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Dbachmann

Hi, this is to tell you that User:Dbachmann is an epitome of Racism and as such it is our dharam to boycott him. Just like we did to foriegn clothes in freedom struggle. We must boycott him. He called Indians "shi***le". So please, boycott him and send this message to everyone. - Gary Haiks 10:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Hi Samir. How is DYK being archived at the moment, by bot or manually? --Peta 23:22, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

• Yuk, I wish people had agreed to get rid of archiving when I suggested it last time the bot was broken.--Peta 02:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Heartiest Congratulations

Congratulations on passing the Royal College exams!! Well, maybe now you can focus on the nitty gritty of setting up a practice or joining an institution as tenure-track faculty, eh? I appreciate the excellent wiki stuff that you have contributed, awesome indeed :-) EyeMD 05:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

User:152.12.4.15 has vandalised the Binaca Geetmala lists, could you please taken proper admin steps to stop the vandal. Also, I am in the process of trying to manually revert the editings - if you know an automated process to revert prior to his vandalism, please let me know. Otherwise, just a single list Binaca_Geetmala_annual_list_1979 took me half an hour of figuring out what was going on.. and then to revert, meant lot of copy-pasting from revision history and what not.... this is taking too long for me... yelp! EyeMD 19:42, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Finally, I am done with the restoration of the pages and cross-linking. Took me two and a half hours! Well, I need few timbits and a double-double, and while you are at it, could you also get me some Wendy's chilli too, please!! This User:152.12.4.15 IP needs to be blocked though - he messed up so many pages!!! EyeMD 21:22, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations holmes! Btw, have you considered doing a year with Doctors Without Borders or somethin? Rama's arrow 04:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Btw, is it now Dr. Samir, I presume? Rama's arrow 04:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Any nice nurses in your hospital/college? Do they call you "Doctor" or "Samir?" (Wink) Rama's arrow 04:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah if/when I visit Canada, I might decide to break a leg somewhere convenient... I asked Dwaipayan the same question: just tryin' to verify an observation of Jerry Seinfeld: Women go after doctors the way men go after supermodels. Women want someone with knowledge of the body; men just want the body. Rama's arrow 04:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Congrats :) – Chacor 05:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks guys -- Samir धर्म 03:44, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, Samir. That is truly awesome news and I'm thrilled for you! :) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 15:03, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I almost missed this due to my wikibreak!!! Congrats Doctor!! -- Lost 15:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. I wish you all the success in life! --Bhadani 11:12, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! Good luck, I will see you in Canada if I ever get sick over there. Hope to see you having an article on Misplaced Pages in a few years time. ;) --Terence Ong _{(T | C)} 11:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, Doctor Sahib.  ;) — Nearly Headless Nick 12:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too - very late - what does this do for you by the way. Well I survived last week - none of the experimentalists interrogated any of the mathematical or theoretical oriented posters because they were just filled with equations and technical jargon. So it worked out well. :) Perhaps somebody needs to block me ;). Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 02:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Congrats, Samir. I know it's very late, but nevertheless. -- Sundar 05:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Heartiest Congratulations from me too! Sorry for the extreeemly delayed wishes, I've been quite busy with my exams (which are still going on *sob*). I'm sure I'd be no good as a doctor: The other day during my Bio practical while cutting the earthworm's skin for dissecting its reproductive system, I accidentally sliced the poor thing's testis in half! So here's to the good Doctor's steady hand! ;) Cheers --Srikeit 01:54, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Apparently it's not too late for more congratulations! - CrazyRussian talk/email 04:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Full-body scan

Thanks for helping on the Full-body scan. I fear I may have come off as beligerent at the beginning but it was never my intention to be combative. In fact, a kind of funny accident was my edit summary towards the start "feel free to read POV, but I'm removing it for now", was supposed to say readd, not read. Who'd have though one letter could make a comment vastly more condescending. Anyway, by your actions this is now one of the better articles on wikipedia, thanks. Vicarious 08:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Ban me, please.

I use Misplaced Pages a lot and love it. I'm completely against vandalism. I recently saw that I had received another warning for vandalism.

