User talk:David notMD

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Please watch the whole Greg Bernard show...its an entire interview OHARE415...sorry I dint know where else to write on your page. But please edit this page nicely and not assume. 
Look at the name below it says Nina Cuso and if you actually watch it 10 minutes of an interview. Peace and love. But, please be more careful.

BARNSTARS

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  The Original Barnstar Thanks for all your efforts on medical articles. Best. Doc James 18:09, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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  Tireless Contributor Barnstar Thank you for being a dedicated, smart, and fantastic person in the GA review. I am very impressed with your knowledge and dedication. I hope we can work together in the future. AmericanAir88 12 November 2017(UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar Congratulations on getting Egg allergy to GA status! I hope it'll be followed by many more. Chiswick Chap 13:35, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar Congratulations on getting Vitamin C to GA status through a fair bit of turbulence! Chiswick Chap 13:57, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
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  Barnstar of Diligence Thank you for your assistance overseeing the student edits. You help was greatly appreciated! JenOttawa 13:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
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  Barnstar of Life
  You have made many, many, many significant improvements to medical content here on Wikipedia. You should have been awarded this barnstar a long time ago. The Vitamin C article is exquisite. Barbara (WVS) 14:11, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
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  The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar I watched the "Averell Smith" saga unfold at the Teahouse, and wanted to thank you for your time and effort. You set a good example for others to follow. I wish you the best of luck in your own endeavors. Sincerely, Tribe of Tiger Seconded. Deb 10 March 2018 (UTC)

My successful GA nominations

• Egg allergy (Nov 2017)
• Vitamin C (Nov 2017)
• Milk allergy (Feb 2018)

DYKs I've reviewed (keeping track of)

• West African bichir (used)
• Nemobius sylvestris (used)
• Megachile chomskyi (used)
• Robin Ling (used)
• Harold Basil Christian (used)
• General George Washington Resigning His Commission (used)
• Oriental Basin pocket gopher (used)

And the ones I nominated

• Egg allergy for GA (used 12/5-6/17; on that day, increased daily views by 3,600. Before the DYK ~150 views/day)
• Vitamin C for GA (used 1/10-11/18; on that day, increased daily views by 2,200. Before the DYK ~3,000 views/day)
• I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold for 5X (used 2/20-21/18 with image; on that day, increased daily views by 10,000. Before the DYK ~30 views/day)
• Milk allergy for GA (used 3/14-15; on that day increased daily views by 3,000. Before the DYK ~200 views/day)

Data granularity

Hi David. I've just reverted two of your edits to Factitious disorder imposed on self: [1], [2]. I know you're trying to improve the citations in that article, which are anything but consistent, but reducing the amount or granularity of information is not an improvement. It is easier for third-parties to scrape |first= and |last= than |vauthors=, so when somebody has taken the time to separate first and last names, please don't undo their good work. Similar considerations go for reducing given names to initials and abbreviating the full name of a journal. This isn't a paper encyclopedia and we don't have to save space by throwing away information. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 15:42, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Vitamin C

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Vitamin C you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:00, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

A word in your ear: please limit discussion of the article under review to the GA review page while the review is in progress. Many thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:25, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

On a biosynthesis diagram, I'd have thought all we needed was a map of the reactants (could be shown as boxes or circles, say) with arrows over the enzymes (shown as triangles, so the arrow runs along the horizontal edge of the tool/enzyme) to connect'em. I can easily make one of those. Or, if there are chemical figures of the reactants, I can just paste them in, but it'd prob. look silly unless we have a complete set. What d'you think? Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:59, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

At first look, what you did looks great. I see no need to have a chem structure for every intermediate step.

Still not intending to get back to article in a big way until Saturday. David notMD (talk) 04:09, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Well this has surprised me by being a bit of a marathon (take home: get the discussions over before the GA next time). I've taken the liberty of looking up a ref on Tarsiers and striking the associated comments. I've also grouped the biology sections together as they just looked odd split up. Therefore, all that remains is for you to check you're happy with the lead as a summary, and if not to extend it (with citations, per the med. policy). Then let me know and I'll close things out. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:29, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

I will rewrite the lead (with citations) to match the order and content. In a few moments will be adding a bit to Absorption/Transportation/Excretion to replace text that was removed as it had no citation. Turns out all tissues have ascorbic acid concentration much higher than plasma, and much higher than the micromolar concentration needed to function as a coenzyme, so best guess is as yet unknown functions that require more. I will NOT be going into that. I may also try to further clean up evolution and antioxidant, but lead revision first! If that gets us to GA, great!! David notMD (talk) 21:34, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

What Counts as Suitable Sources

Hi David,

Today, you commented on my rejected draft (Gilson (company)), saying that several of the sources are not suitable because they are not independent enough from the subject of the article. Thank you for your comments. Several of the pages I based the Gilson one on cite sources that come directly from those companies' websites. In your opinion, could you tell me what the following pages are doing right?

