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Renal tubular acidosis

Hi Samir, If you have a spare minute, would you like to check out renal tubular acidosis? I've been noodling away at it for a while now, and would appreciate a bit of an outside expert eye to point out changes that need to be made before i think about a possible nomination for a good article. Cheers.FelixFelix ^talk 16:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey Samir,

I was ineterested in your colom cancer picture. Sadlly, my mum had just surgery in Slovakia, to have removed one of those ( March 6th 2007 ), and doctors said, it isn't good at all. I was wondering what You know about Colon Cancer. I would be very happy if You know anything about surgeries, or treatments.. to let me know, my email is lentilka8653@hotmail.com Thank you in advance,Lucy March 8th 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.67.19.108 (talk) 23:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Hey Samir,

I was ineterested in your colom cancer picture. Sadlly, my mum had just surgery in Slovakia, to have removed one of those ( March 6th 2007 ), and doctors said, it isn't good at all. I was wondering what You know about Colon Cancer. I would be very happy if You know anything about surgeries, or treatments.. to let me know, my email is lentilka8653@hotmail.com Thank you in advance,Lucy March 8th 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.67.19.108 (talk) 23:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Pashtun people

Hi, can you replace the image and some text that user: Beh-nam has deleted on the Pashtun people article. It is considered vandalism what he has done. He is ethnic Tajik or perhaps other and is constantly involved in removing anything that makes ethnic Pashtuns look good. I don't want to call him extremely racist person, however, you decide for yourself after you see his history record. Check one example here and here kooniwal means homosexual in Persian language. The new map he just uploaded and added to the Pashtun people article was very recently deleted from Commons because it has no source to verify. Therefore, you should delete it now as it qualifies for speedy delete. Thanks, I have no issues with anybody over ethnics, nationality or religion. Beh-nam has targetted ethnic Pashtuns and he is spreading whatever lies he can come up with, he does not have time to edit articles about his own ethnic but is always busy on Pashtun related articles. He has been blocked many times for edit warring. He thinks everybody who edits Afghanistan related article is Pashtun.--Dilbar Jan 13:14, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Uhm, no. You call people baboons, and make fun of the way people look. Instead, I've blocked you indefinitely. We don't need hate speech like that on Wikipedia -- Samir 17:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi bro,

since you can see it was this persianized guy Dilbar who wrote me first and insulted me. I din´t write back first. But when he did again i wrote him also and used facts and names to remind him on his own people since he was writing about fictions. He was exchanging his own people with mine. I never insulted him..just read my text and his and compare them clearly. AND DO NOT THREAD ME!!! YOU ARE NOT AN ADMIN NOT ABLE TO BOUNCE ME OR BAN ME SINCE I DDI NOTHING!!! YOU WILL BE BANNED NEXT TIME! Not even 50% of the comments were mines but Dilbars. Either he added some bad words to make me banned or you have confused everything.

ps:the guy above claimed he can´t speak Persian but now he tries to make you fool that kunniwal means homosexual while hamjenzbaz and be-rish means homosexual. Kunniwal has nothing to do with Homosexuality tough there are a lot of homosexuals in Pashtun society..to gicve you some proofs and that i am not insulting someone but USING FACTS you can see here;

http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/afghanistan/afnews009.htm http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/afghanistan/afnews011.htm http://www.globalgayz.com/g-afghanistan2.html

and there are 1000 of pages..remind also what dupree said..Homosexuality could have been existing since the ancient times in Afghan society since the Indo-Aryan people were a MALE DOMINATED group like the people of ancient greec.

Thank you and best regards --Aspandyar Agha 14:08, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

re User:Beh-nam

Hi, thanks for your message. Providing he keeps to WP:CIVIL I see no reason why he cannot keep contributing to Wikipedia. LessHeard vanU 12:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

Hee hee, I was going behind you sweeping up in the wake of that giant issue, and had a few others helping as well, ~*Giggle*~ Thanks for all your quick action with that rather persistent sock! You did an awesome job! Ariel♥Gold 02:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Trolling

Cease and desist, sir. ~ Riana ⁂ 02:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Cascading protection on User talk:Samir/Archive 17?

Why did you enable cascading protection on User talk:Samir/Archive 17? This is generally only necessary for very high profile pages, which that certainly is not. As a side effect, I think you completely stopped the bot from updating User:Dragons flight/Category tracker/Summary for over 2 months. Why are you even protecting your talk archives in the first place? —dgies^t_c 22:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

• On further investigation, DFBot went offline a few days after your protection (and hasn't come back, unfortunately), but it had been updating that page until right before you protected it. So... no big harm, but please be careful. —dgies^t_c 22:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Cascading protection on that page was an error -- Samir 23:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Hepatotoxicity

Hi, I've rewritten the article. I'll appreciate yor suggestions, thanks--Countincr ^{( t@lk )} 01:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Suspected sock puppets/TyrusThomas4lyf (5th)

Hi Samir, I was wondering if you could take a look at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/TyrusThomas4lyf (5th). It's virtually a carbon copy of Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/TyrusThomas4lyf (4th), which you handled last time. Thanks. Myasuda 13:21, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

we have been trying to find you for the past month to say THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! you were the specialist doctor who flew to thunder bay and fixed the bleeding in the veins in my husband stomach when no other doctor could do it. he would have died if you would not have flown here and you saved his life. we did not know which hospital you worked at regularly but remembered your name and that I signed the form so you could use the pictures for your students and for the wikipedia. my daughters were the ones who talked to your girlfriend at the Tommy donuts in the hospital, she is very beautiful and lucky to have you. our family is forever in your debt, wonderful wonderful doctor. thanks from the bottom of our hearts THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! from Ella and Tommi L.

