User talk:Eubulides

Comment?

Hi there, I'd value your input here. Tim Vickers (talk) 20:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't want an uninvolved opinion, I need you to discuss whether or not MastCell's description of the type and scale of the problems caused by this editor are accurate or not. Since you have direct experience of this and are an editor who's opinion I greatly respect, that makes your input very valuable. More generally, administrators' role in Wikipedia is to support people like you - so please tell me if this editor has caused you any significant difficulty. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Now banned permanently from autism and vaccine-related articles and talkpages. If you spot him drop me a note. Tim Vickers (talk) 22:39, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

see [1] and [2] I'd want a your opinion for the two studies.--TSP (talk) 19:45, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal

Eubulides,see [3] --TSP (talk) 12:26, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

fluoridation

Have added some comments about water fluoridation with a couple references. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:50, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm wondering about some awkward wording: "...or known safe level of independent of cost and feasibility,..." Is there an extra "of" in there? -- Fyslee (talk) 17:48, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

False prophets

Interesting times, eh? :) MastCell ^Talk 17:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Autism Speaks

Does the text really refer to it as a "disease"? [4] Or disorder? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:45, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Video Modeling

This method does exist, but the article needs some work and looks right up your alley. Tim Vickers (talk) 02:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Default network

Thanks for the troubleshooting! --CopperKettle 21:37, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Lung cancer graph

Thanks, Eubulides. I replied on my talk page. Axl ¤ [Talk] 07:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Andrew Wakefield

Thanks for the heads-up on use of the cite template here. I'm a fairly infrequent editor, so I simply based my usage on how it had been used elsewhere in that section. Jay Schlackman (talk) 11:17, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, dear.

I'm sorry - I have trouble with names, and I'm afraid you've just seen one of the consequences of it. One of my friends, Deborah, is, in fact, named Liz, as I learned... two years later. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 01:22, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Water fluoridation FAC

Not much time at the moment.

Like you, I don't understand the request for 2 references for "However, little high-quality fluoridation research has been done". It might be different if you had said "Some researchers believe little of the research is of high quality" and cited only one person's opinion. But you are stating that opinion as authoritative, almost as a fact. So the question becomes: does your source have the authority to make such a claim? From your response, I think you believe it does. Better to cite one good source than lots of crappy ones. Many crappy opinions don't become good opinions :-) Colin°^Talk

Homeopathy

I've never commented about Chiropractic, let alone being in a long discussion with you and I see that you don't allow it. I hope you can do the same for Homeopathy. See points on Talk:Homeopathy by Hans Adler-when Homeopaths aren't allowed to post there, that article can't be NPOV. I hope you can have that POV tag there.—Dr.Alex —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.96.130.219 (talk) 10:29, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

This IP is suspected of being an IPsock of the indef banned User:Dr.Jhingaadey

Comments of Auditory Integration Training edits

I notice that you continue to insist on inserting references to AIT in medical terms while it is not a medical intervention, and should point out that by doing so and by repeatedly posting erroneous details as quoted from sources that were mistaken the effect is to have produced a most misleading, irrelevant article on AIT. I see that when there is a difference of view, a discussion is invited to facilitate consensus. Being new to Wikipedia editing I am not sure how to proceed, but would welcome the opportunity to participate in such an attempt to reach an agreement.Jvanr (talk) 22:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I followed up on Talk:Auditory integration training. Eubulides (talk) 09:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

That article fails to mention AIT wrt Auditory processing disorder#Treatment (in case you have any sources). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Before entering further edits Eubulides should have discussion with me or be willing to enter arbitration regarding attempts to maintain misinformation regarding AITJvanr (talk) 22:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Reply to caution by Eubulides

You warn against reverting entries while doing the very same! We need to enter into dispute resolution over this topic. Jvanr (talk) 07:41, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Having just stumbled onto that page myself, I reviewed your last change there, and I agree with Tim, Sandy and Eubulides that your change has serious problems. The most important of these is that you removed the main finding from a systematic review (PMID 16887860), and replaced with a contrary finding from a website. This is not good science writing. If you want me to invoke some wiki rules, WP:NPOV and WP:MEDRS are against your edits. I suggest you give up because a more formal process won't help you in any way. Xasodfuih (talk) 08:01, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

Hi User:Eubuildes,
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love, I am sure you are familiar with, you know Son-Rise, an Early childhood intervention therapy that was created by parents in the '70s that got their son to completely recover from Autism and the spectrum.
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love is a docudrama about the recovery and was adapted by the book, Son-Rise (now known as Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues).
Their is not to many references supporting the movie, the most reliable references for the film is not informative enough or 100% accurate (e.g. New York Times Film Synopsis said that (from All Media Guide) Raun Kaufman was high-functioning (a lot of other sources about the movie says that to), but it is wrong, he was severe and mentally retarded, even in the movie.
Their is more info from the book, which adapted into the film.
Could I reference a lot from the book, and use it as a reliable source since it has the majority of the information from the movie and is more accurate.
Could you also help me with the book, Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues that I haven't created yet.
Thanx!
ATC (talk) 01:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

PMID 17891121

Could you send the pdf to me? My email address is my username at gmail. Thanks, Xasodfuih (talk) 00:15, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

European vs. industrialized according to Pizzo

Have you read my reply here? Xasodfuih (talk) 11:24, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Southampton and fluoridation

Fluoridation made the news today when Southampton's Primary Care Trust requested the water company to start adding it to the supply. [5]. Expect some more hits. This is appears to be a test case for the rest of England and Wales and is the first development in the UK for 20 years. Colin°^Talk 23:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Fluoride in the water - even if you don't want it. That title doesn't look promising. Xasodfuih (talk) 08:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't get me started on the Daily Mail. Take their "three in four members of the public... opposed it", for example. According to the BBC, it was "72% of 10,000 respondents in a public consultation opposing the plan". That's still a high level of opposition, but those two statements are not equivalent and we have no idea how the questionnaire was presented. It is interesting to read the water company's statement. They are now obliged to add the fluoride. Colin°^Talk 08:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

