis I'd be most grateful if you could draw a version of this image that doesn't have the current copyright cloud hanging over it. JFW | T@lk 18:51, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Have already reformed one based on the previous images ref's - there were a few inconsistencies, will upload later.. LeeVJ (talk) 15:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for making that pretty new map! The article is now FA. JFW | T@lk 17:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

MCOTW again

JFW | T@lk 16:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

HD

Hello, Leevanjackson. You have new messages at Maralia's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Great job obtaining the image permission; now we have a great lead image. I'll be away next week from Thursday to Monday; so if the review is carried out I won't be able to help those days.--Garrondo (talk) 07:34, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, the instructions and help on getting permission / licenses on WP/CC aren't as easy to follow as they could be , but we made it! As for GA review - don't worry I'm sure you'll catch some of it - seems a 1-2 week backlog on the reviews and I'd expect we'd be given time to fix any issues before the review closes... L∴V 13:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Regarding caregiving and dementia: It was created as an spin-off from AD; however nobody ever edits it (I had it in my watchlist) and in general is in bad shape. I do not think that you will have many people going against you if you rename it to caregiving and neurodegenerative diseases. That way it could cover dementias and a few other diseases like Multiple sclerosis or HD. Bests. --Garrondo (talk) 07:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Is there any reason for the review to have been stopped? It's been a month since it began and we only had a few initial comments. You have been doing good changes to the article but in most cases they have been minor so the article is stable enough to be reviewed. Bests. --Garrondo (talk) 07:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I asked a few days ago but I had no answer, lets see if you are luckier.--Garrondo (talk) 10:46, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Aesthetically I prefer a single citation per paragraph; and when I write off line articles they are usually more than enough; however, in wikipedia a citation for each sentence makes it much more difficult for people adding unreferenced info: if there is only a citation for a paragraph and somebody adds an unreferenced sentence inside that paragraph it is really hard to know if it comes from the ref or not and check it when some time has passed from the addition. On the other hand if there is a ref for every sentence, somebody adds an unreferenced sentence, and it is not checked in that moment, it is much more easier later to see what has to be checked up and referenced if needed. (Of course they can always rephrase sentences and you would have the same problem, but at least we make it harder) Since in wikipedia referencing is one of the main problems I would rather overreference than undereference. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 14:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Derm

Do you have any interest in dermatology? If so, I am always looking for more help ;) ---kilbad (talk) 14:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I hereby award this barnstar to Leevanjackson for many hours of hard work and patience in bringing the Huntington's disease article up to GA status. delldot ∇. 20:40, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou so much delldot - has some twists and turns, but got there in the end with a lot of help - including thy fineself! L∴V 23:18, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations to you too: I would not have been interested in the article if I had not found it so close to GA status thanks to all your efforts with it. It's been a pleasure to fight at your side; and of course thanks for the barnstar... How do you feel about FA? ;-) --Garrondo (talk) 07:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

As you say this would be my third FA attemp; and both of the other ones reached FA status. I believe that facts and references in each section are of enough quality to get the star. Regarding prose; as I am spanish is not my strong point; however, taking an article to the FA proccess is usually enough to attract some editors to help you with prose. From my point of view if facts are good enough the FA process is a great way of improving readibility. I may agree with you that we look for some data for a new subsection about caregivers and maybe also something on sufferers quality of life but I am not sure on how much we will find. On the other hand I do not feel completely comfortable with the prognosis, prevalence and history sections and we should try to find some review articles to factually check and improve them. I usually try to focus my efforts in high-importance articles with high levels of traffic, and not so much in secondary articles; so I don't think I will help you much with the the merging and caregiving article. I believe that if we work together all the work in the HD article could be done in about a month and then take it to FAC. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 13:30, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Hunting ton!

Excellent work on the HD article. I so wished I could have helped more, because it's truly a fascinating and multifaceted disorder. But there one goes. To tell you the truth, I wasn't even sure if keeping it MCOTW made such a difference, because you and Garrondo would have achieved GA regardless... Keep up the excellent work. JFW | T@lk 16:39, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

