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Please click here to leave me a new message. Also neither I nor Wikipedia give medical advice online. Issue of plagiarism Please see the following Talk section, where you are mentioned as a resource to understand WP editorial expectations. 2601:246:C700:19D:A893:D336:57FE:E91C (talk) 16:30, 8 January 2020 (UTC) Doc, I have asked that this discussion begin here, until you move it to the Talk page at the article. The violating editor is beginning to edit war/revert my correction. 2601:246:C700:19D:A893:D336:57FE:E91C (talk) 16:53, 8 January 2020 (UTC) Special:Contributions/2601:246:C700:19D:A893:D336:57FE:E91C my understanding is that if the text is public domain than one can copy and paste verbatim from the source in question without using quotes as long as the PD template is used. Often to make it conform to our encyclopedic style it is useful to paraphrase it. Not having quotes makes paraphrasing easier. User:Diannaa is by the far the expert in these matters. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:11, 9 January 2020 (UTC) Also we are editors (rather than just authors). And us including something does not mean we wrote it / created it, etc. This is especially true for images. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC) Phenoxymethylpenicillin On my screen the table was left-justified. Right-justification is preferable. Petergans (talk) 19:39, 10 January 2020 (UTC) Okay User:Petergans. I see it right justified before and after, but if this fixes it for you, certainly :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:24, 11 January 2020 (UTC) BTW, I was a lab-boy at in the late 1950's at the Distillers Co. research lab. We where working on improving the yield of Penicillin V being produced in a fermentation process. This work was later made redundant when a way to isolate the penicillin nucleus 6-APA was discovered. I was recently prescribed some amoxicillin to clear up an infection. On the packet containing the capsules it states "Contains penicillin". It appears that this now acceptable in pharmacy; is that right? In chemistry it is called a beta-lactam antibiotic. Petergans (talk) 10:17, 11 January 2020 (UTC) So there is penicillin the drug and penicillin the drug family. So amoxicillin is in the penicillin drug family as is penicillin V, etc. So yes amoxicillin contain a medication in the penicillin family. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:46, 11 January 2020 (UTC) WMF resourcing stupidity (CAPTCHAs) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241921 This ticket is "a high-level overview of the whole sorry situation, written in the hope that it can influence resourcing choices at the WMF". "It's probably wise to assume that at best a small amount of movement resources can be spent on this." These aren't my words, they are from the WMF's own Growth team. This is patently absurd. Please nudge whoever is in charge of allocating software development budgets at the WMF to get their priorities slightly less wrong, or, better still, get their management to fire them. It's a systemic problem, so it requires change at the very top. See e.g. Special:Permanentlink/935505317#Final_Outcome_of_Page_Curation_Improvements_Project_(Community_Tech) and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-11-29/From the archives. MER-C 04:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC) User:MER-C we do have some movement resources working on the Captchas issue (from what I understand). With respect to the community tech team, I have previously stated that they should be expanded (ie maybe we need two teams?). I however do not determine this... I continue to be involved in discussions regarding what to do about undisclosed paid promotional issues. Likely the best we can hope for is tools to improve our ability to deal with the situation. And it needs more resources dedicated to it. Whether enough people also see it as a concern, and if so whether we can come to some agreement on steps to address it, that I do not know. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:51, 13 January 2020 (UTC) > we do have some movement resources working on the Captchas issue The question is - will those resources be enough to cause significant impact or will it be just the usual sticking plaster solution, just like the recent NPP improvements were? That work by the Community Tech team was nowhere near sufficient - probably about 0.1% of what is required. Likewise, the CU work under way is ~1% of requirements. I want to see CAPTCHA related code that is reasonably futureproof, including the ability to swap CAPTCHA implementations as the spammers crack them and a commitment to do so. It needs to be made absolutely clear to whoever holds the purse strings that the anti-abuse effort requires an ongoing commitment of at least 10 FTE. Forget about the wishlist or Community Tech. This is something we shouldn't need to ask for! In the time it's taken the WMF to realise there's a problem and take a couple