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Acupuncture and Biomedical Correlate
- Review request for a review on the acupuncture page, first paragraph. See the Talk page, "Physical correlates of acupoints" section and "Physical correlates of acupoints, Part Two." I am concerned that an ethnocentric bias on the part of editors has prevented a simple edit. The editors stand by some very shaky references and will not accept references from the most prestigious universities in the world, including those in China. At issue, the current article reads inaccurately, "Scientific investigation has not found any histological or physiological correlates for traditional Chinese concepts such as qi, meridians and acupuncture points," and yet I have sourced numerous peer reviewed studies from reputable sources showing MRI brain activity, hemodynamic and oxygen pressure correlates. Please review, I think you will find the research interesting. TriumvirateProtean (talk) 13:33, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note; I've been very busy and only read it just now. I will have a look, but can't get into anything very intense for another week or so. But I will have a close look. This is an important area and we need to get it right. --Middle 8 (talk) 16:46, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
- Note to self and Acuhealth aka TriumvirateProtean: believe it or not, I haven't forgotten about this, which is why I didn't archive it. Besides being occupied elsewhere, I've been waiting for good sources: not just studies, but reviews (per MEDRS). Looks like we have some now. --Middle 8 (leave me alone • talk to me • COI?) 20:09, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note; I've been very busy and only read it just now. I will have a look, but can't get into anything very intense for another week or so. But I will have a close look. This is an important area and we need to get it right. --Middle 8 (talk) 16:46, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
YEAH SCIENCE!!
The E=mc² Barnstar | ||
YO BITCHES, this barnstar is awarded to Middle 8, for making poison out of rice and beans, saving our lives in the desert by building a battery out of spare change, and because I went through nearly every edit over the past year on Acupuncture and saw Middle8's profound mastery of scientific understanding. Some of his excellent edits may have been reverted, but they haven't gone unnoticed. Thanks for your excellent contributions! LesVegas (talk) 06:09, 8 September 2014 (UTC) |
- @LesVegas: WOW! Thanks man, that made my day! Truly appreciated... YEAH BITCH !!! ... cheers! --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 07:08, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
AE request closed
The result of this AE request, which you filed against JzG, is that both parties are to be warned. Accordingly, you are hereby warned not to file frivolous or vexatious AE requests or to use Wikipedia's conduct enforcement mechanisms in an attempt to remove an opponent with whom you are engaged in a content dispute. You are also warned to respect Wikipedia policies on neutrality, consensus, and verifiability as well as all other applicable policies. Should you fail to adhere to this warning, there is a high probability that you will face substantive sanctions in the future. This warning will be logged as a discretionary sanction at the appropriate page, as will the warning to JzG. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:12, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I'd like to see far more serious sanctions against those such as you who disrupt the project. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 12:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- Given that JzG was warned, it's not clear in what sense this was a frivolous request. The warning suggests that there was indeed a behavioral problem. TimidGuy (talk) 12:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- TimidGuy, what they warned him for had nothing to do with why I filed the complaint. It turned into a "gotcha" fest, as these things do (I'd forgotten...). I thought AE would be better than that, but it still tends toward the same old B.S. -- a zero-tolerance witch-hunt -- find whatever looks bad, cherry-pick it, and depict it as a "pattern". At least the warning they gave me was justified; I should've inquired about whether such a posting was appropriate, but I was annoyed when I posted it, and had forgotten Bill Murray's advice to the groundhog ("don't drive angry"). ... OTOH, I suppose Guy deserved, in the bigger scheme of things, to get dinged for incivility, because he does do it too much, and unlike me, some people are truly bothered by it. (Gee, maybe that's part of why civility is one of WP:5P, ya think?) It can set a bad example and seems like bullying.
