User talk:Jfdwolff
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Ashkenazi
Hi, I reverted your changes, see the talk page - sorry. Maybe cutting down the Cochran reference is appropriate, but I think you deleted more than is right. Sincerely, Kaisershatner 17:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Cochrane et. al's paper is reported to be accepted for upcoming publishing in the Journal of Biosocial Science by a number of news sources, including in the NY Times and Economist articles, as well as, for example, this (http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14211) Jewish Journal article. I haven't seen mention of which issue it is slated for. Best,Nectarflowed T 21:27, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Adminship
You were right, it was silly of me to decline. I've filled out the requisition form for a mop. --W(t) 18:23, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
Helpguide
Hello there,
In regards to me being warned about "link spamming" - I found the tone a bit offensive. I was adding the articles as support for the topics and was unaware that this would be a problem. See Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith.
~--Hlarson 00:36, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Hlarson, I'm sorry you're offended, but most anonymous editors inserting links are not here to help people but to advertise their site. If I could have read your mind things would have been different, but Wikipedia is frequently inundated with "spammers", which may explain my heavy-handed approach to you. Please enjoy Wikipedia by working on original content. External links are the least important part of a page; Google is better for this purpose. JFW | T@lk 06:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mr. Wolff, I appreciate your response. I understand very well that there is a problem with spamming and apologize if my unregistered status was adding to the misunderstanding. For future reference, if the external link article name and actual site content support the topic at hand (and can be used for future content development for the wikipedia page), you might want to consider checking the resource out before launching your heavy-handed campaign. It's alienating. Regards, --Hlarson 22:04, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
useful information, please find the matching medical journal article
I have been reading the "useful information" you recently added to the AIDS article. Wher do I find the matching medical journal article.
The weakened immune system leaves a sufferer helpless to "opportunistic infections" that healthy patients would typically fight off. Words like "sufferer" and "helpless" seem to lack a NPOV. Also "opportunistic infections" is very 1983! see Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, (formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia)
Your statement "Without antiretroviral treatment, once these characteristic infections, called AIDS defining clinical conditions appear, death follows relatively quickly" is not supported by the published research. There was a link to the different survival times for differnet AIDS defining conditions, is is still there?
You claim that "Newer treatments, however, have played a part in delaying the onset of AIDS". What are these treatments and where were they published? The 2005 guidelines say the data is inconclusive - and since 2002 HIV infected people with CD4 above 350 and viral load under 100,000 are not treated.
Also I notice you deleted the link to the Panel on Clinical Practices for Treatment of HIV. September 2002. What was you reason for removing this? Is it not "useful information"?
Sci guy 14:15, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Sci guy, you left a long message on my talk page about a section I did not insert. The Taiwanese study that antiretroviral treatment decreases HIV transmission needs to be sourced, but the BBC is an adequate temporary source until the journal reference is found.
- I've expressed my annoyance before that you constantly seem to be undermining consensus on HIV-related articles. As far as I'm concerned you have already shown your true colours in the reappraisal/Duesberg etc debate, and you don't seem to take sufficient distance to edit in an un-biased fashion. Wikipedia does not operate along true/false lines; all it does is aggregate knowledge and opinions. If 100,000 AIDS researchers link HIV to AIDS, and 100 do not, then numerically the deniers are a 0.1% minority, and Kary Mullis does not count double.
- I do agree the Duesberg hypothesis needs mention somewhere on Wikipedia, but as with all other articles tiny POVs do not get mentioned in the article intro, however vociferous their defenders. Similarly, you are not in your right to suppress studies simply because they challenge this minority view.
- As you will delete this post from your talkpage shortly, I'm cross-posting it to my own and will revert any removal. JFW | T@lk 14:26, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thank you for confirming that you did not insert this version. [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AIDS&oldid=15229072) which was logged at 13:53, 15 Jun 2005 Jfdwolff with the comment (rv suppression of useful information, please find the matching medical journal article). I can understand your annoyance that your user name was used by someone to add this material. Sci guy 02:47, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
User:Rabbis vs. real Rabbis
Dear Dr. Wolff: There is a new user who has chosen the controversial user name of of User:Rabbis for himself. I have just sent him a lengthy message with my concerns and a request that he change this name to avoid confusion with real Rabbis, see User talk:Rabbis#Choose another name please. Perhaps you could help him choose another more appropriate name. This user's few entries have revolved around a vote in support of keeping a controverssial article (about some Jewish clergy meeting with the last Pope) that was eventually deleted [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Lawrence_Eliezer_Kepecs&diff=13271687&oldid=13271492) downloading a newspaper article (because it mentions a cantor who later met with the Pope, singing at a concert) that is nominated for deletion [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:5_Towns_Jewish_Times_p.19-Kepecs_12-12-03.jpg) votes to keep a vanity article at [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Ofer_Barnoy&diff=14275243&oldid=14271651) then votes to "undelete" article about anon cantor [5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion&diff=14159690&oldid=14157454) then threatens "I've discussed the matter with my colleagues, and we are getting the Anti-Defamation League involved now" at Talk:Relations between Catholicism and Judaism#Removed vanity section, then inserts stuff into Relations between Catholicism and Judaism and is reverted twice [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Relations_between_Catholicism_and_Judaism&diff=15253132&oldid=15071676) and [7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Relations_between_Catholicism_and_Judaism&diff=0&oldid=15254038) Please look into this. Thank you. IZAK 23:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
