User talk:PFHLai/Archive 1

I am currently off-line to work on my graduate thesis ..... -- PFHLai 15:39, 2004 Aug 15 (UTC)

Palade ehhh Weibel

Hi PFHLai, thanks for improvements on George Emil Palade, such as my clumsy (it was late) misspelling of Dr Weibel's name. You must have followed the link from endothelium!
By the way, what stopped you from adding the URL to the J Cell Biol and just leaving it commented out??? I didn't realise that journal had fulltext going back to the 1960's!
JFW | T@lk 19:12, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your message and for starting my User talk page, Dr. JFdWolff.

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised to find that ancient JCB article online. (They even have it in pdf format !!)

I originally had the URL ready on George Emil Palade. I removed the external link because I felt that Weibel-Palade bodies deserve a Wiki-page on its own and decided to save the URL for it. I don't know when I'll get to make this yet-to-exist Wiki-page. (I need to read up on W-P bodies first ...) If you feel like it, please go ahead and make the page. Have fun with it.  ;-)

PFHLai 14:59, 2004 May 6 (UTC)

I'm still waiting to find time for completing von Willebrand factor, which was a major undertaking. My resource was a very good review in Annu Rev Biochem (see references there), which also deals with the composition of Weibel-Palade bodies. The one thing that's missing is a proposed mechanism how WPBs are fused with the cell membrane for release (e.g. after ddAVP infusion).
JFW | T@lk 17:21, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
PS: Does Prof Weibel deserve a seperate page? I couldn't find much more on him.

You have made von Willebrand factor a very good, very informative page already. Your figure makes the page very pretty, too. I think factor VIII, the first linked item on the vWF page, needs more help than the vWF page.

Prof. Ewald R. Weibel, the longtime Chairman of Anatomy at University of Berne and former President of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, probably deserves his own page. He is apparently very famous in lung and respiratory research (which I don't understand.) I've found many Google entries with his name, but most of them are written in German (which I don't understand.) His English CV and bibliography can be found at " http://130.92.22.171/anatomy/person/persondetail_e.jsp?person=weibel ". Very impressive.

PFHLai 16:12, 2004 May 7 (UTC)

Imatinib

I printed out the Imatinib/diabetes/atherosclerosis article. Very impressive; perhaps we should mention on the imatinib page that "imatinib is used in laboratory settings to investigate inhibition of PDGF-Rβ and its potential benefit in other diseases, such as atherosclerosis in patients with diabetes mellitus". Good idea?
JFW | T@lk 09:24, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

Sure. It's always good to keep Wikipages as current as possible. :-)

PFHLai 19:00, 2004 May 10 (UTC)

Weibel... Palade... atherosclerosis... vasculitis...

Hi Patrick. I saw someone had put Weibel-Palade body on the "requested articles" list, so I wrote something stubbly. I don't have Sadler's article at hand, so I had to reproduce this from memory. Please add whatever you think is suitable. By the way, I have read that Finnish article on atherosclerosis vs vasculitis. There is only a hypothesis that viral infections cause atherosclerosis; until then the inflammation is not the primary nosologic phenomenon, as in vasculitis... JFW | T@lk 16:46, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

You reproduced that from memory ? Wow... I'm impressed, Dr. Wolff. 8-)

PFHLai 02:32, 2004 May 29 (UTC)

BTW, I was the one who put 'Weibel-Palade body' on the Opentask box. I'm lazy ....

PFHLai 01:55, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

HEPA

Nice work for cleaning up HEPA. I removed the msg:cleanup and msg:stub as I think the article is fine now. Thue 17:07, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks.  :-) PFHLai 02:24, 2004 May 29 (UTC)

Pulmonary Hypertension

We keep on running into each other's edits! Sorry I buffed up on BMPR2... you can see we need people like you to iron out these mistakes, which would otherwise go unnoticed!
Something we also might have to include is this article on angiopoeitin and the related signalling cascade. It might explain how BMPR2 causes PPH. I'll see if I can read it tonight... JFW | T@lk 17:08, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Well, Dr. Wolff, if you plan to read on Agpt-1 (this is my preferred abbreviation for Angiopoietin-1, but no one listens to me...) and PPH, may I suggest [1] and [2] ? To be frank, I am not quite sure if this controversy/descrepency is encyclopedic yet. More papers are due from both groups soon. There is also another lab group in Colorado working on the VEGF and apoptosis aspects of PPH. I'll probably wait till the dust settles (i.e. when everyone has switched to progenitor/stem cells) before I submit more on the pathobiology of PPH (or PAH, according to the WHO ....)