FA nomination

I know I have been quite away the past month..., I had a lot of work before the summer came and now I go on holidays until the 15th of July. However I have been thinking to nominate the HD article for FA after I arrive (We should both be co-nominators). I believe right now it is a great article, and from my point of view it should pass the nomination. Nevertheless I will need your help to address reviewer comments. What do you think? Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 14:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good to me, I've been family crisis, acclimatising to the heat and just got back from Glastonbury festival, should be acclimatised soon! I've still got some of the points I've listed on talk page to address, but I may be a perfectionist so it should pass without them.. depending on the weather and work I may not log in for several days, but if you'd like to use the email user to get my attention if the ball starts rolling I'll get to it :) L∴V 10:53, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I am back, and I am going to nominate the article. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 08:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Excellent - I have some spare time ... L∴V 11:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah; really nice time. Problem is I did not slept much ;-)... The first reviewer of the article has proposed that we could include the scale of the neuron images. Since you obtained the image directly from the authors maybe you could ask them for the scale.--Garrondo (talk) 11:28, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I know. When a FAC goes switfly is real fun; but I promise that it can also become hell. Hopefully this won't be the case.--Garrondo (talk) 14:40, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Huntington's disease at FAC almost done

I think we are very close know since there are 5 supports, there are no opposes, and we have addressed most comments by reviewers. I did not want to FAC to finish before I told you that it has been an honor to work side by side with you and that you have made an incredible work in the HD article in the past 3 years. The work you have done will last for many years. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.--Garrondo (talk) 08:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

For your amazing work week after week, month after month, and even year after year in the Huntington's disease article I award you the Star of Life. Garrondo (talk) 08:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC) (UTC)

Thankyou ever so kindly, Garrondo, a big warm feeling now flows inspite of the last vestiges of 'flu-like symptoms' I am ridding myself of. The article is the result of Wikipedia at it's best - team work - I've really just been holding the pieces together inbetween. Without your extra impetus the article would have wallowed for quite a while, if not indefinitaly, around the GA mark! I am still in denial that we might actually achieve FA, but maybe I'd better start planning to celebrate :) It's been a pleasure for me too, here's to further team efforts - you'll often catch me on the MCOTW, which I hope is about to get a second wind!L∴V 15:34, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

We have done it. I believe its your first FA. Congrats...--Garrondo (talk) 10:08, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Additionally; had you seen this [4]? The article is visited every day between 4000 and 5000 people, and this puts it between the 6500 most visited of all wikipedia. Therefore the social education work we have done taking the article to FA is really important.--Garrondo (talk) 11:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

:) err um .. logged on to address the next couple of bits ... how did that happen !!! Will have to celebrate with a beer ... but just the one, the flus not yet gone Fantastic ! L∴V 21:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Amazing work on Huntington's, and congratulations on getting the coveted star. It's a great feeling, even if few people in meatspace understand the actual relevance of a GA or FA pass: weeks or even months of hard work, discussion, research and sometimes gentle frustration. Congratulations! Let me know of any upcoming projects. I've just managed to get diabetic ketoacidosis to GA status and am wandering around aimlessly. JFW | T@lk 21:03, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou JFW! I've noticed Parkinson's Disease is at GAN, pneumonia is at FAR, a few points to come on HD, and I'd like to devote more time to the MCOTW ... isn't that the place to go when direction is sought? I'll try to think up something special ! 23:50, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!

That's so exciting! Congratulations. I was so impressed by your hard, tireless work and your patience and equanimity in the face of some of the more... interesting events with that article. Sorry I missed the rest of the FAC, I haven't been editing much lately. delldot ∇. 00:48, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, kindly, I'm flattered ! and I get to learn a new word - I like it ! think I'll adopt it along with serendipity and Mu! L∴V 22:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

help project

Hello transhumanist! I've been messing around with the Wikipedia:Help Project and just realised I hadn't introduced myself to its founder :( !Hope you don't feel too disgruntled ... After fixing / or attempting to fix the intro pages in a valiant attempt to convert casual readers / interested parties into new, constructive editors - keeping the complexities of wikipedia hidden to avoid confusion, whilst hinting at the complexities of wikipedia to avoid confusion ;) I noticed a number of the help pages get an occasional editor with a good idea and some motivation, but the pages aren't watched and subscribed enough . My answer was to point them all in the same direction - there is currently no real central discussion, so currently I'm working on slapping a project banner on the numerous intro pages to this end... I might instigate a few other ideas e.g. why not assess help pages ? keep spreading the knowledge :) 22:06, 16 September 2009 (UTC) p.s. I think I might be a transhumanist too, my own intention is to try to prevent unecessary stress and suffering due to lack of quality knowledge .. L∴V 22:08, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm very happy that the help project has found a new leader - I've been far too busy with the WP:OOK and WP:WPOOK to work on much of anything else. I look forward to seeing what you do with the help project and Wikipedia's help system.

