User talk:TimVickers/archive 3

Improvement of Wikipedia article?

Ahh, every painter loves a clean canvas... ;)

Hi Tim, I started tinkering with the Wikipedia article on a whim, and I think it would benefit from your insights and deft word-magic. It's apparently slated to become a major collaboration in a few days, so now might be an opportune moment to set a high level, a basis for future evolutions.

Hoping that the pathogens and life are being generous to you, Willow 14:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned Images

I'm about to nominate a bunch of your images for deletion. It is obvious that you've worked hard and produced some beautiful images, but they are not being used anywhere on Wikipedia. Some of them have been replaced by images in 'better' file formats. Others probably belong on Commons where they can be used by all of the wikipedias, not just the English. ~ BigrTex 01:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Images listed for deletion

Some of your images or media files have been listed for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion if you are interested in preserving them.

• Image:MM curve.jpg
• Image:Enzyme progress curve.jpg
• Image:SAM.gif
• Image:Quin active site copy.jpg
• Image:CA annotated.jpg
• Image:General mechanism.jpg
• Image:DFP reaction3.jpg
• Image:DFP reaction2.jpg
• Image:Reversible inhibition.jpg
• Image:Irreversible inactivation2.jpg
• Image:Irreversible inactivation.jpg
• Image:Competitive inhibition copy.jpg
• Image:Non-competitive inhibition.jpg
• Image:Comp inhib3 copy.jpg
• Image:Aporphine copy.jpg
• Image:Inhibi1 copy.jpg
• Image:Two substrates b.svg
• Image:Non-competitive inhibition.svg
• Image:Competitive inhibition copy.svg
• Image:Allosteric v by S curve.jpg

Thank you. BigrTex 02:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Here are the rest:

• Image:Ping-pong.jpg
• Image:Random ternary mech.jpg
• Image:Simple mechanism plus rates.jpg
• Image:Simple mechanism.jpg
• Image:Random ternary mech.svg
• Image:Ping-pong.svg
• Image:Enzyme progress curve.png
• Image:Methotrexate and folic acid.png
• Image:Hexokinase ball and stick model, with substrates to scale.png
• Image:Methotrexate and folic acid.jpg
• Image:Phenylalanine hydroxylase.jpg
• Image:Penicillin.jpg
• Image:Inhibiteur competitif.png
• Image:HIV protesase with ritonavir.png
• Image:Substrate inhibition.png
• Image:EcDHFR.png
• Image:CDC nip pink flu InfluenzaNomenclatureDiagram.jpg
• Image:Induced fit diagram mod 2.png
• Image:Nucleosome with DNA as ribbon.jpg
• Image:Nucleosome with spacefill DNA.jpg
• Image:L1000176.JPG
• Image:Lac repressor.jpg

~ BigrTex 02:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Continued vandalism by user 206.180.109.30

Hi Tim Vickers. I noticed you had issued a fairly solemn last warning to unregistered user, 206.180.109.30, on that editor's 206.180.109.30 discussion page. That user continues to vandalize articles, and I wonder if you are empowered to block? Thanks. CApitol3 13:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of RNA interference

The article RNA interference you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:RNA interference for things needed to be addressed. Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 03:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Favor?

I have to go away for a little while; could you watch over Photon and Cyclol for me? I'd be heartbroken if they were savaged, although I suppose I should be more serene and learn to let go. I'll stop in and help out when I can, but real life is getting rather precarious. Take care; as I sleep, I'll dream of your latest FA's, Willow 17:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Prod (and some begging)

Physics is being rewritten and we are looking for contributors and/or moderators at Talk:Physics/wip. Is there any way I could prevail upon you? Or should we look elsewhere? The natives I fear are getting restless.--Filll 16:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of RNA interference

The article RNA interference you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:RNA interference for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 18:56, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Could you take a look at the Anabolic Steroid article again?

I have improved the Anabolic steroid article a lot since it's last nomination for a Good Article. I have formated the citations, Cut down on the lists, Provided a good introduction, Defined biochemical mechanisms of action, and Provided an illustration. Please tell me if it meets the criteria for 'good article' yet.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 02:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Tuberculosis

Not sure on this. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Not up on the issue, Greek to me :-) I don't know anything about Phase I or II trials. SandyGeorgia (Talk)

C/EBP

Hi. I'm a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify, and in reviewing articles to wikify, I ran across C/EBP. I believe this article's subject may be a duplicate of Ccaat-enhancer-binding proteins which redirects to CCAAT box. I looked up your name as a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology who might be more knowledgeable or have subject matter expertise and be able to assist in determining what to do with the C/EBP article and its contents. Thanks. -- Whpq 20:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Anabolic steroids

Can you make some more additions to the Template:Anabolic steroids? I would do it but I am not quite familiar with the differences between Androstans and Estrenes. I know that there are quite a few other anabolic steroid articles that could fit into this template.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 05:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

• Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the articles ready for final proofread section.
• Select a different article to proofread from the articles ready for final proofread section.