PFHLai 21:28, 2004 May 30 (UTC)

P.S. Would the super-messy BMP/TGF-beta signalling pathway be more fun to wikify ? I find it very intimidating ..... 8-O

You're right, perhaps we ought to practice restraint before introducing current controversies into an encyclopedia...
I have read little about the TGFβ/BMP pathway. It is indeed intimidating, touching on cirrhosis, scleroderma, and other things I know too little about.
What's your exact field of research, BTW? JFW | T@lk 21:45, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Keywords outlining my research can be found on my User page. I don't study PH myself, but I have friends working on it. I've learnt about PH mostly through copyeditting my friends' manuscripts, etc. (and they thought I was only checking for typos ....)

PFHLai 01:55, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

Cal Ripkin Jr.

Why should the redirect page Cal Ripkin Jr. be deleted? Wouldn't you want someone that typed that in to the "go" box to be redirected to Cal Ripken, Jr., instead of getting a this page does not exist message? (<-- User:Braaropolis wrote this.)

Well, Yeah ! Google-searching in Wikipedia is set up to suggest alternatives when a page cannot be found. I just tried it with "Cal Ripkin Jr". And I was then directed to the right page.

I don't think Wikipedia should waste resources like that and keep such pages that should not exist. The Wikipedian who created the page made a typo and left the page like that. Sigh ... It's already not that easy to log-in these days ..... I wonder how many such unuseful, unwanted pages are there taking up memory in Wikipedia's hardware ....

Anyhow, someone has fixed the 're-direct' (which I almost did.) Never mind. It's okay. Just that I felt I should answer your question.

Have a nice day, Braaropolis.  :-)

PFHLai 03:03, 2004 Jun 2 (UTC)

Thank you re CAM tags

Thank you for adding an outside, neutral voice to the CAM tagging of articles. I agree with your advice, entirely. Kd4ttc 15:30, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

You are very welcome, Dr. Holland. Thank you for agreeing with my posting. I hope Mr-Natural-Health reads it, calms down and goes back to building Wikipages. However, not only has he ignored my posting, he has removed it without a single reply. I am rather disappointed. -- PFHLai 01:24, 2004 Jun 9 (UTC)

Haute Couture

Thanks for filling out the Charles Frederick Worth reference. I was just too lazy to do any lookup.

I left the American designers blank because I couldn't think of which ones did made-to-order and gave shows. Does Jones New York do custom clothing? As far as I know, fashion houses like Calvin Klein and DKNY are ready-to-wear and not custom.

Amazing that I should be a regular reader of Vogue and unable to figure out which designers do custom. I suppose it's in the interests of the fashion industry to blur the difference between custom and ready-to-wear, because the custom is the loss leader that allows them to get the hype, the buzz, and the ready-to-wear orders.

Me, I'm just a home sewer trying to do couture-quality work.

Zora 05:34, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

You are welcome, Zora. No need to thank me, I was just playing at Wikipedia. I landed on Haute couture by way of Template:Opentask, which listed the Wikipage as a Stub in need of expansion.

Sorry, I honestly have no idea if JNY does custom clothing or not. I am very ignorant about fashion, let alone Haute Couture.

I am a grad student and I am broke. JNY is very high fashion to me. I have two suits for weddings, funerals and conferences, one of them is a ready-to-wear JNY suit purchased on gift certificates !

If JNY doesn't belong to the list of haute couture fashion houses, please excuse my ignorance and take it off the list. Thanks.

