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Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:48Z

Barnstar

It was a while ago, but I haven't forgotten. <Moved to trophy cabinet> :)

ref:deletion Satish Babu

Hi, The page Satish Babu was deleted on 13th of February.It was about the contributions of a journalist to the Regional Media. Can you let me know how it could find relevance and where i can find the deleted page? User:Madhuritalluri(talk)

Admiration

I admire your image works !

Thanks!

thank you very much!!! You´ve been very useful, keep in touch! blitox

RfA Thanks

A message from WarthogDemon.

Korean Fir I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent RfA, was unsuccessful with 61 support, 25 oppose, and 4 neutral. I've been taking the advice of the Opposes into practice and hopefully I can improve myself. Once again, thank you. ^_^

Thank you

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

Barnstar

Moved to trophy cabinet.

Thanks!

Moved to trophy cabinet

Well done

Moved to trophy cabinet.

For your help on Pulmonary contusion

Moved to trophy cabinet

The research was published

Dear Tim, please check this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Genetically_modified_organism#56.25_mortality_rate_among_rat_pups.2C_comparing_to_9.25_when_fed_with_regular_soya DenisRS (talk) 15:49, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay; I provided additional information in the discussion, mentioned above. Thank in advance. DenisRS (talk) 16:46, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

What?

You seem to have deleted the featured article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.215.109 (talk) 03:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

History of Evolutionary Thought

I'm trying to open this recently Featured Article, but the message says you've just deleted it. Must be some mistake. O_o --CopperKettle 03:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

See [1]. That was a temporary copy. Tim Vickers (talk) 03:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

That is not a good reason. It was an good article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.45.204.49 (talk) 03:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, its back again. I almost thought it went extinct.. (0: --CopperKettle 03:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Protection

Hmm, I didn't even notice that you deleted/restored the page, I just protected it from the Grawp vandalism. Looks like J.delanoy re-applied move-protection. Cheers, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 03:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

reply

Sorry. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 04:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Congrats

Hey, congrats on the new paper. And thanks for the kind note. MastCell ^Talk 05:35, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Paroxetine

Hi. I was wondering if you have any thoughts on the Paroxetine page. Warnings in the opening paragraph of that page are harshing and misleading than on the pages of other SSRI's. In my view, warnings about "suicide ideation" belong in a sub section and not the opening paragraph. Why is it that the risk of "suicide ideation" gets highlighted, but not the reduction in risk of actual suicide. Here is an article you may find useful: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/11/after_2_decade_decline_teen_su.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.150.2.55 (talk) 17:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Phosphorylase

Can you look over this article? It has an old tag on it asking for verification by an expert.--BirgitteSB 01:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Continuing HIV Discussion

I wanted to continue the HIV discussion on this page - going further from antibodies and asking for some help, if you have time. Ok, I need to explain things so you can better understand, and I hope you'll take the time to read it. I want to first know if you believe it's impossible to cure AIDS as well? AIDS, which is defined as less than 200 CD4, and to cure it you just need to raise CD4 over 20% or 200. In your opinion, if CD4 is at 70, is it impossible to get it over 200? Like a consistently increasing CD4 count and consistently decreasing viral load, the vl less than 3-fold and consistent.

I disagree with what you are saying about HIV, that its impossible to cure. Think of a product that acts like irradiation: it kills all harmful organisms, it eradicates them, but it does NOT kill any "good" organisms. If such a product existed, could it cure someone of HIV? I see what you are saying about it living inside cells, a report I read said that HIV infects and replicates in CD4 cells, then it eventually "bursts" from them, destroying the cell, and populating the body with more of the virus... Is that correct? And is that what you were referring to in your reference article? The HIV being inside CD4 cells?

Ok, so here's why I'm so interested. There was a U.S. pharm company called #^*%, FDA registered and DEA licensed. It employed a few highly skilled doctors, former U.S. college professors, etc. The point is, it wasn't some multi-billion dollar company, it was formed by someone's life savings, and people who wanted to "save lives" anyway, they got big, aligned themselves with quite a few professors in charge of labs at north-American universities, and also the historically renowned Dr. Burgdorfer and his entire NIH laboratory. Together, all those doctors developed a product that worked by killing only harmful organisms in the body - viruses, bacterial and fungal infections, etc. So that's the product I'm talking about...

It was clinically tested (yes in vitro) against numerous AIDS related infections, Lymes, bacterial infections, and HIV multiple times. It inhibited everything. Then, it was tested against HIV in vivo in 2 patients one with full blown AIDS and a CD4 count of like 5 and another with HIV, Herpes, and Hepatitis B. It consistently lowered viral loads, greatly increased CD4, etc. Anyways, special interests interfered, #^*%'s president was smart and got the product grandfathered in under some clause, and even got it registered with the FDA as an OTC. Anyway, now it's sold under the classification as "dietary supplement" but the manufacturer is likely shutting down, and decided to donate mass amounts of product stocks to a non-profit organization against HIV, now focusing on cure because of this product.

