User talk:Diberri

Hi - we need details of the permission granted etc. Secretlondon 20:09, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Did they say just for wikipedia - or that they were releasing under the GFDL? Secretlondon 20:16, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I assume you're referring to Image:Aplysia californica.jpeg and Image:Aplysia californica thumb.jpeg. If so, I've just added those details. Thanks for the reminder! --Diberri 20:21, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi there. Just wanted to thank you for your note on the new user log, and let you know that we're happy to have you here! Wikiholism, thankfully, is not a fatal addiction, unless you count the effect on one's offline social life ;-) Isomorphic 04:15, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

WikiDoc

Hi, I'm trying to get some medically inclined folks to join a project to resuscitate the Medicine side of Wikipedia. Some info can be found on the temporary page WikiDoc. Please drop a line on my Talk Page if you feel like it. JFW | T@lk 01:33, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your talk page message. Also, compliments on the Budd-Chiari syndrome dab - I rushed my editing of that page. I'm presently reading a review of the disease, so I'm hoping to integrate some of that in the article and un-stub it permanently.

I've introduced a "blue box" in medicine. Please comment; considering you're working on the "basic science" level, how about something similar in the health-related sciences (anatomy, physiology, etc.)? After I got some help from Danny and Angela (see talk page) it turned out to be hugely easy.

JFW | T@lk 09:42, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. The WikiDoc plan would indeed be to link all the subfields, and I think the converse holds true for the physiology area. We had terrible physiology teaching in university, so I'd be delighted to read up on - especially - cardiovascular physiology! I support your proposal for "blue boxes" for every organ system. A major task is ahead, but I think it will all be worthwhile in the long run. JFW | T@lk 21:28, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Diberri, you're doing amazing work with the "blue boxes"! JFW | T@lk 18:47, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Just noticed how you removed - and then reverted - some organs from {msg:endocrine system}. This is not a bad idea; of course the gut is active as an endocrine organ (CCK, VIP, 5HT, ghrelin), but this is hardly its main function. Perhaps it might help dividing the "primary" and "secondary" endocrine organs... Just a thought. JFW | T@lk 23:14, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi diberri, I just noticed some of your new Blue Boxes are not yet listed on Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom elements. Couldn't find the time to add them myself :-(. JFW | T@lk 01:22, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

A message over the WikiDoc network—
User:Ksheka is trying to move Heart attack to Myocardial infarction. This involves having the Redirect deleted at Myocardial infarction. Please vote for delete at: Wikipedia:Redirects_for_deletion#April_18.
JFW | T@lk 10:58, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Serum into plasma

Hi Diberri, I'm thinking of redirecting serum to blood plasma and adding more about the difference between the two on that page (as for lots of purposes they're the same).

I would have done it a year ago, but i wasn't quite sure how things worked back then! (not that i am now) :-) T 04:27, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Fetus/foetus

I'd add it back, and no big deal. I suspect "foetus" is in the OED, but unfortunately I don't have a copy to hand. The issue will work itself out in the long run without my input anyway. :) - Hephaestos|§ 01:57, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Actually, in Australia at least, it's spelled "foetus". There was not even an entry in our dictionary (the Macquarie Dictionary) for "fetus" - it's just not used. I suggest you look at American and British English differences - it spells out the differences there for all to see. - Mark 02:14, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Organ system boxes

hi, I was looking at your boxes and I was thinking that maybe there should also be boxes for subsystems. I made an example below. What do you think? Fuelbottle 21:52, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cardiovascular system - blood

red blood cells - white blood cells - platelets - blood plasma

Hi I will do what I can, but I'm not a physician so there are some things I'm unsure about. I will post boxes at user:Fuelbottle/boxtest as I make new ones. Fuelbottle 12:42, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I've added the boxes to Wikipedia:MediaWiki_custom_elements now, thanks for reminding me :)

LDH and Elastase

Hi Diberri, I was wondering if you had any comments on my rewrite of lactate dehydrogenase. It was terribly stubbly and I expanded it. Do you agree with my generalisations in the section on exsudates and transudates? JFW | T@lk 12:49, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Further to the above, I've finally taken some time to write elastase (after writing A1AD and A1AT and virtually all related items). Any comments? JFW | T@lk 14:09, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Compliments on all those tiny glitches in A1AD, A1AT and elastase. Hey, I love this system of peer review! My native language is Dutch, so it is educational to see what mistakes of mine get corrected.
I've been trying to get accross to Steve Holland to look at some of my gastroenterology additions (hepatitis, Heyde's syndrome), but he seems to have been dewikified since 15/4 (or 4/15, as your compatriots prefer). JFW | T@lk 19:57, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your Baby message, as well as your feedback on the A1AT-linked burst of articles. Really appreciated.
Further to your comments, I've modified Heyde's syndrome quite radically. Upon rereading I found it much too historical and not clinical enough.
PS How did you get that pretty picture of lactate dehydrogenase? I'd really like to get something similar for the "enzyme" articles I've worked on(A1AT, G6PD etc.). JFW | T@lk 23:16, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

In Heyde's syndrome, 1953 was a mistake. It was 1958 on second reading of my literature. I've been unable to find an associated OldMedline PMID code; they probably didn't assign codes to letters.
Thanks for your advice on RasMol. I know what I'll be downloading in a few minutes :-). JFW | T@lk 23:44, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Formatting wiki songs

According to Wiki songs, individual song titles should be in quotations and albums only in itallics.Scraggy4

Clinical Trials

Thanks for fixing it... I noted that clinical trial existed after I made the edit. Woops. --RichardAmes 00:29, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Spinal muscular atrophy

Hello Dave, As I advised you about music:album previously I thought that I would see if you could reciprocate. I was trying to find if their was a page about Spinal Muscular Atrophy (I believe it may be related to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy) a disease from which one of nieces suffers. I couldn't seem to find an article regarding this and thought I may get my niece to write a brief article in the hope somebody with more medical knowledge would like to expand it. I didn't want to do this if there was already an article that I couldn't find.???? Scraggy4 10:56, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This page seems to indicate that nothing has been written on this... http://www.fsma.org/ might be a good bet JFW | T@lk 20:21, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Wes Borland

i ve replied in Talk:Wes Borland... sorry about bad refering link

Gottwik

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JFW | T@lk 12:33, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

gedday

sorry to here you're a christian Diberri (used to be onemyself many years ago... but I recovered)

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anyway I like your work! don't be afraid to visit us at the mess (btw I think plasma and serum belong on different pages... but sometimes i'm a pedant!) --Erich gasboy 20:55, 7 May 2004 (UTC) oops[reply]

MedlinePlus

Hello, Dave! Thanks for all your great work on medical topics. However, I've noticed that you've used an image from the MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. Sadly, although it's on a .gov website, MedlinePlus is not in the public domain: see the copyright notices on the MedlinePlus site. It's irritating, as most other U.S. government medical info is in the public domain: but you have to be careful to check. Could you please help to remove these images from your articles, and any other MedlinePlus text you may have used in error? -- The Anome 12:37, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]