This is a school computer and the IP I'm listed under should be the IP of the school's network. Feel free to completely block it from editing any wiki. I use wikipedia for everything and I hate seeing it screwed up by a bunch of kids! 204.184.155.187 18:10, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Too Hot

Sorry for the late reply. That is really cool! It's funny listening to Alanis' later albums after hearings songs like "Too Hot" and "Walk Away"; I have her first two albums now (I had to resort to downloading them; apparently they're out of circulation) and they're complete guilty pleasures in a way. "My name is Alanis/I'm a white chick singer"...if only I'd been a teenager in Canada when this music was popular. :) Extraordinary Machine 22:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:96 logo.gif

Can you undelete Image:96 logo.gif? It is used on the page 84th Grey Cup, but there is some issue with images that has to due with leading or trailing spaces that I don't understand that causes the image not to show up. I think I fixed the issue now. Tnikkel 22:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Falun Gong Pages

There is a heated revert war on Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong Teachings and Suppression of Falun Gong pages. Some editors have violated the 3RR. Editors on both sides do not seem to be able to come to an agreement, can you provide guidance or protect the page so they can talk again instead of reverting?--Kent8888 20:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

The request for mediation seems like a better way to go. -- Samir धर्म 02:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

BadGut website

I saw that User:Sirprojects went and populated gastrointesinal articles with links to http://www.badgut.com (Canadian Society Of Intestinal Research) (see contibutions). A quick look at the links shows that they are to the relevant specific topics at that site, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Dyspepsia&diff=79511377&oldid=79188315 and badgut seems to at least be reasonably full in its descriptions. So two questions that I think you might be better able to judge:

1. The information whilst good, is without references (although to be fair, the webpages do offer the reader to contact the charity to be sent further information). So do they really "add infomation" to that already in the articles and merit being an external link ?
2. I find Sirprojects' repeated descrption of "<link> Free information provided by a registered charity, the Canadian Society of Intestinal Research" awkward. I was tempted just to cut to "Canadian Society of Intestinal Research", but if this is a particular respected Canadian research funding/education body then perhaps some description of "worth" of the site should be made. Clearly as a UK GP I have never heard of "Canadian Society of Intestinal Research" nor have any idea how notable/important it might be... care to comment ? :-) Yours David Ruben 22:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

2 Questions

Is your real name Samir if so are you bosnian.And what is Barnstar?Please reply on my user page.thanx Sinceraly,--Stlbabe 53 22:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

generic name: Natalizumab

please see my comment on the above article. DGG 23:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

DYK

So teach me the ways of the DYK, Samir. Do you think Eddie's Bar is DYK-worthy? Does it need to be longer? I have not had prior involvement in DYK. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:54, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Usman Farooq

You indef-blocked Usman Farooq (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) based on some circumstantial evidence, but U.F. denies being MaverickInUrFace (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), and this is a plausible denial. I requested CheckUser but they declined (maybe I should have taken a shrubbery). What is your view on unblocking? The threatening post by MaverickInUrFace was pretty lame anyway, IMO. Guy 12:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Valarauka has looked into this in some detail and supports unblocking; CheckUser was declined. I will unblock, if that's all the same to you, as the connection seems somewhat tenuous and the user is showing reason rather than the usual hysteria. Guy 07:47, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:Hello

Hey Samir! Thanks for the gratz. Yeah, I realized I haven't talked to any of my fellow Indian admins :-p (probably because I'm not very active in Indian-related article editing on Misplaced Pages). Anyway, I just wanted to return your hello. Keep up the good admin work. =) --Nishkid64 21:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

info about a case

Hi Samir, i don't you remember me but you've blocked a user or his socks that are used to vandalise Galatasaray article. Now that user has blocked for sock usage, but he is really out of control editing with many IPs:) I started a case here and here for him. If you remember the case your comments will be appreciated. Cheers --Ugur Basak 21:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Samir you said that article may be semi-protected but he is doing the same thing in many articles and he has not bored yet since May 2006. For now, blocking and reverting seem to be the best solution. --Ugur Basak 11:25, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

