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Also, thanks for the help over at Randi Rhodes: I didn't want to contribute to an edit war anymore. Just FYI, even though it seems like an open-and-shut case of original research, I'm opening a survey in the talk page just to kill this dispute off before it begins.
Thanks again! – ClockworkSoul 16:16, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Originally posted on User_talk:ClockworkSoul
Your warm welcome and pointers are much appreciated. Already need help redirecting a mis-titled new article about TMAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Algorithm_Project . The article also needs refinement to improve neutrality while preserving factual integrity. Thanks again! Ombudsman 17:37, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
It wasn't difficult to figure out how to redirect, so that's done. However, immediately after fixing that problem, the expected question about neutrality was posted at 21:24, 27 Feb 2005, by Antaeus Feldspar: (POV check -- phrases like "TMAP is a typical, corporate-sponsored "disease awareness" campaign"). Your assistance on navigating this politically loaded issue would be invaluable. Thanks, Ombudsman 21:42, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hey, my computer isn't that good, but your picture on Koko(gorilla) didn't show up. Howabout1 00:28, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For exhibiting a dedication to NPOV beyond your experience, I hereby present you with the Exceptional Newcomer Award. Paste the template onto your user page, and wear it with pride!
You pointed out that there was a need for NPOV on the ADHD article. I did the best I was able. Whatcha think of the result?*Kat* 17:11, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
I'll see what I can do. *Kat* 05:22, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Ombudsman. Looking over the edits made to the article, it's very clear that although they are a series of large edits, they are not vandalism. If you have any disagreement with the author, try posting them to the article's (or user's, even though he is an anon) talk page, and work it out. I find that most of our editors are rational and willing to comprimise, and I have no doubt that you can reach a mutually agreeable solution. – ClockworkSoul 23:48, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Good work creating new articles and contributing to exisiting ones. When you make contributions, be careful that you don't include copyrighted material. Copyright rules are complicated, so take some time to review Wikipedia:Copyrights. A good general rule is that most things on the internet are already copyrighted by someone else, so they cannot be contributed to wikipedia. Again, content from webpages is usually copyrighted and cannot be added to wiki. Keep up the good work, and feel free to contact me with questions. Feco
>>Would deletion of the offending passages and statement suffice for now?<<
Ombudsman,
I applaud your enthusiasm and dedication to fill in Wikipedia's gaps with respect to research around the use of thimerosal and autism. I hope you might be willing to consider a few points.
Thanks for listening. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 21:51, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for weighing in on the Thimerosal article; I think it's turning out well, though some cleanup is needed. --Leifern 23:43, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
Ombudsman,
I welcome the opportunity to work with you (and other editors) to produce high-quality, neutral articles. I'm sure we both agree that verifiable external sources are an important part of our fact-checking procedure.
Nevertheless, I have to express a bit of concern about the Bernard Rimland article. Although it's starting to evolve away from its original form, I fear it may have started out [1] as quite similar to the external article, Dr. Bernard Rimland is autism's worst enemy. What can I say? I'm an academic, and I get an uncomfortable, itchy feeling in the back of my skull when I see something that so closely paraphrases (and in some cases, directly quotes) another publication.
Please consult outside sources, but I would strongly encourage you to rewrite from scratch. Thanks, TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 04:33, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi Ombudsman. I appreciate your invitation to review the article. I'm a bit concerned about the heavy emphasis on mercury/thimerosal and MMR. Despite the opinions of a few scientists, we still don't have any good theory to explain autism, and I think our article should reflect that—there isn't necessarily a conspiracy by the pharmaceutical companies and the "medical establishment" to cover up the evils of vaccines. There are a lot of good, honest scientists and clinicians who have published solid work that shows the evidence just isn't there. (Not that they have proven a link doesn't exist, just that we lack good epidemiological or biochemical data to support one at this time.) Hopefully you'll cover other theories in more detail as you continue to revise the article...? --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 03:19, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey - thanks for the butterfly barstar! Also, you forgot to put your signature on the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/September 11, researchers, so I went ahead and added it for now. I shall try to notify others of that vote. Once again thanks, and keep up the good work. --Blackcats 18:20, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If you'd like to weigh in on the deletion discussion regarding Edward Yazbak, you'll need to follow the link in the VfD template at the top of the article (click where it says this article's entry, or go to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Edward Yazbak.) Discussion and votes left on the article's Talk page won't be counted—and probably won't be noticed by the admin closing the discussion. --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 00:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my candidacy for adminship. Kelly Martin 02:07, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
If you outline on the talk page what you have in mind for the rest, I may be able to help. It has stayed pretty bad and it hasn't reached to top of my priority list to rework, but I know a lot of the things it needs, and am fairly knowledgeable in the subject and Wikipedia policy. Thanks for working on it. - Taxman Talk 20:45, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
Salve!