Thanks for your help! BuddingJournalist 01:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

RNA interference peer review

Since you did the legwork to make this a GA, you probably will know this anyway, but RNA interference is up for peer review here if you have any thoughts. It could probably use prose improvements too. Opabinia regalis 02:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection

Tim, it strikes me that DNA is getting more than average vandalism for daytime; I suspect it's schoolbreak week somewhere. I'm not able to help much as it takes so long for the page to load; do you think it's time to ask for a semi-protection break? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:12, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

All that techno-stuff is over my head :-) I suppose I'm going to have to get a better browser sometime. Anyway, I'll put a tentatively worded request somewhere for SP. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

At ANI. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Central Dogma of Biology

Tim, I noticed you reverted my edit deleting credit to Watson for proposing the "central dogma of biology". Can you cite reference(s) that give Watson credit for proposing the idea? I have never seen any such references. WolfmanSF 19:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Galahad of Guanine

Did you find one honest edit today, dear Diogenes?

I couldn't go another day without saying how much I admire your patient care and improvement of DNA; you're truly a knight errant of the FAe. :) I had wanted to give you a suitably Arthurian image, but I couldn't find the one I was looking for; besides, it occurred to me that you already have a kingly mien on your user-page. ;) So I went with the sharpest of philosophers, Diogenes, I hope you don't mind; being "dog-like" (κῠνικός) himself, maybe he liked dogs, too? Silly but fondly, Willow 08:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

TLR page

Hi Tim, I have noticed an edit war appears to be going on with the Toll-like receptor page between a couple of editors. I've done a fair bit of changes on this page myself so don't want to step in and give what might be taken as a biased opinion. But you seem like someone with a more official role who might know what to do in these circumstances?? Think you or someone you know could help sort this out? Thanks, Ciar 17:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Delinker fault?

Hello, I've answered your message (I think it's yours) here. Cheerio--Orgullomoore 23:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Kiarostami

Hi TimVickers!

I am working on film director Abbas Kiarostami. The article have been copyedited several times. Still there might be some more need for copy editting. There might be problems that escape me. It is very kind of you if you could take a look at that. Thanks. Sangak 09:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Question for you

I'd be shocked if no one has asked you this yet, but you do an enormous amount of work keeping the bio articles free of vandalism and nonsense as well as filling them up with useful content ;) You seem like you could use a few extra buttons on your toolbar. Are you interested in being nominated for adminship? Opabinia regalis 04:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Excellent! Sorry this took so long; I haven't been able to get wikipedia to load properly all day. (Also, it's eight FAs, right? ;) Your template, sir:

Infectious disease

Hi Tim, thanks for the note on moving the age of DNA off the DNA page. I still think it is important information and fundamental as A=T C=G and needs a place in DNA. I too have looked at infectious disease and wanted you to have a look and make a comment on a presentation that I did no disease. here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHxz06X35RE .RoddyYoung 07:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Nomination

Hi Tim, thanks for asking, yes I will try to find time to jot down some positive notes about you in a day or so, hope that's OK? I certainly strongly support your nomination and have no doubt I can find some good things to say about your obvious editorial skills. thanks Peter morrell 09:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Your feedback

I wanted to thank you once again for the feedback that you provided back in December for the Ohio Wesleyan University article. The article has gone through extensive editing, copyediting, prose- and reference-checking. Since I thought your comments were extremely helpful in December, I was wondering if you could spare a few minutes and provide more thoughts on the article? I am considering nominating it for FA in the near future. Thanks for your time! LaSaltarella 23:56, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Organic food

Responded to some of your comments at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Organic_food JabberWok 04:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Commons POTY

Hi Tim, currently your vote there has been struckout as invalid you need to provide a dif (link from your talk page there for instructions) to demonstrate that you have more than 100 edits here for your vote to be counted. Gnangarra 12:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I am the same user as Commons user TimVickers. TimVickers 16:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Influenza

I have seen the period possibly linking influenza to the Amarna period a number of times. I will try to hunt out the reference and include it in the page. John D. Croft 19:14, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Cookie

Thank you for the cookie! I like you too. I can't stop laughing. I guess we needed a little lightness. WAS 4.250 23:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Peter morrell

Glad to hear that you find him useful to WP, but I think this guy looks a whole lot like what Michael Johnson suggests he is. Pete.Hurd 00:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

vandalism warnings

I thought that if the vandalism was serious/frequent enough that I could report them. Thank you for letting me know.

~Steptrip 01:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank's for the info (I patrol recent changes ca. every 3 days so I needed to know that for reporting trolls, vandals, etc. to AIV). ~Steptrip 01:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Re. Ancient Egyptian animal agriculture

Nefermaat & Atet's mastaba shows various hunting/herding scenes

Hi Tim! Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been active on Wikipedia lately. Pigs, cattle, waterfowl and sheep were all raised in ancient Egypt and to varying degrees included in the diet. Pigs had been domesticated since the Predynastic period. There was some restriction on their consumption, but there is evidence that they were consumed at least by the poorer classes and were used in farming. Eugen Strouhal (1992) Life in Ancient Egypt is a good place to start. Strouhal is a physical anthropologist who's worked extensively on ancient Egyptian diseases and epidemics, though I can't recall if he mentions an outbreak of the flu. Also, Houlihan (1996) Animal World of the Pharaohs and AUC Egyptologist Salima Ikram are both great sources on ancient Egyptian fauna and animal domestication. Hope this helps. — Zerida 05:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Block

First of all, thanks for all the great work you've done with Bio-related material. Huge!

