User talk:Anthony.Sebastian

Creating my User Talk Page. --Anthony.Sebastian
Anthony.Sebastian (Talk) 13:48, 19 December 2006 (CST)

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Anthony.Sebastian

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Dog/Draft

Hi Anthony. I am continuing to work on the Dog/Draft, but I would like to see the current draft become Approved Version No. 2 notwithstanding. It is expanded, it corrects some factual errors and tightens the slightly-too-informal writing in some paragraphs.

I believe David Tribe was the original approving editor, and I have dropped a note onto his page. I'm writing to you because I don't know how active David is at the mo and whether or not he will see the note timely, so I wanted to make someone else in Bio aware of it. Thanks. Aleta Curry 15:17, 18 February 2008 (CST)

Okay, I can't place an exact date on the cave paintings, but I tightened up the section a bit.

That's a nice dog site you mentioned. Got some gaps in breeds, but it's pretty good. The problem with the proliferation of all these dog sites is the diffusion of talent. There's just too much information for any one person or even two or three to make a comprehensive site quickly.

Aleta Curry 18:09, 19 February 2008 (CST)

Just FYI, I've been doing some work as you suggested. Do have a look if/when you have a spare moment.

Re the fictional dogs you mentioned, yes, they all belong in related articles/lists/catalogues/whatever. I don't remember where we were in terms of developing articles for fictional dogs--oh, dear--one more thing for my 'to do' list, but at least that's a fun one!

Aleta Curry 18:07, 25 February 2008 (CST)

Aleta, hard to beat Dogs From Fiction. Includes movie, TV, cartoon, literature dogs. --Anthony.Sebastian 18:47, 4 April 2008 (CDT)

Not bad, but not the top either. There are more comprehensive lists at Wikipedia, thanks to many dedicated dog lovers. (I should know.)

Of course, for the BEST ever, I'd have to nominate Citizen Lunchbox dot com. Outrageous.

Aleta Curry 00:10, 5 April 2008 (CDT)

Wiki conversion

I'm proficient with LaTeX and have MSWord running on my PC. I'm willing to convert math and physics equations from Word to Wiki LaTeX. --Paul Wormer 07:42, 21 February 2008 (CST)

Volunteer to convert articles emailed in

Anthony:

I would like to volunteer to convert and upload Chemical Engineering articles that are sent in via email by contributors. Is this the right place for that? If not, can you tell me where to volunteer? I will watch for your response here on your Talk page. Thanks, Milton Beychok 12:03, 21 February 2008 (CST)

Milton, thank you for volunteering to convert word processor articles to MediaWiki mark-up. I hope you will feel comfortable acepting articles with a broad definition of chemical engineering.

Milton, you need next to subscribe to the mailing list where authors will submit their articles as email attachments: http://mail.citizendium.org/mailman/listinfo/cz-wikiformat.

I have added your name to the page where we will keep track of which volunteers have accepted which articles for conversion: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Wiki-converting. Review that page for information.

Also, review the page we developed for submitters, which will indicate what to expect: CZ:Email us an article in word processor format.

Again, welcome aboard. As a subscriber to cz-wikiformat mailing list, you can communicate with the other wiki-converter volunteers, and you can use the discussion (talk) page for communication: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Wiki-converting.

--Anthony.Sebastian 14:48, 21 February 2008 (CST)

Dog Approval

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your request on the CZ:Approval Process page. I think Noel has addressed some major problems there. You were very close on the ToApprove section of Template:Dog/Metadata. I made these changes. Basically, you don't need to use the four tildes when placing the 'ToA editor=' and you need the current version of the 'Draft' page rather than the 'metadata' page. Otherwise, you did well. D. Matt Innis 20:00, 25 February 2008 (CST)

Anthony, when they added the boxes to the left, they gave us a better way to find the 'article url'. Would you do me a favor and see if I explained it adequately? Thanks, D. Matt Innis 21:11, 25 February 2008 (CST)

Excellent, that was just what it needed. Now all we have to do is wait until the next editor comes along! Thanks, D. Matt Innis 21:54, 25 February 2008 (CST)

Archiving

Anthony, I think all you have to do is put this template at the top of that page - {{archive box|auto=long}}. I'll watch and see what happens when you do it in case it blows up ;-) --D. Matt Innis 19:31, 26 February 2008 (CST)