I nominated W. Mark Felt as a WP:FAC. As you commented on the article's talk page, I'd appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. Mark Felt/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 14:55, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
Are you going to respond to my comments there or are you going to focus on makeing kennedy look like an idiot?Geni 02:14, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
9/11 conspiracy theories has been involved in extensive discussions over its title. Please take a sec and say why you think that your proposed title is preferable. Thank, -Willmcw 10:02, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
Hey Ombudsman, thanks for welcoming me into the wikipedia community and giving me the introductory info. I'll go throught it gradually over the next week or two.
Laters, --ErikStewart 14:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You can check here to see that there are 490 admins. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 02:40, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
Hey - if you could help keep an eye on the The New Pearl Harbor article I would appreciate. Someone recently inserted a bunch of unsourced (orginal research) anti-Griffin editorializing. I've reverted that now, but it would probably be good idea to keep watching that page. Thanks. Blackcats 08:26, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Just wanted to say that I agree with your latest change to the first sentence, it's better than both preceding versions. - DaveSeidel 00:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I note you are one of the major contributors to the September 11, researchers article. Please start merging it with the 9/11 conspiracy theories article as soon as possible, as, in accord with the VfD on the topic, the September 11, researchers article will soon be turned into a re-direct. Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 16:47, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Ombudsman. A vote was already taken regarding the title of the 9/11 conspiracy theories article, and there was no consensus for changing it. It was precisely for this reason that the September 11, researchers was created. Wikipedia frowns on POV-forks like that, which is why the VfD strongly indicated that the September 11, researchers should be re-merged into the original article. I'd appreciate it if you could help with this as soon as possible. Jayjg (talk) 28 June 2005 18:56 (UTC)
Hi; As people contribute to 9/11 conspiracy theories/September 11 researchers it's getting out of sync with 9/11 conspiracy theories. I understand you oppose merging the page. I see no point in me merging the new material again if you are going to insist the page be maintained. What do you think would be a useful way to proceed? Do you want it to go through another AfD? Tom Harrison (talk) 17:30, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Please take a look at the recent edits to this article. - UtherSRG July 7, 2005 12:04 (UTC)
To all participants of the WikiProject Kindness Campaign: There is a proposal on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kindness Campaign for the Peace Dove. Please comment as you see fit. Thanks, Sango123 16:29, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
You supported my nomination of the Mark Felt article and I wonder if I could get your support on another FBI article up as a FAC, Helen Gandy, who was Hoover's secretary for five decades. PedanticallySpeaking 21:04, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
No problem. I didn't know you were a sock puppet. :) Sango123 20:47, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I am sincerely interested in (and completely ignorant of) the nature of your concerns, as expressed in your keep vote, regarding this and related articles. I'd appreciate any explanation you have the time and desire to give. Thanks, Xoloz 05:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! I noticed that you contribute a lot to Mental illness, and I thought you might care to help out the Psychotherapy article. As it stands this article could use a lot of help, and thus I've taken the liberty of trying to get it to be the focus of a week's improvement drive. All we need to get it for a week's worth of focus and improvement is enough votes, so go to Psychotherapy's vote page and help out this very needing article! JoeSmack (talk) 21:21, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
Please see the VFD for commons:List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm. This is of vital importance. This list and others like it are being pushed off of the entire Wikimedia project. It started at Wikipedia, where they were VFDd in favor of moving to Wikisource/Commons. Now they are being VFDd off Wikisource (they don't really belong there, since they are not original source texts), with people there saying they should be on WP/Commons, and it is also being VFDd on Commons, where people don't realize that Commons accepts texts (says so right on the Main Page). This will set a precedent for any user-created lists. -- BRIAN0918 22:39, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for cleaning those up... I should mention that I changed it to the list style so that it doesn't show up in the TOC, as someone complained about the size of the TOC a while back on Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Autism --Ryan Norton T | @ | C 08:07, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You appear to have extreme and troubling positions on psychiatric issues. Do you have any official role within wiki, or did you just give yourself the name "ombudsman" to attain credibility?--24.55.228.12 02:30, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the rant on the autism epidemic talk page... it was late :). --Ryan Norton T | @ | C 21:46, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You supported my W. Mark Felt FAC nomination. I'm grateful though it was successful. I've got another FAC now, the next congresswoman from Ohio, Jean Schmidt. The FAC page is here. I hope to get it featured by September 6, the day she will be sworn in. I'd appreciate your support. PedanticallySpeaking 17:28, August 23, 2005 (UTC) (P.S. If you are worried about the "fair use" of her picture, when she's sworn, we'll be able to replace it with a nice U.S. government public domain photo.)
