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Welcome!

Hello, G716, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 16:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Tenofovir

I've moved the second image into the Drugbox. To change the caption, you have to add the | imagename = parameter to the template, in the edit window—anywhere between the opening and closing brackets {{ }} is fine, but I prefer just below the | image = field. Have a look at the code in tenofovir's edit window for a "live" example. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:43, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Edit conflict at Vaccinia

I think I've added the significant changes back into Vaccinia that I inadvertently deleted - if I've missed any, my apologies. -- MarcoTolo 02:33, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Table layout

{{helpme}} The wikitable layout has me stumped. Could some helpful soul take a look at User:G716/sandbox/Gilead, and let me know how to make the vertical alignment in the header row = "bottom". Any other suggestions on the table layout much appreciated also. TIA --G716 23:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, this is how I did it: (Diff link) ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 23:27, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --G716 00:30, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Hoffmann La-Roche

Your undoing of the changes to the Hoffmann La-Roche page were not necessary. The use of the Roche in Hexagon logo is disputed by the owner of the trademark. Also, the inclusion of an external link to a purely commercial website is inappropriate under the Wikipedia Terms of Use. I will revert the page accordingly. Tmattorney —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmattorney (talk • contribs) 21:24, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

Would someone with more knowledge than I have of this issue (trademarks, link to commercial website, etc) please adjudicate between Tmattorney and myself. See also his/her comment left here. Thanks in advance --G716 03:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I have left them a message on their talk page asking them to stop. If they revert twice more before 21:46 UTC, you may report them at WP:AN3.--Werdan7^{T @} 04:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposal for WP:ONCOLOGY

I am trying to gauge what the interest would be for a WP:ONCOLOGY category. This would be under the broader auspices of WP:MED, along the lines of WP:RENAL and WP:Rads. It would address standards of care and best practices in surgical, medical, and radiation oncology, along with maintaining and editing cancer related articles.

If this is something you are interested in, please sign underneath the relevant section at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Oncology

Regards, Djma12 ^(talk) 04:41, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Gilead

Regarding the dates in the table on the Gilead Sciences page, I was unaware of the policy. Thanks for letting me know about it.

Regards, RandomWalker ^(talk), 11:50 AM 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Flu pages

Thank you very much for your efforts on the flu pages. I need to edit wikipedia less and am no longer maintaining those pages. But I do look in every now and then. It is my understanding that "avian flu" refers to the serotypes of all known subtypes of the influenza A virus that are endemic in birds. The word "subtype" with regard to influenza A is used to refer specifically to the H?N? categorization, and any specific subtype can have a variety of strains or serotypes that are endemic in different species. For example, the influenza A virus subtype H3N8 has different varieties/strains/serotypes endemic in dogs, horses, and birds. Of course, by definition these subtypes can also be called varieties/strains/serotypes; but they usually aren't called that by the experts for the sake of clarity and precision. While http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/71/8/6128.pdf is a bit out of date with some of its claims, it does give a good feel for the subject. WAS 4.250 16:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Virus classification

Howdy, good update on virus classification. Do you have a reliable source that could be cited for that or other material in the article? The article is woefully undersourced, so even a reference for a single virus family would help! -Agyle 03:32, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Influenza cats

Hi again. Sure, I'll have a look as soon as possible. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 13:36, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your hard work on the flu articles. I'm happy to help anytime you have a question or need me to dig up a source for a claim. WAS 4.250 18:04, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. Most of my efforts are organization, clarity and consistency. Much of the content is outside my expertise. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 19:26, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Virus template

Hi, I thought about this before I added to it. The template was already a bit of a mixture. For the Hepatitis section it could be the names of the disease or the virus because they are the same. Under "skin" some viruses are listed i.e. Herpes simplex (the diseases are genital herpes, coldsores, herpetic stomatitis etc); Herpes zoster, (the diseases are chickenpox, shingles, neonatal zoster etc.) Again measles is the name of the virus and the disease, same with mumps. Cowpox, molluscum contagiousum and vaccinia are the names of viruses too (in fact, vaccinia is not a disease at all). At the bottom we have cytomegalovirus by itself, (the diseases are CMV retinitis etc.) If we stick to diseases apart from changing some of the above, we would have to include: rotaviral gastroenteritis, astroviral gastroenteritis etc., which I think would look a bit of a mess. What do you think? Best wishes GrahamColm 19:12, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, and I like your style :-) --GrahamColm 22:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Atmosphere International (trade Show)

