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ANI notice - Malcolm Kendrick

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Malcolm Kendrick canvassing. Nil Einne (talk) 07:32, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi User:Pirate hamster,

A couple of things:

1. I've removed the thread that was bothering you. The template was incorrect, and should not have been posted here. Per my understanding of the ANI thread, you're fine with removal of the entire thread.
2. The warning still shows in your page history, but it will be clear to everyone that the warning was inappropriate and should be ignored.
3. Your attempts to ping other people aren't working because you're using the "nowiki" tags. If you remove those, it should work fine. If needed I can explain what those are for, but ... baby steps, right?
4. Let me know here if you have questions.

--Floquenbeam (talk) 20:40, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

My profound thanks, User:Floquenbeam - I had visions of me still arguing over this in my dotage. I also appreciate the note you left on the edit history clarifying the error. And finally, a thousand thanks for explaining my formatting issue with names. Softlavender was getting more and more cross with me, and despite continuing hard work on her part, I missed the point repeatedly due to reading the markup as it appeared in the edit window rather than on the page itself. To quote an intellectual giant similar to myself - doh! Your kindly efforts here have lowered my stress levels considerably - please consider yourself as having done your good deed for the day. My sincere thanks once more. Pirate hamster (talk) 22:08, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

You are not the first to be confused by nowiki. Like I tried to explain it in this [1] thread, "We´re getting there. Remove the "nowiki" bits you don´t actually see on the saved talkpage. They are just code that prevent the outdent code from actually working as code. Simple, huh?" It's a challenge for all involved. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:23, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh, you are not wrong User:Gråbergs Gråa Sång. I'm not great with markup at the best of times but I thought I had a firmish grasp of it from years of workaday computing. Oh ha ha. I think I spent the first five days I was working on the talk page discussion staring at the markup and mutteiring darkly, "Yes, but what the hell do you do." I only just realised italics are done in the good old-fashioned way. I think I spent 2 days alone on that, trying to figure out the special code that Wikipedia doubtless had.... Pirate hamster (talk) 21:14, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

If you haven't found Help:Cheatsheet yet it may be helpful. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:19, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Famotidine: PPI or H2?

The article and some sources mention it being a PPI multiple times. Can it possibly be both? I am not a pharmacologist.--Quisqualis (talk) 01:30, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

No, as far as I know it is just an H2 blocker. They work in quite different ways. A PPI works by turnng off the Proton Pumps in the stomach. An H2 blocker works by "countering the effect of histamine (which stimulates gastric acid), thereby decreasing the amount of acid that the stomach produces. They act directly on the stomach's acid-secreting cells to stop them from making hydrochloric acid". I don't see how it would be possible for Famotidine to do both. Medical sites refer to it as an H2 blocker. This link describes it only as an H2 blocker: https://www.drugs.com/tips/famotidine-patient-tips (Pirate hamster (talk) 22:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC))

Drugs.com FTW.--Quisqualis (talk) 23:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)