It looks like you've captured the attention of Quiddity, and that's a good thing. It appears he has touched up the project page to assist you.

Keep up the good work!

The Transhumanist    01:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: See also WP:TIPS, and the pages listed on Template:WP nav pages (header bar). -TT

Thanks TT, but I wouldn't quite class myself as a leader ( except maybe by example) .. more of a wp:bold editor - if I think something needs doing, I do it. We will see what happens - hopefully as we tag the pages and accrue more participants a better picture of goals and collaborations will form ... L∴V 14:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Page authors and history

Hi Leevanjackson. On a related note about the Help Project, I noticed that you removed numerous "Meta:Help page authors and history" sections from help talk pages while you were adding the project banner. It was my understanding that those sections give attribution to the original authors of the help page at meta-wiki. Do you know that is okay to remove those? Cheers, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 16:15, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I dislike removing any type of history, but the text was making the talk pages unusable ( trying to clean up so we can catch all non-experienced users). I have left the link to the original mediawiki page which can be used to find the authorship info. Double checking mediawiki terms of re-use I see that this was wise as one of the methods of providing attribution is: '

Re-use of text:

Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using,'

So I think it is covered. I was thinking of going back through and changing those links to something a bit more meaningful. Do you think I am correct or do you suggest I ask confirmation somewhere ? L∴V 17:09, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Hm, I'm not sure exactly how it works either. I just assumed that it was something important because it was put on so many help talk pages nearly four years ago. I'll try to find someone to ask about it. If it does need to be kept, an idea might be to put the history in a collapsible table such as this:

Meta:Help page authors and history
Long article history here.

I'll let you know when I find out. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:34, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi. :) I was asked to provide some feedback here. I've looked at Help:Special page. As long as the original link is intact, attribution is satisfied. Uncle G's bot did the right thing--at least the minimal thing--back in 2005 by linking it in edit summary. While a note at talk page specifying that content was copied and from where is good (within this project, I currently lean to {{copied}}), it isn't mandatory. The only reason to require a full list of contributors is if the original attribution history is lost. I can see that the lengthy list of names might hamper the talk page. If I were doing it, though, I'd archive it instead of deleting it, and I'd probably go ahead and use {{copied}} for clarity. I'll go ahead and do that with this one, and if you agree that this is a simple and usable solution you might want to implement it at any others that have been blanked. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your input Moonriddengirl! Here's a list of what looks like the pages that need modifying (based on your recent contributions):

I'll start with the first 13 or so as soon as I get a chance. You're welcome to handle the others, Leevanjackson, if you're up for it. Happy editing, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:59, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Agreed... and thanks for that much appreciated offer of help - I'll work from the bottom up next time I'm on, and I'll know when I see you've got there before me ! L∴V 21:39, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Alright, I've done up to 13 for now. Thankfully, less help pages had been transwikied from meta than I thought :D I'll finish some more when I have the time (unless you already have). It's been great working with you! Cheers, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 02:30, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Done, a couple weren't transwikied and one has since been turned into a mere redirect, cheers for the help... I'm sure I'll come across more of these as I continue taggin the project banner around the place. L∴V 20:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Great! It's been a pleasure working with you - let me know if there's anything I can do to help the project out. Cheers! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 23:22, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Arbitrarily0 (talk) 22:49, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Re: Huntington's disease

Rather than replying at both Talk:Huntington's disease and my talk page, I figured I'd just write one reply here. Thank you for your kind words. It is always nice to be reminded that we aren't simply mindless drones banging away on our keyboards. I too enjoyed this collaboration. Prose reviewers such as myself have the pleasure of bearing witness to proofs of concept of the Wikipedia model: people with who know nothing about each other and (as is usually the case for myself) know nothing about the subject at hand can still work together to produce excellent results. The "extra fine-toothed comb" that I have used thus far is, sadly, the only tool I have to offer when it comes to peer reviewing, meaning that I am not particularly good at examining the bigger picture. Unless there are blatant flaws with the organization or weight of an article, I am unlikely to notice anything other than minute details. I do know a physician assistant and some psychology majors. I can ask them to look over the article if you'd like. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 22:52, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

hi--Tiia malone (talk) 11:15, 21 October 2009 (UTC) --Tiia malone (talk) 11:15, 21 October 2009 (UTC)tiia malone

hi how are you today

Fine, thank you! :) Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 12:42, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't get it

