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Thanks again for your contributions. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at my talk page. feydey 12:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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Re: USYD significance

Hi JUBALCAIN. It may indeed be a significant issue, although I am not fully convinced that it is the sort of thing that needs to be covered on the main article about a University. It seems mainly to be about arrangements between the university, a student and a funding body that happens to be the government. But that is to some extent irrelevant. The key issue here is that to be included in the article, it needs to be not only relevant enough, but based on verifiable third party sources. If you can provide these (note, this doesn't mean original documents, but news reports or things like that), then please continue this discussion at Talk:University of Sydney, so that other editors may also join in. JPD (talk) 11:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Medicare card

Thanks for clarifying that section. I thought licenced was a reasonable, in not official, word to describe being given a provider number, but given US usage, it is definitely better to avoid it! As for the section you added to Medicare, it really does read like advocacy of a particular view, and Wikipedia is not a soapbox. If this controversy is notable enough to be included in the article, it needs to written from a neutral point of view, using reputable sources (however important the issue is, it doesn't get included on Wikipedia until it has some sort of coverage by reputable sources), and probably in a different location in the article. The constitutional foundation section is about the relationship between the federal and state governments, explaining how the scheme can exist in the first places. Questions about the consitutionality of particular schemes at this point simply make the article hard to read, and would be more appropriately covered in a section about how Medicare interacts with medical providers. Thanks, JPD (talk) 17:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

It may be factual, but that doesn't stop it being soap box material. A reference to legislation is not good enough, you need to use 3rd party coverage of the issue, not your own observations and arguments. The section you have added is about the constitution, yes, and may be factual, but it is not about Medicare as a whole, but about particular schemes within/connected with Medicare. To discuss this near the beginning of the article, before things like the components of Medicare, disrupts the article. If this topic really should be included, it would fit better, and even be easier to understand, later on. JPD (talk) 11:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, rebates and provider numbers are central to the medicare system. However, the Medical Rural Bonded Scheme is only one issue regarding provider numbers, even if it will affect 20% of medical practitioners as you claim without giving a source. More relevantly, you are placing the section about conscription and the rural scheme early in the article, before the basic idea of what medicare does (ie give rebates, etc.) has been explained. I myself am reasonably familiar with the issues, but the article should be written so that it makes sense to someone who isn't. Adding sections focussing on a particular problem, rather than explaining the framework is not only against the neutral point of view policy, it also means that the article is less informative. JPD (talk) 12:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I would be interested in you rewite to see if it can be communicate in a more susinct way...I accept the issues are complex...and perhaps I do assume too much pre knowledge...so i will leave you to it and then inspect. Howver it is not a particualr issue, it is a I think i put befopre the central and perhaps only issue in a medicare card, / medicare ans without provider numbers meciacare and medicare cards are useless. In fact the other issues metion in this artice such a using medicare card for an australia card are susiduary and specualtive issues as they have not passed inot legislation or nay tangiable form. perhaps it should be removed as it is purely speculative, scheme as opposed to the descrivbing the stautory mechanics of the medicare card systsem

I did not say that providers numbers are not a central issue to the medicare card. The particular issue you are addressing is the Medical Rural Bonded Scheme and whether it amounts to civil conscription. This does not affect many practitioners with provider numbers, and so is a particular problem. I agree that things like the MRBS are probably more important to Medicare than things like the Australia card (although to be fair, the Australia card mention is in the Medicare card article, not the Medicare article). However, I am not convinced that the particular issue (the civil conscription argument) that you are addressing is important enough to be in the article, so it is not really fair of you to ask me to rewrite it. If it is to be included, it should be included in the right part of the article, but more importantly, it needs to cite reputable sources claiming that it falls foul of the constitutional prohibition and backing up the other claims that you are making. JPD (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

its usally a good indication of importance when its in the countries constituion, what do you think? Thats the closet thing to a bill of rights australia has

Australia has no bill of rights. It is not helpful to treat the constitution as though it were one, as it is quite different. At any rate, the assertion that the MRBS is civil conscription is not in the constition, only the prohibition against civil conscription. Importance is relative. The consitutionality of the MRBS is clearly important to the MRBS (and hence an article on the MRBS), but is of lesser importance in an article on Medicare as a whole, as the MRBS is only a part of Medicare. JPD (talk) 11:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

why I said "Thats the closet thing to a bill of rights australia has"JUBALCAIN 22:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Jellyfish

Hi. You added Turritopsis nutricula to Jellyfish. That's cool. But can you please expand the Turritopsis nutricula page from just 4 words + one external link to something more useful please? Fred Hsu 03:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

yeah i know I'm really hoping some one esle will do id did link to that page from immortality wiki page and jelly fish page ...its really quite an interesitng critter....but i am interesed to see if some one else will expand....however pretty important 4 words!!!! maybe I can get an award for most consise wiki entry ever with most impact :). I kanda felt that the jelly desrves some mention, but I would just be repeating the link....and didn't to get into any copyright issues!JUBALCAIN 07:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I see that you've expanded it. I think that is more than enough for now. Yes, it's a very interesting creature :) Fred Hsu 20:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually credit where credit is due, some other guy wikified it and expanded it then I did a bit more.JUBALCAIN 04:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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