Have a nice day !  :-)

-- PFHLai 05:06, 2004 Jun 16 (UTC)

HHT

Dr. Lai, do I have something for you: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. If this isn't vascular... Perhaps you have access to some more details on pathogenesis. JFW | T@lk 09:44, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Nicely done, Dr. Wolff. Oh, yes, this is indeed very vascular. :-)

Access to some more details on pathogenesis of HHT ? Hahaha... Do you think I have lunch with Dr. Osler regularly ????

BTW, please don't call me 'Doctor'. I haven't finished writing my thesis yet, not to mention the thesis defence. Please, please, please don't jinx me !

-- PFHLai 12:46, 2004 Jun 16 (UTC)

And so humble too. JFW | T@lk 13:24, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

redirects

I moved your request for deletion of Conducting system from cleanup to Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. It will eventually perk up to the surface and be handled there. - Nunh-huh 03:54, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I didn't know Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion exists. Thank you.

Have a nice day.

-- PFHLai 22:40, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC)

No reason you should know, really<g>. It would be simpler if such obvious cases for deletion didn't have to go through these elaborate processes and could just be deleted! - Nunh-huh 22:44, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, IMO, it's a bit too much work. But such barriers may be needed, considering so much vandals are around Wikipedia ... Afterall, perhaps the page can survive, and someone re-writes it with a detailed description of conducting systems for heat transfer. ... :-) ... -- PFHLai 22:58, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC)

Mesanglial (sp?) cells

Thanks, great edit there! --inks 04:24, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You are welcome.  :-) -- PFHLai 05:11, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)

Culture of Hungary

I appreciate the nomination :) I really felt like reading up on the country and was pretty disappointed to find nothing at all on its clearly very unique culture. Kudos! Sarge Baldy 21:07, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)

Gucci

Hi. Please note that the Gucci article you were working on was a copyright violation which will be deleted soon to get the copyvio out of the article history. I've moved your version to Gucci/Temp. Please work on the article there until the Gucci article is deleted, then Gucci/Temp will be moved to Gucci. RickK 05:05, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. -- PFHLai 05:38, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)

Hm. I don't know who listed it as a copyvio, but they should have put it on the Copyright problems page. RickK 05:40, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, if you want, go ahead and re-list it on Copyright violations. RickK 05:57, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Chinese box

Hi, PFHLai;

Could you please tell me why you added "insane" and "disputed" flags to the Chinese box article? The "insane" flag indicates "patent nonsense"—that seems unwarranted for this article.

--Cluster 16:40, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Cluster, please see my response on your talk page. Thanks. -- PFHLai 20:08, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)

PFHLai, thanks so much for the thorough response. You're a great asset to Wikipedia.

Thank you for your kind words, Cluster. BTW, I've re-posted my response at Talk:Chinese box. -- PFHLai

Babylonia

No, I don't like the idea of a merger because Babylon is for the actual city of Babylon whereas Babylonia is for the entire state. I'll admit the links coming off Babylonia are terrible, but I think if Babylonia were made AotW people will probably improve the satellite articles as well when they use them to dig up more information for the main one. Sarge Baldy 21:04, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Atherosclerosis

Hi PFHLai. Thanks for your edits to improve organization and details. I have made a few edits, both clarification and a few more details, no photo or drawing details yet.

I could use help breaking the circular link of atheroma to atherosclerosis. I have written a new and failry short page on atheroma, however when I attempted to break the circular database link using the redirect function, I only succedded in breaking the atherosclerosis listing, changing it to atheroma, as opposed to creating as seperate atheroma entry for the link. (At least I then fixed my break.) Can you help?