Hurray for the Magic Man^(c)! — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 13:15, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I think Nick was spot on when describing you a few months ago. I definitely know who has the integrity here.Bakaman 18:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Heartwarming isn't it Samir. JFW | T@lk 21:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

So am I to understand that you not only flew out to an underserved area to fix a life-threatening variceal bleed, but also got permission to use the endoscopic findings for educational purposes on Wikipedia? What can I say. I have a new hero. :) MastCell ^Talk 23:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Clinical Medicine participant inactive listing

Hi Samir, How are you? Strange that you are listed as inactive on the participants page here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Participants Am back to states... TC EyeMD ^T|C 17:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

My mind has been boggled

By the fact that Frikkers has once again reverted to his preferred version of the article. If you ever get sick of dealing with this, just let me know and I'll take it AIV. Thanks Samir, VanTucky ^Talk 02:06, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've reverted Boerboel back, and placed a {{uw-own3}} warning on User talk:Frikkers. David Ruben ^Talk 23:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Ardeth.jpg

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I would appreciate any input you have

Hi, would you check out the following links for me? [1] click link in title please. On my talk page you will see that the picture was put in the Crohn's disease article with explanation), [2] and [3] which is the Spanish article. I don't have time right now but there are a couple of other articles I think the picture is appropriate for. The Spanish Wiki was done by the editor on my talk page as was the rest of it. I am trying to find other editors who might be interested and have ideas for good use of the picture plus information added to the article (s). I would appreciate if you have the time to take a peek and possible give me ideas of how to move forward on this type of project as it is new to me. Thanks--CrohnieGal^Talk 13:31, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK backlogged again

Hi, Template talk:Did you know backlogged six hours (a full cycle), your attention would be appreciated. Benjiboi 22:33, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

"Esophageal perforation"

I noticed that this currently redirects to Boerhaave syndrome, which apparently refers only to spontaneous perforation, but mentions that something 80% of perforations are iatrogenic, so it looks like we could use a esophageal perforation article. I thought you'd be interested, assuming you have time/don't have plan for other contributions. Circeus (talk) 08:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Strange image deletion

Samir, can you help me understand why you would upload a dummy image replacing one that had been onsite for months, and then delete it? I'm talking about this situation. It's just a little odd, that's all. --PhotoMatthew (talk) 22:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

data collection

dear Sameerji I have finish some data collection on the gastro article that we talk about before and now I want to talk to you about writing up as a journal publication,Please e-mail me,sincerely yours, Pramod —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.234.242.39 (talk) 05:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi Samir! I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year. - Darwinek (talk) 12:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Season's Greetings. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 12:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear friend, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Eve, and that 2008 is your best year yet! ~ Riana ⁂ 02:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Hello Samir scopeness, I hope you had a pleasant New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ...Here's to another year of DYK!.... ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Season Greetings

Dear Samir, on behalf of my snow-buried Canadian region of Ottawa, I would like to wish you a Safe and Happy New Year 2008.
JForget 02:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy 2008...

I see there's plenty of cheer around, but a bit more can't hurt :) I hope you're off to a good start, and I hope to see you soon on my Watchlist. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 11:32, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Come back, Puppetmaster

Please. We miss you. Arbeit Sockenpuppe (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Bustamante

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Survey request

Hi, Samir 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, BCproject (talk) 23:42, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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Eosinophilic Esophagitis Photo

Are you able to describe what the various features in this photo are? Thank you! --Skoch3 (talk) 15:03, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I would like to add information to the caption for this photo on the Eosinophilic esophagitis page. Specifically, what structures are the eosinophils? What are the other cells called?

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Were you canvessed to vote in the atbcom elections?

Hi there, I'll get straight to the point - there is concern that there is active off-site canvassing to change the outcome of the arbcom elections. It is being discussed here. As I mention there, I don't particular care either way. However, I thought I'd a) bring the matter to your attention and b) give you an opportunity to answer the suggestion there that you were canvassed. --Cameron Scott (talk) 00:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I have to say that it looks very, very strange that you were inactive for over 13 months but reappeared to cast a vote against Jayvdb. Several other editors show the same pattern in their contributions, though not quite as extreme as in your case. It would be helpful if you could explain the circumstances of your own anomalous voting. -- ChrisO (talk) 00:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I've commented on AN. Your insinuation of impropriety on my part is not appreciated -- Samir 18:36, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, but you haven't commented on the question of whether you were canvassed and if so who by. Clarifying this point would be appreciated. Just seen your response to the question posed by Cameron above. Thanks. -- ChrisO (talk) 20:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

• If you don't mind me asking, Samir, how did you find out about Jayvdb's candidacy? You have to know that it's not a bad faith assumption to ask why an admin, inactive for 13 months, returns to oppose an arbcom candidate. For me, it's more curiosity than anything else, as I'm not one of Jayvdb's supporters. ^S._D.D.J.Jameson 21:50, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
  • I just found out there were ArbCom elections. I'm voting on everyone. I just happened to start with Jayvdb as it was one of the few names I recognized. Thanks -- Samir 21:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
    • Thanks. That's all I needed to know. Can you understand how it looked suspect to those of us who noticed a pattern? And I hope you know that I for one meant absolutely no offense in my comments either at AN or here. ^S._D.D.J.Jameson 21:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

The Indian Barnstar of National Merit

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		Awarded to Samir, one of the most prolific editors and an admin from India. We are proud of you ! -- Tinu Cherian - 06:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back, boy

I hope the break did you good and matured you. 59.91.253.105 (talk) 18:25, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I missed you too :) -- Samir 18:27, 6 December 2008 (UTC)