Not an admin. Sorry. I will be watching the page and the user until it is deleted. - Rjd0060 06:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Probably a sock. I restored the tag but if the IP removes it again, we'll have to go to AfD. - Rjd0060 06:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

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Redundant taxoboxes

Not at all, that's an excellent suggestion! I'm not too confident with the category space and am not sure exactly how to make sub-categories, so if you're happy to to that, that would be brilliant. There are also several pages which transclude Template:Taxobox begin which have yet to be tagged if you fancy it...

Thanks,

Verisimilus T 10:01, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks very much for your help with this!!

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Missing taxobox

Please tag articles with {{missing taxobox}} in the talk page not the article, per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Cleanup. Thanks. Pro bug catcher (talk • contribs). 20:10, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Astrovirus

Many thanks for fixing the taxobox. I knew it was a problem but I didn't know how to fix it.--GrahamColm ^Talk 06:22, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Avian leucosis virus

I think leucosis is an acceptable but older variant, and the article should be moved to Avian leukosis virus. We should also consider merging Lymphoid Leucosis into the article. --Joelmills (talk) 16:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Acute viral nasopharyngitis (common cold)

{{helpme}} Could someone help me sort out the mess of templates that I have created on Talk:Acute viral nasopharyngitis (common cold). Seems that the archive box doesn't like to play nice. Thanks, —G716 <^T·_C> 22:59, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I've done some edits on it, see if thats better.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 23:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! —G716 <^T·_C> 23:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem. If you need anything else, just tell me on my talkpage.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 23:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Blackbird

thanks for suggestion, Jimfbleak (talk) 06:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Common cold

Hello, G716. The talk page of Common cold indicates that it is a "Good article candidate". However it isn't on the GAC list. Looking at the history, you placed the notice. Is "Common cold" a GAC? Axl (talk) 11:31, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello. The common cold is listed here Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations, under the article's previous name Acute viral nasopharyngitis (common cold).—G716 <^T·_C> 16:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Person Data template

Thanks--Kumioko (talk) 02:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Vitamin C and Common Cold

I have again looked at this article, along with the links you placed on the article's talk page, and still do not see the "blatant copyright infringement" you claim. Copy-and-paste insertions result in whole paragraphs, or even entire articles, that are word-to-word identical to the original source. This is not the case with this article. --Allen3 ^talk 19:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Steve Allday

I added some references to Steve Allday. You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Steve Allday. -- Eastmain (talk) 21:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Casting Crowns

Hi. You made five different afd discussions, but you listed all the band members in each of the discussions. So please close four of them and leave one open. Thank you, --brew crewer (yada, yada) 01:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I now noticed that you might now know how to close afd's. It's not that difficult, only tedious. These are the instructions. Any quesiotns, please ask. --brew crewer (yada, yada) 01:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Take Care of Texas

Thank you for your work on Take Care of Texas. Is the article good enough now to keep? --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 04:13, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice job fixing the article. I still think that it is non-notable, but I have changed my opinion to Delete and Merge with Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 13:38, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Solon Irving Bailey

Hello - can someone show me how to line up the asteroid box under the info box here: Solon Irving Bailey. Thank you—G716 <^T·_C> 03:33, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Ive moved the box. Moving it to the end of the section did the trick. Kevin (talk) 04:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

This works for me, though there's probably a better way.[1] I'll keep the helpme open in case better solutions may be suggested by others.

Cheers, Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 04:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I see Kevin closed the helpme, so feel free to re-open it later if you are unsatisfied with the outcome. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 04:20, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! —G716 <^T·_C> 05:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Survey request

Hi,
I need your help. I am working on a research project at Boston College, studying creation of medical information on Wikipedia. You are being contacted, because you have been identified as an important contributor to one or more articles.

