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Third talk page
Just archived. Welcome to my third talk page. -- Fyslee 07:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Reply to Mccready's email
See my response to Mccready's unblock request by email. [1] Hope this helps since nothing else has so far. Take care, FloNight 22:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Your edits to hernia
Thanks for your edits to hernia. Great Spinal disc herniation article, however instead of redirecting to it like you did, I think it's best to propose a merger. After all the information is completely moved, you may replace the original articles by a redirect, and check for double redirects.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Steven. I'd appreciate any advise and help you can provide. I'm sure there's a proper way to delete the two articles that are now obsolete, and leave redirects there. What is the proper procedure? Should I request that they be deleted (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)? I'll take a look there now. -- Fyslee 19:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Changing language varients
Hi there,
I've noticed that you've made a few changes ([2], [3], [4], and about 20 further ones) of spelling of the word "libellous" to "libelous" in some articles (i.e., from British English to American English); I'm sorry to say that this is actually a prohibited activity (because it's of very little worth to the project, and often kick-starts wars over which language varient is "better"). I have seen your comment that:
- Since Wikipedia has such a great impact on knowledge and spelling, we should attempt to make sure we do things in the best, and in this case the most common, manner. Erroneous (or less preferable) spellings or misleading expressions should be corrected and pointed out throughout Wikipedia, not treated as if they are inconsequential [5]
... but sadly you are not backed-up by (very long-standing) policy.
I have taken the trouble of undoing your actions.
Yours,
James F. (talk) 10:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your concern. I only later discovered that I had apparently changed some British-related articles, which was wrong according to Wikipedia policy. The other changes were appropriate and shouldn't be reverted. -- Fyslee 10:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Spondylolisthesis
Hi there; I must apologise for not replying earlier to your comments made on the article's talk page. I am ashamed to say that I only just found them.
"Centrum" was correct usage in the UK for the vertebral body when I trained, which was in the 1960s. If you tell me that the term is now archaic I will not contest the point!
I am not certain that your statement that spondylolisthesis can cause spinal stenosis is correct. Cauda equina syndrome, certainly. But spinal stenosis is most common in the cervical spine, where spondylolisthesis is almost unknown. Granted that spondylolisthesis at T12-L1 or L1-L2 may compress the lowest part of the spinal cord just above the cauda equina (although the preceding nerve root pressure will cause most sufferers to seek medical help at an earlier stage), I have not previously seen this type of compression described as spinal stenosis.--Anthony.bradbury 11:19, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- You may be correct, but I'm not sure. I'll have to admit that the most common ___location I've heard of was lumbar, but it certainly can happen in the cervical spine. (That's just my experience.) The queen of Denmark was operated a couple years ago for lumbar spinal stenosis caused by osteoarthritis.
- In the lumbar spine one could sometimes describe it as a cauda equina syndrome, but that would be a very specific set of symptoms, and not just the usual non-vascular claudication symptoms common to spinal stenosis. (There's a good chance I have it, and I'm in the middle of a series of tests to make a certain diagnosis. Already had a non-functional MR scan, which was inconclusive. They should have saved time and done a functional one.)
- Maybe the devil is in the details:
- If spinal stenosis refers to a diminishment of the size of the spinal canal, regardless of cause, and cauda equina syndrome refers to a specific set of symptoms caused by pressure on the cauda equina, regardless of cause, then a spinal stenosis could cause cauda equina syndrome, but not all cauda equina syndromes are caused by spinal stenosis, and not all lumbar spinal stenosis causes cauda equina syndrome. (Does that make any sense to you? I'm dizzy!)
- I've done a quick Google search:
- The article needs much more information. I have been busy with the chiropractic articles, which is an area I enjoy. Quackery is a special interest of mine. -- Fyslee 12:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree to the edit counter opt-in terms
dear Fyslee ! I am german and I make sometimes edits in en-wp in germany/medicine-related articles. (see Ehrenfried Pfeiffer Günther Enderlein, my last edits here) Unfortunately, my English is not the best. Saw your edits in the Clark-article. I was looking a long time for background info and references to that woman and her claims, and I added some stuff to our german article.
See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulda_Clark
She has some limited popularity also over here, at least in some particular circles, where chemtrails, colloidal silver, conspiracy theories and Ryke Geerd Hamers new germanic medicine are accepted. (often with a particlar political orientation). What I want to tell you: the concepts of Clark are much stranger and pseudoscientific than reported in the actual article here. So I would like to add some statements if her into the claims-part of the article.
- in her book "The Cure For All Cancers" she postulates that all types of cancers are caused by flatworm Fasciolopsis Buski (see Fasciolopsiasis). The problem is however that F.Buski is unknown in USA or Europe for instance. F.Buski is a danger in India, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, and some other smaller countries, and there only in rural areas where people are eating not-boiled food from water plants or where pigs live close to men. But why should we Europeans or Americans get cancer then ? And she claims to be able to cure 95% of all cancer cases.
- HIV: she says: ,,I find it (=F.Buski) in every case of HIV, Alzheimer's disease.....Without this parasite you can't get the HIV virus...in her opinion HIV is a worm's virus.
- Depression is caused by hookworms: ....All persons I have seen with clinical depression had small roundworms in the brain. (she is talking about hookworms here)
I will try to add some of her claims into this article, can you please check for spelling errors and an evenual non neutral point of view according to en-wp rules ? regards, michael Redecke 12:52, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Michael,
- It would be great if you added to the article. You are correct about her wild claims. This article is very tame, and it needs to include her wildest claims. I know quite a bit about her, and have been sued by her, along with a lot of other people, but when it was time for the trial, she dropped the charges. They were bogus charges without any relation to reality, but just created to irritate us. You can read the cross-complaint here. -- Fyslee 17:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- I will take a closer look to that link tomorrow. btw: the resposible for european clark-business is german speaking david amrein, a scientologist. [6] [7] [8] I think he lives in switzerland where the clark-zapper is not allowed. If you have anything new about Hulda to add to our de-wp, do not hesitate to send me a message. you can reach me on de-wp under the same username.
- CU ! michael Redecke 22:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Up Late?
Wow, You must be up late... I never see you this time of night! Can't sleep? --Dematt 04:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- Nope, up early! It's 6 AM here. I see that a certain editor who likes to speak of "hate" and "bigotry" is still trying to suppress reality about POV he doesn't like. Your new section may be a good solution. His continued effort to move the "Advocacy" heading is a transparent effort to make the "Critiques" section look larger, while his "duh!" comment is a recognition that chiropractic organizations are (of course) advocacy organizations, and thus they belong under that heading. He's pretty transparent in his sneakiness! -- Fyslee 05:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- What a way to start your day! I guess I'm not normally up this late - It's Labor Day over here (yeah) I'm taking the day off, but it looks like I'm going to sleep it off if I don't go to bed!
- I would like to see some articles that have something nice to say about chiropractic at the bottom. Not the usual "selling blah" or testimonials, just something that may defend some of the contoversial issues in a scholarly way. --Dematt 05:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)