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I have a few concerns about the mind maps. Lets discuss further at WP:MED. Started here [1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but ... I wasn't vandalizing his page. I was only trying to make conversation. -- Rhain1999 contributions talk 20:38, 1 April 2011 (EST)

Sorry but i didnt understand the message and I can see it is relating to any article that is why i reverted it, and since you are already warned, that made the comment more suspicious, If I am mistaking am sorry MaenK.A._Talk 12:43, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You've got to admit, renaming the caption of a photo "Fart Dragon" was pretty funny. I know you're laughing, even if you give me my final warning as you do it. There has to be some edits that are somewhat humorous to you. After all, you are human... I'm not doing it all to be destructive, but it is cool to see the article with different captions on it (like Fart Dragon). I'm sorry if I have offended you and will make every effort to keep from making disruptive edits in the future. Thank you for giving me my warnings, you're a pretty cool police man. (hey 16:59, 26 November 2011 (UTC))

~Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChristopherCollinsII (talk • contribs) 16:59, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In an article like asthma, I think it would be better if you based the content on secondary sources rather than articles that you have found in the BMJ's online archive. Could I persuade you to discuss your additions on Talk:Asthma? JFW | T@lk 16:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The situation might be slightly different in rare conditions, where there may not be sufficient secondary sources to support a "history" section. This is a conundrum I faced in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and thyrotoxic periodic paralysis. JFW | T@lk 16:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see, there is very few secondary sources too, I looked it over and over, I am actually trying to look for landmarks in the history of the research about asthma, thats why you find that some information is not applicable to today's medicine, as the current understanding of the disease was mostly understood in the 60's and later. please suggest any sources to help expanding the article MaenK.A._Talk 16:45, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you create a page at wikipedia about the marshall syndrome?\

Greetz Tessa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.208.203.173 (talk) 15:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I have concerns about this image and its usage in the EKG article. The image is vectorized directly from the Book 'The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need 6th Edition' page 38, thus it is certainly not a public domain image. The image should be replaced with free (and also better) image. --Jptvie (talk) 12:10, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi,

I believe you took the photo of the Nina replica on the Wiki. Corpus Christi entry?

I'm interested in nautical history. We will be in Corpus this coming weekend.

Do you know if that replica is a museum ship there in the marina still today? Or was it just visiting there and is now gone?

Thank you.

-Clifton Bencke Promoting youth and families getting outdoors more with nature at... PiratesAndParrots.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by CliftonBencke (talk • contribs) 13:53, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm proposing to merge the anatomy articles Posterior border of lung, Anterior border of lung, and Inferior border of lung into one article: Borders of the lung. There's no consensus on the issue, and since it is supported by the Pulmonology task force, I was wondering if you could add your opinion at the merger discussion here: Talk:Borders of the lung.

Thanks, Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 21:42, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! We've updated the File:ConductionsystemoftheheartwithoutHeart.svg. Could You check its english summary (maybe You're able to check german one, too?) and – if it's good – switch the File:ConductionsystemoftheheartwithouttheHeart.png to File:ConductionsystemoftheheartwithoutHeart.svg in these articles? Please, tell me, what's Your opinion. (I'll be pleased if You answer on my pl.wiki) Vinne2 (talk) 08:38, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Just a question. How can you consider spam something that was made to promote a show? Just curious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wayhopegoes (talk • contribs) 21:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not entirely sure what User talk:Madhero88/Documentation is...but I guess it is something directed toward you?  Chzz  ►  01:03, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for notifying me about that. I have no Idea what is that all about, but as you said this page belongs to me. should I do something?? MaenK.A._Talk 10:08, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know; I only noticed it, because I've been trying to help that user on User_talk:KnowLimits. I'm not sure what they're asking about.  Chzz  ►  10:12, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, please notify me if i need to do anything about it MaenK.A._Talk 10:17, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. I wasn't aware that one shouldn't copy and paste. However, I am unable to move the page in question (from National Museums of Scotland to National Museums Scotland) because the latter page exists (with on a forward to the former). Because the former page exists, it is not possible to move to latter to the same name. As the name of the organisation changed five years ago, Wikipedia should accurately reflect this, which it currently does not.

I would appreciate your guidance as to how to achive this move. Is it possible to delete the National Museums Scotland page, so that the National Museums of Scotland page can be moved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tizard99 (talk • contribs) 17:03, 26 November 2011 (UTC) Tizard99 (talk) 17:05, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar and the kind message! You too should definitely be appreciated 100 times more than you are currently appreciated. Keep up the good work. JFW | T@lk 18:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your appreciation :) MaenK.A._Talk 16:05, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hi there :) I hope you dont mind me posting here as well as I just emailed you.. but just thought I'd let you know I have and I also wanted to see where this posts ends up...whether it ends up on the bottom of your page or not (appoliges if it dont).

