User talk:DiverDave/Archive 4

Nomination of Ticket of leave (British military) for deletion

The article Ticket of leave (British military) is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ticket of leave (British military) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 1, 28 January 2011 This is the second issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Userboxes and profiles - Add an ambassador userbox to your page, and make sure you've added your mentor profile! Be a coordinating ambassador - Pick and class and make sure no students fall through the cracks. New screencasts - Short videos on watchlists and a number of other topics may be useful to students. Updates from Campus Ambassadors - Ambassadors are starting to report on classroom experiences, both on-wiki and on the Google Group. Other news - There's a new on-wiki application for being an Online Ambassador, and Editing Friday #2 is today! Things you can do - This is just a sample; if you're eager for something to do, there's plenty more.

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please add your profile to the Online Ambassadors mentors page

Hi Dave!

Please add your profile to the bottom "additional online ambassadors" section of Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Mentors. If you'd like to be a mentor, then add it the top section, "available mentors," instead; we can just find someone else to look after your mentees when you're away.

If you have any questions about the ambassador role or what you're interested in doing as an Online Ambassador (whether mentoring, pitching in in other ways, or something else), please let me know.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:41, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Viruses is back

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Teuthidodrilus

Hello! Seems to me you've made a mistake in the article. The term "notochaetae" usually refers to "bristles" not "tentacles". As far as I understood these worms have ten tentacle-like anterior appendages made of soft tissue (a pair of palps and four pairs of branchiae). The notochaetae (dorsal bristles) are chitinous structures in the dorsal part of parapodia. You may find some details in the video and the image. Possessing long anterior tentacles is rather common feature in polychaetes especially in cirratulids. However they are not so long in motile benthic forms. The morphology of notochaetes of Teuthidodrilus are posed as unusual in the abstract of Osborn's et al. paper. Unfortunately I've no access to the full text paper (probably you have it) so I can't get to know what the «concavo-convex paddles» are and whether such paddle is a single bristle or a group of bristles. Mithril (talk) 02:21, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 3, 21 March 2011 This is the third issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Where the courses are - A brief summary of how each of the 31 Public Policy Initiative courses are faring so far in the Spring 2011 term, as of 9-11 March. Feel free to add more detail. Tracking students' articles - Make sure students' articles are tagged with {{WAP assignment}} on the talk pages, and have the newly improved Article Feedback Tool active. Education portal in progress - Wikimedia staff have started work on an outreach portal for information about teaching with and about Wikipedia. Please help develop it! Online Ambassadors logistics - If you don't have a Wikipedia Ambassador sweatshirt, now's your chance to get one! (Also, some other more mundane, but important, details.) Steering committee preparing proposals - Look for discussions about two major proposals about the future ambassador program soon: the "Regional Ambassador" role, and elections for a new committee. Editing Friday returns - This Friday, join fellow ambassadors and others real-time collaboration on Wainwright Building.

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 4, 22 April 2011 This is the fourth issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Voting begins for steering committee - The voting phase for the Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee election started this week, and will continue through 27 April. Seeking more Regional Ambassadors in the US - We are still looking for Regional Ambassadors for the United States! The deadline has been extended to Friday, April 29th. India pilot being organized now - Plans are currently underway for a pilot expansion of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – in India! Hisham Mundol and other Wikimedia staff have begun recruiting Campus Ambassador candidates for Pune. Document DYK, peer review and other milestone at the trophy case - If students you are working with (or any others you notice) are doing work that makes to DYK, is nominated for Good Article status, or is just solid content worth marking, then please help us document the students' success at the trophy case. Ambassador program at Wikimania - We're planning a set of Wikipedia Ambassador Program presentations for Wikimania 2011, in Haifa this August. Changes to mailing list - A new low-volume mailing list, [Ambassador-announce-l], is being created. It will be reserved for key announcements and news, which we'd like all ambassadors to be subscribed to.