If that bothers you, then you'd no doubt be driven insane by economic statistics, which report unemployment numbers based on a survey of only 60k for a country with a population of 303 million, and are possibly susceptible to a self-selection bias through excluding cellphones [6]. Compare that to a 10k survey for a city with 1 million. I actually think the coverage is pretty decent -- at least they said what the poll was. II | (t - c) 22:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Luckily for us, those 72% don't edit this wiki, or the article on WF would read like "Well, tooth decay is bad news, but it's hardly the stuff of nightmares. However, fluoride, the medicine he's chosen, may well be." Xasodfuih (talk) 09:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I would really like to know if "a small tube of toothpaste theoretically at least contains enough fluoride to kill a small child". At the end of Zac Goldsmith's WP article, it says "I think the British press has got a lot to answer for generally. I take everything I read with pinch of salt and just assume most of what I read isn’t true." Quite. Colin°^Talk 10:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

It's pretty easy to calculate. My toothpaste has .0024% sodium fluoride. In the 121 grams, that's 290.4 milligrams of sodium fluoride. 45% of that is elemental fluoride, for 130 milligrams of elemental fluoride. Divide that by 16 (a case report says a 3-year old child died from that much per kilogram), and you come up with 8.15 kilograms (18 pounds) - roughly the weight of a small child. II | (t - c) 22:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

• A three-year-old should weigh over 14 kg (31 pounds). 18 pounds is the weight of an 11 month baby.[7]
• The three-year-old is mentioned in PMID 7107087 (can't read the paper) but swallowed NaF tablets. I don't know how they compare to toothpaste in terms of absorption. They say the cause of death isn't certain. My guess is you might excrete some of the toothpaste if you swallowed a whole tube, and the sorbitol would help with that.
• I'm not sure about your maths but don't know your brand of toothpaste. Mine has 1450 ppm F. According to the FAQ of Colgate-Duraphat (a 2800 ppm F prescription toothpaste) their toothpaste has 280mg fluoride per 100g paste. They compare this to normal 1100ppm F toothpaste and their industrial strength 5000ppm F toothpaste with 500mg fluoride per 100g paste (starting to see a pattern here). A child toothpaste contains 500 ppm F.
• So a "small tube" of regular "Colgate" would contain 110 mg of F which might (using that case note) be enough to kill a 7 month baby, but not a "small child". Colin°^Talk 00:41, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Guess who's biography I've just improved. Unfortunately nobody criticized him for saying all that. Xasodfuih (talk) 16:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Bread and milk etc

I added a questionable edit to the fluoridation article about milk being fluoridated. I might be wrong and have no ready source here. The gist of my edit is that many modalities of fluoridation have been implemented (in Europe at least) that partially obviate water fluoridation (fluoridated toothpaste also being a mechanism paralleling water fluoridation). My guess is that these alternative modalities have allowed some countries to contract the fluoridation of public water. This point is relevant because the opposition to fluoridation seems to be under the impression that they are winning some sort of campaign, when in fact they acceptance of fluoridation is even stronger but strategies have diversified. My words lack NPOV in some sense, but I am trying to convey my understanding of the political dynamics that are playing out. I recall that bread, milk, and salt had all been fluoridated in various countries. You are welcome to re-edit my comment about milk, though.

On a separate subject, one could mention iodized salt as another example of "governmentally imposed medication." The analogy is apt because iodide is also a halide, like fluoride. And, like fluoridation, the impact of iodination is not immediately obvious since the problem has a long time constant.

Finally, I am very impressed that you have nurtured this article to the FA level - the topic is furiously debated. The heat was dissipated somewhat by the creation of related articles (several!) where the opposition can vent. One of these days, the water fluoridation and the opposition articles need to be reconciled.--Smokefoot (talk) 15:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Your first two paragraphs would probably be better placed on the talk page. The fluoridation of salt in other countries should not be exaggerated, since nobody says it's the majority and it quite likely isn't. There doesn't seem to be a clear relationship of fluoridated salt countries having lower rates than completely unfluoridated countries (Scandinavian countries, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark). Neither should the iodized salt thing be played up even if it is mentioned by some ill-informed dentists, because the margin of safety with the iodine in iodized salt (50/1?) is orders of magnitude different than the margin of safety with fluoride (4/1?) -- the Japanese are estimated to consume iodine at way higher levels than the rest of the world, with no observed adverse effects (and in fact lower rates of related diseases). Possibly the iodine they get from seaweed and fish is different, but I've never heard of anything saying that. On the bread fluoridation, I imagine it's just a byproduct of fluoridated salt -- like many other things. Saying that bread is actively "fluoridated" sounds misleading. II | (t - c) 22:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. The point about the non-consequences of errors with iodination vs fluoridation are apt. It is interesting however that governments mandate addition of up to three halides to our diets (chlorine not for dietary purposes) but no other elements.--Smokefoot (talk) 23:11, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the iodine in salt is mainly iodate, and it is perhaps different, and possibly more toxic, than the iodine in fish and seaweed. But still, PMID 11396703, a review, notes that that "ocular toxicity in humans has occurred only after exposure to doses of 600 to 1,200 mg per individual". For comparison, the US RDA is 150 micrograms, and Americans consume about a hundred more micrograms than that [8]. There's perhaps more concern about inadequate than toxic doses of iodine. To be fair about the unfluoridated countries, Scandinavian countries are known for their use of cariostatic sugars like xylitol, and Pizzo mentions that Italy has a fair amount of naturally fluoridated water. II | (t - c) 23:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Template:Autism

Could you help me add more media for the template—Template:Autism.
I already added Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love.
As well as a people section.
I want to improve it more like the Template:Topics related to Tourrette syndrome.
Thanx!
ATC ^{. Talk} 23:24, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Water fluoridation

Hi Eubulides. Yes, I've got this one watchlisted. I'll look through after a bit of re-looking on an article I've got up at FAC - Peripitus (Talk) 10:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

thanks for the note - The edits got lost in my overly-long watchlist. Rereading now and will strike/recomment later today (my time). Peripitus (Talk) 03:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

