Res q68
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You can post a question on my talk page if you need to.--ikiroid | (talk) 23:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
English/Chinese article translation
editRe: [1]
- Can you give me more details on the article you want translated? Thanks. -Loren 12:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'd suggest that you go ahead and write the article in English or see if there's a preexisting article you can add to, once some other people have gone over it and a stable version has been reached then we can decide how best to go about the translation to other languages. Good luck! -Loren 18:41, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Res q68, I would love to help in any way possible. However, I will be taking a wikibreak from 23/5 till 26/5, and from 3/6 till 16/6, so I may not be replying your messages in the next few days. - splot 11:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Help with editing
editDon't feel shy to ask me something about Wikipedia—I'll do whatever I can to help. Most of wikipedia uses a modified form of HTML, so commands like <center></center> and <br> are the same on Wikipedia as they are on the rest of the net. We sign our comments with three tildes (like this: ~~~). Making it four tildes instead of three adds a timestamp. You can look at Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Wikipedia:Manual of Style for more information, they helped me a lot. Now to your userpage: For starters, you might want to add some userboxes to your webpage. They help tell others users about your skills in other languages, as well as your interests, hobbies, and areas of expertise. There are two ways of doing this:
1. You can add a customized userbox template, where you create a list of userboxes in between a template:
This is my awesome userbox template
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{{Boxboxtop|This is my awesome userbox template}}
{{User en}}
{{User zh-2}}
{{User es-1}}
{{User chess}}
{{User:Scepia/cvg}}
{{Boxbottom}}
It ends up looking like the following on the right:
2. Your second option is to add a Babel template. To add a standard Babel template, add the following: {{Babel|(First userbox)|(Second Userbox)|(Third Userbox)|...}}. For example, {{Babel|en|zh-2|java-4|chess}} looks like this:
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Feel free to come to me with any more questions you have, I'll do my best to help ;)--The ikiroid (talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 02:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
The answer to your question....
editI'll try to answer both of your questions in one message. You asked me if other wikipedias will recognize your english account, and the answer is no. I ran into this problem too. It's a bit of a pain, but you have to set up a seperate account on each wikipedia you would like to work on, and then you write links on your userpage to the other language accounts. For example, at the bottom of my userpage there is:
[[eo:Vikipediisto:Ikiroid]]
[[es:Usuario:Ikiroid]]
[[fr:Utilisateur:Ikiroid]]
[[ja:利用者:Ikiroid]]
[[simple:User:Ikiroid]]
[[zh:User:Ikiroid]]
Each of these links to a (technically different) account under the same name on each wikipedia.
And about the English-to Chinese translation: I'd be happy to help, although I have a very limited knowledge of chinese. I started learning it at the end of January. So, the best place to request a translation of a specific text is at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language, or, on the chinese wikipedia at zh:Wikipedia talk:Guestbook for non-Chinese-speakers. If it concerns an article on Wikipedia, you'd best go to Wikipedia:Babel. If you need more help or if I wasn't clear, feel free to come ask me another question. Just leave it on my talk page instead of my userpage. Good luck!! :)--The ikiroid (talk parler hablar paroli 说 話し parlar) 18:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
About the English to Japanese translation you asked me to do, I'm sorry but I only do Japanese to Engish. You'll always want to have a person translate into his or her native language, so you should probably be looking for a native speaker of Japanese.
Leaky gut
editYou inserted material on a large number of pages, ranging from scleroderma to dermatitis herpetiformis, referring to Dr Gallands' theories on how to treat these conditions. I've removed most of them momentarily. One practicioner's approach is not automatically notable, unless you can prove conclusively that there are 1000s of practicioners using this approach (such as echinacea for the common cold, magnetic insoles for plantar fasciitis etc).
This is in no way meant to discredit Galland's approach, but we simply cannot mention every practicioner's treatment. When mainstream medical treatments are mentioned, we generally restrict ourself to those practiced widely (preferably those endorsed by professional group's official guidelines). JFW | T@lk 09:11, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message. I do not need to be lectured on the nature of Wikipedia, nor do I represent any form of "racketteering", your use of which I regard as ad hominem. I also think your remark "Wikipedia is not about willful ignorance, nor criminal negligence" is completely off-topic and harmful to an open discussion here.
- I asked for some evidence that Dr Galland is not alone in his approach. The evidence you have given me is completely unrelated. Despite what you say, I am actually warmly in favour of including non-mainstream approaches, even those pioneered by people who have not attended Harvard, but not without at least some evidence that it is more than just their cult of personality. If Andrew Weil writes about it, then it may be notable. If QuackWatch writes about it, there is a fair chance it's notable. But I do not regard Dr Gallands' website as a reliable source to support claims that his views are widely practiced and supported.
- Much of alternative medicine suffers from this problem on Wikipedia. But that is not because doctors are keeping it out. Rather it's the paucity of good supportive sources, and the reluctance of followers to be regarded as a "non-standard approach". JFW | T@lk 21:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Re:Fixing an article
editI've responded to your question on my page. Cheers, The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 21:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)