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DYK nomination of Battle for the Río San Juan de Nicaragua

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DYK for Battle for the Río San Juan de Nicaragua

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Fortress of the Immaculate Conception

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for El Castillo (village)

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for El Castillo (municipality)

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Rafaela Herrera

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Epic Barnstar
		For writing a Epic series of articles: Battle for the Río San Juan de Nicaragua, Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, El Castillo (village), El Castillo (municipality) and Rafaela Herrera putting them all in one DYK. They really do look good! Sadads (talk) 12:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC) Sadads (talk) 12:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Your welcome, I am glad you liked the barnstar! Thank you for the offer of help. Right now all I ask is that you continue working with the Ambassador program, which I feel has taken alot of my wiki-energy recently. I think we really have a lot of potential in how we develop it as it moves into a more mature volunteer run activity. I am sure, at some point, I will come across you and need some help, but for right now I think I am good :) Sadads (talk) 12:00, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Allison Glacier

Hi Dave. When you created the article Allison Glacier you seem to have conflated the Antarctic feature identified by USGS GNIS id number 305 with a completely different feature on an island in the Indian Ocean. I am going to have a go at disentangling the two, but any help or advice you can offer would be much appreciated. Cheers. Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 20:09, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Jan1nad. USGS GNIS id 305 refers to Allison Glacier (Antarctica), a geographic feature in the Royal Society Range in Antarctica. I have just changed the existing article title back to its original Allison Glacier (Heard Island). I hope this is sufficient to clear up any confusion. DiverDave (talk) 21:03, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for making the changes, I still hope to have another look at the 2 articles in the next day or two (too tired now). Best wishes. Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 21:46, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Wildlife of Zimbabwe

Thank you very much for the Faana barnstar and also the appreciation on the DYK review.--Nvvchar. 04:33, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of VX-6

Hello! Your submission of VX-6 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Quasihuman (talk) 22:35, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Two additional (reliable) sources provided. DiverDave (talk) 23:27, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Excellent, I've approved it now, well done, it's an interesting article. Good luck, Quasihuman (talk) 11:38, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for VX-6

The DYK project (nominate) 17:47, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for VXE-6

The DYK project (nominate) 08:18, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Kidney stone article

Great job revamping the article! – RobinHood70 ^talk 21:38, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement, RobinHood70. I can see that you have also invested quite a bit of time in this article. Perhaps you and I can work together to get it up to GA status. What do you think? DiverDave (talk) 22:00, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

I mostly keep an eye on it to avoid recurrences of edits like this one that went unchallenged for several months! I'm not terribly experienced with getting something up to GA status, but I'm certainly willing to go over it for grammar and spelling, and try to resolve any of the various tags requesting verification or more information. Oh and off-topic, don't worry about putting talkbacks on my page - I monitor everything I contribute to, including user talk pages, for a reasonable length of time. – RobinHood70 ^talk 23:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey

Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

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Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

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Jacob Sheep GA review

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I've been very busy and as a result haven't had much time at all lately -- I'm very sorry I haven't posted any more comments yet yet. I should be finishing it up by the end of next week at the latest; please give me a poke if I'm not around then. Thanks for being patient. – anna 00:51, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

No problem, Anna. Take all the time you need. The real world is important too!  :-) DiverDave (talk) 00:56, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Pyelonephritis

I agree that xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis needed to be merged with the "main" pyelonephritis article. Unfortunately the former is stuffed with some really poor-quality sources that spectacularly fail WP:MEDRS (e.g. case reports in French). Despite pyelonephritis being a common condition that often affects young people, the article does not get a lot of attention and indeed it is not easy finding good sources.