Anyway.. looking forward to seeing your response to the email ive sent and if you are interested in helping me set up a page. (I do also have a medical interest in other things other then the page Im wanting help with too.. if I could figure out the wiki better.. maybe I then could help out at this site with edits for other medical conditions too).

Tania — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taniaaust1 (talk • contribs) 05:20, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello... First of all you are so welcome to wikipedia... second am ready to offer any help you might want.. especially if related to medical articles or your user page. am sorry but i didnt get your email, can you please send it again or just tell me what you want on my talk page??. Again welcome to wikipedia :) MaenK.A._Talk 16:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi :) thank you for the wiki welcome.

I just earlier today after I'd emailed you using the madhero88 at gmail address mentioned (not sure why it didnt get to you)...but I ended up finding the live chat and got some help so now the new page is up and being done.

I thought you may of been interested I noticed you'd done essential hypertension. The new page is on "Orthostatic Hypertension" which is a bit tricky as there is hardly much online about the condition and some of my knowledge comes from medical specialists on the disorder.

I currently dont have any questions to ask you, due to getting a lot of advice on working wiki today but bound to have more in future as Im just learning. :)

Feel welcome to contribute to the new page if you want. Ive put all the info onto it so far with others fixing my wiki mistakes.. within the next couple of days I'll be adding more references as some of the things Ive said that I know are factual but havent yet had time to find the references for.

If you have a medical knowledge maybe you can put down one of the main theories of thought of how the condition actually occurs as Im going to really struggle with that. (I struggle to get my head around that the theory of pressor reflexes over compensating).

edit addition. I just got stuck doing the page. I dont know where that straight downward slash is on my computer for doing reference formating, so half my references work with / but the other half dont (another ending up fixing the others for me). If you are bored, there is a messed up reference format currently that I cant fix myself in the treatment section I just started at the new page "orthostatic hypertension" Thanks if you get to it before anyone else does.

Taniaaust1 (talk)taniaaust1Taniaaust1 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:24, 29 November 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Hi again. I forgot to leave my email address its taniaaust1 at hotmail, I know now how to get my messages at wiki.

I are running into some more issues with the Orthostatic Hypertension page now. Someone complained it was looking like a medical journal article so I guess it needs to be made more looking encyclopedic (I've put some things on it in lists as that was the clearest way I could think to put them in eg list of symptoms, maybe that is all adding to it looking like a medical journal article?).

Also thou references for almost all the things Ive said Ive found now and put on the page, some of the things Ive put down appear to be unreferenced as I dont know what to do when the same reference source references several different things mentioned on the page, in different places on the page (so that is leaving me with just putting it by one of those things, with the others things appearing to unreferenced when in fact they have got supporting reference but its elsewhere on the page).

Thanks for your offer to help. Lets see if I can sign my name at the bottom of this correctly today.

taniaaust1Taniaaust1 (talk) 06:11, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi,

Thanks for the welcome... but i'm almost a regular & I'd actually just forgotten to log in to Wikipedia.... sorry

&Brew 12:39, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your willingness to rewrite the article. Unfortunately, we can't host the content even temporarily in userspace. All material on any page in Wikipedia must comply with our copyright policies. Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.

I see at a glance that the lead paragraph as placed in your sandbox still copies the source article at Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology:

Celiac crisis is a life threatening syndrome where celiac disease causes acute dramatic metabolic derangements.[1][2] Common manifestations of celiac crisis include severe diarrhea, hypoproteinemia, and metabolic and electrolyte disturbances significant enough to require hospitalization.[3][4]

Source:

Celiac crisis is a life threatening syndrome where celiac disease causes acute dramatic metabolic derangements. Common manifestations of celiac crisis include severe diarrhea, hypoproteinemia, and metabolic and electrolyte disturbances significant enough to require hospitalization.1, 2

Beyond actual copying, there is very close paraphrasing of the source such that we could not use:

Like celiac disease in general, celiac crisis appears to be triggered by a general immune stimulus such as surgery, infection or pregnancy as has been previously described.

Source:

Like celiac disease in general, celiac crisis in this series appears often to be precipitated by a general immune stimulus such as surgery, infection or pregnancy as has been previously described.