Secondly, a recent block you imposed 24.184.177.78 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is now operating under an ID (Em0909153), and continueing where he left off. Can you intervene? SERSeanCrane 17:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Vandal Hot Potato10

Oh, I am sorry for reporting it twice....I just dislike vandalism in every aspect. Sorry for the inconvenience. §†SupaSoldier†§ 20:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

User:167.10.240.1

Hi. The user has used other usernames and IPs to vandalize Shaolin Soccer using the same text. I really think he/she should be blocked. Xiner (talk, email) 20:36, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes, that's something that'd definitely help. Thank you. I still think the IP should be blocked though. Xiner (talk, email) 20:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. Xiner (talk, email) 21:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations!
It is my great pleasure to inform you that your Request for Adminship has closed successfully and you are now an administrator! Useful Links: • Administrators' reading list • Administrators' how-to guide • • Administrator's Noticeboard • Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents • Administrator's Noticeboard for 3RR • Your admin logs: • blocks • deletions • moves • protects • uploads •

If you have questions, feel free to leave a talk page message for me or any other admin. Again, congratulations! Essjay (Talk) 07:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

• Congratulations - a well deserved success! LuciferMorgan 10:29, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Good luck on becoming an administrator. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, odometer) 10:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

• Congratulations, Tim! I hope it won't be too onerous for you, but I think we'll all benefit. What is past is but prologue, and things done well, with a care, exempt themselves from fear. With bardish good wishes, Willow 14:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Congrats, Tim. Much deserved and long overdue :) I'd have extended my congratulations sooner, but I'd somehow been unable to edit your Talk page. Now go forth and wield the Mop and Bucket! Fvasconcellos 17:06, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Adding another to the list (and your message is making me blush). Glad to hand over a nice new set of cabal robes to the person who is one vote cooler than me ;) I'm anticipating a decrease in the rate of poopyheads and gay friends popping up on my watchlist.... Opabinia regalis 00:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
• Thank you for considering my advice, and good luck with your admin work! Ashibaka (tock) 02:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
• A belated congrats on becoming an admin! You're doing an excellent job so far.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 21:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

User:75.67.83.22

You may wish to review the length of the ban you gave this user. the reason is that in between my report to WP:AIV and your banning of the user, two more acts of vandalism occurred (which I noted after your message on the user's talk page.)  DDStretch  (talk) 19:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For blocking 70.89.127.3! --AW 22:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Quick block

Hello, please block this Ip address (ACISD) from editing (not viewing) wikipedia. I myself have an account, but dont bother using the school's, because it vandalises so much. If you block this site, you will avoid many vandalisms. Thank you. (PS, not meaning to threaten) 69.151.180.55 18:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick block over at OS/2. Dilligent (sp?) admins aren't thanked enough.  ;-) /Blaxthos 22:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Congratulations on your recent RfA. --Nehrams2020 05:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

M. S. Swaminathan

Any comment, contribution or edit you may have on this Geneticist biography article would be appreciated. Thanks.--Marcus 15:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• Tim, Thanks for looking. I think the article needs more science than just a link to some of his research reports. Genetics is beyond me.-Marcus 23:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

User 200.50.20.234

• Hello, I think you removed this IP from the vandalism reporting page with a message that read no current vandalism. THis user continues to vandalize pages every few days and all the edits are vandalism, has not contributed anything helpful at all. Charleenmerced ^Talk 21:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced

Lipid peroxidation

Hey Tim—replied on your Commons talk page. Hope you're enjoying those extra buttons, Fvasconcellos 22:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Done, hope it looks good. I've taken the liberty of adding it to the antioxidant article; if you're happy with it, you can add it to lipid peroxidation as well. Best, Fvasconcellos 03:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Antioxidant FAC

Hi thanks for the message on my page. I'm just wondering; are cites using cite journal from web sources supposed to have retrieval dates then? I'm just curious. I hope adminship is whatever you hoped it to be by the way... LuciferMorgan 00:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh right I understand now - so the journal is a paper source, but if someone wants to check a web version they can do so. No worries about nicking my talk page style - I stole it from Dmoon1 ages ago when I started frequenting Wikipedia on a more regular basis. It's nice to see medicine related articles getting improved on Wikipedia too - I remember delisting Bacteria from GA awhile back, then you coming along and FAing it! Good work that is. LuciferMorgan 00:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Of course, remove away. If you are working towards FA, great. I normally nominate things for GA that I think are encyclopedic and deserve attention from someone/somewhere. I'm more than happy to hear you have taken it onboard. Good luck with it and kind regards. SeanMack 12:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Think about this

Hey Tim, did you ever consider this comment that i made a while back. Now located here. Might be right up your street. You too Opabinia regalis and Willow. David D. (Talk) 16:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi David, I'm sorry for not replying earlier, I only just saw your note when I stopped by to Talk to Tim. I've heard of Citizendium, but I know scarcely anything about it. My impression is that it's similar to WP, except that it has some managerial control by recognized "experts", is that right? I think I also heard that they were going to start by taking over WP's content as a starting point. Were you suggesting that we contribute to it? Won't they take over our work anyway?

