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Merry Christmas

	Merry Christmas RexxS
	Hi RexxS, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia this past year,    –Davey2010talk 00:53, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello RexxS, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Happy editing, dawnleelynn(talk) 17:11, 23 December 2019 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

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Template:Z33 Barkeep49 (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Interaction with Colin

Rexx, I would ask you to consider striking any parts of this diff which comment on Colin as an editor rather than the substance being discussed. Should you have any questions about this feel free to ask me by pinging me here or leaving a message on my talk page. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

@Barkeep49: I'm happy to redact, and thank you for your intervention. I am, of course, perfectly aware of the problem of personalising debate, and I apologise that I had to make a point about it. I have done nothing more than replied to Colin in the same vein that he approached my contributions. If he is now prepared to keep a civil tongue in his head and restrict his comments to the issues and not the editors, he'll find me perfectly amenable. --RexxS (talk) 02:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

A big Merry Christmas (that wonderful link was kindly added to my talk). I'm not normally this sentimental but I just looked over the medicine RfC—thank you for your excellent contributions there. Johnuniq (talk) 04:33, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hi Doug! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020. And talkin' about being amenable, I would be extremely amenable to a beer in a quite little pub I know in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! So check how many air miles you've got 'cause it's a long way. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk)

Happy new year!

• Boom! Crash! Sparkle! Isn't my coding coming on nicely? Bishonen | talk 20:48, 31 December 2019 (UTC).
  • Awesome --RexxS (talk) 23:38, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Column width for refs

Hi Rexxs,

Generic seasonal greetings, best wishes for the new year, etc. and have some good dives, they are good for the state of mind. (I even have a reference - Beneton, Frédéric; Michoud, Guillaume; Coulange, Mathieu; Laine, Nicolas; Ramdani, Céline; Borgnetta, Marc; Breton, Patricia; Guieu, Regis; Rostain, J. C.; Trousselard, Marion (18 December 2017). "Recreational Diving Practice for Stress Management: An Exploratory Trial". Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 2193. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02193. PMID 29326628.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link))

Just querying your edit summary Better to have the value when it's been specifically chosen, rather than just left to default, but I'll move it just past 30em to avoid this happening again regarding column width for ref lists. Why is a specified value better than default? Is the reason specific to the article?

Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 06:40, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Peter Happy New Year! I'm not doing much diving at the moment - my part of the globe is bloody cold right now.

I can't speak for other editors, but when I look at an article's references, I usually want to see a narrower column width if most of the cites are short, and a wider column width if most of them are long, as I think that's more readable and possibly more aesthetically pleasing. So on articles I've invested time in, I play around with 25em or 30em or 40em, etc, column widths until I find what I think is optimal for most screens, given the references currently in place. So if I've added a |colwidth= parameter, it's as a result of a conscious decision to use that width and that definitely includes using 30em. That contrasts with simply using the default, which indicates to me that no decision on column widths has been made. If someone removes the |colwidth=30em, thinking "Oh, it's the same as default; I might as well save a few bytes" and I don't notice, I'll quite likely end up at some point redoing the exercise of finding the optimal colwidth again, which ends up being a waste of my time. If other editors have adopted the same idea as I have, removing parameters will simply cause annoyance, especially when there's no improvement to the article as a result. it makes sense to me; hope it does for you, too. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 08:42, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Good enough. I am less fussy, so not a big deal either way for me. Could I suggest that you use a comment in the text? Then everyone will know that you have specifically chosen the colwidth, and will be less likely to change it. I could quite easily be editing the same article again another year and not remember, and waste both of our time again. For me it is a small matter, but I would prefer not to trouble you with such a small thing unnecessarily. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 19:42, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Good idea, Peter, I'll try to get into the habit of leaving a note like that. Although if it's a scuba-related article with |colwidth=30em, it's almost a guarantee that it's my edit and that I've set the value deliberately. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 21:37, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Journal help

G'day, RexxS. Could you lend your expertise to help me find information in a Cochrane review?

I cannot access PMID 23877886. I went to a medical library on Friday, and they can't get it either. I am able to see the content via "other means", but I cannot print and easily peruse the article because it is over 300 pages. Nor can I search within the text via ctrl-f. It turns up on a Tourette syndrome search, and I know the content is relevant to TS, but I cannot locate text in the article that pertains specifically to TS. Are you able to ctrl-f in there to find any TS text? Or to give me any ideas of what to do next? Thanks in advance, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:16, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Sandy, I've just logged on to my Wiley Online Library account but the article at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ebch.1905 is still pay-to-view for me. Let me ping Jenny who does some work with Cochrane and might be able to get the information you want without having to spend $$ on it.

Jenny, can you see the full text in machine-readable format to help Sandy find the part that relates to Tourette syndrome? Cheers --RexxS (talk) 00:23, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks so much, RexxS; Jenny, if it proves to be a lot of work (it's a huge article), please don't spend too much time on it. I have possibly located other sources that may cover the same territory. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:09, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Dear @RexxS and SandyGeorgia: Thank you for including me here. Sandy, I will check on your user page and try to send you an email following up. Or you can email me at jdawson (a) cochrane (dot) org . It may take me a day or so but I will do my best. Thank you again. JenOttawa (talk) 14:16, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

JenOttawa thanks so much, but don't put too much effort into it yet. I just found something that works in place of this review, and seems to say the same thing. I will follow up with you if I still need more. Thanks again! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:46, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

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Question

Hi, sweetie pie (can I say that from my heart without becoming a _target of whatever, despite my honorable intentions?) If not, please strike it and accept my apologies even though my experiences with you in my mind justifies my position...with the latter aside, my question to you is (drum roll please), are the total "edits" of a user based only on an individual edit count rather than size of the prose in the individual edits? IOW, does an edit of +600 count the same as 1200+ ? What about reverts - does that count as one edit? I'm just trying to figure out what constitutes an edit in WP terms...^Atsme _Talk 📧 00:08, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

@Atsme: Heh, you can call me anything you want without becoming a _target of anything!

The answers to your questions [drum roll] are: yes, yes and yes. It's simply a count of the number of times you've hit the [save] button (now labelled 'Publish changes') having made any change whatsoever to the page. HTH --RexxS (talk) 00:37, 18 January2020 (UTC)

Jiminy Cricket!! If only I had known...oh well, it probably would not have mattered. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 00:51, 18 January 2020 (UTC)