I don't get it.[5] As quoted Karanacs is a mile off WP:LAYOUT. Am I missing out on the holy war or something? ChyranandChloe (talk) 22:35, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I really hope not, I enterred the discussion on Wikipedia:Outlines about a week ago and wasn't too impressed at the behaviour going on, no straight answers to questions, deviation accusations and cracks at one editor in particular. not sure editors style is unusual but i didn't think it was in bad faith. I think the debate got heated a while ago and rational talk suffered. I'm not sure I hope that it isn't a campaign against outlines per se, just a minor hiccup in collaboration. I'm not sure if any hand slapping is required but I have seen somebehaviours that are leaning to the dark side... but its complicated and I don't know the full picture. I'd recommend you take it on a case by case basis, but if you'd like some further insight the thread i started seems to present a fair representation of the situation and how its being discussed. Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 22:57, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Search page

Funny you should ask - there's a discussion on this at WP:VPT#Add link to search help! The suggestion there was WP:Searching. Help:Searching is slightly better, but I still think it needs a complete rewrite to be much friendlier before I'm keen to send people there. Rd232 ^talk 08:54, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

As one of the more egregious things: it actually points people to a Mediazilla bug! Not friendly, not helpful. Not good enough for the prominence the page would have. Rd232 ^talk 08:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

accessible nav box

I aim to please, glad to help. :) I do like the slow yet steady progress we're making! It is so long over due! JoeSmack ^Talk 05:11, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good to me

JoeSmack Talk 04:38, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Huntington's disease and CAG repeat disorders

Hi--

I don't know if you have the time/knowledge/ inclination for this, but I was hoping to talk to someone more knowledgeable than myself about all some things that aren't making sense to me.

My grandmother died in 1976 (at age 55 of a 'heart attack'), brain autopsy by the U of Kansas indicated what they then called Huntington's Disease. My father just died at age 67 and was tested a month prior to his death and had 43 CAG repeats. However, his disease did not track with typical Huntington's -- to the extent that a person, whose family is riddled with Huntington's and saw my father about every week for years, never would have guessed that he had it. She knew something wasn't normal, but nothing about him reminded her of the disease in her own family.

I have a billion teeny 'clues' that make me wonder if some other CAG repeat issue was at hand -- since you seem to know a lot about CAG repeat disorders, do you have any interest in hearing them all and playing armchair diagnostician of a deceased person? And if not, do you know anyone who might think this is a 'fun' hobby?

Thanks! Meira Voirdire (talk) 02:56, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to hear of your loss. I'm not really qualified to help, but the article does point out the variation due to repeats and exact symptoms vary, what is described is a general pattern and there will be many exceptions to the rule. If you follow the article's external links to the open directory project, there are a number of groups that will be able to help, ( eg. HD Lighthouse ) - I recommend you find one you like the look of and see what you can turn up there ...good luck and peace. Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 23:10, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll check those out. Thank you. Meira Voirdire (talk) 16:04, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Dear Meira Voirdire, I don't think wikipedia is the right place to ask for medical advise (about yourself or another person). But, after such loss, I can certainly understand you pondering about it and i'll give you a little bit of advise. Perhaps you could find out about the specificity of the tests that were used back then. Also, be careful in dividing everything you know about him in "evidence pro HD" and "evidence contra HD". Every human body has it's peculiarities, some things might not be clues. Perhaps there are patient organizations that can help you answer your question. Good luck with that. PizzaMan (talk) 09:01, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

been a little behind lately

...sorry Lee, as it turns out I'm moving to Philadelphia to chase a job, so I've been a bit remiss on the Help Project as of late. I'll be more in it in a few days when I get all my moving company stuff arranged. Viva la helpspace! ;) JoeSmack ^Talk 17:33, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

No worries, gives me a chance to catch up with some other stuff... good luck with the move !

(Problem with) Editing Tutorialpage about Formatting

Hello,

I found that you were the last human who editet the page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial_(Formatting)

since I apparently have no right to edit this page, I would like to point out some necessary editing and / or ask about how I could make that change myself:

In the section about headlines it means to say if you put
"[equal][equal][space]HEAD[space][equal][equal]"
it will render HEAD as a Headline.

The problem here are the spaces. If the user sets his text size in his browser to a higher level, this instruction appears like: If you put
"[equal][equal][space]HEAD
[equal][equal]"
it will render HEAD as a Headline.