FAC failed

I see the article hasn't been promoted. Oh, well. I encourage you renominate it since most of the concerns of the opposition had been addressed; presumably the FAC director didn't feel like reading through all that to figure it out. I for one felt a bit burned out of reading papers about WF, so I reduced my involvement. Xasodfuih (talk) 20:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't get a chance to return to this one before it got archived. Sorry. Got to Meningitis in time. Let me know when you plan to resubmit and I'll look again. Tough subject this one, but then Autism is no walk in the park. Colin°^Talk 20:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Indeed unfortunate that it didn't pass, and I'm sorry I didn't bother to vote. Definitely has my support if it comes up again. II | (t - c) 06:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Conditions of the mucous membranes

I am working on dermatology content on wikipedia, and through my work have developed a list of roughly 25 conditions of the mucous membranes that need stubs created. I noticed your work with regard to oral pathology, and wanted to know if you would help me create these articles? kilbad (talk) 21:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. It figures the one time in a hundred I try to make a humorous, non-standard vandalism warning is the time the guy just can't give up. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 21:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

High fructose corn syrup

In the part about mercury contamination, what was the parts per million supposed to be?Thanks, Rich (talk) 19:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Asperger image

Merely adding another non-free image of Asperger when the old one is deleted is not only counter-productive, it is bordering on disruptive. The consensus that a non-free image was not justified was clear, and this one is not being used in a different way. If you believe that there was something wrong with the discussion, take it to deletion review. If you believe that the consensus to include an image now exists for whatever reason, take it to the article talk page. J Milburn (talk) 16:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Can we please keep the discussion concise? No one is going to bother responding to the request for third opinion when we have such long posts. Basically, all I'm asking is for an explanation of why the research method needs to be illustrated. To justify the use of a non-free image, it must be imperative that the matter is illustrated. J Milburn (talk) 21:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Fake ATCT website?

A user named User:MarkPhilips has created links to a website at [9] which I have reverted. It seems to be an attempt to spoof the website of the actual Autism Treatment Center, which is at [10]. I have reported him on MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist but I am not sure if they will take action against a website that has only been added by one user, even if it is obviously useless; they may recommend to just watch that user, which is what I am planning to start doing now. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 17:58, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Asperger-Vienna-clinic.jpeg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Asperger-Vienna-clinic.jpeg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. J Milburn (talk) 20:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

listas

There is a category of biography articles without "listas" - this is meant to be used to patrol, clearly nearly all biography articles need a listas, adding it to those which strictly speaking could do without (maybe 2%) will help make maintenance feasible. Rich Farmbrough, 00:45 19 March 2009 (UTC).

What to do with article - Vaccine interference

I have been trying to figure out how to deal with the article Vaccine interference. It is a one paragraph stub about a phenonmenon in vaccine formulation. I am not sure whether the topic merits an entire article, and suspect that it might be best dealt with by merging it into some other article, but I haven't come up with a good place for it. Since you have edited the vaccine articles a fair amount, thought you might have a suggestion of either how to deal with the article (at least someplace where we could introduce a couple of links to it, if not merging it into something), or have ideas where else would be worth posing the question. Thanks. Zodon (talk) 06:43, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for taking this on and dealing with it. I was going to do when I got a round toit, thanks for getting there first. Zodon (talk) 03:12, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

TS articles

Got hold of full text on all the articles, will start reading through them tonight. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Correction, I have everything except Bloch PMID 18627671, in case you're able to get that one. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll have more free time this coming week than I had last week ... will get through those articles this week. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:56, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

It seems that all of New Haven is under construction, and my GPS finally popped a circuit breaker and I gave up trying to get to the Child Study Center; will work on getting the Bloch paper via Plan B. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

My GPS didn't *really* pop a circuit breaker: I did because some ding-bat told me they were on North Frontage Rd, and it turns out it's actually on S. Frontage Rd. All in all, it would be best to do it right, call Jim Leckman and arrange to have lunch anyway ... I'll see what I can do. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi. I just saw your comment to User talk:Sambot and have fixed the bug you found. Many thanks for spotting it! Best wishes, [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 13:26, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Mushrooms and cancer

In the future, lets work together on the Agaricus bisporus page. Feel free to write me whenever... Jatlas (talk) 22:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Homeopathy and overlinking

I just saw your removal of many links at Homeopathy, citing overlinking. I am not sure I agree with that, but perhaps you can convince me. I think that citations in footnotes are a special, technical part of the article that is not really covered by WP:OVERLINKING. As a result of your edit, a reader who is specifically interested in reference number 162 is very unlikely to find out that Wikipedia has an article on the author (linked from reference number 5), and therefore unlikely to find out that Edzard Ernst is the first and only UK Professor of Complementary Medicine. Can you point me to any earlier consensus on related questions? --Hans Adler (talk) 23:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Empathy#Merger_proposal

Did you ever come across mind-blindness outside Baron-Cohen's work? Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Is empathy the best merge target ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:38, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Autism therapies

Hola,

I would have preferred ordering them according to most-to-least proven, but that'd probably be too difficult. But I'm OK with leaving it as is and removing floortime completely. Though as a therapist I'd heard of floortime, is it not worth including at all? WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 12:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Huh. Thus proving once again that my intentions often over-reach my attention and abilities. Thanks Eub, I've no problem with your edits, as usual. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Fair use images

I'm sorry my interpretation of the FU policy disagrees with yours. It is not often we disagree. I used to be a regular at FLC and remember the fireball of frustration and anger when the WP community went for a more restrictive policy against lists having loads of "FU" pictures. Discographies and TV episode lists were shorn of their identifying/decorative images (depending on which side you took).

If you want another opinion, Awadewit (talk · contribs) reviews the images at FAC, so she might be able to help or know someone who can. I have no idea what her opinion would be. Colin°^Talk 22:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Eubulides, please have a look at User_talk:Elcobbola#Asperger. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:32, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Eubulides, under current policy Image:Hans Aspergersmall.jpg has to go due to no copyright information. That this means nearly all non-free images should be immediately sent for AfD doesn't seem to be bothering many people. The whole copyright area on WP is policed by uninformed self-appointed busybodies IMO. I'm all for being strict, and have little sympathy for folk who wish to break or bend the law in this area, but I'd much rather WP had lawyer-backed opinions on this rather than the consensus-of-guesswork we have currently. I think the case for a non-free image at Asperger syndrome is not strong. Of course the article would benefit from it, but the same can be said for much of WP, where we lack the funds to license a decent picture.