U of T

Oh yeah. It was great. My frosh week was awesome and it really helped me to meet people and get to know the campus. The only problem that I have is that Mr. Kingwell ruined Philosophy for me. I loved the course in high school, but now I despise it, and I'm thinking of switching. Don't get me wrong. He is a great lecturer, but the course material is just not for me —we're now studying Republic by Plato. Orane (talk • cont.) 15:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Zuckerbaby

Mind explaining that last paragraph, then? --Calton | Talk 04:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Many thanks for the Barnstar (blush). - Lucky 6.9 05:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ophthalmology announcement

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ophthalmology is officially up! Gives me some space to think (?out of the box), and discuss, not getting drowned in a cacophony of distracting requests on WP:CLINMED. You are hereby officially invited ;-) - to use the same for vision and eye care!! I need a suggestion for appropriate redirect to the long winding name. EyeMD 11:03, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Reg my article 3 Ds of drinking

Hi Samir,

I wrote this article 'Three Ds of drinking' #REDIRECT 3Ds but it was deleted by you. I have discussed this with fellow people who drink and they said this was true. Can you pls correct it and update if you would like to. The article was as follows

The three Ds of Drinking namely Diet, Dilution and Duration are considered to be a informal thumbrule for drinking.

Diet It is always advisable to drink after you have had your meal. But if you want to get high quickly, you can drink without having a meal.

Duration Duration is the time for which one drinks. It is common sense that if you spread your drinking time for quite a while, you can enjoy it and also drink more.

Dilution Dilution goes hand in hand with Duration. If you want to drink more and also enjoy it, start with a mild (diluted) peg and then graduadly increase the concentration.

Thanks, Senthil

• Hi Senthil, a few things. Where are the 3D's from? What are the sources for it? What is the purpose of the article? -- Samir धर्म 04:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

RfB With A Smile :)

Encyclopedia Dramatica

Hi,

Just wondering why on earth is it not possible to have an article on Encyclopedia Dramatica? I've discovered Encyclopedia Dramatica and Misplaced Pages recently, and think they are both great! But I can't find an answer anywhere. Since you apparently hold the power over it being deleted, or whatever the deal is, perhaps you can clue me in? Encyclopedia Dramatica is a pretty weird site, and looked here on Misplaced Pages to get some genral information on it (like I do for just about everything), but its blocked? Why? I don't understand

Dhiren Barot

What shall we propose for DYK from my newest article? - CrazyRussian talk/email 04:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Kelly Ellard

Since you've reverted the article so that it includes Reena's ethnicity I expect that you'll provide a citation on why that's important to the case. Not only that you need to word it so that the crime doesn't come across as a hate crime, or that Ellard was a racist. Do this promptly or I will revert it again. Fighting for Justice 21:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

"Do this promptly or I will revert it again"? Be advised that if you revert this consensus RfC then I will block you. Consider that to be a final warning. -- Samir धर्म 21:59, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I will consider nothing final from you. What's wrong? Upset that somebody decided to stand up against your bias view on Kelly Ellard. You wanted that South Asian reference, while Ellard's picture clearly reveals her as white making the case about racism. That's reverse discrimination on your part. In my opinion you have some prejudice against white people, otherwise you would see that Reena's ethnicity was not the crux of the case. And that it isn't required in a biography on Ellard. Same as in any victim's race. As you see in the articles of Holly Jones, Kristen French, and Leslie Mahaffy. I don't see you going into those articles mentioning that they're white females. Fighting for Justice 07:50, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

oesophagitis

hi samir, after reading one of your article and noticed that you're specialised in the digestive system, am taking this liberty to ask you a question which's bothering me for years, Is Oesophagitis curable? i have been diagnosed with that particular disease in 1982, and i have taking antacid since then, in the past i used to take some french medicines, Phosphalugel, Malox, but nowadays i take Gaviscon liquid, it does relieve symptoms but the heartburn and pain keeps coming back, prior to 1982 i used to enjoy eating chillies and hot & spicy food, something that i cannot do anymore, everytime i take the risk of eating hot food the pain gets worse. i look forward to read your answer on this issue faithfully yours. mustapha sw_londres@hotmail.com