The extra linebreak, which results from bigger textsize, makes the instruction incomprehensible and the user has (at first and may be forever) no idea about this happening, much less about that it is is happening due to his own setting. Same applies to SUB-HEAD.

My suggestion is, to simply remove the spaces between the [equals] and HEAD resp. SUB-HEAD in the example - it will look slightly less pretty but be a lot more comprehensible for a bigger text-size-setting.

Cheers, AmigoCgn (talk) 12:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Once you have a few more edits to your name, you'll be able to - I have removed the spaces for you, cheers! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 20:39, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year

I don't see you around wikipedia so much these days but I would like to wish you and your family a Happy New Year. :)--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 10:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

thanks muchly for teh fantastic answer to my talk page query.

I had absolutley no clue you had replied to my qeuery on Help_talk:Talk_page#Discussion.2Ftalk untill you told me, so thanks for that. Couldn't have answered better. if onli my spelling was as good as teh answer you gave! XD

J (talk) 18:49, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello, any tips?

Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia, have you got any tips?

FEJP 017 (talk) 18:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC) PS This message is being sent to multiple people.

hi

So right now u want a job just give me your name and where u live and u can be the co owner if u like

hi

So right now u want a job just give me your name and where u live and u can be the co owner if u like —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.9.224 (talk) 22:33, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

?

what are u trying to prove i think i can manage alone if u want cause right now your being a bad co owner —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.9.224 (talk) 22:43, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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HD on main page

Congratulations!!!: I read it on the talk page but I had not have time until today to give you a note: The first time I had an article on the main page was an incredible sensation. Nevertheless be prepared to be that day full time online reverting vandalism :-). I will also try to keep an eye on the article. We did a fine job, didn't we? Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 09:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

hi

hi how are you doing. i just wana know why the people keep deleting my artical on plato's life i mean it dint say anything but the truth so why do they keep deleting it. i have wrote to articals and they keep gettting deleted i mean i work so hard on those articals to hard for thyem not to get deleted. can you please tell me why ??????????????????????????????????????????--mrs history 14:23, 16 February 2010 (UTC) mrs history 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrshistory2010 (talk • contribs)

replying on your talk. Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 01:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

hi

so how are you doing this fine day . and thanks for replying back to me but i wana know if the page is diifernt from what they have wrote down will it still be deleted ?????--mrs history 14:38, 17 February 2010 (UTC) mrs history —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrshistory2010 (talk • contribs)

French to English translation

I saw you sent me the abbreviations. I am currently translating a feature article on the Salpêtrière School of hypnosis (Charcot) from French to English. I would appreciate it greatly if you could help me proof it, correct it, arrange it. It is long and I will be adding to it progressively (a few paragraphs a day, I constantly revise when I translate). Do you think you would have the time? --Lilymaielang 08:39, 18 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilymaielang (talk • contribs)

replied on your talk page - I've no idea what this is ! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 20:27, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

History

We have an incredible section on history, however it may be getting too long. It also seems that you are digging into sources for this section these days. Have you thought of creating an specific subarticle and summarizing the section?: Right now it seems that with 6 long paragraphs and increasing it might be a good idea. What do you think?

On the other hand I was not sure if I answered your mail on the main page day (I was really messed up in real life those days). I suppose that it had to be an honor to receive a mail praising our work directly from Anita Harding and several HD organizations. What did you feel when you entered that day wikipedia and saw your work in the main page?

Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 17:18, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Garrondo - I had that feeling earlier that day, I've had a heap of helpful suggestions/corrections from Alice Wexler, I thought the most poignant bit was that there wasn't much evidence prior to vessie/davenport etc. promotion of the idea, about HD being linked to witchcraft etc, so thought I'd better dig a bit deeper - those papers were used as a reference a lot by researchers getting a brief overview of the past so the idea has had more resonance than was due! I am getting hold of a couple of books relevent to the history to sign, seal and deliver the most accurate version so might have to expand further. I do wonder though whether much of this material belongs in Huntington's disease clinical research - could be expanded with its own history section.. what do you reckon?