I'm a person working with this organization, and we offer everything completely free to HIV patients. We just need a protocol to determine if someone is cured, after CD4 counts normalize, after PCR type tests cannot detect it in the blood, etc. That's why I'm asking about it. So, would the antibody test be enough? You're saying they use RT-PCR to diagnose, which is just a viral load or NAT, right? And I read that they don't use that for an official diagnosis, that they use ALISA and Western Blot as the official diagnosis. Anyway, if HIV is no longer in the blood, does that mean it's still in the body? So, along with the above questions, can a product that kills HIV, that eradicates it, can it cure an HIV patient? Surely you agree it can turn an AIDS patient back to HIV, right? And can you please give your opinion on a protocol for determining if someone has been cured? This was as quick as an explanation as I could give, it is all true, if you want more info then let me know. I don't know how you reply, if it's on my talk page, or this page, or what. I'll copy this onto my talk page, if you want to delete it off of yours. Thank you so much for taking the time to read all of this. Jason1170 (talk) 16:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Happy TimVickers's Day!

User:TimVickers has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as TimVickers's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear TimVickers! Peace, Rlevse ~ A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations :-) I see you all over the place. You definitely deserve this. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:28, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Project welcome template

Have you seen our template? Might be less personal but certainly fancier ;-p

See: User_talk:Unconventional85#Greetings_from_WikiProject_Medicine.21 .

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:39, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

The Shame of a City Was Incorrectly Deleted

Hello, Tim. You deleted The Shame of a City, claiming that it was a blatant copy of a celebrity website. Why was there no attempt to contact me, the writer of the Wiki page? Did it ever occur to you that the other website directly copied what I wrote for Wiki?

I'm sorry to take such a tone but I have to admit I'm angry that I've had to spend more than an hour of my time trying to navigate the extremely confusing and un-user friendly process by which I have to communicate or do anything else on Wiki. Please let me know how I might be able to prove to you that I wrote the Wiki article and that someone unknown to me copied and pasted it onto the other site. Perhaps you can check the dates of both postings.

Regardless, I hope that you can please restore the entire Shame article because over the months I have made changes to it that are not reflected in any of my original documents stored on my computer (most notably, the citations). I do appreciate the existence of Wiki and am grateful to people like you who volunteer to help keep it free of abuse but I, as I said, am frustrated that you took the "guilty until proven innocent" approach, failing to consider that the other site is violating copyright law, rather than "accusing" a veteran journalist who has never stolen anything in her life, especially someone else's writing. Thank you. Tara Nurin

Tarashawne (talk) 00:49, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Invitation

Thank you for inviting me to join the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject. --Eulemur2008 (talk) 21:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Symposium: FAC and the sciences

• Your input is requested, either Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#FAC_symposium or at the subpage where the effort will begin... Thanks! Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 10:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Auditory Integration Training NPOV dispute

Please note that I am receiving a warning for violating the 3RR rule, and yet the other member of this disute - Eubulides - has received no such warning, despite the fact that he was the first in this dispute to make a reversal! Your insistence that the medical references are the only reliable resources - completely flies in the face of the fact that AIT is NOT a medical intervention. This being the case it is incomprehensible that the medical fraternity should insist on excluding the expert information by those involved in this approach as practitioners, authors and trainers... this attitude, if rolled out to all wikipedia entries, would mean only uninformed or misinformed single POV entries by outsiders will be maintained... with consequent loss of reliability of the encyclopedia as a whole. Surely not your goal? Wiki urges a balanced view stating all relevant aspects of the topic... yet in this case only one - that of Eubulides and the medical fraternity - are permitted. How does this adhere to the Wiki rules? Jvanr (talk) 07:53, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Phagocyte

Hi Tim, have you got the time to take a look? As you now this is a contribution from one of our Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008 students. We are planning to go for FAC in March. Best wishes, Graham. Graham Colm ^Talk 14:48, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Smile!

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reply

Hi Tim, I like the invitation template. As for the animations I think it's different for everyone. I am not bothered, but I know people who hate animations and are distracted by them. As for me all's fine :) Thanks, Independovirus (talk) 09:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you so much !

WikiThanks

Thanks for pointing out that embarssing gramtical mistake on the template. I apprecte it. I am going to spend more time correcting those damn templates than I ever did posting them. Ikip (talk) 01:45, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Tiger rockfish

Hey Tim, I saw your Qu. in an edit on the tiger rockfish page about ^oN. I think it's referring to a latitude (35 degrees North) rather than a temperature -- although I don't know enough about this to go in and confidently add this info to the article (!) -- picked out of reference #4, under "climate". Hopefully this helps just a little! Cheers, ~ Ciar ~ _{(Talk to me!)} 04:57, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

5 years?

Isn't that a little extreme? –xeno (talk) 18:48, 24 February 2009 (UTC)