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BARNSTARS[edit]

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  The Original Barnstar Thanks for all your efforts on medical articles. Best. Doc James 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 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 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 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) 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... Tribe of Tiger Seconded. Deb 10 March 2018 (UTC)

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  The Compass BarnstarI just wanted to thank you again for all of the help that you have lent me during the process in getting Chromium to FA... UtopianPoyzin 12 October 2018 (UTC)

My successful GA nominations[edit]

• Egg allergy (Nov 12, 2017)
• Vitamin C (Nov 27, 2017)
• Milk allergy (Feb 15, 2018)
• Brown-tail moth (July 25, 2018)
• Luna moth (August 17, 2018)

DYKs I've reviewed (keeping track of)[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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 3/14-15/18; on that day increased daily views by 3,000. Before the DYK ~200 views/day)
• Brown-tail moth for GA (used 3/20-21/18; on that day increased daily views by 3,100. Before the DYK ~95 views/day)
• Luna moth for GA (used 9/12-13/18 with image; on that day increased daily views by 8,400. Before the DYK ~700 views/day)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors! (2017)[edit]

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)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors! (2018)[edit]

The 2018 Cure Award

In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

I saw "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold... "[edit]

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)

DYK nomination of Vitamin deficiency (declined)[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Vitamin deficiency at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Expansion of length of existing article did not qualify for DYK because it did not take into account that some of the expansion was content copied in from other articles (content copied in separately has to undergo 5X expansion to qualify). David notMD (talk) 14:11, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Summaries[edit]

Why is it bad to not put edit summaries? Millions of others dont

Answered on the querier's Talk page. David notMD (talk) 14:11, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Aaron Carotta[edit]

Hello! Thanks for your help with the article Aaron Carotta. I have removed the websites refs that are to the subjects website. I don't believe the article is notable but I don't nominate it for deletion. Feel free to take a look yourself if you can help with the article. Thank you! --TalksAndMore (talk) 23:07, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Hemothorax GA[edit]

Why should the MRI be removed? One MRI image looks perfectly fine to me.

In my opinion the image is too dark/murky, and also that infants not discussed in text as having hemothorax. Don't know if this was trauma caused or something infancy specific. I will defer final decision to PeaBrainC, who is a physician. David notMD (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Dido Elizabeth Belle[edit]

Hi David. You started to run with this one whilst I was working on a reply to CapnZapp. The problem is that the IP user is correct. The IP has added quite a nice summary to the talk page which Zapp has not responded to. I'm fairly certain that Zapp is confusing the abolition of slavery in the British Empire with a non-existent abolition of slavery within England. He has started throwing accusations of "hate speech" speech about when the edit history shows no such thing, other than his 'Sorry I don't take the word of someone that just added slander like "typical Hebraic effort to rewrite history with an anti-white slant"'. I've spent quite some time trying to find the "slander" but haven't yet located it. What needs to be done is to correct the Dido article to refer to the following:

• The Somersett Case (aka Mansfield ruling) established that slavery had never, since time immemorial (actually he claimed further back to the Conquest), bben established in England.
• Ergo all past slaves reaching English soil were immediately free men under English law.
• Dido had been born to a slave mother and a free father and had then come to England, therefore she was a free woman.
• Mansfield ensured in his will that there was no question of her status should she travel abroad. Most European countries at this time would have supported a slave master trying to regain control of his slaves.
• The ruling (1772) may have been part of a long campaign to abolish slavery worldwide, but its practical effect in England was quite tightly constrained.

Since you've started dealing with this I'll leave you to continue, but I would suggest a caution to Zapp about his inflammatory accusations might not come amiss, as is a gentle hint that not all IPs who disagree with him are automatically villains. His comment "Each IP user hasn't done "enough", and seems careful to only use valid expressions (and so I can't rule out good faith)" does indicate a certain prejudice.

If you need any help with this, feel free to ask. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 17:20, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

First, I am ignorant on the topic, and am willing, no, desirous, to have no more to do with the article. The phrase "typical Hebraic effort to rewrite history with an anti-white slant" was I believe in the very first of the IP edits on March 27, and I think not part of the subsequent edit war. The editors in question have started a discussion at Talk (you edited there). All I wanted to do was to revert to the pre-revert war version as a placeholder. Please take up this torch! David notMD (talk) 17:26, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Just a heads-up I've read your response, User:Martin of Sheffield. David is indeed correct - it was that earlier edit that made me disinclined to trust the (one and only?) IP editor. Carry on. CapnZapp (talk) 18:14, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Domestic life is interfering! I may get a chance to get back to this later in the evening. CapnZapp, I found the passage. I'd been looking at the edit summaries not the diffs. I'll move over to the talk page. Best Wishes David, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 18:39, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Revised Edition of my Biography[edit]

Hello again, David notMD,

Thank you for explaining to me that a critical requirement for a biography subject is that other people have published their opinions about the subject. Unfortunately, my biographical draft gave you the impression that I had few dealings with other people, and that they rarely referred to me in print. This is not really the case.

For the section of my draft entitled "Scientific contributions", I had selected mainly scientific accomplishments without mentioning how other people responded to them.

Because I would like my biography to appear in Wikipedia, I have revised my draft to include contributions that have prompted other people to express themselves about me, both in their written words and in their behavior.

Please be so kind as to give me another chance. Please read the revised version of my biography, which is located in my Sandbox. Let us move forward together. I have a lot of respect for your helpful opinions.