I can certainly help, MAlvis. Please see my response at your talk page. -- PFHLai 00:13, 2004 Jul 24 (UTC)

Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures

New edits at Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures, in case your interested. Thanks for your suggestions and help. MAlvis Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 5:22 PM CST

Commercialism

I noticed that myself actually. Looks like it's really coming off to a good start! :) Sarge Baldy 06:12, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Personally I think the Commercialism article is vague and speculative. I'm not sure of its anthropological accuracy, and I don't think "cave men" is a real term. I put it on WP:PNA, don't know if it's good etiquette to put it on cleanup as well. I don't have the background to fix the article myself. Rhobite 13:17, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

YACHAD

I'm looking for input on the situation with the YACHAD Germany articles. Please take a look at Talk:Yachad (Germany). --Smack 21:54, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Coronary catheterization

Significant new edits at Coronary catheterization, in case your interested. For some reason, radiolucent hyperlinks OK but radiodense and the key term radiocontrast, all of which I started today, do not; suggestions, help appreciated. Would look forward to more direct talk some time, if your interested. MAlvis Friday, July 30, 2004, 5:34 PM CST

You are welcome to chat here anytime, MAlvis. :-)

The links on your new pages seem fine now. Perhaps it's a cache problem. Pressing 'Ctrl-F5' to empty the cache of your computer may help display new changes. Hope this helps.

-- PFHLai 12:36, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

Despite my lack of expertise, I have boldly made some changes at the above mentioned pages. Barium sulfate, a relevant page, has been re-written, too.

I think physicians at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine will be interested in your new pages.

-- PFHLai 18:36, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

thanks for warm welcome

Hi there. Thanks for warm welcome. Certainly interested in Wikiproject Clinical medicine. I have introduced myself more thoroughly at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine#Added gastroenteritis. :) See you soon! BjarteSorensen 13:49, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You are welcome. Happy editing !  :-)

-- PFHLai 18:52, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

Paraguay supermarket fire

Sorry, Gary D, I have hidden the line you've added to Template:In the news because there is no relevant page in Wikipedia updated to include this incident. Please feel free to undo my hiding when a page has been updated (but I don't think either supermarket or Paraguay would be a good page to update.... if I know which page to update, I would've done it myself...). Thanks. -- PFHLai 02:54, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

I've found one: Asunción. I shall undo the hiding at Template:In the news. -- PFHLai 02:59, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

Oh, okay, I was just about to concede that maybe it wasn't significant enough to justify updating any pages and so had to stay off the main page. --Gary D 03:05, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

With such a high fatality count, I think it can stay on the MainPage. IMO, the explosion in Belgium and the IMF funding to Turkey are less significant news.

I don't know how long this news item will stay on Asunción, though. That page is pitifully short, considering "Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America." The link from the MainPage may lead more editors there to make more changes .....

Have a nice day. :-)

-- PFHLai 03:21, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

Captions on Opentask

Hi, I have restocked the standbys for Captions on Template:Opentask. My selections were random. Please feel free to re-stock to serve your Wikiproject's needs. Thanks. -- PFHLai 02:28, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

Thanks! I pulled some off the list since they didn't have pictures or didn't need much help (in which case I just fixed them up as long as I was there). I don't suppose there's much use in keeping a long (>5) list of articles in the queue because the project is sufficiently dynamic and we only knock off one or two a week from opentask, anyway. -- ke4roh 03:34, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Actually, there is a reason to have a long list. I keep many standby items of various lengths (number of letters). With different replacements available, it's easier to keep the length of each line on the Template:Opentask more or less the same [for esthetics reason ....] :-)

I also try to have topics from different fields of study active at the same time.

-- PFHLai 10:10, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

New Medical Edits

Of possible interest Angiogram, Gamma camera, Diabetes Mellitus, Coronary heart disease. I appreciate your reviews and help Patrick.

-- MAlvis Sunday, August 8, 2004, 10:58 AM CST

No problems.  :-) -- PFHLai 02:35, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)

ACOTW

Thanks for correcting my brain-fade on Wikipedia talk:Article of the week. I thought "collaboration" but my fingers typed "challenge" for some reason (... twice ... - at least I got it right in Village Pump)

Time for a holiday :) -- ALoan (Talk) 14:26, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Captions on Opentask

Please see my reply to your query on User_talk:Ke4roh. -- ke4roh 17:07, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Wikiholiday

It's hard, Patrick, isn't it??? JFW | T@lk 12:58, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, Dr. de Wolff. It's very hard .... I am very much addicted ..... -- PFHLai 01:14, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

Stop calling me Dr de Wolff! If I can call you Patrick you can certainly call me Jacob! JFW | T@lk 08:12, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, Sir ! :-) -- PFHLai 16:40, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

adminship

I've nominated you for adminship (janitorial duties). Please go to WP:RFA#PFHLai_.2810.2F0.2F0.29_Ends_04:56.2C_29_Aug_2004_.28UTC.29 and accept. Cheers, Jiang 22:35, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hello, Jiang,

I am pleasantly surprised by your nomination for adminship. I accept. Thank you very much.