Would you will be willing to answer a few questions about your experience? We've done considerable background research, but we would also like to gather the insight of the actual editors. Details about the project can be found at the user page of the project leader, geraldckane. Survey questions can be found at geraldckane/medsurvey. Your privacy and confidentiality will be strictly protected!

The questions should only take a few minutes. I hope you will be willing to complete the survey, as we do value your insight. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Professor Kane if you have any questions.

Thank You, Sam4bc (talk) 22:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

New nav bar

{{helpme}} Hi - I'm constructing a new nav bar here: User:G716/sandbox/WPStat navbar. How do I get the logo for the portal to center in the cell? <center> is not working for me. Thanks for any help.—G716 <^T·_C> 20:54, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to get it to work either. I don't think it will. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 21:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I've tried and can't get it to align in the center either – <div>s aren't seeming to mesh with the formatting. I'm pretty sure it's probably something with the {{Portal}} template itself, but I'll try a little more and see if there's any success. Jamie^☆S93 21:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I seem to have gotten it done. I'm not sure the code isn't more than is necessary right now, so you might want to have someone else look at it before using it. My recommended template expert is User:Happy-melon. Jim Miller ^{See me | Touch me} 23:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:List of statisticians

I tried mathbot's list updater here: Talk:List of statisticians and got a couple of error messages that I archived here: User:G716/sandbox/mathbot. Could you tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks—G716 <^T·_C> 20:39, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

It works now. Maybe there was something wrong with the server. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:00, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Advert tag on Data Desk

Hello, I was wondering what could be done to edit the article to make it less like and advertisement... Didn't mean it to be so let me know! Stealth (talk) 03:30, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

When DD was first published it was very innovative - likely the first interactive program that built on the EDA theory. I would concentrate on those aspects. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 07:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, i reverted your edit to it and I will be working on fixing it up today. Your edit really deleted too much of it in my opinion, so I am going to be working on that! (BTW, cna you pelase respond on my user page? That way it's easier for me to see when you responded) Stealth (talk) 13:38, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

wikiproject statistics

The version {{tl:WikiProject Statistics}} that i added just calls the other version, so I think the other version is evoked in a way that still should be caught by the cleanup / counting bots. doncram (talk) 16:22, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Friendly question re- "outside of statistics" at Statistics talk page

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Friendly question re- "outside of statistics" here[2]

Dear Sir,

I am the creator of the wiki page of Donald Geman. I am his student and was not aware about the issue of conflict of interest before I saw it.

I think it is a bit unfair to say that the article has a non-neutral voice. All the thing I wrote are verifiable using the references: you can check ISI highly cited program, your gibbs sampling wiki page and google scholars to find out that the paper Geman & Geman is cited over 7000 times. Most parts of this article is just gathering of other websites.

I hope this issue can be resolved very quickly.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGemanWikiPage (talk • contribs) 19:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi G716 - just wondered why you made the changes you did to {{Statistics-stub}}. Stub templates generally don't have separate /doc files - any links to WikiProjects go in the category, not in an add-on to the template itself. Also, re: an earlier edit of yours to the template, the stub category is never, ever, hidden by includeonly tags. Grutness...wha? 00:36, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi again - you wrote:I wasn't aware of the rule not to have a /doc page for stub templates. Also, the cat was inside includeonly tags, not inside the noinclude tags. Why include the template itself in the category?

It's not a policy, but it's something that isn't generally done (I don't know of another stub template which has a /doc file, and I've been stub-sorting for a long time). In general there's no real use for them - all they would ever contain is interwiki links to other language equivalents and WikiProject-specific template categories, each of which is very easily noincluded out. Any links to WikiProjects, as I noted, are kept to the category wherever possible, rather than the template.