Hi! You showed support for Biochemistry, this week's Medicine Collaboration of the Week. You are invited to help improve it! — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:07, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
After some good discussion on the talk for WP:PRIM with User:Marskell, I've begun work on cleaning up category:Early hominids. Please come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Primates/category rework to weigh in your opinion on what direction to take. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
In June you voted on the featured article candidacy of W. Mark Felt, which failed. It has now been resubmitted. In the event you would like to vote on the new candidacy, it is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. Mark Felt/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 19:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your support of my adminship!! I was surprised at the turnout and support I got! If you ever have any issues with any of my actions, please notify me on my talk page! Thanks again! Ryan Norton T | @ | C 03:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Although the AfD debate for Neanderthal theory of autism was closed "copyvio", I note that it was also described as "original research". I suspect that the latest submission is also likely to be considered original research. I have moved it to User:Ombudsman/Neanderthal theory of autism. Please feel free to:
-- RHaworth 07:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, Ombudsman. I apologise if it appears that my attempted edit was censoring, however, I would like to raise just a couple of points. Firstly, the page seems very US-centric. Pharmaceutical companies are not allowed to advertise in most of the rest of the world, and as such, I am surprised that such companies would talk about 'chemical imbalance' as it seems a gross oversimplification (and a misleading one because it makes a drug that changes the chemical balance seem like an obvious treatment). Secondly, this page, like a number of others, ends up effectively dealing with over-prescription of such medications. Over-prescription is definitely a problem (although again, perhaps somewhat US-centric), but does every page relating to mental illness require its re-consideration? Perhaps the page need clearer differentiation between 'chemical imbalance' as a drug-company marketing tool (and perhaps 30 year old science), and current science. Cheers, Limegreen 04:25, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure what has prompted you to reinsert those spammed links to whale.to. It is a site with absolutely no linkability - it does not contain information, just truckloads of the most deluded, misguided and bizarre nonsense. What makes you link this site is worth linking to? JFW | T@lk 00:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You keep on reinserting those links without caring to respond to my messages above. I have absolutely no idea what makes you think edit summaries are adequate to conduct this discussion.
If you can prove that this whale.to lunacy has a significant support base I may change my mind, but for the moment I'm adhering closely to NPOV by deleting fringe stuff that needs no forum in Wikipedia. JFW | T@lk 20:53, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You just deleted various statements by others on the John Kerry talk page. Was this an accident? I am re-instating them. Derex @ 23:58, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. You caught another mistake I made, but I'm not sure if this is one too or not. In the David Kirby page, you restored a link to [3] calling it an essential resource archive. Could you please look at that page and tell me how a link to a book's official website (which is already linked from the wikipedia article) and a "pre-order" link to amazon.com is essential or resourceful? The site also says it will be due in February 2005, and the book in question came out April 2005 - it's not a pre-order anymore. The page is over six months out of date. Indium 03:39, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciated the welcome note you left, and I'm glad to see that my contributions are off to a good start. Thanks once more! Jkorbes 07:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for giving me the newcomer award. I'm so psyched!! :) Becca77Talk/Email 05:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure how you noticed it, but thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page while I was away. I guess that's what I get for signing my messages on their talk pages. :P Indium 10:03, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
And thanks for reverting the vandalism to my contributions on the E. Fuller Torrey page! Francesca Allan of MindFreedomBC 01:11, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have been reading your extremist views against psychiatry. You have no business using the name "Ombudsman" when you have no official role. I thought at first you were the wikipedia ombudsman until I read the anti-psychiatry nonsense you are spewing. It's pretty low of you to attempt to gain credibility by using an official sounding name. Wikipedia officials should force you to change your name.--24.55.228.56 03:43, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for welcoming me as well. I've been working on a spin-off wiki for some time, but I hope to start actually doing something useful on the rather large one now. --Dws90 15:27, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Nice work on that, and thanks! Foofy 00:07, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Your edittoWikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Ombudsman inadvertently deleted my commment. Please take care not to remove the comments of others when editing talk pages. It is also usually best to post your replies in the talk page rather than in the edit summaries; if someone had subsequently edited the talk page I might never have known that you replied to my comment. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You can find the RfC at WP:RFC/SCI. Hopefully we can get some outside help in mediating this edit war! InvictaHOG 19:52, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