I guess I'm glad that Citizendium exists since our words here are written in water, whereas there they're likely to be a little more permanent and less vandalized (untested hypothesis?). It's also great that, thanks to the GFDL, if Citizendium does produce any good content, we can port it back here in the twinkling of an eye, like this -> ;)

On the other hand, I sometimes make little wooden toys for children, which has taught me that the the first version of a toy is always the most popular; even much improved versions never catch on the same way. :( By analogy, I speculate that Citizendium will always be an "also-ran" to Wikipedia, however unfair that might be.

Perhaps more importantly, I'm glad that Wikipedia is so open, although I mourn the loss of good people's time. For me, it's a good, even thrilling, spiritual exercise to be unafraid, to be open and giving and trusting. It's practical, too; my own ideas and explanations have improved from being challenged by others, even on matters that I kind of know. It does take a lot of time and patience, sympathy and gentleness, to win over some people who are adamantly misguided and who see correction as humiliation; but knowing myself to be so full of error, it's easy to summon up compassion. Willow 15:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Reply: (previous message)

I'll do that. Thanks, but as far as resolving these issues with the "List of Gangs" page, I've, literally, been trying to resolve this since early December; Butterrum will not listen to reason with anything I try to suggest and, since he's finally been block, albeit temporarily, he'll probably be even more angry at me. No offense, but I'd rather leave him alone; that might be best. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 21:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Very much appreciated. Thanks. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 21:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Who are you Craxy 21:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

And what was I saying Craxy 22:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

The GTA section is a warring zone between other users Craxy 22:07, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

Thanks for taking care of the vandal who was attacking Immune system. You get a cookie. Shimaspawn 22:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Attacks

It's begun again. You should probably just check out my talk page. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 02:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

One user is even attempting to round up users against me. Check his contributions. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 03:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know why i didn't think of that. Thanks. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 03:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I assume you are familiar with this issue? The user is currently still posting around - there are comments on my talk page too, and at WP:AN/I. Thanks. x42bn6 Talk 04:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Biological Value

I noticed you appear to be involved in biology articles or WikiProjects relating to biology and human processes. This article, on a method for evaluating biological utilizations rates of proteins in human and animal consumption, was started in August and is in desperate need of an expert. We are having trouble locating one and the article desperately needs it. This method is used constantly in bodybuilding magazines and products and is the subject of much misinformation and half-truths. On the other hand it does appear to have some value. Please help if possible. In case you're wondering why I picked you I just looked through some Science WikiProjects and biology articles and your name appeared a lot in one or both categories. Quadzilla99 22:04, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally if you decide not to do this for whatever reason there's no need to reply. I'll just take it you're busy or uninterested. Thanks. Quadzilla99 22:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Craxy/Klptyzm/Butterrum/X42bn6

Hi Tim,

User:Craxy left a message on my talk page asking me if "this Klptyzm guy has got on (my) nerves". I was confused, because I'd never run into either of them here. I was curious, so I did a bit of cursory digging myself and discovered that there seems to be some sort of four-way edit war going on between Craxy, Klptyzm, User:Butterrum, and User:X42bn6, with insults and slurs being thrown around. I was going to put this on the admins noticeboard, when I noticed that you've been trying to moderate this in a way. Unless I am mistaken, can they not be temporarily blocked for this sort of behaviour? Just curious so that I can make more sense of these things the next time this happens. Green451 03:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Addendum: Sorry, I just noticed that X42bn6 is an innocent third party in this like myself. My question about if the other three should be blocked still stands. Green451 03:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the answer, much appreciated. Hope you succeed. Green451 15:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Antioxidant

Since I'm leaving tomorrow to see my sister and her new baby, I'm about to dash off what I can on Antioxidant and hope that you can make the best of it? I totally trust your powers of judicious rewording and rearrangement, so I know that any deletions/corrections/etc. you make will be for the best. I also trust your forgiveness for any damage I do, which I'm sure you'll fix speedily. ;) Good luck and well done once again, Willow 16:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Please give some thought to that idea about the exhaustive creation of stubs for all NCBI taxa. Perhaps we could do a little test run on a small family of fungi or somesuch? Or perhaps work down the taxonomic tree, i.e., do all phyla, then all classes, ordines, familiae and so on? On the other hand, if it's really forbidden, my nightingale wouldn't want to do it.

I realise the image is in the article. My question was whether it should replace the silly random collection of vegetables as the top picture. Samsara (talk • contribs) 20:47, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Tim, sorry I never made it there, and congrats on another FA. I knew it would be promoted without my input, so because of my two weeks of travel, I pushed it to the bottom of my list, intending to get to it tomorrow. Congrats anyway! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 07:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations on yet another FA! Do you have another one queued up yet? ;) Fvasconcellos 14:39, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Image of striking but dull simplicity :)

Sure, no problem! If you want anything altered, just let me know. I'll upload the file as soon as I'm done. Best, Fvasconcellos 18:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

How's this? I've moved the text a bit for alignment, I hope that's OK. Fvasconcellos 19:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

No prob. If you need anything else, it's a Sunday :) Fvasconcellos 19:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Requesting your help protecting an article...