![[3]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:5_Towns_Jewish_Times_p.19-Kepecs_12-12-03.jpg){kind=link}
- Getting the ADL involved? Hahahahahahahaha. JFW | T@lk 00:04, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
User:Cantors vs. real Cantors
Hello again Dr. Wolff: This seems clearly related to the above User:Rabbis only this time my objections have been lodged against User:Cantors for similar reasons, see User talk:Cantors#Choose another name please. This user may be a sockpuppet for User:Rabbis because of a corresposnding pattern and a fixated interest in "Eliezer Kepecs" almost exclusively. User:Cantors' first edit [8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cantors&oldid=14309465) is on 17 May '05, and User:Rabbis was on 5 May '05 [9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Lawrence_Eliezer_Kepecs&diff=13266687&oldid=13266652) . From the start [10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jayjg&diff=14127020&oldid=14126158), User:Cantors is focused on only one thing "Cantor Kepecs" (himself?), lists the article about himself (?) for "undeletion" [11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion&diff=14137895&oldid=14137816) and votes to "keep" [12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Victor_Beck&diff=14212461&oldid=14212031) and [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Gary_Krupp&diff=14213773&oldid=14212145) two vanity articles that are deleted, inserts and is reverted for interfering with undeletion policy discussions [14] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Undeletion_policy&diff=14222688&oldid=14221344), and after placing six (!) "categories" on his user page has them removed [15] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cantors&diff=14448885&oldid=14448877) by an admin. This needs some serious correction. Thanks for your help. IZAK 02:03, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
VfD of User:Cantors
Under these extradordinarily confusing circumstances, I have now nominated the User:Cantors page for deletion of contents and also renaming. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cantors. Thank you. IZAK 03:30, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Other user names with the same "Cantor" content
On User:Merlinzor and User talk:Merlinzor there is the same stuff repeated as on User:Cantors. Is this guy meshugge or what? IZAK 05:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- And again at User talk:Professor Kaufman, mostly the same as above. This is some nut. IZAK 03:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Userpages are not deleted unless offensive, but please IFD the images. JFW | T@lk 06:49, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Use of Prosaglandin in CHD
Do you know whether PGE is used only in cyanotic heart defects or if it is used in others as well?
- I must admit I don't know. If you're really interested I can ask an acquaintance paediatrician. PGE is used to keep the DA open, that's all I remember from my paediatrics intership :-) JFW | T@lk 22:07, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
That would be great if you could, I only know of it's use in TGA because my daughter has it, I don't know other major CHD's that well...but I am guessing that since the DA is kept open in TGA to allow "red" blood into the body, then that is likely it's purpose in other CHD's as well.
Categ for deletion
Hi Dr. Wolff: Please see: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 June 17#Category:Jewish Philosophers. Thank you and have a good Shabbes. IZAK 06:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Pentecost / pentacost
See my reply @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Passover_.26_Pentecost. Sam Spade 17:47, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Please see Talk:Pentecost#disambig_debate.2C_copied_from_my_talk_page. Sam Spade 22:04, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You seem an interesting person, from what I have read on your user page. We both share an interest in the field of medicine, for example. As far as the particular we are debating, I have an easy answer.
- a) rewrite the disambig yourself, in such a way to link to passover in a manner in which you accept, or
- b) wait for someone else to comment, and seek concensus.
I agree that you and I seem unlikely to reach agreement for the immediate future. Sam Spade 22:29, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- actually my opinion pretty much consists of the erroneous redirect, and the fact there is a bit of ambiguity of if Shavuot includes passover. Anyhow, I'd like to see a disambig at passover to pentecost, and back again. That seems to me to be most helpful to the reader, who may be lost. Sam Spade 23:00, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually, I don't feel very strongly ;) How about we wait and see if anyone else comments or cares? Sam Spade 23:07, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- One can never be too careful... or polite! I really appreciated how amiably you handled our difference of opinion, that reflects very well on you. Cheers, Sam Spade 23:31, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Cancer
From Talk:Cancer:
- Can someone find a better reference? Tempshill 23:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Look further down tha page. JFW | T@lk 23:34, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually I don't see any statistics at all on the page, except for a vague statement that cancer seems to be overtaking heart disease in the industrialized countries. Tempshill 20:13, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
"Bet"(ter dead or alive?)
Hello Dr. Wolff, please see revert history at Bet (letter). Is not the Hebrew language a vibrant living language whereas Phoenicia is a dead civilization and its language is an Extinct language? (As proof, see List of extinct languages#Middle East where the Phoenician languages are in the "extinct" column.) Thanks. IZAK 09:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
diagnosis
You removed the article diagnosis from the healthcare category due to a concern about the healthcare category becoming overloaded. This is a fair argument about it being overloaded but I would highlight that there are a number of links you may wish to delete from the healthcare category that seem to be less clearly associated with healthcare than diagnosis. We need to be consistent after all. --Vincej 22:18, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)