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Acupuncture reference in Nystagmus entry

As per my entry on the talk page, my removal of the section on acupuncture was based on the following:

"Given that acupuncture has been well shown by high quality studies to have no effect beyond placebo, the statements regarding the effects of acupuncture on Nystagmus are somewhat questionable, and from a scientific point of view completely invalid. If this entry is to be considered a scientific description of the condition, then the references to acupuncture should be removed or at least re-written so that it does not "beg the question" over the reality of acupuncture's effectiveness."

My view is that this section should be removed until a more balanced entry can be created. References to the lack of understanding of how acupuncture works are really obfuscations of the fact that increasingly high quality studies show that acupuncture does not work beyond placebo effects. As such, it could conceivably have some benefit for the treatment of Nystagmus where there is a psychological component to the underlying cause, but beyond that the findings of the quoted studies have to be considered suspect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.95.167 (talk) 07:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Have edited the section (with edit notes) so the presentation is more balanced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.95.167 (talk) 07:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Category:X1

Could you please blacklist Category:X1 from Makecat-bot. Like Template:X1, the category is for test edits and interwiki free. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 08:19, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Your bot reverted you. 117Avenue (talk) 00:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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Re: That 61.219.36.* vandal

Re your message: I was doing that just as you sent me your message. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

January 2013

Hello Makecat. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know however, regarding Pat Condell, that tagging articles for speedy deletion moments after creation as lacking context (CSD A1), content (CSD A3) and articles created through the Article Wizard, is too fast. It's best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks. Hello Makecat. I'm using this message only because it is the closest available. On this change: [1] you nominated for speedy deletion. Only problem was the page had just been blanked by a WP:SPA. (Same thing happened with another editor -- premature tagging that is.) I've restored the pre-vandalized page and asked that the SPA be deleted. S. Rich (talk) 03:28, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank You

Hi, Makecat, I believe we already know each other somewhere else. Thank you for kindly helping protect my user/talk page. It looks like that LHLS also targets you... Have a nice 2013! --Wildcursive (talk) 09:12, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for catching that vandalism (although I was planning to leave a witty edit summary myself :P) Much appreciated! --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 13:48, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Bob Lilley and Jim Sweeney's deletion of Article

To be honest with you I do not now careless whether the article is kept or not since those who are in the know already know and those who need to know can find the information in other places. I do not intend to continue my work in Wikipedia any longer. Since there are hundreds of articles about insignificants writing about themselves and there is a lots of trash in Wikipedia written by people about themselves which has been approved like Ikechi Anya who is hardly someone notable in football etc. etc. If anything Bob Lilley SAS would merit mention more then many already in Wikipedia.Pop goes the we (talk) 10:31, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

If you want to write it you can do it yourself. Not interested anymore. Wikipedia is not the academic tool I thought it was. Pop goes the we (talk) 11:37, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for reverting that vandal on my talk page. :) Mathonius (talk) 05:42, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Changes to sexual dysfunctions page

Hi there, I am new to editing on wikipedia however I have been using it for a long time, so forgive me if I put this in the wrong place or mess anything up. The reason I made changes to the sexual dysfunctions page is because a sexual dysfunction is not the same thing as a sexual disorder and the terms are not interchangeable. Dysfunction literally means 'malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.'[1] and a sexual disorder -which is a psychiatric disorder- does not fall into the 'dysfunctions' category. Also you had a list of dysfunctions and disorders under a heading 'Symptoms', a list of disorders is not a description of symptoms. Robbiecee2 (talk) 05:47, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

I commented here about this. Flyer22 (talk) 08:05, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Wu County

Do you mind if I tag that title with WP:CSD#G6? The current article title, Wuxian County, is a violation of WP:NC-ZH, as the county's name is 吴县, making "Wuxian County" a tautology. GotR Talk 19:19, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Sheldon D Fields

Hi Makecat. The Sheldon_D_Fields page is the one I would like to keep. Previous pages including Sheldon_Fields and Sheldon_d_fields should be deleted at this time. Is there anything else you need for the current Sheldon_D_Fields page to prevent it from getting deleted? I have 4 references on the page as requested. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmarieclark (talk • contribs) 03:14, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Craig G

Hi! I protected this page, and just wanted you to know that this and this edit was really bad. Although 24.193.140.9 had added some POV to the article, you basically reverted it to an earlier state (twice) containing serious violations of the BLP. This is not a warning or anything like that, I just wanted you to know so you can be more careful in the future. Bjelleklang - talk 12:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

I appreciate your reverting vandalism on my talk page. It is much appreciated. I've never had my talk page vandalized before in over seven years of editing. Andrew327 17:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

I'm kinda new to this whole editing thing & still learning so thanks for fixing what I did, I actually tried to undo it but failed! so can you help me with editing the license for the picture? it is free to use, & I wanted to add it as a logo to my university but the pages tells me that it will be deleted in 7 days!

Thanks again! Arch ssm (talk) 11:49, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

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User:CHARLESdutkowiak

Could you take a look at this user's edits. He appears to make mass deletes to various articles & it appears you have warned him prior about making unconstructive edits. Thanks. Ka'Jong 16:31, 16 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ka'Jong (talk • contribs) 16:31, 16 January 2013‎

A starbarn for you!

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Thanks for protecting my talk page. Tito Dutta (talk) 06:24, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
You're welcome. --Makecat 06:24, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm FrankDev. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, SpotJobs, and have un-reviewed it again. If you've got any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Thanks, FrankDev — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrankDev (talk • contribs) 03:15, 23 January 2013‎ (UTC)

Talkback

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George Perris page

Hello makecat. I'm answering to your message. I'll try to expain the situation to you. There had been a "giorgos perris" page which was "wrong" according to wikipedia policy? Recently I made the "george perris" page (a brand new page) getting help and detailed instructions from wikipedia administrators like you in order to make it as "right" as possible. Everything was ok. Today I found out that my new page redirected to "giorgos perris" one. I asked wikipedia to undo this redirect or keep just one article under "george perris" as it was a more appropriate title. The redirect got removed, the title "george perris" was concidered more appropriate but instead of the "recently written text" the "old text" remained. Therefore I edited the article again using the new and "right" text. That's why I thought that all the notifications on the talk page were "wrong" as they refered to the old page. I guess I should ask you to remove them or take a look at the whole thing and decide what to do :-) Xristiswiki (talk) 12:04, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! Arctic Kangaroo 12:15, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't think you meant

to do this.[2]. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Dougweller (talk) 05:59, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request Makecat-bot 5

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Adding commons templates to category pages

The commons template should be the first line in the category and not after other stuff. Adding as you are now doing, creates excessive white space which then limits the amount of category data that is displayed on the first page. Vegaswikian (talk) 07:07, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata is here; please disable any interwiki bots on the English Wikipedia

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Bot misfunctioning?

It seems that the problem corrected here on the Russian WP caused your bot to make this erroneous edit (and possibly others). In-text links like that should not be handled the same way as normally listed interlanguage links. Please check your code. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:44, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I suppose it's a good thing it has been stopped then, if it can't be trusted. Yes, human editors make mistakes. That doesn't mean bots should compound them. There's no reason that inline interlanguage links should be treated as meaning that the article containing them is equivalent to the linked article. Even more so when, as in this case, the article has several different links to the same wiki. LeadSongDog come howl! 03:16, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata

Your bot is still adding interwiki links. Please stop it from adding interwiki links on Wikidata. MBisanz talk 03:45, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

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  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dysfunction was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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