- The thing that does bother me is the IDHT in the face of MEDRS's that disprove skeptics' assumptions about scientific opinion. It sometimes seem like they can't imagine that the consensus in the skeptical blogosphere could possibly be different from the consensus in the scientific community. It doesn't compute. They think the burden is on other editors to prove there isn't a consensus that, say, acupuncture is as discredited as homeopathy. It's pervasive, and nowhere more apparent in Kww's Arbcom filing, where an imaginary "consensus" is simply asserted. Same thing in Kww's and others' initial comments at Talk:Acupuncture here.... but to Kww's credit, he seemed to back off his more extreme comments (which were that we should exclude any reviews with positive findings, including Cochrane-level reviews). --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 15:56, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- fwiw, I think Roxy's post was infelicitous piling on. But I also think, Middle 8, that the AE posting was poor judgement. Not sure what drove you to do that but there was no chance that was going to fly, and that, along with the ill-formed RfC/U on QuackGuru, are establishing a pattern that is going to stick to you; you have pooped in your own back yard twice now. I'm sorry to see that. Jytdog (talk) 16:12, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Jytdog: It was bad judgement... like Bill Murray said. And I apologized to Guy (but your comment is still accurate, unfortunately -- part of it's my fault, but there are also double standards on Wikipedia). Re consensus, see my comment at Kww's ArbCom request (which is a response mainly to his comment), or read the last few posts between me and Kww at the bottom of talk:Acu to get an idea what I'm talking about. Briefly: If what you're saying is consensus extended to all conditions, that would be reflected in reviews. But there's real disagreement over whether or not it works for pain and nausea -- and I recognize that that pool of possibility may also dry up, but that's where we are now. In a few years maybe the literature will be like homeopathy, but as long as there are invited pro-and con editorials, and an IPD meta-analysis, there is obviously mainstream debate -- see NHS etc., which reflect that. --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 22:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC) edited 23:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- fwiw, I think Roxy's post was infelicitous piling on. But I also think, Middle 8, that the AE posting was poor judgement. Not sure what drove you to do that but there was no chance that was going to fly, and that, along with the ill-formed RfC/U on QuackGuru, are establishing a pattern that is going to stick to you; you have pooped in your own back yard twice now. I'm sorry to see that. Jytdog (talk) 16:12, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, what I said in the first place was that we shouldn't include a laundry-list of individual reviews, because there's always a pressure from people to include the ones that are slightly positive and that distorts the perspective of the article. Similarly, we shouldn't list the few that find acupuncture is harmful, because those are also clearly false negatives. Include the scientific consensus, which is that acupuncture has no substantial effect beyond the placebo effect, and leave it at that. There's no doubt in my mind that there is a scientific consensus that acupuncture is a placebo, and you have even agreed with that stance: "The benefit (if it is real and not an artifact of bias) is small or modest ... nobody who is reality-based disputes that". So why do you argue that there is not a scientific consensus? Why doesn't a phrasing like "the benefits of acupuncture are non-existent or trivial" sum it up adequately?—Kww(talk) 16:18, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
fwiw, Kww, in my view this is messier than most people will actually acknowledge and deal with. One reason I appreciate Middle 8's perspective on Acu is that he actually deals with that. There are a set of difficult, hard facts here that there is no room in the acu article for, due to POV-pushing on both sides, namely:
- acu is indeed based on pre-scientific principles. If anybody claims today that "qi" and "merdians" have any reality, they are doing pseudoscience
- conventional medicine fails to help people sometimes, especially with regard to pain, which we still do not understand very well on basic scientific levels and even today we lack drugs and devices that effectively help some people who are in pain
- clinical studies have shown benefit of acu in some populations of people who are still in pain when doctors have done their best with conventional medicine. the placebo issues don't matter, clinically. the risk is tiny and compared to actually doing nothing extra, some people who are otherwise in pain are helped by this extra procedure. that is what matters.