You've helped a lot in the past and I thought you could do me a small favor. I know this isn't your area but you're a very trustworthy person. An article that I'm trying to improve is constantly being vandalized. Specifically people keep removing a picture from it for baseless personal reasons. The article is Bodybuilding and the image is the 1st one listed in "Areas of Bodybuilding" with the caption "Natural bodybuilder posing." The image isn't the best image in the world but it's the best FREE image I have that fits the description listed. So can you protect it for me? I have a feeling it will be removed from new users pretty frequently and I can't watch it 24/7. So if you see that it's been removed can you add it back as it was? Thanks. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 05:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I didn't notice that. I confused "GFDL" with "GNU". I changed it to "per GNU" now. Thanks.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Delisted ADHD

Hey, Tim; since you listed it way back when, I wanted to let you know I delisted attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder from GA. I've never been a fan of the article, and now it's gone further off the rails. The TS research literature delves quite a bit into the ADHD realm (because of comorbidity), so I know the territory fairly well, although not as well as TS. The article should deal with a lot of the same kinds of issues on the TS article. It's really gone south since you reviewed it, so maybe you can pop over there and offer some guidance as you have time; I'm going to be traveling again for the next few weeks. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, big issues at Talk:Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, in case you have nothing to do while I'm away. The article is incorrectly named, and was listed GA by a sockpuppet who disrupted FAC for quite a while. I don't know what to do about it. I'm hoping you can at least watch over these two for the next few weeks, and maybe even pitch in. At minimum, it looks like FASD needs to go back to FAS. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Metabolism

I absolutely agree. "Carbon counting" misses the point of what this article should be: a general guide to metabolism that orients an unfamiliar reader to the topic and points them to more specific areas of interest. In my mind, it's very important to integrate the different pathways into a relatively coherent view of the overall metabolic process: sugars provide energy for building proteins, proteins are the catalytic machinery, but if you run short of sugar there are special ways to convert protein into energy. In my mind, this is much more informative than "Important pathways include Glycolysis, Protein synthesis, and Gluconeogenesis" which means nothing to an untrained reader. Unfortunately, most biochemistry courses and texts do a relatively poor job of this.

There are a LOT of shoddy articles that fall under the scope of metabolism. Where this is true, I plan to construct a solid framework at Metabolism before changing the subsidiary articles. In all honesty much of the metabolism content needs to be reorganized, but the metabolism article is the core and that's where we should focus first. If we want to fix the nav templates later, that'll have to be your job- I have NO idea how to code templates. I'm a medical student so most of my knowlege is about humans, but fixing this article will be excellent preparation for my exam next week.
Robotsintrouble 03:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Metabolism. Let me know when you're done editing the page for today. Robotsintrouble 05:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I have replied to you at User talk:Robotsintrouble Robotsintrouble 00:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind wishes... Wouldn't you know, I finished that test and now I have another one? Unbelievable!

How long should we let Metabolism get? If we do have to trim, I'd rather move things elsewhere than just delete them... Robotsintrouble 22:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Test of semi-automated generation of taxonomy pages

Hey Tim,

I'm auditioning that nightingale Daisy, who claims to be able to make Wikipedia stubs for arbitrary sets of taxonomy pages; would you be so kind as to make suggestions on her output? Here are the first three pages that Daisy made all by herself:

• Methanomicrobia
• Thermococci
• Methanobacteria

She started with the missing classes of the Archaea, since she noticed you working on that domain. ;) Once these drafts are perfected, she can craft the missing orders, families, etc. Of course, I uploaded the pages for her; I don't think passerines are allowed to have user accounts on Wikipedia, are they? Looking forward to your comments, and thanks for your very nice and witty note, Willow 23:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Now that I look at the pages myself, I see that Daisy forgot to add the stub template. :( Even nightingales skip a note now and then.

Hi again, thanks for the welcome at WP:MICRO! :) I really could use your advice on the most sensible categorization of the taxonomic stubs, as discussed on my deeply funky Talk page. I'll try to get the NCBI and ToL references working today; stay tuned! Willow 12:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Anabolic steroid references...

Hey, The number of references on the Anabolic steroid article seem to be taking up a lot of space. Is there any way to display a "show/hide" menu so that they are automatically hidden unless someone decides to show them so that they take up less space on the article? I plan on adding more citations in the future and I don't want to remove any so what are my options?Wikidudeman ^(talk) 22:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

FASD

Tim, Thank you for letting me know about the current situation with FASD and FAS. I had made several edits to FASD in recent months and then taken a short break. I can understand SandyGeorgia's concerns with the articles and will attempt to summarize those concerns (and others) and suggest additional edits to clarify differences and similarities between the two over the next day or two.MLHarris 12:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

P.A.N.D.A.S.

