Protious

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RfD nomination of Wetriffs.com

I have nominated Wetriffs.com (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 18:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Breeder

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Conways game of life breeder animation.gif, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 08:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Motto of the Day

Hi there, Protious! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.

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Coptic Cross

You're right. It means "Egyptian Christian". The addition is not "part of the cross". It's only part of the current template for Copts. If you refer to the previous of the template, you'll see the exact same writing in a fonts format. What I did was to replace the Coptic fonts with a .jpg image file, only because it looks much better this way. I hope this helps. --Ⲗⲁⲛⲧⲉⲣⲛⲓⲝ^[talk] 22:30, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I already designed a much better quality Coptic Cross at [File:Coptic Cross Large.png]. You should use this one if you want to add the Coptic Cross to an article. --Ⲗⲁⲛⲧⲉⲣⲛⲓⲝ^[talk] 00:45, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi George,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Conways game of life breeder animation.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 13, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-03-13. howcheng {chat} 23:04, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

MOTDs (This space for rent)

You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent). Any help would be appreciated! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

Hello,

I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. If you are interested, please contact either Marilyn [marilyn.doualabelldoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahfafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

If you are not interested in applying, I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page: http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

Best regards, Islahaddow

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Reply

I'm very sorry it's taken me so extremely long to reply. I have a tendency to fall away from Wikipedia for periods of time. By now you may not remember, but you posted to my talk page about the V.F.D. article. By all means, add anything from any of my WIP pages (and their talk pages), most of which are devoted A Series of Unfortunate Events. Writing the full articles was very time-consuming with no real-world application for me, so I've shelved it for now, in a manner of speaking. — the Man in Question (in question) 00:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I replied in archives page you posted. Again, great work! --George (talk) 20:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

Today's motto...

The world makes its impact on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia also affects the world. === May ===

Nominate one today!

Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

MEDRS

I'll reply here, because Zefr likes to keep his/her talk page blank.

WP:MEDRS, in a nutshell, says that for medical claims, we must use reliable secondary sources. This generally means using reviews that summarize primary clinical studies carried out in humans. This article you queried does not qualify; it's not a review of such clinical studies. It basically speculates about the possible effects of resveratrol. It ends with "The efficacy of resveratrol in treating AD pathology depends on the extent to which resveratrol metabolites become bioavailable and influence both sirtuin-dependent and -independent signaling pathways in humans, and also depends on the next generation of clinical testing and research that will need to study the effects of resveratrol on a large number of human subjects." In other words, no proper clinical studies have been carried out, let alone enough to review and draw conclusions. We do not report speculation about medical matters. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

George: the article you wish to use is an hypothesis based on studies in vitro or from lab animal research, a level of evidence which Wikipedia defines as WP:PRIMARY and not suitable as a source for medical topics per WP:MEDRS described here in the second paragraph and elsewhere in the MEDRS guideline; see WP:MEDANIMAL and the levels of evidence in WP:MEDASSESS. To imply that resveratrol is a "boon for treating Alzheimer's disease" (the article's title) is not a mainstream interpretation in medical science, so it is called WP:UNDUE. The language in the Anekonda article abstract displays exaggerations and conjecture (made by the author 10 years ago) which have not been advanced to human evidence even today. As it stands, the resveratrol article gives coverage to several disease topics where evidence of effect in humans remains unproven, accurately representing the state of knowledge for the encyclopedia. For your own editing of medical topics, please review WP:MEDRS and try to provide excellent sources; the MEDRS guideline is under construction for improvement, shown here for the subtitle, Choosing sources. I'm moving this discussion to your Talk page for your reference. Good luck in your editing. --Zefr (talk) 14:08, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

@Zefr: @Peter coxhead: Thank you both for explaining. I'm not sure that this is a good policy for wiki to have but medical articles are not my thing, so ... --George (talk) 23:14, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Contact me re: Mandelbrot set image ?

Hi - you don't have the "email a user" feature enabled so I'm reaching out here.

Would you mind contacting me regarding this image you made? I am writing a book for Penguin Random House and we would like to use this image in it, and hire you to make a few similar images, if you're willing.

Please contact me at milobeckman@gmail.com if you're interested -- thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miyomiyo1050 (talk • contribs) 01:42, 17 December 2019 (UTC)