- the use of acu as a complementary medicine in the situations mentioned above is discussed in medical textbooks (it doesn't get more mainstream than that) and is widely practiced. some of that is driven by market demand but medical centers wouldn't offer it if there wasn't some rationale (the clinical evidence) for it
I believe that Middle 8 gets all that, which is rare around here. A reasonable article about acu would be anchored on those facts and I think if Middle 8 had the article to himself, it would look that way. But you get acu-proponents constantly making insane claims about acu and the quack-fighters pushing back way too hard. The article is a wasteland, and there is no way to make the extremes step away. So I stepped away. That's my view, again, fwiw. (and none of this excuses Middle 8's poor judgement in bringing the AE) Jytdog (talk) 16:36, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- I agree that the social issue of whether a placebo is worth paying for confounds the issue, but it doesn't confound it much in my eye. If someone with chronic hives is helped by a sugar pill, I'm not about to endorse putting any statements that say that sugar is effective for the treatment of hives into sugar. Similarly, if the placebo effects of acupuncture help someone with chronic nausea, that doesn't make me inclined to put any statements into the article that says it helps with nausea.—Kww(talk) 16:49, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- I hear what you are saying. Part of why I emphasized that the placebo issues don't matter is that I was talking to you, and you are pretty solidly in the quack-fighter camp, and the placebo thing is what you reflexively reach for when talking about indications where acu has shown benefit over doing nothing extra. (btw I have the greatest respect for the work quack-fighters do, and I do a lot of that myself). In my view the quack-fighter camp way, way overplays the placebo thing - the data about placebo in indications where acu has shown benefit over doing nothing extra are messier than you all acknowledge. But anyway, thanks for reading what I wrote. Good luck! Jytdog (talk) 17:02, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
@Kww: - re your above comment beginning with "Actually, what I said...": time out, I call IDHT. You didn't quote the second part of what I said that differentiates our positions: "What is debated is whether it is clinically relevant...". To answer your question, why not say instead that some scientists conclude (insert your quote), and that others agree with the possible exception of pain and nausea? That's how the NHS did it: see the evidence page, archived 2012 version (scroll down to "Positive evidence", penultimate paragraph). Also note that in the archived page, it says the NICE found acu to be effective for lower back pain only, while today they add tension headache and migraine. It may be that acu really is a mild analgesic above placebo: I tend to suspect not, to be honest, but the evidence is consistent with that. When groups like the NICE say so, we have to reflect that. Don't we? --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 22:38, 11 January 2015 (UTC) 23:40, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- The people that you've quoted as believing that acupuncture's effects are clinically relevant are including the placebo effect. Whether recommending a placebo is ethical is a question for another day. Who is arguing that there is a substantial effect above and beyond the placebo effect?—Kww(talk) 00:35, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not at all sure of your premise; how do you know this? Pretty sure the NHS is going off Cochrane reviews and the like, and they all use sham as a control. --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 00:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- Vickers is pretty clear about it: I'm not aware of any reliable review that indicates a substantial delta between sham and actual, while there are certainly studies that show substantial deltas between doing nothing and performing acupuncture. That's why it's quite possible to have people concerned with financial value recommend its use while people that are concerned primarily with whether it has any actual physical effect say that it has little to none.—Kww(talk) 01:01, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- Kww just popping in here to comment on the above, where you seem to think there are two kinds of people in the world (the battleground mentality us/them) - those who love money (?) and those who love evidence. The group I tried to point out above is completely left out; namely those who want reasonable options for people still in pain after conventional medicine has done all it can. And what I hear from you is a big whopping "who cares". Maybe you think that is unfair, but I don't see you thinking like a doctor who has patients that need help. Can you please, pretty please, think orthogonally to the battle for just a bit, and see that it matters that acu does something for those patients, compared to doing nothing extra? Jytdog (talk) 00:39, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- It doesn't matter to how an encyclopedia describes it, Jytdog. We don't plant information into articles about placebos so that it is easier to deceive people receiving placebo treatment into thinking that they will be helped. That path would lead to an incredibly strange article on sugar, for example, describing all the maladies that sugar pills are effective for.