Well, at least it didn't blow up! Your sandbox-2 solution looks just as good. Chris Day might have a solution for the archive box for when using the /sandbox. I'll keep looking, too. D. Matt Innis 20:29, 26 February 2008 (CST)

Thanks, Matt. Perhaps archiving only available for Talk pages?? --Anthony.Sebastian 20:31, 26 February 2008 (CST)

Yes, Anthony, I think you're correct [1]. So if you put your sandbox under User Talk:Anthony.Sebastian/Sandbox it should work. Then your archive page would be User Talk:Anthony.Sebastian/Sandbox/Archive 1 and Archive 2, etc.. --D. Matt Innis 20:59, 26 February 2008 (CST)

Nope, the box worked, but the Archive 1 went to your other archive page, so it only works on talk pages and there cannot be any /pagename attached to it. D. Matt Innis 21:07, 26 February 2008 (CST)

Interesting idea. Sad it did not work. I admire your perseverance. --Anthony.Sebastian 21:37, 26 February 2008 (CST)

That's Life!

Anthony, I justed wanted to take a moment to thank you for incorporating many of my suggestions in the Life/Draft article. It is a real pleasure to work with someone who takes constructive criticism as it is meant, as an aid. Cheers. David E. Volk 08:55, 29 February 2008 (CST)

Thank you, David, for the thorough reading and thoughtful, constructive criticisms. I greatly appreciate the feedback and suggestions. I have not finished working on all your comments, and will look forward to your thoughts as I continue editing. --Anthony.Sebastian 14:40, 29 February 2008 (CST)

Dog is Approved!

Anthony, congratulations on another approval/re-approval! --D. Matt Innis 19:22, 29 February 2008 (CST)

Life ver 1.2 Approved!

Good work once again Anthony! Persistence pays off ;-) --D. Matt Innis 22:15, 10 March 2008 (CDT)

Thanks, Matt. I call it perseverance, and learned it from my mentor, Curtis Morris, who never gives up.

You have been most helpful throughout. CZ is lucky to have your talents. --Anthony.Sebastian 23:29, 10 March 2008 (CDT)

idea for food chains / food webs / subpages / etc

Hello,

I wondered if you could give any input or insight on this idea. I started a forum post in the chat section: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1643.0.html

I really like your pictures in your life article, and wondered if you had any insight to the feasibility of mapping food chains in figures. Thanks in advance! Tom Kelly 17:42, 22 March 2008 (CDT)

Hominid to hominin

Thanks, I was trying to figure out why the warning message did not pop up and you had already been in and corrected the metadata pagename. :) Chris Day 22:43, 31 March 2008 (CDT)

Just trying to help student, as you are. --Anthony.Sebastian 22:46, 31 March 2008 (CDT)

Olympics

Hi Anthony,

Just want to double-check about the issues you raised at CZ:monthly write-a-thon#Future Theme Schedule. Are you strenously objecting to The Olympics being a theme, or just raising issues to keep us honest? Aleta Curry 17:05, 4 April 2008 (CDT)

Aleta,

I do have serious objections about supporting the Olympic games in China, but no "strenuous" objections to the theme for a CZ Wrytathon. Depending on how the theme begins to develop -- the sentiments of the participants -- I may choose to pass on the party. --Anthony.Sebastian 13:43, 5 April 2008 (CDT)

Hi again, Anthony. I respect that. More at: user talk:Aleta Curry#Olympic objections

Aleta Curry 20:08, 7 April 2008 (CDT)

Breast Cancer Fund report

I guess I should have said the following earlier: yes.

I wrote a letter to the editor; I believe that she will like your idea. Sorry for the delay. Pierre-Alain Gouanvic 23:38, 17 April 2008 (CDT)

Janet Gray contacted me yesterday. She had good news, which are unfortunately not as good for CZ: the report will be published in a non-open access international journal, the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health (this large document will be split two halves, two issues, if you wonder how this can be possible). It will be impossible for her and the BCF to "share" the rights for this work, now that this contract has been sealed.

Pr Gray will stay in touch in case she has some content to share in CZ, and she also forwarded my invitation to Nancy Evans, a breast cancer fund hero and an exceptional advocate for environmental health research in the field of breast cancer.

I learned several things while translating this work, and it will be possible for me to do my part, if I manage my time wisely; also see other message below.