hey, sorry i dont have any other way of communicating with you so sorry for editing your page... you edited the article about the makiling challenge and changed it into makiling campus runners... that's great! but please! (oh please) never attach the word running CLUB with the organization's name... the organization has resolved that issue to drop off the word CLUB from our association's name.. and besides.. it is already redundant (repeatingly over and over again one more time for the second time around!hahahah) to say MAKILING CAMPUS RUNNERS RUNNING CLUB.... ---MEYNARDTENGCO Meynardtengco (talk · contribs) 16:19, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Please take part at the merge vote under Talk:Mind control#Merge vote --Irmgard 16:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Ombudsman, this week's JAMA has two articles about smallpox vaccination and the success of VAERS. [4] [5]. JFW | T@lk 22:00, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The medical articles are not "biased and misleading", as you suggested on User_talk:InvictaHOG, but your vaccine pages certainly are. Your abuse of the "see also" section to create some sort of a daisy chain of your cherished topics is noticable on every page you've edited. I believe the list of vaccine topics was your creation and you should be proud it is serving its purpose! JFW | T@lk 01:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if I caused a conflict. I think that the See also on several of the pages I edited were becoming large and many of the links seemed to have nothing to do with the primary subject (other than being written by you!). I think that the list of topics is a great idea and gives people a chance to really read in-depth on the subjects of autism and vaccination, which are admittedly huge and complex topics. Since they are so comprehensive, they make sure that every viewpoint is included from multiple different angles and saves the See also sections from being a growing list of POV escalations. Some of those pages had eight different links, all of which were to pages of your own creation! I could have inserted any number of links, but I think it makes the most sense to just link to your well-maintained master lists. Let me know what you think...InvictaHOG 02:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The list of researchers is now being AFDed. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/9/11 conspiracy theories/September 11 researchers. I'm counter-proposing that it be kept and moved to its own page. Blackcats 23:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry you consider the bipolar disorder article to be "pseudoscience". However, since this is a serious article about a serious medical disorder, I'll have to disagree with you. -- The Anome 13:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
... for the friendly welcome you gave. Nice. --EyesAllMine 21:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the welcome you gave me as a "new" Wikipedian, which I find slightly confusing since I have been contributing for close to a year, LOL. I also found it a little strange that you would say me correcting factual inaccuracies in an article had "POV". Is changing the incorrect spelling of an actress' name POV? Or pointing out that a "biographical" film had documented fictional elements? Thanks, though, for the comments--you're the first person from Wikipedia who has ever contacted me. (P.S. I added a cite for the information this morning).
--jmk56
I think this article really needs to be split off into three or more separate articles. It's now a full 76 KB. I plan to officially propose this as soon as the Pentagon and WTC sections of the Researchers questioning the official account of 9/11 are finished being merged back into complete and NPOV sections of the main article. In the past there had been separate articles, but they were merged into one jumbo article for POV reasons. (I think mostly so that the antisemetic stuff would be in the same article as the research of people like David Ray Griffin). I think a good solution would be to move most of the content out of the main article (and ideally NPOV its title) and to have the stuff about jews/isreal moved to something like Allegations of Jewish or Israeli complicity in 9/11 and the stuff along the lines of Griffin and Steven Jones moved to something like Allegations of U.S. government complicity in 9/11. Let me know what you think....
Thanks--Blackcats 09:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ombudsman, I am responding to your edit summary on psychoactive drug: "rv: technical concerns noted; however, your objective apparently is to suppress entirely valid content, a telling hallmark of Western medicine's barbaric legacy toward natural healing practices" [6]. I do not like to be called a barbarian, and I take strong issue with your reaction. For one thing, you completely misunderstood my motives (assume good faith is an important policy). The chart in question was removed not because of some form of bias against "natural healing practices" (whatever those may be) but because it was a large lump of data without sources. Thoric actually bothered to address my concerns and provided sources, which is why I will no further object to the chart's use on psychoactive drug.
I would appreciate an apology, and I hope you realise that further personal attacks will meet with a notice on WP:AN/I. JFW | T@lk 23:40, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have officially proposed to split the "9/11 conspiracy theories" article, with the two most in depth areas being moved to separate articles at Allegations of Jewish or Israeli complicity in 9/11 and Allegations of U.S. government complicity in 9/11. Please check out the discussion at Talk:9/11_conspiracy_theories#Proposal_to_split_this_article . Thank you. Blackcats 21:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Good day.
The article at Dan Burton is being relocated to Dan Burton (U.S. Congressman). Please update the link on your user page to reflect this move. (Folajimi 20:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC))[reply]
Please refrain from lecturing other editors about wiki policy in your edit summaries: restore representative selection of links; there is absolutely no reason other than suppression for narrowing to list of vaccine topics, in violation of Wiki policy. It's a failure to assume good faith, and it's insulting.
I've trimmed the list because there's nothing about the Simpsonwood conference or the other two links that makes them more relevant to our article on the NVIC than any of the other (scores of) articles on list of vaccine topics. It slants our coverage to single those articles out as particularly relevant or important when, frankly, they're not. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 01:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Is there something we can do about this clown 24.55.228.56? His smug and arrogant edits are threatening several psychiatry-related wiki articles. Francesca Allan of MindFreedomBC 03:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Please check in at "request for comment." I want this guy watched for a while. Francesca Allan of MindFreedomBC 03:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]