User talk:Bwthemoose

Welcome!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 18:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will adopt you if you like

Let's Work Together

Hello there, Bwthemoose. I noticed you're currently seeking adoption on Wikipedia. I've been around for a while, and I'd be happy to show you the ropes. (To learn more about me, visit my userpage.) If you'd like to have me as a mentor, just click here to leave me a message, and we'll take it from there.

Welcome to Wikipedia! – Scartol · Talk 17:43, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS. I notice you're a TMBG fan. Good call.

Opening salvo

Let's do this thing. Let me first congratulate you on a superb allusion in your name; R&B has been a favorite cartoon of mine (along with The Simpsons) for many years, ever since my father introduced me to it. (Did you know that the Js in Bartholomew J. Simpson and Homer J. Simpson are references to Jay Ward, one of the creators of Rocky & Bullwinkle?)

Okay, let's get to work. My first suggestion would be to add a link to your talk page in your signature. To do this, go to your preferences page (there's a link at the top of the screen when you're logged in) and find the box labeled "Signature". Put the following code (or something like it) in the box, and then check the "raw signature" square:

-- [[User:Bwthemoose|Bwthemoose]]/[[User_talk:Bwthemoose|Talk]]

Your signature will then look like this:

-- Bwthemoose/Talk

(Whenever a link to a page appears on the page it would link to, it's in bold, unlinked, instead.) Having a talk link in your signature makes it one-step easier for people to contact you. (You can also add CSS and/or wikicode to make your signature look more fancy. That's how I made mine green, for example. I can give more details if you like.)

I suppose the next direction is up to you: What are you interested in? Do you want to do smaller cleanup tasks, or work on larger articles? Do you want to put in lots and lots of work, or just some smaller edits here and there? I can give you specific assignments if you like, or just sort of be here when you have questions. I'm very much a student-focused teacher, so the more you can tell me about what you want, the better I'll be able to help you find it.

You may want to take a look at my wikithoughts page (read it bottom-to-top) to get a sense of what my time here has been like. You'll notice on that page that I recommend that new users get involved with a WikiProject or collaboration. These can serve as kind of guided tours of the process.

Good to have you on board. Have fun and let me know where you want to go next. – Scartol · Talk 17:43, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On Acoustic neuroma

I've been looking over your contributions, as per your suggestion. (Was that before or after I added the section above, btw? I don't want to repeat myself if you've already read it.) I notice you changed the importance level of Acoustic neuroma to high. Was this your own decision, or was it in response to discussion at WP:MED? Usually people involved in the project (those who have been involved for a while) are the ones who make such assessments. You're certainly free to suggest what you think the importance of an article is, but some 'project folks can get touchy if the importance is arbitrarily assigned from someone on the outside. – Scartol · Talk 18:32, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the real rule about such things – actually, there are two:

Be bold; and
It's only a problem if someone complains.

Therefore, I wouldn't worry about it; just an FYI kinda thing. If someone is bothered by the fact that you changed it, you'll hear about it. =) – Scartol · Talk 02:12, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair

I'm wondering why you removed the first sentence from this article. You mentioned the talk page in the edit summary, but I can't find a specific spot on that page which discusses it. Someone has already reverted your change, so lemme know what your motivation was and I can maybe help guide. – Scartol · Talk 15:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think your instinct is good, but that your first version of the sentence was fine. In the future, when you have such a worry, just undo your edits, rather than removing the entire sentence itself.

I generally stay away from articles which are embroiled in long disputes. Often the people involved are unwilling to discuss things rationally, and there's a lot of pretension toward officialdom and disrespect going on. As a result very little gets decided and flame wars happen instead. The closest I've ever come is working on Yasser Arafat, which benefited from a very thorough, NPOV editor (Al Ameer son). – Scartol · Talk 17:07, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checking in

Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle! Looks like you've been busy fighting vandalism and tidying up assorted articles. I'm just checking in to see how you're doing. Holler if you hear me, as the kids say. – Scartol · Talk 20:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Raskolnikov! Natasha, remind moose to sign his posts! (Just a friendly reminder.)