Tim, this is most frustrating; maybe your background in bugs, along with your editorial skills, will help resolve this. It is most irritating to be accused of POV simply because I don't have the medical background to adequately address this article comprehensively, and I haven't found anyone on Wiki who can help. In the general community, it is extremely rare to find a physician who understands PANDAS, with thorough understanding confined mostly to NIH researchers and the specialists on the medical advisory board of the Tourette Syndrome Association. Every time a TS-related question comes up, I have to do a lot of educating. If you have time, can you read through Talk:P.A.N.D.A.S. and this, and see if you can come up with a way to fix the wording so that it's not accused of POV, but remains an accurate reflection that this is not a confirmed medical diagnosis? I didn't write the article (don't feel qualified), but I did add the Controversy section, which I feel was unfairly labeled POV. I'm going to be traveling for two weeks, and the POV charge really troubles me, since it understates the case, is referenced, factual and confined to a Controversy section. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

PS, as with almost all of my TS references, I don't base my text on abstracts only. I have most of the PANDAS full-text journal articles, as well as the two Advances in Neurology tomes on TS; the latest has an entire section on PANDAS. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

That was fabulous work, Tim - thanks so much - I'll rest easier now. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Coeliac disease

Hey Tim. Colin said I should get in touch with you about this. I've been working a lot on coeliac disease in the last few months, and have in the last two weeks tried to get it through WP:FAC. Unfortunately, there remain some stylistic concerns that I can't seem to get past, specifically the prose in particular paragraphs. Is there any chance you could have a look? JFW | T@lk 22:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm very encouraged by the changes both of you are making. Please don't stop. As a lay reader, I feel that I'm being guided through a difficult topic rather than just given an (accurate) map and expected to make my own way. BTW: There is a typo in the Genetics section, 2nd paragraph: "Coeliac disease is |linked]] to two alleles of the ." -- Colin°^Talk 23:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Block request for 59.154.24.147

Hello Tim - I notice that you put a last warning here and since then that IP address has added further vandalism at Moulamein, New South Wales - please can you arrange for a block from editing. --VS ^talk 21:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

• No problems - thanks for you response. We'll keep an eye on him/her then. Cheers--VS ^talk 23:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Help proofreading?

Hi Tim, I hate to drag you away from doing something productive, but I need help proofreading the NCBI taxonomic references, which appear to be working — mostly. ;) It's described at the bottom of my Talk page. Friendly thanks, Willow 21:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

No bother!

Glad to help. That section's weird - it's like you took everything Stephen Jay Gould wrote about and tried to condense it into one paragraph, without much worry about reality, just making as much of it fit as possible. Adam Cuerden ^talk 17:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Help Resolving a conflict

I have read the pages about this on wikipedia and I have came to you because you seem to be a person who knows how wikipedia is supposed to work and are most likely 100% neutral on this matter. I am involved in a rather intense edit war with two other editors of the article Miriam Rivera. In the last days the user User:Jokestress has quite reasonably asked for the article to be backed up with more reliable sources. Well I found them and that seems to have placated her. She has acted in 100% reasonable way in all of this. The problem arises in that she has asked in the spirt of resolving the conflict we were having other people who are not 100% neutral it seems to comment on the matter. These being the user User:Longhair and the userUser:Alison in particular who have not bothered to justify anything that they have done. Longhiar being an admin seems to feel no need to discuss anything and I feel is abusing her powers. Is there anything you can do? --Hfarmer 04:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Metabolism peer review

Sure, Tim. I'll have a look as soon as I can. Best, Fvasconcellos 14:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again—I've left a few comments. All in all, absolutely excellent. I'm looking forward to FAC :) Fvasconcellos 17:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Glad to help. I'll vote soon, and am working on an SVG of Image:Sterol synthesis.png on the backburner, if you don't mind my vector graphics obsession. Fvasconcellos 19:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, done. I've added it to metabolism, you can add it to any other articles which used the PNG after you've checked it for any inaccuracies... :) Fvasconcellos 00:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Best of luck getting this to FA! Im just sorry i havnt helped more... - Zephyris _Talk 21:11, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Tim, I won't be able to look until the weekend when I'm home - snatching a moment on borrowed computer. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Great article! I added some formatting comments. Only serious concern is the glucose structure. Wish I knew how to do animated images or I'd work on it, but let me know if there's any other editing help needed—I wasn't WP:BOLD yet because I haven't looked at the article enough to know whether there was a reason for how things are. DMacks 05:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Musing about you

I've recently got permission to work in Citizendum. I'm really curious about their manner of work. And I had to realize that experts like you make Wikipedia better. You're walking on the right way. Thank you in the name of the whole Wikipedia community. And now, I'm going to take a look at your 43th featured article candidate. :) NCurse _work 19:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

knock knock; request for assistance

Hello,

I noticed a link to your user page on the talk page of DNA :-) . I'm in need of a bit of science research assistance seems to be up your alley... I'm into linguistics; what would I know ;-) ?

BUT it may involve some powerful POV issues re Taiwan, etc.

Here's the deal: this question about Taiwanese aborigines has been niggling at me for a while: Talk:Taiwanese_aborigines#Closely related to Malays and Indonesians?

I've seen links to several different references thrown back & forth on this issue.. I can hunt them down, if you like...

I'm not asking you to wade into the talk page... I dunno if arguments will ensue or not (hopefully not).. you can remain anon., or whatever...but if I could get someone to verify some kind of generalization about the most recent/authoritative research on this issue, I would be ecstatic...