No worries sorted it out - life is messy ! Goes to show how much appreciation there is out there that we don't normally hear of - most meat space people still haven't grasped the effort us editors put in - or the fact that editors exist and they could contribute themselves... it was very satisfying, but I did seem to spend most of my day trying to explain to meatspace the importance of all this. Ho-hum one day we'll all get medals! Not much vandalism to the article and a host of other editors looking after it so went to a haitian benefit gig in near Falmouth, got separated from my friends on the outskirts of a town I didn't know with no phone or numbers in my head to try and find my way back to a small village which I knew had a 'p' and an 'oo' in its name within 10 miles! Found several clubs and pubs and no locals could help but my description of the brdge in the village centre rung a bell for the taxi-driver guru of the area, two major missions in one day - beauty! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 14:46, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I would rather prefer a history subarticle than have a history subsection in the clinical research article: Most probably those interested in history of science are not the same than those interested in clinical research.

Yep we are in accordance - a history section of its own. If it looks like a good idea we could have a section related to its history in the clinical research article ( just a short summary with link to main history article ). Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 12:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Sounds perfect. I'll keep an eye, but I do not think I will be able to help much.--Garrondo (talk) 18:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Huntington's disease page is non-proprietory

You appear to believe that you have proprietorial rights in the page's content. You don't. You say that you moved the radio program link "to specialized subarticle". So where is that? You also appear to have an unfounded faith in the Open Directory Project. The ODP is a joke - it is out of date and uncontrolled. To send people off there when what they want is relevant information is a cruel trick. What exactly is your problem with listing national organisations in the page? I know that Wikipedia is not for lists per se but there are plenty of them where they are relevant and if the lists get too big to handle on a main article page, well hey we can put the list on a separate page eg Old Harrovians. If you want to have a be a proprietor of a page on the web why not apply to be come the editor of the HD page on ODP - it suits people of a bureaucratic disposition. Silent Billy (talk) 00:20, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey, take a chill pill! To answer your questions:

• re:proprietory : I don't - I even worked on WP:OWN a while back
• re:location of link : At the start of Huntington's_disease#Society_and_culture is a pointer to List of Huntington's disease media depictions, as you see it was building up quite a list
• re : listing national organizations: Check out the HD talk page ( it might be archived now ), the IHA lists over 40 country specific organisations and there are plenty more .. we can't possibly cover these fairly in the external links ( which should strictly be to pages with more information about the subject than related organisations). Like I said the HDA is linked to in the article itself, the IHA is listed as a reference.
• re: ODP. Please check it out before casting judgement, the links to HDA and the Australian HDA are in the first five links on the page, the IHA is listed further down. I was editor of it for a bit, but it didn't suit me ;)

I hope that helps, please be a little more civil in future! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 14:12, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

All that said if you have any ideas of how to improve article they are always welcome - the HD talk page would be the place to bring them up... Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 14:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Alcoholism and comma's

Hey Lee, just to let you know I have finished all of the major points raised in the GA review. The only remaining issue is punctuation issues, mentioned in the GA review in a couple of sections. Are you any good with commas? I am okish, I passed my English exams but not with flying colours lol and with it being a GA nomination would rather someone with better English skills do the finishing touches. If you could do that for me when you have the time it would be much appreciated. No hurry, I know you are busy. :)--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 18:41, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

spooky... I was just perusing the GA review and did have those fixups in mind, great work LG on all the other bits! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 18:45, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Two great minds think alike. ;) Thanks, and thank you for persuing the remaining issues. It will be nice to see the article reach GA status.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 17:43, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Google.org

Have you seen the medicine project talk page? HD is one of the articles that it is going to be externally evaluated by experts... That is great news but also a high responsibility, don't you think? Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 07:50, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

That's great, and a really exciting project altogether. They seem to have selected a selection of articles of all grades, so HD is one of the FA examples and from a cursory read seems the aim is to see how they can improve them. Bring on evaluation - and improvement I say... thanks for pointing this out garrondo! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 22:03, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Well: both are great... I think I will add it to her talk page. :-). I am right now reviewing consistency on HTT and Huntingtin. We should be proud again... Reviewer agrees that article is great.--Garrondo (talk) 12:48, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Ah yes proud indeed! really pleased she came up with some improvements too! Note : I made a comment whilst you were editing - I'm still not completely convinced on the naming conventions, but we should definitely get to the bottom of it, and find the suitable guide/s to put the definition - in order to save others from this fate ;)

Agreed. Revert me if you feel it is best as it was until we reach a decision.--Garrondo (talk) 16:00, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Editors barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your excellent, thorough and well thought out work which helped to promote alcoholism article to GA status.Literaturegeek | T@1k? 18:51, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

:) Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 13:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

If you ever want the opinion of a newb on something...