of steps in the right direction, the spammers have built a spaceship, launched, have gone past Pluto and are still accelerating. In addition to dealing with spam, I am the only admin who closes CFDs and listings at Wikipedia:Copyright problems (union, not intersection) and am feeling quite stretched and completely unsupported. The WMF needs to stop treating us admins, NPPers, stewards and checkusers as second class citizens, compared to newbies and readers. The ultimate solution is for the WMF to stop thinking like a Silly Con Valley startup that pursues growth at the expense of long term sustainability. MER-C 13:07, 13 January 2020 (UTC) User:MER-C agree we need a team to work on improving our "quality assurance" processes. To support and develop tool for everyone working to prevent false information from getting into Wikipedia. We need lots of stuff, like when changes are made to Wikidata to a piece of content used within WP it should be possible to see just that change in ones watchlist (not all WD changes). Watchlists could use a significant amount of improvements. Looks like copypatrol is thankfully back up.[1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:42, 13 January 2020 (UTC) Image on hip dysplasia In February 2010, you generously added one of your own images to the infobox of hip dysplasia. I would like to suggest that I develop a vector illustration of hip dysplasia (potentially compared to a normal hip) to better illustrate this condition for the infobox, as, potentially you'd agree, it may take a while for the average reader to identify where it is in the current image and how exactly that represents hip dysplasia. SUM1 (talk) 04:54, 14 January 2020 (UTC) User:SUM1 Sure and the current Xray could be moved lower in the article. Also need to improve the arrow in the picture. Put in a blue or red one. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:50, 14 January 2020 (UTC) Revision description comprehensibility re: Diphenhydramine page Thank you for reverting the good faith vandalism ("second-" vs. "first-generation antihistamine") to Diphenhydramine, but the revision description was obtusely confusing. Totoro33 (talk) 09:30, 14 January 2020 (UTC) User:Totoro33 ref says first generation. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:49, 14 January 2020 (UTC) We know the correct answer is "first-generation." My comment referred to your obtuse revision description. Descriptions should be understandable; otherwise, we're better without them. Thanks. Totoro33 (talk) 20:37, 16 January 2020 (UTC) PCR is included in your sysop bits. Check Special:ListGroupRights. ~ ∯WBGconverse 13:22, 14 January 2020 (UTC) User:Winged Blades of Godric Yah but the tool was not working for me... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 14 January 2020 (UTC) That's T233561 / T234743. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:26, 15 January 2020 (UTC) Thanks User:JJMC89 that does indeed appear to be it. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:12, 15 January 2020 (UTC) hello there hello there Doc, how are you today?, I hope you are always fine, anyway, the reason why I wrote to you is so you could replied back with your sweet message --the special girl is me (talk) 01:05, 15 January 2020 (UTC) A complete blood count already can tell if anemia is present and did you mean a ferritin test or ferritin count ? It is not clear for me, let us make it clear for everyone. ThanksWalidou47 (talk) 12:39, 15 January 2020 (UTC) User:Walidou47 Can you remind me of the edit again? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:21, 15 January 2020 (UTC) User:Doc James Sure it is an edit that happened in the diarrhea article, chronic diarrhea diagnosis section.Walidou47 (talk) 09:08, 16 January 2020 (UTC) note re idea Hi Doc James. thanks for your great page. I am writing to you with an idea I think might be helpful overall to Wikipedia. right now, there is nowhere for editors to confidentially report harassment, or to request help confidentially. I'd really like to think there should be some way to set up such a resource here in some way. since you are an ER doc, as well as member of the board of trustees, I thought you wouldn't mind me offering you this suggestion, in order to hopefully discuss it here. by the way, I came here from user:jimbo wales which provided your name as one of the community trustees. I hope you like my idea, and look forward to discussion somewhat, when you have some time. I appreciate it. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 08:13, 16 January 2020 (UTC) note re idea hi. I have a new idea for a new Wikipedia policy. in fact I am thinking this should be a sixth pillar. Here it is: "Wikipedia has a zero-tolerance policy for harassment of any individuals." what do you think? the last day or two has really opened my eyes, in terms of the omissions and gaps here on that area. if you're interested, let me know, and I'll send you more details. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 14:29, 16 January 2020 (UTC)