Eppendorf (company) Thermo Fisher Scientific Merck Millipore

Thank you! Cglife.bmarcus (talk) 20:31, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Just because an article exists does not make it a good model. See Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) for descriptions of what counts as notability. For the examples you provided, none of the references for Eppendorf (company) are appropriate and the entire article should be revised. For Thermo Fisher, many of the citations are TFS press releases, and should be removed, and the content supported by those press releases, ditto. Merck - its own press releases, ditto. I shortened Merch Millipore by 20%, but really, all that Milestones crap should go, and editors not associated with Merch Millipore start afresh. David notMD (talk) 23:38, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Milk allergy

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Milk allergy you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AmericanAir88 -- AmericanAir88 (talk) 00:40, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Vitamin C

On 10 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Vitamin C, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon) and marketed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vitamin C. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Vitamin C), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Precious

Valentine medicine

Thank you for quality articles on medical and nutritional topics such as vitamin C and egg allergy, based on scientific knowledge in Nutritional Biochemistry, for improving articles such as Valentine, for service from 2007, - David, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:53, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Food allergy articles

Hi David, I added a few Cochrane Reviews to the Food allergy and Milk allergy articles from my list of Cochrane Reviews not yet cited in WP articles. Please feel free to edit as you see fit with the style of the articles. Good luck with your project. Thanks again for the note! JenOttawa (talk) 02:21, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you and congratulations

Congratulations on your hard work on getting Milk allergy to GA status. I am very proud of your dedication to solving the edit war and the work you put into solving the issues. I strongly encourage FA status for this and the others I have reviewed. Please do not hesitate to ask for any more reviews or questions. See you around! AmericanAir88 (talk) 03:15, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Milk allergy

The article Milk allergy you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Milk allergy for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AmericanAir88 -- AmericanAir88 (talk) 03:21, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

On 21 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1928 Charles Demuth painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold appeared on a US postage stamp in 2013? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Very nice work on this delicious DYK. I’ve had three paintings so far that have made the cut, two of which also became Featured Pictures; I’m researching a fourth potential DYK/FP at the moment, an article on George Bellows 1907 painting known as “Frankie, The Organ Boy”, currently up for FP consideration. I sheepishly admit, I have some kind of curse of late which has put me off of pre-WWII European art, which I would never want to collect myself (and cannot even look at lately), because everything I once enjoyed inevitably turns out to have been looted! I have a Midas Touch for Holocaust Awareness, and I’m almost not joking... But theft has not generally been a problem for recent American art — though Native Americans could rightly raise an objection to that statement — but at least the Demuth’s provenance is indisputable, and the painting a true favorite and inspiration of mine since the age of seven (it appears in color, I think, in The World Book Encyclopedia of 1972). Added to that, the poetry of Dr. Williams is an ongoing adult (occulted) pleasure. So much depends on editors like you putting the pieces together. Much appreciated. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 03:12, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

I've opted out of this "discussion" and I hope you will too. It's a complete waste of time when we could be doing more useful things. Deb (talk) 09:35, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Milk allergy

On 14 March 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Milk allergy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Milk allergy. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Milk allergy), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:35, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Amusing username coincidence

Hi David, I just noticed your edit to Arthur Godfrey on my watchlist, and the first thing I thought when I read your username was ... that reminds me of My name is not dave! Two usernames involving Davids and containing the word "not". That amused me greatly for some reason ... crazy, I know ... carry on. Graham87 14:00, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

My name is not Rodney, either... talk to !dave 21:18, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

LOL! There's also more fun on my talk page. David notMD, did you see my second reply there? Graham87 12:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

James Michalopoulos

I appreciate the attention you gave to the article that isn't even mine yet haha

James has found success in many areas and eventually I will capture all that in an appropriate wiki way - I am procuring permissions to put images of his artwork up and i want to chronicle his growth in a biographically interesting way - I will also flesh out the rum connection more, when I finally get a chance to actually add to the article - he brought a french perfume still to the us twenty two years ago and from that built what is now the oldest rum distillery in the country - his product is getting worldwide notoriety and is another chapter in a stellar career - his twenty year blend got the highest rating from two different neutral agencies and gingeroo has become a thing - so i respectfully propose that he is becoming a renowned rum-maker despite your judgements - he also started a food bank in boston that is still going thirty years later - these are remarkable - in other words, worthy of remark - but here is the thing -- i can't edit anything! Missvain (talk) has put some kind of thing on the page - and i dont know how to proceed - i addressed her questions on her talk page and i can't get an answer -- how can i stop talking ABOUT what i want to create and actually create it? thank you so much for your time and attention. Mikkopresents (talk) 23:56, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Replied on your Talk page. David notMD (talk) 14:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Dianna Hutts Aston

ok i'm creating my own page from scratch - its in draft right now - is there a way you can look at it? or do i have to submit it for review first? thanks Mikkopresents (talk) 21:27, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Sure. I enter Draft:Dianna Hutts Aston is Search Wikipedia and it goes to your draft. Rather than comment at my Talk or your Talk, I will comment at the Talk for the draft. David notMD (talk) 00:39, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