You say Image:Asperger-Vienna-clinic.jpeg had copyright information. I didn't get to see that one before it was deleted. If you think you can fully meet all 10 of the FU criteria with that picture, then I suggest it be re-uploaded and used as a replacement only on the Hans Asperger page, where WP:NFCC #8 is clearly satisfied (which was the criterion it was deleted under when used elsewhere). The other images would then be deleted. Before doing this, you should contact Nv8200p (talk · contribs) (the deletion-closing-admin) to check he is happy with this otherwise someone might speedy delete it as "as a recreation of deleted material". Nv8200p may also advise you on whether and to what extent your scan of the image needs to be quality-reduced from the original. If the JPEG you uploaded is fine as it was, I think Nv8200p can undelete it which might be preferable to re-uploading.

Cheers, Colin°^Talk 09:07, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi question if you don't mind

I noticed that you deleted the hyperbaric photo and comments in the Crohn's disease article. Looking at the contributions of this editor here you will see that the editor is putting it in a lot of articles. I reverted the one on the Stroke article because of no citations but didn't on the Lyme disease article because it did have refs. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this since your are more knowledgeable about this kind of thing then I am. Thanks in advance, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:47, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Just to add, I just noticed you have been doing some of the clean up about this, thanks. You do medical articles a lot. Would it be too much to ask of you to do a read of the Crohn's disease article and see if you could improve it? It has improved a lot during my time here with a little bit of editing from me. I try to watch it mostly though for vandalism because of my strong POV about the subject. When I have edited it, I ask for other editors opinions about what I did to keep me NPOV. I would love to see it get to FA but to be honest I am not the person to do it. I would love your opinion or better yet your edits to improve the article which I know needs work. Thanks for listening and if you don't have time or don't have interest that's ok too. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:15, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

My mistake

Heh, the image in your message threw me, I assumed it was XLinkbot upto his usual shenanegans. I've left another message to the user to clarify. Again, sorry about that. – Toon^(talk) 23:33, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Asperger image 2

I replaced the empty image of Asperger in the infobox on Hans Asperger with a placeholder to keep it in line with other psychiatrist's articles where there is no uncopyrighted picture available to use. If this were an article about a less famous person, I would recommend deleting the infobox as it provided no useful information not already in the header and mostly just served to display the image, but I am not well in tune with the standards followed by articles for well-known people such as Asperger. I will watchlist the page now to keep on top of anything new that happens. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 22:03, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The gist of the placeholder image polioy is: use a placeholder image if there is a reasonable chance than an uncopyrighted or NFCC-compliant image can likely be found in the future; or have no image if not. Again, I have no opinion about this whole mess because as much as I've tried to understand the complex rules regarding what images are OK and what images aren't on Wikipedia and Commons I can never really be sure of myself. I'll do what you think is best. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 22:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Pontiac Firebird

Thank you for your feedback. In many of the reverted edits I did (I realize I did too many) I was not adding text rather picture of what the text was describing as entered by another user. Is it alright if someone has an article on a Pontiac Firebird to had a picture of that car?

I thank you again for your input.

Mckeeman (talk) 00:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)Mckeeman

Autism and Unsourced Edits

Well, we at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire put gender bias into Autism, considering the facts that autistic girls or women are treated differently than the autistic males. Autism is part of our class project and very focus at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Recognizing the fact school related IPs are sometimes used to vandalize, how must whosoever uses the College IP avoid vandalism? 12.227.185.235 (talk) 07:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, Eubulides

Sorry about that, Eubulides. Thanks for informing us. Please guide us about finding real Wikipedia sources and that way, Autism will be a better and a proper article. We are looking at WP:MEDRS now, so that official sources can be cited. We students attending UWEC got alarmed when the notice began popping up saying that www.autism-education.suite101.com had been blacklisted. We will not use that web area again for sources around the Wikipedia. We promise to retrieve autism information that is better trusted and reliable. 12.227.185.235 (talk) 19:52, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Does this really need an endash? The majority of non-Wikipedia sources either use a normal dash ("-") or nothing at all. Perhaps even a move to plain old "obsessive compulsive disorder" is needed? Sillyfolkboy (talk) 17:46, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Sounds fair enough to me! I only mentioned it on the talk page as an issue to raise. Personally I think it's not too important how we do it. As long as he have some sort of consistency through articles (e.g. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is currently located at the article space without the endash, even though the article begins this way). Good luck with sorting things out. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 19:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Neurotypical

• I have reverted your cut/paste move of my section as it seemed that this did not fully respect my authorship, per the WP:GFDL, and I feel that the location of this material requires some discussion. The Neurotypical article seems lacking in content and the material I added seems relevant there in that it touches on the essential ways in which people may be neurotypical or not or may change between such states. I shall be sleeping soon and working tomorrow so may not be able to follow this up immediately but shall be watching these articles now. As background, note that there's an AFD which touches on this - Neurotypicalism - and this coincided with a series of related articles which I used as a source. Colonel Warden (talk) 22:48, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Opinion request

Because of the currrent worries about swine flu, I'd appreciate your opinion on an edit. The paragraph below was deleted by an editor from Swine flu#Background with the comment, "removed wrong info about swine flu being "descendant" of 1918 Spanish flu. Too important now to spread this wrong info." I've written the editor questioning any other reasons for his removal besides factual, since all the facts stated are from valid sources (I even have more recent sources that aren't listed.) Assuming that all the facts are correct, does this paragraph seem problematic for any reason? I haven't received a response from the editor but still hesitate in restoring this because of the sensitivity of the topic. Your comments would be appreciated. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 08:14, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

The swine flu is a descendant of the infamous "Spanish flu" that caused a devastating pandemic in humans in 1918-1919. In less than a year, that pandemic killed more than 500,000 Americans and some 20 million people worldwide - the greatest number ever killed in so short a period by any natural or man-made catastrophe. It also killed and sickened large numbers of hogs. Within a decade, the disease stopped circulating among humans, but it has infected swine ever since. Although hogs had initially caught the virus from humans, it has undergone slight changes over the years, emerging occasionally to infect individuals who work closely with pigs. However, there have only been 12 cases in the U.S. since 2005 in which humans caught swine flu after being in contact with pigs and there is currently no requirement that pigs be vaccinated against swine flu.