I'll be watching this talk page for any answer you may give... :-)

Thanks for your time & trouble, --Ling.Nut 21:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Microbiology

Hi Tim! I'm not sure if you saw my message about volunteering to help out on the bacteria article but I am more than willing to do what I can. Just let me know what you need me to do. Thanks! MetsFan76 16:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok sounds good! MetsFan76 17:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Metabolism FA

Congratulations. Clearly a lot of work went into that article. Well done. Colin°^Talk 08:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

And mine—my, that was a quick one! Well done yet again. Fvasconcellos 13:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that was quick; sorry that I didn't even get to comment! You're a credit to us all. :) Willow 16:00, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!--BirgitteSB 16:14, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Oxidative phosphorylation

Thanks for your additions to the article. It seemed as though nobody wanted to help after I put it up for peer review! Simpsons contributor 15:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Antibody GA

Thanks and congrats on getting antibody to GA standard. One of many for you I see!! H'mmmm, comments suggest getting the article peer-reviewed so we can improve it some more....how do you go about doing that....and do I have time... ;-) Again Tim, thanks! Your definitely an asset to the MCB project!!! Take care Ciar 19:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Congrats from me too... Thanks for nominating it and all of the effort you put in.--DO11.10 19:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

FACs blooming like hyacinths

Good things come in bunches, don't they? Metabolism seems like a work of art; well done! :) I'm happy to support it but, as usual, I'd like to brood over it a few days before writing. Be patient with me?

Meanwhile, Encyclopædia Britannica is right above it at the FAC — a nice serendipity, no? Any improvements, corrections, etc. would be most welcome, as always. Happy about Spring, Willow 02:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Many thanks for the taxonomy help; I incorporated your corrections into the NCBI file.

Thanks very much for the support — yeay, yeay, yeay! :D Dashing off back to work, Willow 17:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Ummm, so the Encyclopædia Britannica article has gotten an Oppose from Tony1 for its poor copy-editing. He recommends that I consult with other WPians, especially those who are known for their brilliant prose and who are members of the League of Copyeditors — but, you know, I couldn't think of anyone who fits that description. ;D But if you would be so kind, as ever, I would appreciate your suggestions very much — thanks! Willow 23:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

PS. Congrats on the Antibody GA! :) What's next? Perhaps something metabolic like oxidative phosphorylation or electron transport chain? Just guessing, Willow 23:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

PPS. Are the willows blooming near you? They are where I live. Flowers and herbs are emerging all over my garden, and many berry bushes have broken bud. Spring is wonderful. :)

Thanks again for your help; we'll see if the article flies at FAC. By the by, can you think of any reason why people might be avoiding it? I don't think anyone knows about my advanced case of leprosy. ;) Maybe the article is too boring? :( I sometimes worry that my "professional-wannabe" writing is too dry. Readers might feel as though they're being force-fed a bag of flour; nutritious to be sure, but... Trying my best, Willow 20:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Historical tag at MEDMOS (Manual of style - medicine)

OK, I admit that I got distracted because of all of my travel; are you able to pitch in any comments on work still needed, or how you feel about this style guide? [1] Thanks, and congrats on the FAs that I never got a chance to read <pout> SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Relatively large

I think from a biological perspective though, when one thinks of macromolecules proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and complex carbohydrates are what comes to mind. Also diamonds are not organic compounds since it only contains carbon instead of both carbon and oxygen.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 23:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Coral GA

Hi Tim, You may have noticed that I have resubmitted Coral for good article review. I notice that you reviewed it last time, thank you, and wanted to let you know in case you are able to review it again. I believe all of the comments you made have been addressed and it has been added to significantly since then. Thanks. |→ Spaully°τ 09:48, 10 April 2007 (GMT)

LTP revised

Thanks again for your comments over at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Long-term potentiation. They've really helped me pinpoint where Long-term potentiation can be improved. If you've got a spare moment, would you mind taking a gander at the latest revision? I did quite a bit of work on it yesterday and welcome your comments. Thanks! --David Iberri (talk) 17:56, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Tim. What's up on that FAC page? It's not listed at FAC, and the original (archived) FAC page is now distorted (something I keep up with in my ArticleHistory and archiving work with GimmeBot/Gimmetrow). Did Diberri mean to nominate it? If so, I need to correctly recreate the new nom. If not, I need to revert the subsequent comments out of the old FAC and move them to the talk page, to preserve the old fac. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

PS, you'll see the problems show up at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/October 2006, where I have to track them down. The new process (where GimmeBot closes the old FACs) should help avoid this continuing to happen, but I have to keep checking the old facfaileds. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Can DNA control inherited characteristics in humans??

Hi im doing a project for school and i need to know if DNA could control inherited characteristics in humans? Also could you tell me how you could test and determine if DNA controls the charateristics in humans?

thankyou Bobhaha123 02:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)bobhaha123

Images

Yes, you can delete any images you want. It'll be a good idea to replace them though, because it always help explain these processes with images of the proteins and the reactions catalysed by them. Simpsons contributor 14:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Ambulance Edit

Hi Tim,

Thanks very much for the simplification of the Ambulance lead text. Made more sense of it. I've just changed 2 bits back, and this is just a quick explanation so you don't think i'm rude!

The part about lights and sirens where you changed it to speeding through, is about facilitating movement through traffic - not necessarily about speed - the ambulance may well require to travel slowly due the condition of a patient, but will still require traffic to stay out of the way (to make it smooth) - happy for it to change, but keen to avoid references to speed - common misconception!