—Kww(talk) 01:19, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- mmmm no. first of all it is not mainstream medical practice to give people sugar pills. as i noted above, acu has become mainstream as complementary (not alternative) medicine in some pain indications. But the deeper thing in what you write, really goes to what the editors working on any given article decide the scope will be, and specifically with regard to MEDRS, whether they choose to emphasize consensus practice or EBM, which are sometimes quite different. (i am not saying that they are different for these pain indications, btw) You can see how the difference between EBM and consensus practice, played out on the tamiflu article for example. It was insanely weighted toward a Cochrane review (where the lead Cochrane person is a notorious crank) -- see here and after I and some others pushed back it looked like it does now, which is Oseltamivir, with more weight on what is mainstream medical practice. (there is an RfC on it here and you can see where the consensus is going) As it stands now the acu article is (in my view) the ugly result of a battle, that gives no information on how acu is actually used. The clinical perspective is entirely absent and it is not very useful for anybody as an encyclopedia article. If the editors involved could agree to end the battle and just focus the scope on mainstream medical practice, the article would look very different. But that would require the pro-acu "lunatic charlatans" to back way the hell off things like using acu to actually treat cancer (oy), and would require the quack-fighters to put away their EBM swords. I don't see the pro-acu gang doing that anytime soon (they are if anything pushing harder lately) so I completely understand that the quack-fighters cannot walk away from an EBM focus which is their best weapon. So the article will remain as it is for the forseeable future. But focusing it on what is mainstream medical practice would probably be as useful a weapon... as it is, there is enough quackademic medicine via clinical trialling to give the pro-acu people some ground on which to fight; focusing on what is actual mainstream practice would take that ground away altogether. Anyway, good luck to you! Jytdog (talk) 01:36, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- It doesn't matter to how an encyclopedia describes it, Jytdog. We don't plant information into articles about placebos so that it is easier to deceive people receiving placebo treatment into thinking that they will be helped. That path would lead to an incredibly strange article on sugar, for example, describing all the maladies that sugar pills are effective for.—Kww(talk) 01:19, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Kww just popping in here to comment on the above, where you seem to think there are two kinds of people in the world (the battleground mentality us/them) - those who love money (?) and those who love evidence. The group I tried to point out above is completely left out; namely those who want reasonable options for people still in pain after conventional medicine has done all it can. And what I hear from you is a big whopping "who cares". Maybe you think that is unfair, but I don't see you thinking like a doctor who has patients that need help. Can you please, pretty please, think orthogonally to the battle for just a bit, and see that it matters that acu does something for those patients, compared to doing nothing extra? Jytdog (talk) 00:39, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Vickers is pretty clear about it: I'm not aware of any reliable review that indicates a substantial delta between sham and actual, while there are certainly studies that show substantial deltas between doing nothing and performing acupuncture. That's why it's quite possible to have people concerned with financial value recommend its use while people that are concerned primarily with whether it has any actual physical effect say that it has little to none.—Kww(talk) 01:01, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not at all sure of your premise; how do you know this? Pretty sure the NHS is going off Cochrane reviews and the like, and they all use sham as a control. --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 00:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- The people that you've quoted as believing that acupuncture's effects are clinically relevant are including the placebo effect. Whether recommending a placebo is ethical is a question for another day. Who is arguing that there is a substantial effect above and beyond the placebo effect?—Kww(talk) 00:35, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Oh man, I didn't notice this AE request at all. I haven't ever had dealings with Guy, so I probably wouldn't have had much pertinent to offer anyway. But I have seen editors claim something is "X, Y or Z" and when you point out reliable sources that say it's actually "A, B or C" they ignore it and not only repeat their original claims but edit accordingly. That can be a problem on the encyclopedia, and it would be nice to get a ruling on IDHT conduct like that. Do you think Arbcom handle something like that? LesVegas (talk) 00:32, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you
That was a nice thing you did, and I do appreciate it. Guy (Help!) 22:46, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
New meta-analysis
Found that acupuncture is better than a placebo.[1] TimidGuy (talk) 12:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
- (very belatedly, sorry) @ TimidGuy -- of interest: Ernst's comments on his blog [2] (and Colquhoun's comments there criticizing the paper) --Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 12:27, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Disability
Well said on your point about doubting someone talking about their disability. As a disabled person I have felt reluctant to reveal that fact here in fear of the sort of persons one of whom you spoke out about(damn that is an awkward sentence)--— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 14:46, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Tumadoireacht, I wouldn't have that fear. Wikipedia has a lot of Aspies, for example, and I don't think that there a lot of anti-Aspie bias. It's just a matter of continuing to raise awareness. As you can see from the comments at ANI, virtually nobody defended this; it's just that many of them didn't understand that "disability policing" is an especially bad way to accuse someone (implicitly or not) of lying. So people tend to get it; it's just a matter of helping them get it more. (And we need to keep the issue clear-cut, FWIW; for example, I revised my recent comments to make sure that it was clear that my comments were really about disability and not some ulterior motive.... the person who made the offensive comment is also one with whom I've had disagreements in the past.) Maybe we need some sort of meta-Wikiproject for disability awareness -- or more likely, there must be something like that that I don't know about. Let's keep in touch and keep our eyes open for something like that, and/or get it going. Best regards, Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 08:12, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi M8, How are you doing?