Do you think we could collaborate on making this article a bit better? Unfortunately we have no editor with a particular interest in urology. JFW | T@lk 06:40, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your message, Jfdwolff. I would be delighted to collaborate with you on improving the pyelonephritis article. Like you, I am a physician with a strong interest in urology. Please refer to the Kidney stone and Urolithiasis articles to see some of my recent activity. I intend to re-examine the sources for the pyelonephritis article soon. DiverDave (talk) 07:11, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Great. I am a generalist, so your expertise is very helpful when it comes to identifying suitable sources and striking the right balance in that article. JFW | T@lk 07:20, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for carrying this forward! I was wondering if it was possible to replace the small studies with 40 patients for sources that are more closely aligned with WP:MEDRS. JFW | T@lk 09:59, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

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Urolithiasis article

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Your GA nomination of Methoxyflurane

The article Methoxyflurane you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Methoxyflurane for things which need to be addressed. Tea with toast (話) 22:58, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello Tea with toast, and thank you very much for taking on the GAN for methoxyflurane! I hope you have found the article interesting. I have addressed the first of the concerns you raised, hopefully to your staisfaction. Next I intend to go over each of the 61 sources in the ==References== section and 26 sources in the ==Further reading== section in detail, adding doi/pmid/url where available. This may take some time, so please try to bear with me. I want to be as thorough as possible. DiverDave (talk) 01:07, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject United States History

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Kidney stones

The kidney stone article is coming along well. Here is another ref that may be useful http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21258231 If you need a full copy let me know. With respect to the article the most important thing I would love to see is it being exclusively or at least primarily referenced to review articles rather than primary research. Anyway keep up the good work.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

US National Archives collaboration

United States National Archives WikiProject

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Wikimedia Texas

So I'm interested if this has gone anywhere. I want to join a meetup with the other Texas wiki editors. Arroxane (talk) 02:13, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Malta

Hi - are you the DiverDave who I was talking to about Malta some years back? Martin 78.147.99.207 (talk) 15:33, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Jacob (sheep)/GA1

Hey. I left a few comments for you to address. Once these are fixed I'll pass the article. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 14:10, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Perot Systems

The following discussion was started June 2011 and is also the most recent discussion of Perot Systems: Talk:Dell_Services#Dell_Services_VS_Perot_Systems Your recent move made to the article disregards the discussion. Would you reconsider undoing the move and then contribute to the discussion? - Steve3849^talk 11:19, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

My bad, but no harm intended. I forgot to check the talk page before moving the article name to Dell Services. I have reverted back to Perot Systems. I will try to come up with a coherent opinion on the matter and leave it on the Talk:Perot Systems page. DiverDave (talk) 14:00, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Please see my comments at Dell Services VS Perot Systems. Thanks, DiverDave (talk) 15:12, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!!!- Steve3849^talk 04:00, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior and Quincy Adams Shaw DYKs

I hope you don't mind, but I changed the credits from (nom) to (make) on the DYKs Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior and Quincy Adams Shaw as you were the one who did the expansion of the articles. If you prefer it the other way around for any reason, please feel free to ping me and I can always change it back. Kindly Calmer Waters 02:52, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior

Calmer Waters 00:03, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Quincy Adams Shaw

Calmer Waters 00:04, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Robert Gould Shaw II

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Ambassador Program: assessment drive

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In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:23, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Ping

Just wanted to remind you that the GA review for Kidney stone is still open. I think the reviewer had a couple of short questions for you. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:20, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for List of largest giant sequoias

Gatoclass (talk) 16:03, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Good Article promotion

	Congratulations!
	Thanks for all the work you did in making kidney stone a certified "Good Article"! Your work is much appreciated. In the spirit of celebration, you may wish to review one of the Good Article nominees that someone else nominated, as there is currently a backlog, and any help is appreciated. All the best, – Quadell (talk)

What happened with that poor guy?