(note: the bold sentence was not deleted)

Nice edit. Thanks for reviewing and changing.--Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 17:40, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

New autism study

Does this tell us anything that isnt already in the autism articles? --- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 13:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Prayer rug

Can we forcibly sysop you? Joking, of course, but seriously I am regularly impressed by the effort and skill you bring to this project. - 2/0 (formerly Eldereft) (cont.) 18:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Already tried it. Eubulides declined on the grounds that being an admin didn't look very enjoyable. Where could he have gotten that idea? :) MastCell ^Talk 19:04, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

I have not the foggiest. - 2/0 (formerly Eldereft) (cont.) 20:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Bug in welcome template's use of REVISIONUSER

Hello, Eubulides. You have new messages at Chzz's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

 Chzz  ►  08:47, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

You removed the section on the history of cigar

3 months is a short time for a fact tag to last. And my comment on the talk page was not that there was any doubt that Mayan's smoked cigars - in fact, the word itself probably comes from Mayan, see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cigar - but just laughing at the idea that their cigars were somehow more "primitive" than a product which is still generally made by hand to this day. While matters of taste and presentation may have changed, there can be little doubt that Mayans were capable of making a high-quality cigar, and in fact really nothing about the post-classic Mayan culture (the time perios in question) fits the definition of "primitive". Homunq (talk) 16:12, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

You already commented in Talk:Cigar. Let's discuss there. Homunq (talk) 16:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Generation Rescue

I want to know what you think of this edit. I've been more or less holding down any edits to that article that look likely to be from Generation Rescue itself, but this one is a previously uninvolved editor who made just a minor change to a sentence whose source goes to an article I dont have access to. Hopefully you can offer an opinion. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 17:40, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Heads up

Just noting I've left a message on your Commons talk page. Cheers :) Orderinchaos 12:19, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Autism therapies

Dear User:Eubuildes,
Floortime/ DIR is deleted from Autism therapies, but that dosn't make sense since it is a therapy—a very known one actually.
I would suggest adding it back as it is important to list it, just as any other Early intervention therapy.
ATC ^{. Talk} 21:49, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Autism

Watch this video, it is interesting. [11]

With this new therapy you can cure the autism definitively? You can lose the diagnosis and the symptons definitively ? --green island (talk) 13:22, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thomas the Tank Engine

I can't recall in what article this was raised, but I do seem to recall it being based on an unscientific NAS report, unclear if this media report is just parroting. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:58, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah yes, NAS, "the exclusive charity partner of Thomas and Friends" (that was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas the tank engine and autism). The Australian group's recent press release announcing a partnership with the Thomas guys evidences the same issues: "We also look forward to releasing the Australian survey findings about the important role Thomas & Friends plays in the early learning and development of children with autism". Maralia (talk) 17:30, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm slipping :) Maralia, you don't miss a thing!! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:05, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

It was fresh in my memory because it's the only redlink I still keep on my watchlist. Fake science for marketing purposes really gets my goat. Maralia (talk) 18:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Read the book "Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies. Create a survey to produce a story to create news to get publicity... It really don't matter if it is rubbish, the press don't have the time to check so just lap it up and regurgitate it. Colin°^Talk 18:26, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Is this in reference to Thomas and Friends #Popularity with autistic audience? If so, I see the point: that section is alarmingly POV in favor of the Thomas-for-autism theory. I'll see if I can find a bit of time to clean that up. Eubulides (talk) 19:01, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

No science there, but expect resistance :) It's so unfortunate that so few (desperate) consumers understand how useless that information is, and how to sort good from bad science. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:30, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

PS, a good example of the problems with the popular media here for MEDRS. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:37, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Consensus sought

There is a new consensus question posted at WT:PHARM:CAT, and, if available, your comments would be greatly appreciated! ---kilbad (talk) 13:03, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Neuroconstructivism

Thanks for asking. i have not redone this essay. unfortunately, its looking like i might not get to it (its not really my area of expertise anyway). feel free to work on it. if i do return to it ill check with you first. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 20:59, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Water fluoridation

Congratulations! Colin°^Talk 23:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Please consider getting involved with Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Tobacco

You seem to have an interest in the topic, and I think it is broad enough to merit a Wikiproject. Let me know if you're interested, and perhaps if you know anyone else who would be. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Laugh

Yes, I shoulda fixed that one :) Was in a hurry to undo the other things! [12] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Infobox Writer

I noticed your comment at Template talk:Infobox Writer. If you are asking an admin to edit the template, I think you need to put {{editprotected}} just under the heading. Johnuniq (talk) 01:42, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Osteosarcoma

Just wanted to say that I saw your recent work at Osteosarcoma#Causes, and I really appreciate it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:28, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Using the sources wording and plagiarism

Hey Eubulides, this is a courtesy notice that I mentioned you at an ANI thread (Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#ChildOfMidnight) in a not exactly flattering light (sorry) over the use of wording which closely matches the source and original research accusations when the the editors' summarization wording diverges. Hope you don't take it personally. II | (t - c) 20:10, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Clark1974.svg

It looks great in both Firefox and the common versions of IE. Thank you again. --RexxS (talk) 16:28, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

List of skin-related conditions nominated as featured list candidate

I have continued to work on the list of skin-related conditions, and recently nominated it for FL status. If available, your comments would be greatly appreciated at the nomination page. Regardless, thank you again for your work on wikipedia. ---kilbad (talk) 06:32, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

teaser

Your comment is rather mysterious. Can you expand on the nature of the "POV", as you see it? --JWSchmidt (talk) 16:05, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

You might both be interested in this discussion. Hans Adler 17:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Hans, that's very interesting! It appears that CZ can learn from WP. -- Brangifer (talk) 02:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Oxygen toxicity FAC

Thanks again for all your constructive criticism and editorial assistance on Oxygen toxicity. I can see you are busy, but can I give you a gentle nudge to look again at the article and my responses at Talk:Oxygen toxicity, when you have time, please? --RexxS (talk) 23:09, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