I notice you altered the section about Hans Adler on your userpage, and wanted to say that Hans was fantastic. I used to come across him on teh internetz years ago, before I had any interest in wikipedia. He was a superb example of fighting the polite fight against the forces of Alt-Med, and would have eaten you for a little snack. I was really pleased when I discovered he edited here. He'd have seen right through you. Best. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 10:16, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Roxy the dog, I'm good, thanks. I remember editing some articles that Hans was also working on, and I 'member he was quite critical of WP:TE editors of any persuasion. We usually agreed, both content-wise and in terms of appropriate parameters for editorial conduct. (I'm tempted to post examples, but that might involve outing myself, cf. User:Middle_8/Privacy.) I think he would have found you boring. He's still editing WP, BTW. Happy editing. --Middle 8 (contribs • COI)
- Good answer ! -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 10:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- @ Roxy the dog -- here ya go, [3][4] --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 10:45, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- I learn a great deal from looking at diffs. It always surprises me that apparently eds store particularly telling examples of behaviour in the form of diffs. They do this presumably to use against fellow editors. I don't do it at all, it strips all the fun out of improving wikipedia. As regards outing, I will always be 100% behind you on your stance on that one. I don't use the Roxy name anywhere else. I can't believe we have something in common. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 10:57, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- Rtd - Yeah, I'm of two minds on whether it's a good idea to discuss conduct in article talk space. On the one hand, it doesn't directly go to WP:ENC, and as you say, it is kinda humorless. OTOH, if an editor is really misbehaving and harming the project, flagging that fact and thereby holding 'em accountable does (indirectly) go to WP:ENC... but agree, it shouldn't be overdone. Kewl re privacy, yep, better that way; promotes candor. peace out. --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 13:20, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- I learn a great deal from looking at diffs. It always surprises me that apparently eds store particularly telling examples of behaviour in the form of diffs. They do this presumably to use against fellow editors. I don't do it at all, it strips all the fun out of improving wikipedia. As regards outing, I will always be 100% behind you on your stance on that one. I don't use the Roxy name anywhere else. I can't believe we have something in common. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 10:57, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- @ Roxy the dog -- here ya go, [3][4] --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 10:45, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- Good answer ! -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 10:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thank you and question
thank you for your passionate defense of User:AlbinoFerret, which I read at ANI. I did not know you were an acupuncturist. Just by accident, it so happened, that CFCF deleted a link under the German healthcare system See also section called German acupuncture trials. He called it completely irrelevant. I didnt agree, reverted teh bold edit, and he reverted me stating the same in the discussion page. What is your opinion?--Wuerzele (talk) 07:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Wuerzele - I think it's relevant, yes; see comment. Happy editing. --Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 20:49, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Summary bloat at Better Call Saul
Hi Middle 8, sorry to revert one of your recent good-faith edits at Better Call Saul. The additions you made I didn't quite see as crucial information, rather as details that can easily be enjoyed by watching the episode. Removing blindfolds isn't crucial knowledge, but freeing the captives is. The back-and-forth that Jimmy goes through, admitting to being a lawyer, then an FBI agent, then a laywer, isn't crucial to the plot. What is crucial is that Nacho learns that Saul is a lawyer, and that seems (for the purpose of this summary) to go smoother when we hear that he claims to be an FBI agent first, then admits to being a lawyer. The nugget about Jimmy driving the twins to the emergency room and them calling him "the worst lawyer in the world", could probably be cut entirely, without expanding it, as this is not a crucial plot detail. And again, the other subtleties can be enjoyed by watching the episode. Per WP:TVPLOT, we're striving to keep these summaries between 150-200 words. The changes you made brought it to around 225, but needlessly so. No disrespect intended. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:32, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Cyphoidbomb, no worries at all; I think you're right on the merits, and that's all that counts... although your gracious and patient explanation is very much appreciated. :-) That last edit of mine did feel dubious, and I'm glad you fixed it. It's an enjoyable challenge trying to get short summaries right, one I'm still learning. Good points all around in your ES; I will try and get them < 200 words. And (of course) please do feel free to modify my edits anytime, both on general principles and because your instincts are good. Best regards + happy editing, Middle 8 (contribs • COI) 06:19, 3 April 2015 (UTC) copyedit 06:24, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I can't say I've had a more pleasurable experience correcting someone. Thanks for being open minded and interested in (what I had hoped was) constructive criticism. And yes, I agree it is a challenge to sift through and pick out only the most important details. Getting the summary down to that length took a lot of noodling, but I cut 104 words out of the previous version. Regards, and again, thanks for being a good egg. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 06:26, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
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RfC on COI?