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Hi! What happened with that poor guy? I assume knee is beyond repair and was replaced by a protesis? DrunkSquirrel (talk) 03:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

This individual had problems more serious than the knee injury. A prosthetic joint was not performed. I cannot disclose any other information. DiverDave (talk) 02:53, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

A new medical resource

Please note that there is a new freely accessible medical resource, MedMerits (to which I'm a medical advisor) on neurologic disorders. A discussion on ELs to MedMerits and medical ELs in general is currently in progress ("Wikipedia and its relationship to the outside world"). Presto54 (talk) 06:35, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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Hieronymus Brunschwig

Hello there. I noticed User:DiverDave/Hieronymus Brunschwig only after I created Hieronymus Brunschwig on a small scale by translating. Let me know if you'd like me to do something about merging in your draft. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:47, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for starting the Hieronymus Brunschwig article, Charles. I had intended to flesh the article out before posting it, but I have been procrastinating terribly. As you can see, it has languished for more than a year as one of my subpages. I will just go ahead and add what I have to your article at this point. Regards, DiverDave (talk) 01:12, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Future of the US Education Program and the Ambassador Project

There is a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Voceditenore (talk) 08:35, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

All files in category Unclassified Chemical Structures listed for deletion

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RE: Bay of Whales

Well done! --Hokeman (talk) 04:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

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List of British prison hulks merge proposal

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urology in general

Hi DiverDave--

I've come to you looking for someone relatively qualified in urology and the physiology of sexual function. It seems that at least a few articles pertaining to these topics are frequently edited by male adolescents. This first came to my attention a few days ago, with a move request from Nocturnal penile tumescence to "Morning wood", which so far has attracted only a few comments.

If you would care to look at Talk:Nocturnal penile tumescence#Requested move, you'll also find there my comments concerning the article on Erection, which has a See also list at the bottom that might be worth checking out as well. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide on a professional and encyclopedic level. Milkunderwood (talk) 23:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Your page: Microbicides_for_sexually_transmitted_diseases

Hi, I am a new member of the Guild of Copy Editors -- I saw that you tagged your article for further copyediting in October 2010. It looks really great to me, but I'll go over it carefully for any details. Do you have any thoughts before I begin? (The Guild's March 2012 wikiproject is to get rid of all the oldest copyedit requested pages, and this is one of them) Gofigure41 21:21, 5 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gofigure41 (talk • contribs)

Help for a new user

Hi DiverDave,

I am a student at Clemson University, and I have created a page on vertebral osteomyelitis for an English assignment. I was wondering if you could look over my article and provide me with any feedback you might have as to how I can improve the article. Here is the link to my page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_osteomyelitis

Thanks in advance,

Jwrigh9 (talk)Jwrigh9 —Preceding undated comment added 18:22, 29 March 2012 (UTC).

Nice article, Jwrigh9! Please look at the article's talk page for my recommendations. Give me a little time to look it over first.DiverDave (talk) 00:52, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi DiverDave! I am a student working on a Wikipedia article assignment and was wondering if you could take a look at my article and give me any feedback or advice you have on it. Here is the link to my sandbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aparmit/Sandbox . Thanks!! Aparmit (talk) 03:26, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: List of submarine topographical features

Greetings DiverDave, I propose entering a very brief note on the origins of the names of features when known. Perhaps in the second column of the chart. What do you think ? Tjlynnjr (talk) 09:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC) Tjlynnjr (talk) 09:04, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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Floyd Otter Tree

Hi DiverDave. In case you haven't seen it, User:AfterSeven has started a discussion about the Floyd Otter Tree over here. Cheers, mgiganteus1 (talk) 04:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Review at DYK

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DYK for Preorbital gland

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VXE-6

Since you are the creator and primary author of VXE-6, could you take a look at (and perhaps fix) the sentence fragment in the middle of the paragraph about the Air New Zealand crash? It currently reads It was confirmed that the wreckage, with two references, then the beginning of a new sentence. That wording has been in the article since you initially added it in this edit [1], and I'm not quite sure exactly what you were trying to say; if I understood, I'd fix it myself. Horologium (talk) 03:18, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for identifying the incomplete/nonsensensical sentence, Horologium. I have corrected it and hope the sentence is now somewhat coherent. Regards, DiverDave (talk) 12:53, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Implantable Collamer Lens

Hi Dave, I've added references for the Implantable Collamer Lens page. Please take a look! Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenteamochees (talk • contribs) 21:54, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello Greenteamochees. You have done an outstanding job at providing inline citations; thank you very much!