More thanks for all the time you spent on the citations today. I do have a few issues that I've enumerated at Talk:Oxygen toxicity#Citation format issues. Looking at them now, I must seem very ungrateful, which is far from the truth. I really do appreciate the help you've given. --RexxS (talk) 18:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I've reverted the consolidation of refs to Donald. Did you change your mind about the discussion on Materialscientist's comments in WP:Featured article candidates/Oxygen toxicity/archive1? Cheers --RexxS (talk) 18:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Both Gene and I can see the full text by following the link at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2004/00000075/00000011/art00011 - discussion on my talk page. --RexxS (talk) 22:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but I found another problem: {{cite manual}} doesn't support the |ref= parameter, so the {{harvnb}} links in "References" for USN Dive Manual don't work. I've made a workaround using {{cite book}} and replacing |version= with |series= but it's less than ideal. As you are much more familiar with templates, do you know if it's possible to get the {{cite manual}} template fixed, so it supports the |ref= parameter and we could then use the proper template for the cite?

Thanks for fixing that. I've had a look at the code of the template and I can see what needed to be done, so it's something I'll be able to fix myself in future. I've updated the documentation for the template to reflect the change. --RexxS (talk) 14:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Woodstock

Has the photo that you added to Woodstock been used commonly? I've never seen it before, so I'm curious :-) Nyttend (talk) 15:52, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Second look

Would you mind doing a second run through of the list of skin-related conditions to make sure I have correctly used the different types of dashes? I think I have fixed most/all of them, but would appreciate another check by you. Regardless, thanks again for your help! ---kilbad (talk) 06:22, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I also replied to you on the list's talk page. ---kilbad (talk) 06:57, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Battle of Bosworth Field: alt for images

Hi, thank you for adding alt text to the lead image for this article. I had missed it as I was looking for an "alt" parameter in the Infobox ("too intent on looking for a rabbit, the hawk failed to spot the mouse in the field"). The other images do have alt text. However, those using the {{multiple image}} template cannot use alt text, an issue which I have previously raised at Template talk:Multiple image#ALT text but never got any resolution. Jappalang (talk) 01:06, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Scratch that. I just found out a way to give alt text for the {{multiple image}}; however, the pop-up tooltip still yields a {{{box_caption}}} text. If it is not much of a bother, could you run through my alt texts in the article and refine them? I fear that I may have been a bit explicit (long) in them. Thank you. Jappalang (talk) 01:28, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text

Thanks for your detailed explanation at the skin conditions FLC, as well at FAC, about the importance of alt text. I've gone down the FLC list, calling for the addition of alt text, for which I'll probably get a few puzzled or annoyed looks. I tried my hand and adding some, and it's harder than it looks! Dabomb87 (talk) 02:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

List of Medal of Honor recipients

Thanks for adding the alt text to the Medal of Honor recipients list. I added it to the Iwo Jima list also. I wanted to give you a heads up that I intend to modify your comment slightly from "shows a guy" or the like to "shows [name of the individual]" to be a bit more descriptive. I also left another comment on the alt text comment regarding describing military ribbons, medals and ranks ( and as I think about it I should have mentioned unit patches and insignia as well). Since some of these ribbons, etc are displayed on hundreds or thousands of pages the alt text should be consistant. I am going to use AWB to do some as in the case of the Medal of Honor image that commonly accompany portraits in MOH recipient infoboxes. Please let me know what you think.--Kumioko (talk) 18:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

ALT and Template:Annotated image

Instances of Template:Annotated image such as Template:Annotated image/Extinction‎ do not need their own ALT text support , they will get it from the parent Template:Annotated image template. -Philcha (talk) 22:03, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

List of cutaneous conditions

I have been working to improve the alt text found in the list of cutaneous conditions, and have expanded the alt tags for a little over half of the images. With that being said, I wanted to know if you would be willing to review the alt tags I have worked on, and help me finish with the rest? Regardless, thank you for your help in the past. ---kilbad (talk) 23:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I have finished adding all the alt tags. How do they look now? ---kilbad (talk) 21:34, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Question

It has been a pleasure working with you this past week or so on that FL nomination. Would you ever consider joining the dermatology task force? There are a couple of goals we could definitely use some help with. Regardless, thanks again! ---kilbad (talk) 01:13, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox artist discography

Do you know how to add alt text to a picture in an infobox? Dabomb87 (talk) 22:59, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

(Excuse me butting in:) Yes, you can now use an |Alt= parameter. I modified the template, but I can't guarantee it won't be reverted. Did you want alt text for the logo if it's used instead? --RexxS (talk) 00:17, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks. To your question, yes, if you can do it. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I can do it, but looking a little deeper, I've noticed discussion at the talk page for the template about logos. At present, the template is set to use the |Artist= parameter as the alt text for a logo, which seems to be what we would set it to anyway (a screen-reader should probably translate a logo as the artist's name - even for Prince). I've asked the question on the template talk page, so if you think that alt text (other than the artist's name) should be available, perhaps it ought to be discussed there? --RexxS (talk) 01:58, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

OK. I don't think it's a big deal, and doesn't need to be addressed unless the need arises. Thanks for your help. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:07, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text request

Hi there,

I have it on the highest authority that you were the harbinger of doom led the push to make alt text a guideline (and requirement for FAC!). If it's not too much trouble, could you have a look at linezolid and review my rather feeble attempts at adding alt text for the article's images? Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 22:32, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I was very impressed by your source review of Benzodiazepine during FAC; it "inspired" me to pay closer attention to WP:MEDRS (stick to reviews, RCTs, and clinical guidelines whenever possible; qualify low-quality evidence when used in the text, etc.) If you have any suggestions in this area, I would greatly appreciate them as well :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 22:37, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

FAC

About this, please check the history and see that I haven't touched the images. As you can see, I would rather not fight over it, so it is out of my control. Ottava Rima (talk) 14:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I preferred the black and white image, but I'm tired of fights about images. Regardless, because of the NPG controversy the images might be removed from public domain status. Someone already tagged them with the NPG legal challenge. Frustrating. Perhaps they need a free-use rationale. I don't know. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:24, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm more worried about controversies with other users than the BNG. :) Ottava Rima (talk) 16:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

