User talk:Chris Capoccia

Thanks

I appreciate your help in clearing up fen-phen. Is it proper WIKI etiquette to post such a thank you note?

—PietrH (talk) 18:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

you're welcome (yes, my talk page is the right place). glad i could help. most of my edits lately have been cleanup.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 00:03, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Removing sources in Hypothyroidism

Please could you make it clear in your edit comments that you are removing primary sources as you did here: [1] Removing sources should always undergo scrutiny. Also I am not in favour of replacing primary sources with a tag (like {{fact}}) because 1) it leaves the claim with no support at all; and 2) it makes it harder to find a secondary source. I brought up the topic on this page in order to (hopefully) clarify the guidelines: Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)‎. Thanks, pgr94 (talk) 14:22, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

i would have thought that my comment in the fact tag "don't list all dozen studies. find one or two reliable medical sources" would have been sufficient. the previous text was original research / synthesis.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 15:30, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Reference formatting

Chris,

Can you tell me why you keep deleting most of the contents of the citations, e.g., here? Citations are supposed to be written out in full, not reduced to a doi number. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:00, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

i am also forcing citation bot to run. so those edits are also part of my changes. i think you can see a general improvement in formatting and consistency in this diff.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 15:24, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I thought {{cite doi}} already resulted in automatic completion of the citation. I too am confused by your actions. pgr94 (talk) 16:14, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

if the whole article consistently used cite doi, i would have left everything that way. as it was, it was a mix of bare urls, different abbreviations and different formats.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 17:42, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I have to agree with the two above editors, having noticed this edit. It's strange behaviour when the references are already full {{cite journal}} templates. You caught one stray external link but it's not necessary to strip every reference down to a doi and run a bot to fill them out again. It's now very difficult for me to check your changes without analysing every reference in detail. I third the request for you to stop doing this. Thanks Jebus989^✰ 15:20, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

the problem is not so much my edits (completing full names, journal titles, standardizing on pmid and doi instead of urls, etc.) as it is the piece of junk diff system on wikipedia that can't even reasonably manage simply adding/removing an empty line. i do not have a history of vandalizing pages and citation bot is an approved bot for harmonizing and standardizing citation formats, so i fail to see what the problem is.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 21:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm not calling you a vandal, you're just making a mess in the edit history without achieving anything (except perhaps expanding a straightforward author list into one formatted with |first2 |last2 ... ). I explained the problem, if I'm monitoring an article and trying to track your changes it becomes impossible when you've nearly wiped every reference on the page. If you see a missing field and just can't bear to leave it empty, by all means fill it in, or better yet use AWB to do it. I guess if you're not listening to the two three above complaints you won't be listening to mine either. Jebus989^✰ 22:06, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Actually your talk page archives is full of complaints, and you're being unreasonably persistent Jebus989^✰ 22:10, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

User:Johnpseudonym inchicago/World Class Punk

Hi there, the author of the above draft asked for feedback here on what he/she needs to do before moving the article to mainspace. I noticed that you had put a copyvio template on the draft, I don't see the copyvio myself (copyright is not my area), so I would appreciate it if you would clarify that either at the request for feedback or on the user's talk page User talk:Johnpseudonym inchicago. Thanks, Quasihuman | Talk 15:12, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

you don't see the copyright violation because the {{copyvio}} template hides it until the issue is resolved. you can see the violating text by looking at the page source.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 15:28, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, I see it now. Quasihuman | Talk 15:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Help with Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency

Hi Chris. I am reasonably new to Wiki. In working on the MADD page, and I notice you edited it earlier this month. Thanks! Would you mind giving me a bit of feedback on the MADD Talk page as to what areas need more citations, and if anything isn't clear (or is really muddy), and what should be expanded on. I am not real good at citations yet, but am working on learning.. sorry. I hope to have time to continue research and expand the piece quite a bit in the next months. Thanks, Tom User Talk:67.189.56.3 ?? —Preceding undated comment added 12:46, 14 August 2011 (UTC).

Sure. There's a whole section that doesn't have any references, and I flagged each of the other individual statements that need citations. I can help with formatting if that's giving you trouble.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 13:12, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Chris I see your notes regarding citations, and should be able to find something for that section too, though I don't have a good biology background. If you could help with formatting, that would be terrific. One more question - should I try to find places that the existing citations would work for two different areas, or would new citations be better? Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.56.3 (talk) 13:41, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

you don't need to find new citations if an existing one can be used again. You can reuse a citation by name. First time as <ref name=mynamedref>some text</ref> and subsequent times as <ref name=mynamedref/>.  —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 14:03, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Chris I found two very similar photos... Either one could be used to help understand the structure of AMP. I know they are similar to the photo that Arcadian put in, but they add the names of each section. Both are on ChemWiki, which is non-copyrighted. Could you please upload one of them into the "CAUSES" section of Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency.

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Thanks! Tom