I'm right here.

Oh, and this is off-topic, but I lol'd at "For your excellent, thorough and well thought out work which helped to promote alcoholism" directly above. I'm nothing if not juvenile, I guess. A F K When Needed 10:15, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Oh dear! Thanks for offer of help ... I'm always interested to know how the help system fairs to new editors especially .. is it easy to follow, paced right, too technical, too basic ... that sort of thing ... T

Adminship

Hello, I was talking about you behind your back (all nice things of course. :) I was wondering if you are interested in being nominated for adminship?--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 22:14, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

I overheard the conversation - thanks for your confidence, I am considering it - all that talk about RFA looks intimidating, but along the lines of be bold and others beleiving the rfa process should be less harsh I would be happy to see if there is any flak! I fair few things on my real life - and wiki to do lists so have some catching up to do. Seems a possibility but have to think more and await reply as to what there is to do as admin .. I am quite happy editing content - there's more than enough to do , but if we need a few more admins to perform menial maintenance tasks that shouldn't require too much extra brain juice! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 12:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

To respond to your question, I think adminship is useful but I have personally strayed wide and far - my temperament does not allow Wikiwarring, and I now use my admin tools sparingly. That said, it would be very helpful with basic gruntwork such as undoing a controversial move. JFW | T@lk 20:53, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

To add to what Jfdwolff has already said, I don't think that you have too much to worry about on RfA. Reading over your talk page, and checking your block log, it looks like you have a "clean bill of health"; there is not much for the community to say against you. The only difficultish bit for you I think will probably be how you respond to questions posed by the community. There may be a couple of other people running for admin from Wiki Med, so if you are "on the fence" as to whether or not you run, you could wait until they have run before deciding if you would like to run.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 22:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks guys, I'll have to look into it a bit more methinks after I've caught up with current todos - whilst keeping an eye out for situations that admin tools would be useful... Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 23:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer rights

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Karanacs (talk) 16:04, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

STEAM

Please begin a section on the steam talk page about what you would like to see changed in the article. Since I've edited the article a fair amount, I'm probably biased and currently disagree with your advert tag. I simply view the article as stating the facts, though some wording could possibly change. ferret (talk) 19:19, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

As soon as I see an article for a product, service or business that uses adjectives and marketing terms my heckles rise!. Sorry didn't check for regular editors, I had a brief glance at discussion page but it looked like it was addressing more technical than style .. will do... Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 19:51, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Help for a newbie

Lee,

Since I've interacted once with you, and you're way more knowledgeable about Wiki than I (By all appearances!), I'm hoping you can help me. I also think you're completely uninvolved with the articles in question so can be seen as an unbiased third party.

The game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 got a lot of attention and criticism during it's release. Most of this (Here's my bias) was over hyped and is not really encyclopedic. Ultimately, massive amounts of criticism was forked into a separate article, Controversies surrounding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. If you glance at the talk page for this, you'll see where another user commented that the article shouldn't really exist, which I concurred with and listed my suggestion on what to do. I cross linked this discussion on the main article as well.

No one has replied on either talk page so far, but enough time has passed in my mind that action can now be taken (Or started).

What's the next step that should occur here? Should some sort of page merger tag be put up? Or, should I simply make the edits I suggested to the main article, and submit a request to delete the sub article? I don't know the templates involved and need some help getting it rolling, whichever should happen. ferret (talk) 15:43, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi ferret, there's seems a fair bit of substance to that article so I don't think you can easily dismiss it. First off you should leave new comments at the end of the talk page, this is where most editors go to find the latest active discussions... ( your suggestion is at the top ). If you are to merge it could do with some trimming - go through looking to reduce the size without losing information. One thing I did think was the technical flaws and chat limitations didn't really fit into 'controversy' so could quickly be merged back into main article. As to the existence of the article, you're best off asking over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games they shoud be able to help! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 10:51, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Lee, I'll keep in mind the position of new sections. I simply clicked "New Section" and that was where it put it. I'll ponder it some. While the article is large, a great deal of it (In my biased opinion) is fluff, with dozens of quotes making the article longer. For example, while No Russian was widely reported on and does deserve mention, do we need an entire paragraph devoted to each newspaper that wrote an article? I also agree about the technical flaws. I'll give some more thought on it and give some more time for responses. ferret (talk) 14:33, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Parkinson's