I did write includeonly, as you can see above (though I initially wrote noinclude then immediately corrected myself). The reason this is done is to make it easier on stub-sorters - there are numerous reasons for it, but one of the most important is that it makes it instantly possible to check that a template and a category are correctly paired together, simply by looking at the template (it saves a lot of time if you're having to check a hundred templates if you don't have to open each of them up in an edit window to see whether there are includeonly tags). Another reason is to check what templates actually are in a category - which is very useful when it comes to splitting large categories containing several upmerged templates. Grutness...wha? 01:00, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Done - thanks :) Grutness...wha? 08:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Hidden cats

{{helpme}} How do I make a hidden cat a subcategory another hidden cat? For example, I want Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Federal Standard 1037C to show as a subcat on Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government. Thanks—G716 <^T·_C> 20:54, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Help:Category should give you the info you need. Cheers. [ roux ] [x] 20:57, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah - very funny. I had RTFM, but the answer to my question is either not there, or I was unable to understand it, that's why I asked for help. I'm actually hoping that someone who knows the answer to show me.—G716 <^T·_C> 22:00, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

No need to be rude. Most people who use {{helpme}} haven't read the relevant help files. [ roux ] [x] 22:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I Don't know if that's possible, but you could ask at the helpdesk (WP:HD). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 22:31, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the idea - asking at the help desk finally got my answer - had nothing to do with hidden cats - I needed to fix a catsort—G716 <^T·_C> 04:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, you may not know that Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia makes it harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. please remember when adding new categories to place them amongst categories section--preferably alphabetically. some of additions you made were placed in the inter-wiki language section. emerson7 17:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your warm welcome and kind words. I am aware of the WP:MOS, but have not read it. I apologise for my transgression and hope that my recent edits have provided satisfactory amelioration. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 04:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Weller/First Into Nagasaki

Please look at my comment. You may want to withdraw the Afd, 23:45, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Done—G716 <^T·_C> 00:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the oops message

but why didn't you just remove the duplicate? :-) +sj + 08:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Template to navbox

Hi there - thanks for your message. If you could convert Template:Statistical mechanics topics to a navbox, that would be great! --HappyCamper 01:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

AFD

When nominating articles for deletion, such as Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene, please don't forget to complete the process. In this particular case there was no AFD box on the page itself, and it had not been listed on the main AFD listing. I have done that now. JFW | T@lk 07:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Willdo. Thanks for fixing my mistake.—G716 <^T·_C> 13:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Tagging math pages

I noticed you tagged a few talk pages with the {{maths rating}} template. Would you mind following up on that by filling in the importance parameter in the templates? There is no need to tag math articles just to say they are mathematics articles; we already have a List of mathematics articles that does not require any talk page tagging. If you don't fill in all three parameters when you put the template on a talk page, someone else has to spend time cleaning up the pages you have tagged. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Your point is well taken, but I don't tag articles to identify them as math articles. The Statistics WikiProject relies on the Mathematics WikiProject (and your bot) to handle quality assessments. I tag new statistics articles with {{maths rating|field = Probability and statistics}} so that they are shown here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Wikipedia_1.0/Probability_and_statistics. I can assess quality (stub vs. start) but I don't feel comfortable assessing importance for articles that are outside my direct field of expertise. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 23:56, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Request For Rollback

Hi. If fulfilled your request. Please remember that rollback should only be used for removing obvious and simple vandalism, or for reverting your own comments when there is no benefit in an enhanced edit summary. In other situations it is best to use another methos of removing edits. If rollback is misused it can be easily removed by any admin. If you need any help please ask me or see WP:RBK for more.Pedro : Chat 07:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!—G716 <^T·_C> 12:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Leading preventable causes of death

I changed a number of things on this page. Wondering why it was still deleted? I disagree that it was made up of directly copied sentences.

