Emb47

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Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:36, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Removing pictures

Why did you remove the pictures of the disease? Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:53, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi! So sorry I just meant to cut and paste it somewhere else in the article. Didn't mean to get rid of anything important. So sorry. --Emb47 (talk) 14:53, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Proxy links

I noticed that you received a warning for this edit. Links like these go through your library's proxy server and are only accessible to people with library access at your university. They don't work for other people and are often uninterpretable. Please use DOIs, ISBNs, or PubMed IDs to generate references, or fill them in by hand. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:17, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes I think there are several of my references from my first round of edits that have a URL like that attached to them. I am working right now to take that link out of those references. Sorry about that. --Emb47 (talk) 19:44, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:25, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Nice work

		The Medicine Barnstar
		You have made some great edits on Scarlet fever. The article is better now than before you contributed. Thank you for all you have done. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 23:34, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Its been a great experience researching and contributing to this article. --Emb47 (talk) 15:31, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Why all the caps?

[1]? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:20, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Sorry about that, just went through and fixed all of those errors. Thank you!--Emb47 (talk) 13:11, 15 December 2017 (UTC)