Yeap... I'll try GA some day, but it is still far from it... Maybe in a few months. I am going section by section in it. Right now I am improving the history section. If you want to help you can fix the l-dopa and levodopa issue. The prognosis, epidemiology and society sections are in very bad state, so if you want to search for some high quality sources and even begin rewritting them it would also be of great help... You can choose... :-) I have been alone in the article for 3 months so some company would be fun. Bests. --Garrondo (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Just for curiosity: take a look to what I found a year ago and compare it with the article now... I am quite proud even if theres is still a lot of work to do...--Garrondo (talk) 18:31, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

RE: blast from the past

Hey Lee, I'm still around in a very much reduced capacity. I don't have much of an excuse to be so inactive given I've nothing to do until September so I might start collaborating a bit more on articles soon. As for the featured topics project, very few people really stepped up to the task (which is fair enough because it is some task making featured topics!). You're welcome to mark it as historical if you wish, especially if our numbers have dropped low enough to make the task unattainable. It might be worth marking it as 'inactive' rather than historical, as I would very much like to return to the idea of featured topics if we get the consensus to do so. Poliomyelitis got pretty far down the line, it'd be a shame if we didn't finish it off at some point!

Hope all is well! Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  12:09, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Your comment at the F and A page, Signpost

Was that a criticism? I'm unsure. Tony (talk) 12:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh, now I notice your edit-summary. Thank you very much! A few people have expressed concern that we don't put all of the featured pics in a gallery at the bottom. Then others have said it's fine without. Hmm ... my only concern is that people may not know they have to hit "nom" to see each pic at reasonable size, rather than the huge, slow-to-download images you get from the first-positioned links for each. Tony (talk) 12:58, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh dear - an ambiguous compliment - I must improve on that ;) I was really referring to the whole page - makes an excellent read compared to old list of... Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 17:40, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

• • You're very welcome! Tony (talk) 13:55, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Thankyou

No problem :) Thanks! --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 04:14, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Google project

Thank you! I'll take a deeper look at the reviews this week. It's really a great project. NCurse _work 05:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for your input. See Talk:Human#Update -Stevertigo (t | log | c) 01:36, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi :: the WP About page lead

Hi Lee, I didn't understand exactly what your edit comment on the About page "– if its not it doesn't need to be avoided" refered to. Trev M  ~  15:15, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Oops, that is a head spinner like that! A crucial word got lost due to touchpad tussles! It was meant to say 'if its not there - it doesn't need to be avoided' , i.e. user will only see recent misinfo that hasn't been removed! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 17:55, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification... I needed a while to try to work out if there was anything else encoded in that sentence that your shortening took out with it, but I think I agree. Apropo the rest of the lead section, and discussions in the general Lead section talk page, if the lead is so long that the Contents box is off the bottom of the first reasonable resolution uncluttered screen, then the lead section is not doing what it's there for: to give a compact overview of the page before providing the reader with the opportunity to scan for specifics. I'm quite astonished, considering the profile the page has up there in the sidebar, and the 3000 odd watchers it has, that it is neither more refined nor more titchy about changes! Best, Trev M  ~  19:17, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

WP:LEAD

References are not required in the lead. The references for the bit on asthma treatment can be found in that section.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:14, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The ref added to support "are often used to treat children as they have less adverse effects" says "Overall, inhaled corticosteroids provide better asthma control than leukotriene modifiers.86,96,101-103 As a result, an inhaled corticosteroid is the recommended drug of first choice in the treatment of patients with persistent asthma, including children of all ages." Please clarify... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:23, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah head cold fog caused a lapse in thoroughness... I thought 'if mentioned in lead this drug needs a context', grabbed the info from Leukotriene antagonist article assuming it was ok - wrong! I generally follow the style of the article as I find it for stuff like references in lead. Thanks for clearing up both articles, your doing great work doc james! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 08:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

No worries assumed as much :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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Huntington's disease

I notice you reverted an anon on the basis that "glutamate is different to glutamine", which is true of course. However, glutamine is the amino acid that the Huntingdin gene repeats code for and which does the damage. I'm not sure whether glutamate is involved at all. The reference immediately following this part of the article [6] talks about glutamine but not glutamate. It looks to me that the anon is correct, although I am not an expert in the area. If you do change it back, you might like to look at the mention of glutamate in the following paragraph as well.-gadfium 18:52, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Cheers for spotting that gadfium.. will double check.. Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 19:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Time travel

Seem to have entered a time warp recently ... still around though :) Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 19:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)