(I also have to ask if you have actually checked the sources in this article yourself; if you have not, but are citing to them based on their usage in the paper from which you copied, I'm afraid this is also an issue of Wikipedia:Plagiarism, although the copyright concerns are my area.)

Content has also been copied from at least one other source:

Microscopic colitis may be one of the factors that contribute to the development of this condition.

Source:

Microscopic colitis may be one of the factors that contribute to the development of this condition.

and [2].

Your sandbox has been blanked and listed at the copyright problems board. Please rewrite the article from scratch, in compliance with our copyright policies. You may used brief and clearly marked quotations, accurately cited to the source you used, but you cannot copy content from copyrighted documents otherwise. If the article is not rewritten at that space within a week, it is likely to be deleted. (If you are actually the copyright holder of these articles, the procedure for verifying that is set out on the template blanking your sandbox. You can also read about it at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.)

Please let us know if you have created other articles by copying or closely paraphrasing content from your sources. If the sources are non-free, the content will need to be rewritten.

If you have any questions about the procedures or policies, please feel free to come by my talk page. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:27, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information, and I ll work again on the article MaenK.A._Talk 14:41, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please take a look at this, is this how u want me to do? just to change the phrases and words? MaenK.A._Talk 14:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have a pretty good idea what's required. I've been out all day but should have some time in about 12 hours. If you like, I'll have a look at what you've done then and can help with the rewrite. I'll check back then. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 15:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good, I welcome some help, thank you MaenK.A._Talk 15:17, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I can't spend any time on it today, either. Just some thoughts for now:

• I had a quick look at the Google Book search results for "celiac crisis" and "coeliac crisis" and found a couple of recent-ish textbooks with descriptions of the thing. It may be simpler (for you and for readers wanting to verify the article) to base the article on a couple of those textbooks, provided they say what's necessary. If you can reduce the number of references to a handful of textbooks, it's much easier to read and verify, and satisfies WP:MEDMOS per its preference for secondary sources.
• Our article must be entirely different from its sources in terms of language used and organisation (sequence, layout, logical progression). I'll talk to you tomorrow. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:37, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for dropping the ball on this, and everything else lately. I've been a bit under the weather but am on the mend. When I next get to the med library I'll pull out what they have on the topic and maybe put something to you. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 02:39, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome. I have had a go at the stub on benign hypertension. Would appreciate comments. adh (talk) 11:14, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I've uploaded the three articles you requested on the resource exchange. You can find links to the articles on that page. Best, GabrielF (talk) 00:23, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so so much for providing those MaenK.A._Talk 09:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK I've responded to your latest resource request. GabrielF (talk) 21:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've done another batch for you. GabrielF (talk) 19:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I've uploaded one of the articles that you requested at the resource exchange. You can find a link to the article at that page. GabrielF (talk) 23:44, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you MaenK.A._Talk 22:41, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SarahStierch (talk) 22:09, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Mypic2333.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:22, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent). Any help would be appreciated! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:42, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can a poster or sign post be cited as a source? The one in question was put up by the council and gives a brief history of the village of Rougham.Joshden (talk) 17:28, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Author/Madhero88

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at the University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Leukodystrophy. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on [email protected]. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance.Hydra Rain (talk) 15:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Madhero88. I'm leaving you this message because you have previously been involved as an adopter with Wikipedia's Adopt-a-user program. A clean-up of this program is currently underway, and as part of the process I am trying to find out who is and isn't still interested in remaining an adopter.

If you would prefer not to be part of the adoption program anymore, you need do nothing; when the overhaul of the project is completed your name will be removed from the list of active adopters. However, if you have current adoptees, an active adoption school or an interest in adopting in the near future, then please let us know by signing here.

If you want to remain in the project and can currently take on more adoptees, there is a serious backlog at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user; it would be enormously helpful if you could take on one or two of the users there. Please do keep an eye on the project for upcoming changes, we could use your opinions and your help! Yunshui 雲‍水 09:09, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

wrong englsh bro!!! revert bac to what dd!!! have the orgmanl; copy o f th e comc dude!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.161.120.161 (talk) 06:14, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:58, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for informing me, sure I am interested to be involved MaenK.A._Talk 18:28, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Madhero88, I saw that you're a member of the pulmonology task force with special interest in COPD so I would like to ask you if you would be willing to peer review the Bronchitis article. I've listed it on the peer review page as well. Let me know here or on my talk page. Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 04:38, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
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During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:

• Xhosa
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• Venda
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• Swahili
• Tigrinya

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