PANDAS

Eubulides, Tim Vickers is currently at work over there; would you have time to read the latest entries on talk, and keep an eye on it as well? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the excellent work there ! When a misleading article affects children's health, it matters !! Would you have the time to add alt text to the images on Tourette syndrome, since you're the expert? Thanks for all you do, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:38, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

alt text

Thanks for the alt text addition. J. D. Redding 15:51, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text

Hi Eubulides - I've got Charles Stewart (Canadian politician) up at FAC right now and, while I have added alt text to the images, I don't think I did an especially good job of it. If you have a chance, could you look it over and maybe make some improvements, so as to show me how it's done for the dozens and dozens of FAs I shall no doubt write in the future? Steve Smith (talk) (formerly Sarcasticidealist) 17:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox film

Hello, I was wondering if you could clarify at Template talk:Infobox film why alternate text is needed for the identifying image in the infobox? I'm not clear what extensive the expectations for the text are since the image is disjointed from the article body. —Erik (talk • contrib) 20:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up; I responded there. Eubulides (talk) 23:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

alt text for flag templates

Hello Eubulides, I'm glad you are looking at flag templates with respect to accessibility! I'd like your opinion on some specific examples. Once the link= addition was made to MediaWiki image syntax, I used it for {{flagicon}} so that the icon links to a more useful page than the image page itself. My rationale is that flagicon should be used for standalone icons—implying that there should be some useful link for the image—with {{flag}} used for icons attached to wikilinks. (And for this reason, I often replace constructs like {{flagicon|Country}} [[Country]] with {{flag|Country}} in my editing.) But with your experience with alt attributes, screen readers, etc., is that also a problem? Similarly, we have a set of templates for national sports teams (e.g. {{fb|Brazil}} → Brazil). You'll see that the wikilink points to Brazil national football team, but the icon links to Brazil. That gives the "normal" reader two useful links, but is that a problem for accessibility? Should the link be turned off for all flagicon templates? Thanks for your thoughts — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:34, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Senedd

Thank you for your edit you made to the article. Seth Whales (talk) 19:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Edit request

Could you confirm which version (Template talk:Infobox officeholder) you want installed? I noticed that there were some edits after the initial proposed edit. Thanks! Plastikspork (talk) 03:18, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

The same goes for Template talk:Infobox settlement. I just want to make sure we get it right. Thanks. Plastikspork (talk) 03:20, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry the request wasn't clear in Template talk:Infobox officeholder #Alt text. I tried to fix things by striking out the obsolete version of the proposed patch, and reformatting the current version for clarity. Eubulides (talk) 04:49, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

As for Template talk:Infobox settlement #Add support for alt text, I did not examine Locos epraix's further changes in detail and am not proposing them. All I verified was that his changes did not lose my changes. It's fine with me if you install either version, though I expect you'll want to verify Locos epraix's changes yourself (since Locos epraix has not officially requested them). Eubulides (talk) 04:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done × 2, but I did not merge Locos epraix's changes as it was not clear what it was meant to accomplish. Let me know if I made any mistakes. Thanks! Plastikspork (talk) 05:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

ALT in Ring in 48

Is it needed when the caption already explains what each of the lines mean anyway? YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 03:30, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

The Lucy poems and alt text

Thanks so much for improving the alt text at The Lucy poems. I do want to ask about the removal of all details concerning the media - I'm not convinced that this is a good idea. These details help provide keys to the art underlying the image. I guess I'm confused about why it is unimportant that an image is a photograph, painting, or drawing. These details are crucial to visualizing the image, in my view, but perhaps I don't really understand the function of alt text. If you could explain, I would appreciate it. Awadewit (talk) 18:14, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text check

Hello. I was told you are an expert in alternative text, so I was wondering if you could take a look at List of Olympic medalists in figure skating, currently under FLC review, and see if my effort in introducing alternative text for the list's images paid off or not. I've never did this and, having read WP:ALT, it doesn't seem an easy task to drift away from caption duplication. Thanks in advance. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:42, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank YOU very much, for taking the time to help. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:20, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

List of national parks of Sweden

Hey Eubulides, can you take a look at the discussion here and provide me with an example alt text for one of the images in the article? Thanks, Theleftorium 17:02, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

That you for you corrections. I'll try to get the other ones done and then I'll get back to you. :) Theleftorium 22:13, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Timeline of Macintosh models/archive1

There's a discussion over whether the pictures used in the above article are decorative; could you clarify whether this is true? Dabomb87 (talk) 20:58, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:17, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text stuff

Hi. I'm a bit confused at your comments here. Could you please clarify if you get a chance? Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Inauguration of Barack Obama FAC3

I am glad to have resolved your WP:ALT text issues. Do you have other concerns or considerations? Have you thought about formally supporting the article's FAC candidacy?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Do you comment at WP:FAR, WP:GAR. You also might want to talk to the people that run the automated peer review and ask the bot to tell people to add alt text.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

The GAR workflow is not that high. At most 10 articles a month I believe. You might be able to add that too.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Barack Obama

Do you approve the WP:ALT at Barack Obama?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Michelle Obama Alt text

Please check the Michelle Obama WP:ALT text.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:57, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Fight Club

Hello, regarding alternative text at Fight Club (film), an editor said that alternative text for the poster image was cutting off. Is there a word limit for the alternative text, particularly within the infobox? —Erik (talk • contrib) 15:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the revision! Did you see the same problem as Giants2008, and is it fixed now? —Erik (talk • contrib) 16:08, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text and the main page

You might want to keep tabs on Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests, reminding nominators to add alt text to the images accompanying the blurbs. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 19:22, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, can you comment here on how to improve the alt text? You're much better at explaining it than I am. Thanks for everything you've done; I admire your ability to stay calm and not get frustrated with all the explaining/fixing you've had to do over this issue. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Howie Morenz FAC