I noticed you making more arguments about COI on your userpage. Are you ready for a community RfC on this question? I am thinking it is about time. Jytdog (talk) 15:55, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Jytdog (<== did you get pinged by that?)... Yes, was just talking about COI with JzG. I think it's better to do it than not to, especially given that you mentioned you know how to publicize such things widely; we need to get input from people outside as well as inside the "alt-med wars". Can you be the one to take the initiative? I can't at this time (obligations IRL), and probably shouldn't, but I'm certainly happy to help, if such is useful. Cheers. --Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 16:18, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
- done. see RfC on COI for alt-med practitioners Jytdog (talk) 16:40, 10 May 2015 (UTC) (updated link to archived page, wl for appearance --Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 08:56, 24 May 2015 (UTC))
- and yes that did ping me. Jytdog (talk) 17:06, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
- well, that went no where. we have yet another confirmation that there is no consensus on this issue. My takeaway is here, for what that is worth. Jytdog (talk) 12:22, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
- @ Jytdog - Thanks for doing it, though -- actually, it's by far the best confirmation we have yet of the community's division, so it was useful to do, in the same way null results in sci research are useful albeit nonsexy. A thankless task, always the kind of thing people should be thanked for more. I certainly don't agree (as some did) that doing it was a bad idea or somehow risky, although I'd think carefully before cue-ing something up as a two-parter again. BTW if you didn't catch it, [5]. Happy (a) editing (b) Memorial Day. --Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 07:20, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Wanted you to know
Hi M8. I saw your ping to acu, but I've been out since I started that topic, and I'd rather wait till tomorrow before even reading any responses. I hope you don't mind. -Roxy the Mainstream dog™ (resonate) 22:52, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
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Could you please be somewhat collegial and discuss or at least leave a talk page message instead of just doing the redirect with no comment? -- Fuzheado | Talk 16:47, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
- Fuzheado I did, within perhaps a minute of redirecting. I probably should've done so first though, sorry. --Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 16:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
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Your notice at the top of the page
I like your notice (at the top of the page) and I copied it on my talk page. I hope you do not mind. Otherwise, I will erase it.
Sorry for this mistake too... (=_=)
Best regards. --BallenaBlanca (Talk) 22:26, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
- @ BallenaBlanca - Cool, go for it! I've seen many variations on that notice; most editors I've talked with seem to prefer keeping conversations in the same place, but many of them don't explicitly say so. BTW I like your "mistake" and may add it back.... :-)
- Happy editing; it looks like you're contributing a lot of good stuff, for which docs and scientists always deserve a special thanks! best regards, Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 08:30, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you very much! You're very kind. Happy editing for you too!
- P.S.: I'm not sure I understood, sorry for my poor English. Do you want I readd this? I do not want to screw up. (=_=)
- Best regards. --BallenaBlanca (Talk) 09:24, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
- Everything's totally fine! And your written English is fine, probably better than your understanding of other people's written English. It's the same way for me with my Spanish, which is rudimentary at best ... cuando hablo con otros, siempre tengo que decir "despacio, por favor!"
- What I meant about your edit is that I like the "Thank you very much for your understanding!" part that you accidentally and temporarily added to this page, and I might just add it back! In fact I will, in a moment, and I'll leave it there if you don't mind. It's so nice to see Wikipedians being so ...nice. :-) Cheers! Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 18:41, 28 March 2017 (UTC)