Sincerely, Michael H. L. Hecker. April 4, 2019 Michael H. L. Hecker (talk) 18:15, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I am not the one providing a chance - only advice. Only when you submit this to Articles for Creation will an Administrator (I am not one) accept or decline. I had made an effort to put your previous draft in the right format. You deleted that and reverted to an unacceptable format. In addition, none of your references are in correct format. I had deleted content that had no references. You restored much/all of it. Today, I restored format to User:Michael H. L. Hecker/sandbox but made no changes to content or referencing. My comments:

• All: Wikipedia articles cannot be references. If there is a Wikipedia article about a person or place, instead enclose it in double brackets: Charlotte Berend-Corinth
• Early life: None of the content has references. This means even if all true, none of it can be in the article. All content must be referenced.
• Education: Most of the content is without references.
• Scientific contributions: A Certificate of Achievement is not an acceptable reference. Much of this section is without acceptable references. Your descriptions of how people expressed information about you and your work have no weight - only their published content. The fact that your testimony as an expert witness was allowed does not contribute to notability. Ditto that you have had articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
• Overall: If you remove all content that is not referenced and create properly formatted references for the rest, it is my opinion that the article does not meet Wikipedia's definition of notability, and will be declined by a reviewer if submitted. David notMD (talk) 18:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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Dear David notMD and Liance,

David, I apologize for writing to Liance that you had approved the text of my biography. It was an incorrect assumption on my part. After you read my first draft, you advised me to provide references that would satisfy the notability requirements (for academics). Because, in my work, references are added at the end of an article, I thought that the text itself met with your approval. I did not understand what you meant. Now I know that the references have to be embedded in the text. That is why I have re-written and re-submitted my biography, hoping for a better outcome. Please excuse my former ignorance of “the rules”.

Sincerely, Michael H. L. Hecker. 15 April, 2019. Michael H. L. Hecker (talk) 15:25, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Not just the referencing, which is still not in correct format. Per my April 4 entry (above), much of your proposed content has no references. I stand by mo opinion that however much improved, this article will not meet Wikipedia's definition of notability, and will be declined again. David notMD (talk) 20:15, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

A new source on Cerebral Folate Deficiency[edit]

Good evening, David! I came across a new review article about Cerebral folate deficiency - in your opinion, is this review good enough to be cited/quoted in the CFD article? Review: PMID 30916789 Hope you are doing fine! Cheers from Russia, ---CopperKettle 14:52, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Definitely a valid ref, and provides info to improve the CFD article. David notMD (talk) 16:37, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Oh, great! I'm slowly reading this review and am putting some quotes from it at Talk:Cerebral folate deficiency --CopperKettle 17:05, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Joan Almond article is posted![edit]

Hello David not MD, I wanted to let you know that the Joan Almond article is posted now. Thank you for all your help!!LorriBrown (talk) 06:01, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Congrats. By the way, me: 10+ years, 16,000+ edits, never created an article. Focus has been improving existing articles, including raising some to GA status. David notMD (talk) 13:39, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you[edit]

David notMD,

I just wanted to say thank you for stopping by my user talk page from the teahouse. I guess I'll just have to work my way up then... Also, do you think that putting my age on my user page affects the way people see me? They might seem more harsh and/or less willing to help me even though Wikipedia can be edited by all ages.

Kind Regards,

Muffington (talk) 13:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Hydrogen Water[edit]

Hi David, I added substantial information o the hydrogen water talk page (I will not edit the actual page), including all published human trials using water to separate from the databases which also list inhalation or saline (water is used more than frequently than the other methods, at 40-50% of total trials), 4 review articles, including one just published last week, two of them discussing hydrogen water having a higher effect under a much lower dosage (1/100~). I posted other mainstream media articles with more neutral slants, and posted upfront on my conflict of interest (which I have also posted as my own page to my username, in case it is missed elsewhere). TarnavaA (talk) 16:17, 5 June 2019 (UTC)TarnavaA

Hi David, any feedback on the first draft I posted last week for review is much appreciated (the sections didn't convert properly in the talk page). I detailed my reasoning for including certain sections and stated why my bias and conflict of interest may play a role in inclusions. Appreciated, TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA —Preceding undated comment added 20:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi David thanks for the post on my page, I left another message on my own. As an aside, scientifically it makes more sense to talk about the total body of research on hydrogen therapy, as many trials in rodents and even humans are replicative against the various methods (water, inhalation, saline). That said, I am unsure of the ability to speak more to it as "molecular hydrogen therapy" or something like that, and then it gets murkier talking about each section. It is also not clear when to use which method, if each method will work in each model, etc. It is still very green. Just food for thought. TarnavaA (talk)TarnavaA —Preceding undated comment added 23:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Membership renewal[edit]

You have been a member of Wiki Project Med Foundation (WPMEDF) in the past. Your membership, however, appears to have expired. As such this is a friendly reminder encouraging you to officially rejoin WPMEDF. There are no associated costs. Membership gives you the right to vote in elections for the board. The current membership round ends in 2020.

Thanks again :-) The team at Wiki Project Med Foundation---Avicenno (talk) 05:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

You're a 'Featured Host'[edit]

Hi David. You may have seen this announcement that all the 'Featured Hosts' - whose names and pictures randomly cycle round in the Teahouse Header - have just been updated.

As you are currently one of the 29 most active editors at WP:TH, your name and an image has now replaced that of an inactive host. But because you haven't yet added yourself to the full list of active hosts, I have simply used the default image of a cup of green tea. It would be great if you would now do two things:

• Check or change the 'featured host' image allocated to you. Edit it at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/9, or undo my changes if you don't wish to be 'featured'.
• Create a 'host profile' for yourself, and choose a relevant picture - click the 'Experienced editor?' button in the TH Header to formally sign up to create a separate entry on the full list of all 89 current hosts which new editors can view.

Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:30, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Nick - Honored by the invite, as I initially got to Teahouse as a questioner, evolved to a kibbitzer. I think I completed both tasks successfully. David notMD (talk) 11:37, 13 June 2019 (UTC)