Thanks for giving the comment on the nomination. I was unaware of WP:ALT until you brought it up, so the images on Howie Morenz were my first attempts at creating alt-text. My biggest concern though is that since most of the images involved describing an ice hockey player, it may need a more thorough description. I'd like to know what you think that would be necessary, or any other comments regarding the article. Kaiser matias (talk) 21:22, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Again, thanks for taking the time to go over the article. I made the changes you suggested, though the lead/infobox image may still need some work. Because its imbedded in the infobox, I tried something that should work. Hopefully it works out. Kaiser matias (talk) 02:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Maps

Yes, I think a map or two in the example list would be good ... maybe a painting too and/or a coin/seal. Would help me anyway. :) Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 00:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Australia at the Winter Olympics FAR ALT

The flag seems to be transcluded through some recrusive template. Can you sort that out for me? thanks YellowMonkey (cricket photo poll!) paid editing=POV 07:45, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Sensory integration therapy

Hola,

Were you aware of this article? Needs some TLC, thought you might be interested. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 11:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, my. Just isn't enough time anymore. Just saw the mess at scrupulosity (following up on all those latest OCD editors and changes), and I just don't have time anymore to work on these. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:06, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text work

Mmm, universal access

Thank you for doing so much work to make the alt text thing happen smoothly and effectively. I admit that at first I thought: "This is so much work for something which most people will never even interact with." But it's obviously an important step for us to take as a resource used by many people using many different readers. So cheers to you — have a donut. Scartol • Tok 15:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Adminship

When ? (I have never been able to figure out a move over redirect.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:40, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

En dash

I ran into trouble at Obsessive–compulsive spectrum, partially because I didn't realize that the dash my computer produces when I hit the dash key is a hyphen, not an en dash. Is this normal? What are alternate ways that one can produce an en dash? Thanks; Whatever404 (talk) 19:04, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of districts of Sri Lanka/archive1

I'm not sure how one would go about adding good alt text to all the maps; suggestions? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 02:55, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

International Space Station alt texts.

Hi there, I'd just like to ask you for your opinion on how the ISS alt texts are coming along; I think I've got some for all the images except those in the modules table (which are pending) and the .ogg (for which I have no idea what to write). How do you think it's looking? Colds7ream (talk) 13:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Front page CNN

Hi, Eubulides! Brad Cohen and TS were on CNN's main page this morning:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/27/tourette.camp/index.html

Do you have Cohen watchlisted? I'm going to be out most of today and tomorrow, so I was hoping to interest you in keeping an eye on the articles. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:26, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

(And I can't find that tool that checks hits on those pages ... ) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:28, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

You might want to add it to your user page, Sandy ;) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:32, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Fv! Will do when/if I get a free moment ... unless someone else does it for me first :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Wow ! [13] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:54, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Proofs involving the totient function

It keeps on being reset to the inferior version, what to do? Zahlentheorie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.228.153.82 (talk) 14:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

FLC

I've made some changes to List of districts of Sri Lanka as you suggested here. I believe that issue has been addressed now, but there's a new problem. I'd appreciate it if you could give your views on that. ≈ Chamal ^talk 06:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 1977 Pacific hurricane season/archive1

Hey, if you get a chance, could you assist the nominator of this FLC with the alt text issues? Cheers. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:43, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Canadian Federation of Chiropractic Regulatory and Educational Accrediting Boards

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Canadian Federation of Chiropractic Regulatory and Educational Accrediting Boards. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canadian Federation of Chiropractic Regulatory and Educational Accrediting Boards. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:07, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Clickable picture

Hi, I understand your point that purely decorative images don't need to be clickable. On WP:ALT, they give the example of an icon, which indeed doesn't have to be clickable. However, in the case of the California Seal, personally I wanted to see the details of it but couldn't click on it, so I had to open the page in edit mode, copy the name of the picture and go look for it on Commons. That's a lot of efforts just to be able to view a picture. In general, should we really decide for the readers whether they should or shouldn't be able to click on pictures? What proof do we have that usabiliy is actually improved (and not the opposite) by doing so? Laurent (talk) 16:23, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The Rain Before It Falls

I was just reading a review of this a few hours ago and was pleasantly reminded of WP:ALT :) Curious as to whether you've read it. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 19:20, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

No, I wasn't aware of it. Thanks for the pointer. I guess we'll have to craft alt text carefully for any images we add to that article . Eubulides (talk) 20:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Alt text for a map?

See Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Los Angeles County Metro Rail stations/archive1. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:08, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thank you for all the help you have been providing around FAC and FAR for adding alt text to images. Your examples have been illustrative and you have been patient with editors struggling to learn something new. Wikipedia is better as a result of your efforts! Awadewit (talk) 23:55, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

HMS Endeavour alt texts

Thanks for your help with alt texts for HMS Endeavour at its FAC. Just FYI, since your comments I've replaced two of the images in the article - the lead image in the infobox and the one associated with the shipwreck. I think I've got the new alt texts right but thought I'd let you know as the replacements and their alt text descriptions were added since your review. Euryalus (talk) 23:56, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Done, and thanks for the tip. Euryalus (talk) 00:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

alt= template bug

Hello, it seems you were the last to Template:Infobox Organization and there now seems to be a bug with it where the text "alt=" shows up below the picture and above the rest of the info in many of the pages using this template. I don't know enough about wiki coding to tell if your edit caused this or not but I hope you will will look into the issue and be able to correct it. Check the what links here page on that template to find examples such as American Civil Liberties Union, Association for Computing Machinery, and Community Emergency Response Team. Maybe it has something to do with these pages not specifying any alt option for the infobox transclusion. Cheers. 216.68.56.218 (talk) 01:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

--bug fixed, but have I found another?--

Hi again, thanks for the very quick work in fixing the bug, but it looks like I may be seeing another now. For some reason I'm not seeing the alt text you put in Association for Computing Machinery when mousing over the logo. The HTML when I view page source looks like this: <img alt=""acm" in blue circle with gray rim, surrounded by blue diamond" src="http:/upwiki/wikipedia/en/4/4e/ACM_4C_vector_80.png" width="80" height="80" /> I don'te see any obvious problems with the way that img tag is being composed but nonetheless, I see "ACM_4C_vector_80.png" when hovering the mouse over the picture instead of the descriptive text you added. I've checked with IE 6 and Chrome 2.0 so I'm not sure what is going on there. 216.68.56.218 (talk) 01:52, 3 August 2009 (UTC)