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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
I'm not sure what you mean by "it's either Mandarin or Chinese, not Mandarin Chinese". Mandarin can be used as an adjective to describe the specific type if Chinese. --Jiang 20:23, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
It's a bit different when you say, for example, British English or American English or Australian English. There are differences between these forms of English but basically, speakers can understand each other if you put them together in the same room. If you put native monolingual speakers of only, say, Hokkien, Mandarin and Cantonese together in the same room, they almost certainly will not be able to understand one another. I guess it would be acceptable to say they are each speaking some Chinese dialect, but the pronunciations are so different it's more like the difference between English and Irish than between British and American. -- Alex.tan 06:19, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that's a good comparison. Irish English is completely understandable to a British English speaker, and vice versa -- Irish Gaelic is another language entirely.
Don't forget to add the title of the article somewhere in the intro (I usually put it as close to the beginning as possible), and bold it (re Aripiprazole). Articles look much nicer that way! :) Dysprosia 10:00, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Yup, yup. Was transferring more stuff from everything2. *shrug* Alex.tan 10:44, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Just making sure :) Hope I didn't come off too motherly lol... Dysprosia 10:46, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I thought you were tired! :) Muriel Gottrop 13:24, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Please create user acct. on meta (with a link to this account) for your vote to be counted. http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_logo_vote/Ballot --Jiang 02:39, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- done. --Alex.tan 04:47, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hello, I reorganized your kidney article a bit and added some stuff. You may want to check if everything is still alright. Cheers, AxelBoldt 22:32, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- cheers =-) Alex.tan
Hi, I've been trying to recruit people who might know the language to the Malay Wikipedia. Any chance you'd be able to contribute or that you know somebody who might? Best, -- Kowey 18:20, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- I can contribute but I don't want to use my inferior knowledge of Malay to contribute ... I'll mention it to any Malay friends I know though. Alex.tan
Hi Alex, thanks for your message on Talk:Sphygmomanometry. Nice to have other docs around. Have you any idea if there is going to be some systematisation effort on the medical side of Wikipedia? I've just been writing articles and updating the ones that were just hugely POV (such as Oncology). Do you think we could have these nice light-blue boxes linking, for example, all the Nephrology articles together? I'd be delighted to put some work in, but not on my own... JFW 08:32, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Glad to see you're interested in joining the WikiDoc effort. You've done a lot for the quality of medicine on Wikipedia (e.g. bone marrow transplant).
- I saw your edits on plasmodium falciparum. Did you see last week's Lancet? They seem to have invented a fifth plasmodium, a zoonosis from macaques. JFW | T@lk 17:32, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- No, didn't see the article in the Lancet. Usually read these magazines in back issues when I have the time. I'll go look for the article and get back to you. Oh, btw, you do excellent work too. Alex.tan 11:56, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for contributing to the CRP article. It is surprisingly hard to find out what CRP really is! Kd4ttc 01:41, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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thanks for the editing on ETT, by the way! e 21:57, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
eponyms
Hey Alex, check out the talk page of the "List of eponymous anatomical structures" page you've created. Jay 12:31, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Merged the two pages. Probably can delete the old page ... Alex.tan 14:45, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You must either be be refreshing your watchlist very often, or using the RSS feed of RecentChanges. How could you otherwise have edited Gaucher's disease one minute after my last save???? :-) JFW | T@lk 10:37, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Just noticed it on the Recent changes page ... :-) Alex.tan 10:38, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The RSS feed is fantastic. Catch vandalism before anyone else. I was just about to add that catagory to pseudogout, but you won again. JFW | T@lk 10:40, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Broadband is good. :-) Alex.tan 10:41, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
drug identification
Hi Alex, have you tried using the drug identification pages in MIMS (or E-MIMS). It classifies the tablets/capsules into colours, then shows either a photo or diagram of the tablet/capsule - I find it quite useful when helping my patients (well... "customers", I guess) to identify their medication. Or is there an international equivalent of MIMS which might have that sorta thing? Techelf 1254, 1 July 2004 (UTC)
- Hi, yes, I've tried that before when I had the tablet in front of me. That was some years ago. It's harder when the patient doesn't have the tablets and says "the white one, for my hypertension" as opposed to the "yellow and green one" for something else. In any case, that's in the big version of the MIMS, yes? Don't have that in the polyclinics in Singapore. Alex.tan 08:23, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Category Ophthalmology
Uh, you just recently put an article into the category "Opthalmology" [sic]. I'm sure you're aware that it is spelled "Ophthalmology", o-p-H-.... Dpbsmith 11:09, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Whoops. Sorry. My typo. Well, it's on the Wikipedia:List of common misspellings ... Alex.tan 14:27, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is this text a copyvio from http://www.mtsinai.org/pulmonary/books/house/history-f.html ?
If it is not, or you wrote the original, my apologies. -- Anon.
The original text is copyright 1837 by Charles Dickens and is most certainly in the public domain by now. The quote from the article is, imho, within fair use. Perhaps you would like to identify yourself before making further accusations of copyright violations. Alex.tan 16:45, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I did some edits to peritoneum to define "peritoneal cavity". It seems to me however that some people define that term differently, not as the space between the two peritoneal layers, but as the whole space surrounded by the peritoneum. For instance, I find statements on the web like "the stomach is located in the peritoneal cavity". Are those statements simply wrong, or is that just an alternative valid definition? Thanks, AxelBoldt 21:51, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- The peritoneal cavity or "peritoneal space" as it should be called is the space enclosed by the peritoneum. It is not equal to the abdominal cavity though it appears to approximate this. The stomach itself is within the peritoneal cavity though structures such as the duodenum are not. The distinction is important for medical purposes. Alex.tan 08:05, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Oops, then my edits on Peritoneum were wrong: I defined "peritoneal cavity" as the potential space between the two peritoneal layers, which contains the fluid between the two layers (but obviously not the stomach). What is the correct term for that space? I worked off of http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/gastrointestinal_system/peritoneum_ans.html#1 . (http://vanat.cvm.umn.edu/TFFlectPDFs/LectSerousCavities.pdf also seems to support the statement that the peritoneal cavity is empty except for some fluid.) Thanks, AxelBoldt 20:15, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry but I think I should clarify myself a little better. Structures in the abdominal are classified as being intraperitoneal or extraperitoneal, depending on whether they have a covering of visceral peritoneum and a mesentery or not. The "peritoneal space" is, as you said, just a space filled with fluid. I knew there was a reason I didn't like anatomy in medical school. Alex.tan 01:43, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi from E2, ODP and Malaysia
Hi Alex. I remember you from the time I was active on E2, where I think we did compete on writing articles on Malaysia ;-). Since then I've come over to WP, but was mostly active in ODP until recently. The WP community had grown quite a bit in the last 2 years. Anyway, wouldn't it be nice to have an active group of editors working on Malaysian articles here? I guess Talk:Malaysia would be a good place to coordinate such editing project, right? BTW, I've taken the liberty to add an ==Early discussion== section at the top of this page. -- regards, sabre23t 21:32, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Edit attribution
Hi Alex. Edits from 203.127.72.10 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 06:02, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
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