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1. Terence Ryan - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Thanks for the help with Rodolphe Salis

You did a great job, thanks a ton. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calvintennant (talk • contribs) 04:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jeff Bennett

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Please block

Please block my user account indefinitely. --Abfall-Reiniger (talk) 09:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy requires that my answer be "No". Please see WP:BLOCKME for more information, including a suggestion as to an alternative way of achieving the same effect. —Paul A (talk) 13:09, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. May I have more please?

re: Alex Day article

Thanks for your edits to the Alex Day article. I was in the middle of editing it myself when you did that. I wonder if you would have time to throw me a few hints about this Notability issue. I thought I had that nailed down. But apparently not. I'm still trying, but I'm not sure where the problem is, exactly. I'd appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks.

Wmoran9550 (talk) 07:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

WOW! I saw what you did to those Footnotes, and I think it's great! Thanks. I'll take a look at the sourcecode later and try to figure out how you did that. Maybe I can fix some of those footnotes myself. They are much better the way you did them. Did you get a chance to look at the Discussion page? I made this "Notability Matrix" to help me figure out that issue. I wonder what you think. You've been nothing but helpful so far, and I really appreciate it. Thanks again.
Bill Moran
Wmoran9550 (talk) 09:48, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

More great changes. I was going to fix up some more of those footnotes today, but I had to work overtime, and then I'm preparing to interview for a new job, and I had to take this loooooong assessment test, so... sorry. I didn't get to it. But I like what you're doing. It's such a great feeling when someone steps up and offers a helping hand.
Bill Moran
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Note vandal

Note vandal on 1952 Swimming and Valerie Gyenge pages. 71.235.239.253 (talk) 21:09, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Vincent Sherman

Thank you very much indeed for cleaning up the article on Vincent Sherman a bit, thank you very much. Jordancelticsfan (talk) May 13, 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Saffron Coomber

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Tom Warder

All I can say is that you must be very ignorant if you don't yet know that Hemochromatosis is the most common genetic disease of all - in fact Australia's distinguised researcher, Lauria Powell, would be the first to confirm this. It affects people of certain descent more that others (eg. in Ireland 1 person in every 3 carries one of the genes which, if any of those "carriers" were to marry another, which is not unlikely, their offspring would at risk of developing the full-blown disease. This is how HHC is compounded among Caucasians. As for celebrities, did you check out the link to the Steinbecks? Now go to Hemingway right here on Wikipedia etc. etc. Furthermore, Marie Warder's citation for the Canada Medal of Honour, mentions her book, the Bronze Killer, and lauds her for bringing this information (and proof of it) to the attention of the world. You may even be at risk, yourself and not know it! (Would you like me to have that citation and the article in THe Reader's Digest scanned for you?)

As to the article reading like an obituary! - It is, Mate! What a tragedy that this extraordinary human being should have had to go from physisican to physician for 8 yeras without any of the "experts" being able to diagnose him! Now millions of families will live because of what happened to him! If you have the courage, go to the Bronze Killer page on [1] and watch the video at the bottom of that page. There you will hear the famous geneticist -- Michael Hayden(discoverer of the gene for Huntington's) state categorically how common HHC is!

Why do you think that the World Health Organization invited Marie Warder to meet with them, thus including her in the first board to stud the "Prevention and Control of Hemochromatosis"?

Mr. Paul A., you may have done a very tragic thing by inserting you caustic observations into the Tom Warder story without first checking out your own knowledge of the subject. Furthermore, do you think that all the other Wikipedia editors who went over and over the article many times, fell down on the job? I assure you that every statement made in the article was verified —Preceding unsigned comment added by Venturian (talk • contribs) 06:03, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

First, I wonder if you have taken the time to read Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." You say all these things about hemochromatosis, but unless you provide independent citations, we're basically just taking your word for it. I'm sure you know yourself to be honest, but would you trust the word of a complete stranger on the internet?

Second, you say "it is an obituary" as if that explains things. But if it's an obituary, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a place for objective, unemotional articles; there are plenty of other web sites where an obituary could go, but Wikipedia is not one of them.

Third, considering how personally you're taking this, perhaps you should consider Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. Are you doing this to make Wikipedia better, or are you really doing it to tell people about Tom/spread the word about hemochromatosis/some other external agenda? Clearly this is important to you, but perhaps for that very reason you should stand back and let go of it. —Paul A (talk) 02:25, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Criticism of artiticle TOM WARDER

Following correpondence with Graeme, I understand some of what you have done, but, having already furnished you with much new info (for instance that concerning The Hemingways) and as there is a link to the Steinbecks (provided by Nancy Steinbeck, herself) I don't see any changes at all. I also followed the link to the Eugene Boyko article (which after having been on Wikipedia for ages, is now also considered questionable) despite the fact that the info appears to have been provided by the Canadian National Filmboard.

My article was written to honor Tom - not me - but, on going red-facedly, into some of what Murella has written about me, I found much that substantiates some of what you are now now disputing.

Venturian 16:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Venturian (talk • contribs)

I'm not sure what you mean by "furnished you with much new info". The Steinbeck link was there already (and you will notice that I didn't say the Steinbeck bit needed more citation.) The only new info I can see that you've added to the article is the Hemingway citation; this is a good start - but it is only a start. There is much more that needs to be done. —Paul A (talk) 09:43, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:John_Vernou_Bouvier_III&action=edit&section=1 It has long been believed that his "never-fading" dark tan was a significant iindication of Hemochromatosis. In fact, after reading the story of “Black Jack Bouvier”, the father of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, I thought it expedient to provide the author with information about hemochromatosis— just in case that might have been what killed him! After spending the last 30+ years researching HH, I believe that it was the case, and I now also believe that "Jackie O" died of it. Proof will be forthcoming!

As May has been declared Hemochromatosis Awarness Week by the Canadian Government, and we now have proof that HHC is ther world's most common genetic disorder - that persons with high iron stores are the ones to be at greatest risk of dying from food-borne diseases, that Parkinson's and MS are caused by iron on the brain, and that it was the diagnosis of Tom Warder that led to awareness around the world - literally making it aware of the prevalence - I now don't think of the story as an "obituary" - I think it illustrates a triumph. If I had your address and could send you a copy of The Bronze Killer, you might uinderstand why!

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Obviously, the bot will not read this, but I note for any future reader (including future me - hello, me) that I didn't upload this image, only reverted it to the original version after somebody replaced it with a photo of an actor playing Eugene Roe in a biopic. I find that the reason it isn't on Eugene Roe any more is that it's been replaced by a corresponding image from Wikimedia Commons, so I see no reason to worry about this version being deleted. (Of course, the version on Commons may get deleted too, later, but that's its own lookout.) —Paul A (talk) 14:45, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Cheers

Lol, thanks for correcting my obvious error at Gertrude Friedberg, I'm just so in the habit of writing articles about living people it completely slipped my mind :) Freikorp (talk) 06:29, 30 June 2010 (UTC)