User talk:K7aay

Sandstein: Hello. Please do not create articles with identical content under different names.

K7AAY: I believe you are referring to contributions I made to two already existing articles, which would benefit from consolidation, but I did not create them.

Sandstein: Instead, please create it once and use redirects under the other naming variants that point to the article. I've done this for your CIC-related articles. Thank you. Sandstein 22:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

K7AAY: TO be certain, which articles do you refer to?

Sandstein: On second thought: Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the commercial links/content you added

K7AAY: What are you referring to?

Sandstein: were inappropriate, as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should not be used for advertising or a collection of external links. See the welcome page if you'd like to learn more about contributing to the encyclopedia. Thanks! Sandstein 22:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

K7AAY: Hmm. So, adding to an already existing list of external links to non-profit community public service organizations is 'spam' and grounds for critique. Perhaps you could take it up with the original poster, who created the list, and not refer it to the person who merely reorganized the list to provide some structure before adding links?

December 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. I see you've added a link to a small convention to a variety of articles. Please carefully consider whether a link is relevant to that article, and look at the other links to see if that sort of link may be appreciated. Do not just list events you think might be interesting to those who read the articles. Thanks. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 07:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spinal stenosis

Hi K7AAY. Can you provide a better source or link to the claim that 19% of stenosis surgical patients with instrumentation get a post-op infection? The source you give only takes us to the home page of a surgeon. I think it is probably misleading to write that post-op infections are common. The bulk of the surgical literature would be in the range of 1%-5%, so 19% would appear to be out of the statistical norm. I think we need a better source for the claim. I don't have any real objection to having it in the article, other than the fact it is not sourced very well. Anyway, nice to meet you! A E Francis (talk) 17:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorting through the several videos which Dr. Chapman produced to find the specific video. Once I find which of the several videos that quote came from, I can narrow it down.

--K7aay (talk) 22:48, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I like your link to the videos from U. W. better than the one you had before. We get some of these U. W. videos on educational TV, and generally, they are quite good. I looked through Pub Med (which is a good site run by National Institute of Health) and could find nothing where Jens R. Chapman had written specifically on infections. This probably doesn't include the videos he has made. He has written about sacral fractures, but this is a different problem than stenosis. Your new link might be better in "indications", but it is ok where it is. You also might think about adding it to "Failed Back Syndrome" which I recently completed. That's my picture on Failed Back Sydrome, assisting my old partner. A E Francis (talk) 00:49, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a distinction to be made between deep infections which involve the dura, and those which are superficial wond infections. The former can be devastating, while the latter are usually inconsequential. Studies which do not distinguish these two kinds of infection don't really tell us too much as far as future impairment is concerned. A E Francis (talk) 01:11, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned up the reference you have added. The article is more correctly cited "Fritzell et al. Spine 26:2521-2532,2001. I also moved your other cite to a different place in the body of the article. A E Francis (talk) 15:11, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can find this article (as you can most articles) on-line by googling Fritzell Spine 26:2521, 2001. A E Francis (talk) 16:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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My response

I am seeking additional sources, through forums for combat vets which were in the area at that time, and would wish to have time to find those.

In addition, what GIs do for fun in a combat zone, I feel, is socially relevant, above and beyond the relevance of such a con stateside.

K7aay (talk) 06:34, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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