Pierre-Alain Gouanvic 10:38, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

Userplan

i think I'm the wrong person to ask here. i have not got mine up and running so have no experience setting it up. For that reason when I look at yours I'm not sure where to start trouble shooting. Sorry not much help. Chris Day 16:54, 22 April 2008 (CDT)

A new colleague for you

Professor Sebastian: Hitting the recent changes button, I witnessed the birth of a new article that should interest you: Salt and health. David Cooper, another intellectual refugee from Wikipedia (like myself), started it when he arrived to CZ. I think it's great news. Pierre-Alain Gouanvic 09:01, 5 May 2008 (CDT)

Just Anthony, Pierre-Alain. Thanks for calling my attention to David Cooper's nice article. I will put my two cents in when time has a stop. --Anthony.Sebastian 17:52, 5 May 2008 (CDT)

History of Medicine articles

Hey Anthony-- In addition to the articles we've been discussing on early Greek medicine, it might be nice to have a few broad articles on the history of medicine before we get to Harvey-- something along the lines of medicine in the medieval West and medicine in the Renaissance or European medicine in the Early Modern period. Now that I think of it, titling all of them 'European medicine...' makes sense, because then it would be possible to have companion articles on 'Islamic medicine in the Middle Ages', or something similar. We still need to get to Galen at some point, of course. I'll give a shout when I start working on the medieval medicine article. Brian P. Long 05:22, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

"Putative contributors to the secular increase in obesity: exploring the roads less traveled"

Hi Anthony, I found this text quite refreshing. You can read my attempt to summarize it on the Obesity page, etiology section. I even found a full text link! Yey! It's interesting that one of those 10 factors are endocrine disruptors (cf my work (still just a plan...) on Breast Cancer page will require much work about EDs). I even found somewhere else (nb: in a major jounal) that the association between diabetes and obesity was only relevant if certain fat-soluble contaminants were present. So many things to do, so little time. I wish my Internationalisation proposal (initial proposer: Aleta) could work and help bring new contributors!

Anyways, when you have the time, please have a visit! I plan to stay on this page there for a while. Pierre-Alain Gouanvic 02:31, 15 May 2008 (CDT)

A quick message just to avoid a misunderstanding: the only section I wrote was the part in the etiology section that follows the discuss on genes, hunger and the arcuate nucleus (which was written by Gareth Leng). My contribution is based on IJO review article. I think that the detailed work in the Treatment section is by Robert Badgett.

I'll now get back to your message and to your work on the topic in the evolutionary medicine page.

Pierre-Alain Gouanvic 19:34, 15 May 2008 (CDT)

Hippocrates

Dr. Sebastian,

May I have the original Greek text of the aphorism? All I can find is the Adams and a French translation. You may call on me for whatever need arises in my area of expertise. Erik M. Baker 20:40, 29 May 2008 (CDT)

Biology's next microscope

Hi Tony, I am delighted to see this article transplanted here, since I have myself exchanged microscopes for algorithms recently, and I had enjoyed the paper very much when it came out. I definitely plan to join working on it, though there are a few points to consider (detailed here) on which I would like to invite your feedback. -- Daniel Mietchen 04:53, 5 June 2008 (CDT)

Non-technical intros

I think I like what you did to Epilepsy's introduction. I was hoping nobody would not hammer me too much for starting health articles with a technical perspective for a technical audience. I very much like your anchoring your definition to an existing canonical description such as MedlinePlus. Now the article reaches both audiences (or at least its introduction does).

Thanks, Bob. It always seems best for me at least to try to reach a broad audience (without dumbing down) in the first paragraph, then start advancing from that foundation.

Questions:

1. Do you think a medlineplus introduction followed by MeSH introduction is a good pattern to continue with? I am thinking through whether the MeSH definition contributes now. I still find that MeSH helps me much in naming articles (and will be essential when the day arrives that web resources map to each other).

Yes, if the MeSH definition doesn't get so technical the reader will get little out of it. Epilepsy might be a case in point. We can always 'officialize' after giving nthe reader enoug background for it to make sense.

2. Is it ok to insert a section head labeled "History" prior to "The ancient Greeks recognized epilepsy..."? This would avoid the contents menu being pushed down so far.

Good idea. I went ahead an made the change as you suggested.

--Anthony.Sebastian 12:34, 23 June 2008 (CDT)

Bob - Robert Badgett 12:01, 23 June 2008 (CDT)