--Doc James (talk) 20:37, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I nominated the page for deletion, but the actual deletion was done by an administrator. I think that deletions can be appealed but I don't know how - you can ask for directions at the help desk.—G716 <^T·_C> 21:15, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Everything is gone. Do you know the admin?--Doc James (talk) 05:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

You can find deletion logs on a Special Page (link in the sidebar on the left of any wikipedia page - then select "Logs" link about half way down the page - then select "Deletion logs" in the drop down box and enter the page name in the "Title:" box) You're looking for this —G716 <^T·_C> 06:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:PD-NHC

Template:PD-NHC has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Eastlaw (talk) 09:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Template talk:DANFS

Thanks for the heads up. --Eastlaw (talk) 05:21, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Canaries_World_Wide_Supporters_Group#Canaries_World_Wide_Supporters_Group

I invite you to return to the AfD. --Dweller (talk) 11:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - there's an interesting discussion brewing —G716 <^T·_C> 15:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes. I take the point about the books. See my comments at WT:FOOTY. I appreciate I'm not entirely objective about Capital Canaries, but I do suspect it passes WP:V. I hope it gets a reasonable assessment when lumped together with the others which, I suspect, do not. Thanks for reviewing, however you opt. --Dweller (talk) 15:59, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Correlation

Hi, I don't agree with this: that algorithm is a good, fast and numerically stable one. I believe it is important to keep it, the algorithm should definitely be part of the article. Furthermore, a pseudo-code can be implemented and works in all languages.

It is important to distinguish a formula which defines what a mathematical concept is from the algorithm that tells you how you compute that particular mathematical concept in a practical way. A formula is expressed by an analytical expression; an algorithm is expressed by a pseudo-code (in general, you can't express an algorithm as a formula).

Nightbit (talk) 02:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

perhaps this is best discussed on the article talk page—G716 <^T·_C> 06:38, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

CMTC

The links you have recently added to the Cato van Lohuizen page I made which I assume qualify your medical input/text are dead/inop. Are you going to finish the job I started? Redashhope< 12:43, 21 December 2008 (CET)

Fixed - thanks for letting me know —G716 <^T·_C> 12:10, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

And now, for Fvasconcellos' traditional nonsectarian holiday greeting!

Wherever you are, and whether you're celebrating something or not, there is always a reason to spread the holiday spirit! So, may you have a great day, and may all your wishes be fulfilled in 2009! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:30, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Is this a combination of my Christmas greeting from 2006 and my New Year's greeting from last year? Why, it most certainly is! Hey, if it ain't broke...

Pharmacologic categorization

I have started a discussion of categorizing pharmacology articles at WT:PHARM:CAT and would really appreciate your input. Also, could you please pass word of this discussion to any other editors you think might consider contribution to the conversation? kilbad (talk) 01:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of FS1037C-related talk templates

Template:FS1037C talk and Template:FS1037C MS188 talk have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Eastlaw (talk) 01:32, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

category Statistics

Just curious. Category:Statistics reasonably has Category:Probability and statistics. That category has both Category:Applied mathematics and Category:Mathematics of computing. You added "Applied mathematics" to "Statistics", but did not add "Mathematics of computing". Adding "Applied math" to "statistics" would seem to be redundant clutter, given the obvious tree. Not adding it to "Math of computing", given that you did add to "Applied math" is even more confusing.

Why does "Applied Math" need both "Probability and Statistics" and "Statistics" subcategories?

Why doesn't "Math of computing", give that it also has subcategory "Probability and Statistics", also need subcategory "Statistics"? 69.106.246.15 (talk) 01:50, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Categories are not intended to be a tree system, so it's ok to have a cat that is a sub-cat of more than one cat, and it's ok for the parent cats to be related to each other. (See here) The purpose of assigning sub-cats is to make navigation easier for the reader. I think that having Category:Statistics in both Category:Probability and statistics and Category:Applied mathematics is ok, even though those two latter cats are parent/offspring to each other. I don't know much about Category:Mathematics of computing so I didn't add. I think that, in moderation, over-categorization is better than under-categorization, because we, as editors, never know where a reader would like to go next, but we need to help him/her to get there. Just my 2 cents. —G716 <^T·_C> 03:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Ummm, categories are not required to be a tree system, and trees can intersect in curious ways but trees do organize knowledge. You are correct in that, in general, anything goes, it's what servers the reader best. I happen to be at the other end of the scale: over categorization hides things, it especially hides/obscures organization, the reader can't find what he wants hidden amongst all the excesses and can't repeat a path to get there a second time. I had to draw a picture of this (Statistics, Applied Math) area just to figure out what was here. Thanks for responding, 71.135.170.231 (talk) 05:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Occured to me that you might be surprised to see what I've done at Category:Application software. Did that so that people trying to categorize application software could quickly see most existing categories, but it also lets readers go directly to a category. That was done a few years ago. Thanks again, 71.135.170.231 (talk) 07:35, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Nice! Did you know you can display category trees:

Application software

Click on the "+" to expand. Also you may be interested in List of mathematics categories. —G716 <^T·_C> 07:50, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but that still has you paging and choosing which tree to go down. And you have to explore subtrees to see what's there. Setting depth=.. requires even more vertical paging. I designed the layout for Application software so that each category appears only once (exceptions are always possible). "Statistics" is there only once. "Spreadsheets" are there only once, in the business section, even though they are also in the Mathematics tree. So the Application software page displays all categories at least once, but not the subcategory structure and is thus very concise (doen't even display full names for most categories). I should post a comment to categorytree suggesting an optional layout for them. 69.106.246.15 (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

@Stastics

Hello, i'm certainly sure you're mistaken, I did view the page, but I haven't made any contributions to it, thanks.217.53.179.242 (talk) 16:40, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
edit: I even checked the History page, I haven't found any evidence of editing it.217.53.179.242 (talk) 16:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

See [3]. —G716 <^T·_C> 18:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of CIA attribution templates

Nine CIA attribution templates have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Eastlaw ^talk ⁄ _contribs 22:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment here. It's nice to know that my work is appreciated. Truth be told, I've been doing a lot of this out of boredom. I'm currently unemployed (again) and my father has been in the hospital, so I've basically been alternating between visiting him in the hospital and sitting around the house, surfing the net and listening to music. --Eastlaw ^talk ⁄ _contribs 23:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Updated draft at WT:PHARM:CAT

I have posted an updated draft at WT:PHARM:CAT, and, if avaliable, would appreciate your feedback. kilbad (talk) 15:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, G716. You have new messages at Drilnoth's talk page.
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Just making sure you didn't miss my message, what with all of the April Fools goings on –Drilnoth (T • C) 20:52, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Yep, got it. Thanks for making the updates. —G716 <^T·_C> 01:05, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Environmental lists

Good work on cleaning up the environmental lists. I have been away from internet access so I could not get to help out much. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! List of environmental topics is still a mess - a catch-all for anything even remotely related to "environment". —G716 <^T·_C> 12:11, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

USGov cat cleanup

Thanks for cleaning up all of the categories for the templates that rely on {{Include-USGov}}! —hike395 (talk) 04:15, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm trying to get the number of articles in Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government down to a reasonable number - it was over 9,000 a few days ago - so I'm adding a number of subcats. Cheers —G716 <^T·_C> 04:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Category tree

{{helpme}} I asked this question at the help desk and got no response - does anyone know the answer? Thanks —G716 <^T·_C> 21:15, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

(moved question here for simplicity Chzz ► 21:20, 26 April 2009 (UTC))

Category tree

How do I get this code snippet to list subcategories alphabetically: <categorytree mode=categories depth=1>CategoryName</categorytree>, such as here. Thanks—G716 <^T·_C> 14:53, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Erm. I think it does, doesn't it?

<categorytree mode=pages>Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_public_domain_works_of_the_United_States_Government</categorytree>

...gives...