No prob on vitamin E

I dont have a problem with your reverting my edit on the Alzheimer part of vitamin E. You might be able to resolve the problem that I was attempting to repair, especially if you have a biomedical background. Some of the article strives to explain stuff to the reader (like what is Alzheimers). That kind of content is inappropriate for Wikipedia. Let me know if I can help. My main interest is that molecular basics be mentioned in a general way.--Smokefoot (talk) 21:35, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

I am revising/restoring the other content, but attempting to be more concise. My own area of interest is nutritional biochemistry and health claims. I agree that the article needs more on mechanism of action and chemistry, and the whole business of tocopherol equivalents. Would definitely welcome seeing edits there. Maybe copying images and text from Tocopherol. A few months back I shifted vitamin C from B-class to Good Article, so looking at that as a model for what is missing from this article. David notMD (talk) 21:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Smokefoot By the way, nice diagram add. David notMD (talk) 21:58, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. It is sometimes amazing what core material is missing in these articles. Part of the problem is that these articles have grown organically usually by accretion vs dramatic rewrites by pros. Articles on health-related topics seem often to have been written by well intentioned but misguided zealots and, for lack of a better term, hippies. In some cases, marketers appear to be involved. My favorite is chromium deficiency, for which scant evidence exists, but is the basis of what I hear is a multimillion dollar industry. --Smokefoot (talk) 22:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

I see that you and I (and Zefr) have taken swings at Chromium deficiency in the past. I agree that between people from companies that sell supplements and people who believe everything, vitamins, minerals and non-nutrient dietary supplement ingredients all need more work - including deletions and rewrites. Short term, I want to see Vitamin E get to point it is worthy of a GA nomination, then hope for editors to state what is still needed. David notMD (talk) 00:56, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Ack! You reminded me that I was not happy with where Chromium deficiency left off. David notMD (talk) 22:35, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Re: Chromium deficiency

Thank you very much for trusting me. I'll take a look as soon as I can.

Best regards. --BallenaBlanca 🐳 ♂ (Talk) 19:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:01, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

It's been fun rooting around in the dark recesses of articles on dietary supplements, nutrients, and such. David notMD (talk) 12:38, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Vitamin B3

An article that you have been involved in editing—Vitamin B3—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. SusanLesch (talk) 04:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, David. I'll sit back and watch a while. Vitamin articles should exist as separate articles or as major sections in the corresponding chemical articles because of the human/animal interest. By definition they're all essential for human survival. That is a somewhat different topic scope than merely the chemical/physical properties, how they are synthesised, etc. Donama (talk) 23:41, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

please do not tell me to clamp down.

I just asked a very simple question and you are telling me to clamp down hmm that was not right so I hope we don't have argument over this thank you and good day.hello nice to meet you. 21:12, 11 May 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adultcartoonlover56 (talk • contribs)

@Adultcartoonlover56: - hopefully David notMD won't mind if I play talk page stalker on this one, but he did not tell you to clamp down, in any way, shape or form. He was referring, humorously, to my misspelling of "clamp-down" (clam-down), asking if I was intentionally referring to Clams in my comment (I was not, if that was unapparent). You have seemingly misinterpreted him on this one, as far as I can see, and as such I would kindly ask you to use the following template (<s></s>) to strike your confrontational comment above. Please remember to assume good faith in other editors. Stormy clouds (talk) 22:54, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Or just leave it. I can bear the burden of false accusation. David notMD (talk) 00:44, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

I saw "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold... "

Hi David notMD,
And it was a DYK on 21 February 2018. Splendid! I was quite unaware that it had been included as part of a stamp set.
Thank you so much for improving the article: this sort of collaborative work is why I so enjoy being a Wikipedia editor.
Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:02, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Growing up, a print was in my father's study, so long-time familiar. I regret having not yet been to the museum to see the original. David notMD (talk) 12:51, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Monomelic amyotrophy

Thank you for reviewing the MMA article.

This is starting to feel like the family axe. Yup, been in the family since 1840. Replaced the handle four times and the head twice. ... By the time this article is finished it might not even have the same title. Anyway...

When it becomes time to transfer MMA from my Sandbox to the main page I'll shift the "Further Reading" to MMA Talk, one of the few things left from how it was when I started this 3 weeks ago (feels like 20 weeks). You've flagged =Symptoms= as needing citations. I don't know where the original author got the line about fingers and palm, one of the few lines left from before I started; unfortunately, while symptoms mentioned have several sources a lot of symptom descriptions are buried in obtuse terminology and it is a grind to rephrase in simpler terms. I'll work on that and on cleaning up a couple of other citations and then insert it in place of the current version tomorrow.

Thanks again for your help.

GeeBee60 (talk) 17:15, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for reassessing Adela Zaharia

I'm trying to fill out the Operalia, The World Opera Competition winners. I was a bit shocked out to see that so many of them son't have an article while there are plenty of sources. I'll take it showily, one by one and in a month or two I think I can finish. Would you mind reassessing Jasmine Directory as well? Thank you! Robertgombos (talk) 11:25, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Outside my area of expertise. David notMD (talk) 14:23, 5 June 2018 (UTC)