User talk:Immunize

Please post your new messages at the bottom of this page where I can quickly find them. Thank you

Please, I need help!

Hi Immunize, I'm Science Star, a new user here... I'm wondering if you could help me, I'll be glad! I have some problems with the website, I'm not familier with it. It is my honor if I get your help! Best regards, Science Star Science Star (talk) 20:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

What is the nature of your problem? I am happy to help, if needed. Immunize (talk) 20:55, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Dear Immunize! One of my problems is that I can't use the website properly! If you could give me a little instructions. For example: how to write an article? How to talk to other users? I'm afraid I'm bothering you. Best wishes, Science star --Science Star (talk) 05:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

My Problems!

Hi Dear Immunize! One of my problems is that I can't use the website properly! If you could give me a little instructions. For example: how to write an article? How to talk to other users? I'm afraid I'm bothering you. Best wishes, Science star --Science Star (talk) 05:51, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Category:Diseases with no known cure - please stop

Please stop adding diseases to this category. Firstly, it is very likely to be deleted, making it a waste of effort. Secondly, you don't appear to be adding sources or even checking if the disease can be cured. Categories, like everything else, must have a source. Several of the diseases you have categorised today have a cure. It is extremely irresponsible to be tagging diseases with "no known cure" when this is not the case. Colin°^Talk 16:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I suppose I do not really understand how to use categories fully. Was my addition of the article on thrombocytopenia to the category hematopathology appropriate? Immunize (talk) 16:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

At a quick look, the Category:Hematopathology addition is probably OK but that category should probably in turn be in the Category:Hematology. If that is done, then you can remove Category:Hematology from Thrombocytopenia. However, I'm not a doctor and I only had a very quick look. Probably best to ask a doctor. The important thing is we try to include an article in the most specific category and avoid duplication. See the help on categories. Colin°^Talk 16:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, please stop adding Category:Oncology to articles that already have a cancer-related category. This is duplication. Colin°^Talk 16:32, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

And please stop randomly adding the "Diseases with no known cure" category to viral infections as you did to Hepatitis C, which is curable. You are scaremongering again. Graham Colm (talk) 22:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, the prognosis for hepatitis C without cirrhosis is now fairly good (see this link http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/news/20040303/hepatitis-c-cure-rates-highest-ever), but, as this link states, the cure rate is 63%, so 37% of patients fail to clear virus, and these patients may progress to cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. I feel it comes down to weather or not partially curable diseases are added to this category. Is there any consensus on this? Immunize (talk) 14:19, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Partly curable diseases have a cure. No remedy is 100% efficacious 100% of the time. But what does it mean to be cured? You can often cure cancer by cutting out a bit of the body, but I wouldn't be happy about a cure for a sore toe that involved chopping off the toe. The difficulty of pinning down the definition, and the fact that any inclusion criteria aren't obvious, means that a category isn't the best choice. Categories are for things that are incontestable and obvious. Colin°^Talk 15:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, I see that you have removed cirrhosis from the category in question, with the reasoning being that liver transplantation is a cure, which is true. However, the minority of patients with cirrhotic livers can undergo this treatment, and for them the disease relentlessly progresses, and typically terminates in death. Immunize (talk) 15:46, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you Immunize, your links were excellent, they really helped me. I think you are a very kind person, you like helping others. You know, I'm also interested in health, especially eating healthy food and staying healthy. I've done several projects on that, and one on vaccination. I like to be your friend, I always like to be smart person's friend. Do you accept me as your friend? Best regards, --Science Star (talk) 18:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I accept you as a friend, Science Star (talk · contribs). Tell me, have you created a new article yet? Immunize (talk) 20:12, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

I know you get a lot of negative attention here, so I just want to remind you that we do appreciate your anti-vandalism work. 67.68.34.17‎ is blocked now, thanks in part to your catching their edits. —Soap— 21:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree, good job. Tim Vickers (talk) 01:16, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Looking for a volunteer

Hi Immunize,

I need a volunteer or two to check quality assessment ratings for medicine-related stubs. Category:Stub-Class medicine articles lists some 10,000 medicine-related articles, and perhaps 5% or so are no longer stubs. Additionally, as typically low-traffic pages, they need periodic review to check for outright vandalism.

If you're interested in helping with this, I've just posted the directions at the bottom of WT:MEDA. (Don't be intimidated by my wordy directions: it's usually much faster to do it than to learn it!) WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I will consider. Thank you for letting me know. Immunize (talk) 21:35, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Help

Hi, Immunize. I am a new member of wikipedia. My nickname is soso97. I don't know manythings about starting wikipedia, how to write new sections. I have just learned how to write a message for you by the help of my best friend, Science star. I know that you are Science star's friend. I hope that you could send me some new links.... Soso97, 07-07-2010, 08:27 Pm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soso97 (talk • contribs) 17:29, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Looking at your talk page, it appears you already have links to the pages you need. If you need more help than these links provide, feel free to leave me another message. Best wishes. Immunize (talk) 14:37, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Archives

Hi Immunize,

Thanks for your message. I have moved some more of this page to the first Archive and I have created a second archive for you because the first one is already very long. (See the pretty box at the top of the page). I suggest that you use the second one from now on. When the second one gets too long add this line to the Archive box template [[/Archive 3]]. The save the page, click on the red link to create the new archive and cut and paste from this page. Graham Colm (talk) 17:14, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Is there any limit to how many archives you can have? Immunize (talk) 18:19, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

No limit. I also suggest that you start adding dates to them. You can do this by changing this in the template: [[/Archive 1]] to this : [[/Archive 1|Jan-Mar 2010]] for example. Graham Colm (talk) 18:37, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

PS. This page is now looking very professional. Graham Colm (talk) 18:38, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

question

Hello, can you please tell me, how were you able to get this editor blocked so fast? I'm using Twinkle and when I see multiple vandalism by one editor, especially right in a row, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Do I post to AIV? Is that how you did it?Malke2010 15:09, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Which editor are you referring to? I probably did report the user to AIV, which, using twinkle, can be done by clicking on the "arv" button at the top of the users talk page. Immunize (talk) 15:10, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot the diff: [1]. Thanks for the info on the arv button.Malke2010 15:21, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Palma de mallorca

Hello Immunize. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Palma de mallorca, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: G8 doesn't apply - the target exists; nor does R3. This is a normal, useful redirect. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 10:56, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

YOUR A NERD BUD SITTIN ON A COMPUTER EDITING PEOPLES JOKES. GET A LIFE