The other was just changing back hospital to places of treatment - treatment isn't all about hospitals, many people take an ambulance to and from the doctors, and when applied to developing world, it almost certainly means a doctor, nurse or clinic - not a hospital

Hope that makes sense? If not, feel free to comment on my talk page

Owain.davies 21:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit request

Hello, TimVickers/archive 3. I saw you enlisted at the WP:LoCE therefore I wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind to take a look at 2012 Summer Olympics bids (52 kb). Since it is on FAC, it had two complete sweeps by a reviewer, but another one still thinks the prose is not professional enough to support it. I've put a request on the WP:LoCE but I sense it will take a long time before it gets a writing-style review.

I'm asking other WPs to help but I would really appreciate your contribution, but it's OK if for some reason you can't. Cheers! Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 03:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Through thick and thin. :)

Thank you

Dear Tim,

Thank you for carrying me through thick and thin; you're sterling-souled, and I hope that I can help you as you have always helped me. Thanks for the wonderful birthday wishes, and good luck on your next FA; I know that it cannot be long... ;) Willow 10:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Help keeping an eye on Anabolic steroid article.

Can you help me keep an eye on the Anabolic steroid article? I have been away from wikipedia a few days and when I came back the article had been mangled and much of the information erased and replaced with faulty info and it's format had been corrupted and the sources rendered useless. See my post on the talk page explaining that. Can you keep it from happening again? Thanks.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Wouterstomp/Bookmarklet

How does this tool work for firefox exactly? I can't figure that out.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

In my article I reported the summary of many researchers' works about the antioxidant role of iodine in the evolution of life. I reported the article's references below the text. I also have many other references about this area of research. But I'm sorry that I'm not able to put the references in the correct way. I reported below in an interesting iodine-group other related websites:

http://www.iodine4health.com/special/evolution/evolution.htm

http://www.iodine4health.com/special/antioxidant/antioxidant.htm

Best Regards

Sebastiano Venturi M.D.

Used Image:HIV protesase with ritonavir.png

This is just to let you know that I have added this image, uploaded by you, to the Ritonavir article. TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 04:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

please help if you can i see you talk page is maintaned by Werdnabot. so is mine but i do not know how to archived with this bot if you can please help thanksOo7565 07:42, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

thanksOo7565 17:11, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Block of user User talk:Davesmith33 for warning removal

In regards to your block of User talk:Davesmith33 for warning removal, it was my understanding that while strongly discouraged, removal of warnings from the user:talk page was not prohibited. (or there is a lack of consesus to prohibit it) What official policy prohibits a user from removing warnings from thier own page after having read them? (They are designed to inform, not punish)-- Monty845 17:42, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

He's also a serial 3RR violator. Tim, he blanked it out again and requested a block review, FYI. fethers 18:05, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

And continues to readd the protection template. fethers 18:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Anabolic steroid featured article?

Do you think that the Anabolic Steroid article is getting close to featured article material? What would you suggest I do to make it more suitable for being a featured article? Any changes that should be made before I try for it?Wikidudeman ^(talk) 00:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure

I'll keep an eye, but it might just be a one-edit account. Hm. --EscapingLife (²³DC) 01:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Anabolic steroid

I checked the previous featured article nominations and made sure that everything was changed since then. Can you over-look the article and tell me how it might be improved? Re-wording? Citations? New sections? etc. I would like other opinions on it before I decide to nominate it for a featured article again. Thanks.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 03:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

A block user stating his forgiveness.

uh hi, I'm User:67.164.35.55 (sorry if my grammer is terrible, I'm am not good at Language Arts). I'm sorry about the vandalism, I thought that by delecting content on Template:Final Fantasy [2]series (which I accidently delectly Others on template and since the rest of the text I delected didn't need to be included (they are minor links) ) and Boktai[3] (which I the Django section was already in the article Characters in the Boktai series) would be ok and I didn't want that to in my talk page (I never read about Wikipedia's rule on Vandalism or the rest of their rules). and I guess my temper got a hold of me, please forgive me. so I hope you'll read this so you will understand my forgiveness. Uuruuseiyo 03:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Tap, tap, tap...

Hi Tim,

I can tell that you're really busy with admin stuff and protecting Charles Darwin from the slings and arrows of outrageous vandals. So there's absolutely no rush with this, but...

On a whim related to Opabinia's flying ice cube, I've been working a bit on the equipartition theorem recently. It's rather, umm, arcane and you might not enjoy it, but I'd appreciate your insights into exposition and your deft way with words. (We must be related! I have daft, wayward words. ;) When you have a spare moment to glance over the article, if anything should occur to you, I would very much appreciate your advice.

Kind thanks as always, Willow 22:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Antibody up for peer review

Hi Tim!! You've probably noticed but, I just put Antibody up for peer review. Seemed like a pretty good idea, if you have any comments or suggestions.... I will post an FYI at the MCB and (probably at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine too since I put Poliomyelitis up for review as well). BTW, great job keeping the vandalism to a dull roar on Charles Darwin today, 'tis always much appreciated.--DO11.10 03:19, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

IP 64.73.249.178

Wasn't the IP blocked already? I noticed the reported submitted didn't assume good faith at all. Have I missed something here? Evilclown93 00:50, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry I bugged you. I didn't notice the block had expired, so I thought it was an extra six months on top of the day. Sorry to bug you about it. Evilclown93 00:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)