I know what you mean about working on articles which appear unreadable. It can be daunting, so my advice is to be bold and hack away at it. If other editors have problems with what you change, they can always change it back or discuss your repairs. If you do enough positive work and make it into a good article, it's unlikely anyone will complain. Good luck and let me know if you need anything. – Scartol · Talk 22:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Time for ding-dong school! (Capt. Peachfuzz was always one of my favorites.) I noticed you added a reference to Juxtacapillary (J) receptors. The important thing to remember with such a thing is that you also have to add a {{reflist}} tag at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, the footnotes won't lead anywhere, and your source itself won't show up. Also, it's good to add the ISBN for any book you cite, as this makes it easy for other users to find the same book. (I added it for the Surgical Practice book.) Cheers! – Scartol · Talk 22:00, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, Bullwinkle. Just dropping by to see how you're doing. You should feel free to remove article templates if you make the necessary repairs, as you did on HealthForceOntario. Cheers! – Scartol · Talk 20:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its never really clear to me when the job is done to satisfaction, or the satisfaction of others, so I feel a bit reticent about removing the template, since that seems to give the impression that the job is done, when really its just started. But otherwise I feel a bit more comfortable moving around the site. Thanks for checking in.--Bwthemoose/Talk 01:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know what you mean. Just remember to be bold. If someone doesn't like what you've done, they'll change it back. Trust me, Wikipedians are not shy about reverting changes they don't care for. I'm reminded of the Henny Youngman joke: "Guy goes up to a police officer and says 'Officer, can I park here?' Officer says 'No, of course not. Can't you read the sign?' Guy says 'What about all these other cars parked here?' Officer says 'They didn't ask.'" =) – Scartol · Talk 01:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The "Knee"d for citations

Oh man, that's funny! Regarding your edits of Knee replacement: A paragraph toward the end ("Post operative hospitalization varies…") doesn't have any citations or references. Is this information something you've obtained through your experience? I've been accused of over-citing, but it's a good idea to give references for whatever you include. (Especially since you removed an earlier bit – "At the end of the surgery the muscle is repaired…" – which had no references.) Cheers. – Scartol • Tok 13:17, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another checkup

Hey there, Bullwinkle. Just another friendly Hello. I notice you're still cracking away at various articles. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, let me know. Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 02:36, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no sweat. You should check out WP:Images for full details (and the Wikipedia:Picture tutorial is very handy), but here it is in a nutshell. The first image in the actual article (after the portrait on top) in Harriet Tubman is a map I made of various places she lived. To embed it in the article, I used the following code:

[[Image:Harriet Tubman Locations Map.jpg|thumb|left|A map showing key locations in Tubman's life]]

We get the image on the left here.

Let's break it down bit by bit. First of all, the [[brackets]] work like any other link, but notice that you can't link to the name alone; it will put the picture in every time (that's why I used a full URL above).

Image:Harriet Tubman Locations Map.jpg is the filename of the image. This is the big text at the top of the Commons' image page. You can just copy and paste. Then come the modifiers, which must be separated by | symbols. Generally you'll have "thumb" or "frame" (almost always thumb), "left" or "right", and a caption.

thumb indicates the image should be put in a thumbnail box, with the little window-in-window icon on the right, and space for a caption. "thumb" also makes the image's width match whatever a user has specified in their preferences – default is 180 pixels. It's possible to specify a different size (you would type "thumb|200px"), but this should only be done in rare instances. See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Images for more info.

left should be obvious; it aligns the image to the left side of the page. Note that if you left-align an image, it shouldn't be just below a section heading, as this makes the text move over away from the header. (Again, see the Manual of Style.)

A map showing key locations in Tubman's life is the caption. For a while I was under the impression that captions were best done as incomplete sentences, but lately I've been convinced (mostly by Awadewit) that longer descriptive sentences are more effective. I suppose it's up to you.

There are other options, but those are the basics. If anything's still not clear (and you can't find help in the pages I've linked to), please let me know. Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 18:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Medicine Collaboration of the Fortnight

Thank you for your support of the Medicine Collaboration of the Week.
This week Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was selected.
Hope you can help…

NCurse _work 19:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly hello

Bullwinkle, it's been a while since I've heard from you. I just thought I'd drop by to see if you're still interested in continuing the adopter/adoptee arrangement. It looks like you haven't been editing much at all, so if I don't hear from you in a week or so, I'll just cross you off the list. If you do return to Wikipedia, please give me a holler. – Scartol • Tok 23:45, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Concern regarding Draft:American Academy of Physician Associates

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Your draft article, Draft:American Academy of Physician Associates

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:07, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]