Hidden section, use show
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government 1st Engineer Battalion (United States) 1st Arkansas 30 Day Volunteer Regiment 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Stirman's) 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Union) 1st Arkansas Colored Light Artillery Battery 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment (Trans-Mississippi) 1st Arkansas Field Battery 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion (Union) 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Union) 1st Arkansas Light Artillery 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles 1st Battalion, Arkansas State Troops 1st Cavalry Regiment, Arkansas State Troops 1st Medical Brigade (United States) 1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment 1st Texas Infantry Regiment 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment 1st Virginia Infantry Battalion 1st Virginia Infantry Regiment 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Slemons') 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Union) 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment 2nd Arkansas Field Battery 2nd Arkansas Light Artillery 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops 3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Union) 3rd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment 3rd Arkansas Field Battery 3rd Arkansas Light Artillery 3rd Engineer Battalion (United States) 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment 4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 4th Arkansas Field Battery 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion 4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Union) 4th Recruit Training Battalion 4th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops 4th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment 5th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 5th Arkansas Field Battery 5th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 5th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 5th Virginia Infantry Battalion 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment 6th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 6th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 6th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion 6th Arkansas Field Battery 6th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 6th Virginia Infantry Regiment 7.92×57mm Mauser 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 7th Arkansas Field Battery 7th Arkansas Infantry Battalion 7th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 7th Transportation Brigade (United States) 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment 8th Arkansas Field Battery 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 8th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 9th Arkansas Field Battery 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 9th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment 10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Newton's) 10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Witt's) 10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 10th Regional Support Group 10th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 10th Virginia Infantry Regiment 11th and 17th Consolidated Arkansas Infantry Regiment 11th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 11th Operational Weather Squadron 11th United States Colored Infantry Regiment (Old) 11th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment 12th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment 13th Infantry Regiment (United States) 13th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment 14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's) 14th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Josey's) 15th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 16th Virginia Infantry Regiment 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Lemoyne's) 17th Sustainment Brigade (United States) 17th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 17th Virginia Infantry Regiment 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's) 18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dawson's) 19th and 24th Consolidated Arkansas Infantry Regiment 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dockery's) 19th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 19th Virginia Infantry Regiment 20th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 20th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 20th Virginia Infantry Regiment 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Craven's) 21st Virginia Cavalry Regiment 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment 22nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment 22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 22nd Virginia Infantry Battalion 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment 23rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 24th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment 25th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 25th Army Band 25th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment 26th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 26th Virginia Infantry Regiment 27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 27th Virginia Infantry Regiment 27th Virginia Partisan Rangers Battalion 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 30th Virginia Infantry Regiment 30th Virginia Sharpshooters Battalion 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment 32nd Infantry Regiment (United States) 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment 33rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment 34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 34th Virginia Infantry Regiment 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 36th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 36th Virginia Infantry Regiment 37th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 37th Virginia Infantry Regiment 38th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 38th Virginia Infantry Regiment 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's) 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 39th Virginia Infantry Regiment 40th Infantry Division (United States) 40th Virginia Infantry Regiment 42nd Virginia Cavalry Battalion 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment 43rd Military Police Brigade (United States) 44th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) 44th Medical Brigade 44th Virginia Infantry Regiment 45th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) 45th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 45th Virginia Infantry Battalion 46th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) 46th United States Colored Infantry Regiment 46th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 46th Virginia Infantry Regiment 47th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) 47th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 47th Virginia Infantry Regiment 48th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) 48th Virginia Infantry Regiment 49th Virginia Infantry Regiment 50th Virginia Infantry Regiment 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment 52nd Virginia Infantry Regiment 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment 54th United States Colored Infantry Regiment 54th Virginia Infantry Regiment 55th Medical Group (United States) 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment 57th Medical Detachment 57th United States Colored Infantry Regiment 57th Virginia Infantry Regiment 58th Virginia Infantry Regiment

Do you have an example of the problem?

I won't be 'watching' this page, so either drop a note on my talk page, use another {{helpme}}, or talk to us live. Cheers, Chzz ► 21:39, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello, G716. You have new messages at Chzz's talk page.
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Chzz ► 05:09, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Pharmacies

Add a hidden comment not to add redlinks and external links - and police that criteria. Also add in the comment that source material in the form of external links are available in the history before May 1, 2009 for those wanting to create new articles on national pharmacy associations BEFORE adding them to the list.

Thanks for doing it!

SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Done. —G716 <^T·_C> 17:09, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Statistics

Thank you for your recent edits to the main page and talk page! Best, Btyner (talk) 21:32, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to you as well! It's looking pretty good, although I wish we could find some snazzy pictures like some other portals have.—G716 <^T·_C> 00:26, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

New CfD

I have proposed a new CfD concerning a derm category. Basically, I want to start using the term "cutaneous" instead of "skin" for most derm categories. Would that be ok with you? See: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_May_21#Category:Chronic_blistering_skin_conditions. ---kilbad (talk) 23:33, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work on the derm task force. —G716 <^T·_C> 00:26, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Would you mind sharing your thoughts about the term "cutaneous" instead of "skin" at the CfD? ---kilbad (talk) 21:03, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Looking for help adding photos

As you are probably aware, I have been working on the List of skin-related conditions, and wanted to know if you would help me add more disease thumbnails to the list? ---kilbad (talk) 00:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Sure - do you have a plan in mind, or do you want any help we can give?—G716 <^T·_C> 01:46, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I am shooting for anywhere from 1 to 3 thumbnails per section of the list, depending on the size of the section. ---kilbad (talk) 12:05, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

OK - I'll take a crack this w/e —G716 <^T·_C> 01:42, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Singular

I have moved spaghetti plots to spaghetti plot. WP:MOS prescribes the use of the singular in article titles except when the article is about a set of things identified only by the plural of the term for those things (e.g. Maxwell's equations). Michael Hardy (talk) 16:02, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder - I was fixated on case, and forgot number—G716 <^T·_C> 01:46, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Nice find

I noticed an article you moved from an abandoned user account's space to the main namespace. Nicely done.

I've renamed it to Outline of probability to match the rest of the set of outlines on Wikipedia.

I've also added a link to it to the OOK and WP:PROL.

If you have any questions about outlines or their development, please feel free to ask me on my talk page any time.

Keep up the good work.

The Transhumanist 22:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: WP:WPOOK is looking for members who are interested in the development of Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge (the set of all outline articles). -TT

Thanks for your note. —G716 <^T·_C> 02:20, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

re What if we build it....

No it does not get promoted, unfortunately, without support. We'll have to wait, and/or find some other places to place neutrally worded notices. Cirt (talk) 05:38, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh well, c'est la vie —G716 <^T·_C> 06:08, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Stub

Hello G716,

I noticed you marked an article as a stub using the {{stub}} template. Did you know that there are thousands of stub types that you can use to clarify what type of stub the article is? Properly categorizing stubs is important to the Wikipedia community because it helps various WikiProjects to identify articles that need expansion.

You can view the full list of stub types at WP:STUBS.

If you have questions about stub sorting, don't hesitate to ask! There is a wealth of stub information on the stub sorting WikiProject, and hundreds of stub sorters. Thanks!

Additionally, if you're using a tool that adds just {{stub}} to pages, please don't.
Ω (talk) 03:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Wow - that's a lot of stubs —G716 <^T·_C> 04:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

yes, yes it is. Which is why the stub sorting project exists, and why we tend to crawl all over anyone who uses a plain {{stub}} template! ;)
Ω (talk) 04:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

English tense

You wrote "you are at it again". In English, the past tense is expressed "you were at it again".Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 09:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder—G716 <^T·_C> 14:43, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for expressing irritation. I didn't know about the rule, when I broke it and didn't realize that it extended to the talk pages. I have redoubled my resolution "to go and sin no more"! I welcome your edit on the talk page, which restored the supporting evidence of my butchery, in a nicer formatting.

Sincerely,

Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 15:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Cleaning up List of topics related to Black and African people

We've been cleaning this up.

What else needs to be done to it?

Please answer at Talk:List of topics related to Black and African people#Clean up. That's where the discussion is.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 23:06, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Salt therapy

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Salt therapy, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Possible neologisms, no reliable sources, fails to meet notability

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. LexCorp (talk) 23:39, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I think you put this notice here by mistake. —G716 <^T·_C> 02:05, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Aces and eights (blackjack)

I noticed that you've given your two cents on the article at Talk:Aces and eights (blackjack)/GA1 back in June. I decided to take up reviewing it, and I ended up fixing up the article a lot. I guess I'm no longer an impartial observer, so could you review it and determine whether it should pass? Thanks. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:27, 25 July 2009 (UTC)