It appears you are new to editing Wikipedia, making your first edit just two days ago. First of all, welcome to the world of Wikipedia! There are many editors here who are more than happy to help you learn your way around. It seems as if you have jumped right in and created a new article, which is very brave and is to be commended. You will soon find that you will be treated as equal to any other editor in this community---at least that is how it is supposed to work. While this is a good thing, it also means that regular editors may assume you know all the rules and etiquette involved in editing (which nobody really does, by the way). Sometimes your edits will be altered or even reverted, often with no explanation at all. This may hurt your feelings. I know this because it was not long ago I was in your shoes. My advice to you would be that if one of your edits is altered or criticized in some way, you should examine this event closely, and consider it to be an opportunity to learn some of the nuances of editing Wikipedia. Most of the time, there will be a valid reason for the intervention. In some cases, the modification may be made in good faith, but may nevertheless be inaccurate. Rarer still, it may be simple vandalism.

With respect to your new article, Implantable Collamer Lens, I offer the following advice: try to avoid using the words "should" and "patient" in medical articles whenever possible, because Wikipedia is not intended to be a source of medical advice. Further information is available at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles. Gotta go now, but best of luck to you, and again, welcome! DiverDave (talk) 03:32, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for James Leonard Corning

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DYK for History of neuraxial anesthesia

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DYK for Mount Billy Mitchell (Chugach Mountains)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:22, 5 August 2012 (UTC) 08:02, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Source for coordinates in List of largest giant sequoias?

Hi, DiverDave. What'sthe source for the coordinates at List of largest giant sequoias? I checked the top two versus GNIS,and they were different. Any help you can provide would be great! —hike395 (talk) 11:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your question, Hike395. I added the coordinates for the groves from the GNIS sources but I did not add coordinates for any individual trees. As far as I can tell, the coordinates I listed as of my most recent edit have been changed by a recent editor (Encyclomaniac.de), as a result of original research. I think it would be best to restore the GNIS coordinates. Although it has often been my experience data I obtain from my well-calibrated GPS is different from that listed by the USGS, I always use the data from the (GNIS) because Wikipedia requires us all to use reliable sources. I will check on this later when I have the time to do a thorough copyedit. Of course, you are more than welcome to restore and double-check the coordinates yourself if you wish.

As an aside, it seems that you and I are both big fans of the California desert and mountains, etc. I will be heading back to the Mojave Desert in October. Let me know if you're interested in meeting up for a hike in Death Valley, Mojave NP, or Joshua Tree NP. Kind regards, DiverDave (talk) 03:54, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

I already reverted Encyclomaniac.de ... I was just confused. I thought the coordinates were for the trees, but they are for the groves. But, GNIS has coordinates for Generals Grant and Sherman, which I put into the respective rows.

To prevent confusion, I will move the GNIS refs to the coordinates column, rather than the Grove column. The references are for the coordinates, not for the fact that the tree is in the grove.

Thanks for clarifying!

Re: October hiking --- it's a nice time in the deserts, but I won't be around California then :-(. Thanks for the offer! —hike395 (talk) 04:10, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

New medical organization

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) 07:25, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of East Antarctic two-thousanders

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Totally arbitrary division. Why is 2000+ a notable division? Minimal sources. Redundant to other articles.

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I've deleted the prod notice as I don't think this article should be summarily deleeted without discussion. However, you may wish to address TenPoundHammer's concern on the talkpage. Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:09, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of East Antarctic two-thousanders for deletion

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DYK for Panoploscelis

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:02, 14 March 2013 (UTC)