I'll read Wikipedia:Administrators carefully before I do anything at WP:RFA.

Thanks, again.

-- PFHLai 01:26, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

Given your skillfull handling of Opentasks and your many judicious edits, I think you'd be great admin material. Just make sure you don't get sucked into the black hole of anti-trolling, thorny issues (Polish vs German naming of Gdansk, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other heartsinks) etc. I use my admin privileges sparingly - reverting obvious vandalism, deleting redirects to facilitate a pagemove, banning notorious vandals and occasionally mediating between the usual suspects.
As for molecular biology: I got a fair grounding in the basic topics during my studies, but I've grown more interested in molecular pathophysiology over the last little while. Please share some more of your knowledge! JFW | T@lk 07:49, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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You're welcome and congratulations! It looks like your vote's going to be unanimous. 172 19:14, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, again. :-) -- PFHLai 19:35, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)

Voyager 2

Re: your edit of "selected anniversaries"---Voyager 2 did not "leave the solar system" in 2003, according to e.g. [3]. I don't know what the anniversary is for... (What does "leave the solar system" mean anyway?)

As I understand the Voyager 2 article, the date August 24, 2003 is merely a random date when the distance to the probe was found by a wikipedian...

Dear User:193.216.55.231, Thank you for pointing that out. I admit I do not understand the item on Voyager 2 at all. I shortened and changed the tense (Please see the edit summaries ([4]). I am now restoring its original form and let someone else do the copyediting. Would you like to help ? Please sign in. :-)

-- PFHLai 19:26, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)

There are only a handful of spacecraft which have left the solar system. Voyager 2 actually launched before Voyager 1. Voyager 1 is near the outermost rim of the solar system. There is a photo of Earth from one of the spacecraft, poignantly far away from home, and thrusting farther away with every second. Voyager 2 is not far behind. And in 40,000 years, it may still be intact. Ancheta Wis 20:53, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Since you appear to have an interest in Selected Anniversaries, may I point out that Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November forward to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February do not have the full 3 to 5 selections for each day. Mav started this and I attempted to fill in selections in as fair a way as I could, but I stopped in October. November forward, I put in only the space fillers for each day. I do not doubt that Mav could spend the few moments for each selection, but I am sure that he and I would appreciate any attention you wished to lavish on any of the Selected Anniversary days. Hint, it helps to start the selections on the last day of that month, then to successively select the previous day from the footer of the page. Ancheta Wis 00:48, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

You're welcome! I look forward to continuing seeing you about and I'm glad you are now an admin (well, at least you will be by the time you get this message). Wikipedia is a great project, and it's always a thrill to meet people who are as committed to it as you are. David Cannon 11:35, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome! --Merovingian✍Talk 00:19, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

Ditto! [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 00:23, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're a sysop!

Congratulations! Consensus having been reached on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | Talk 06:59, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome

Congratulations on your adminship ..... and good luck juggling Wikipedia and the thesis (I can relate, being about to face a similar dilemma myself). ffirehorse 07:38, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're Right

I'm sorry about deleting the Douglas McGregor, I wasn't thinking and thought it was in the expand section and that it had already been expanded. Yono P.S. Sorry about the double edit, I really gotta get more sleep. ;)

Selected Anniversaries

Thanks for the help on some of the Selected Anniversaries entries! --mav 06:13, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Support

Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. Looks like I only got my sysop powers mere days after you. If you would like to talk sometime, by all means, message me. I like conversations. :-) Mike H 03:41, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Comptroller

that's cool, also if you're an admin take a look at Guitar.com Miscellaneous Forum ugh. :\