User talk:Diberri/Archive 4

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Birthday

User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 03:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Happy B'Day from me too. utcursch | talk 11:43, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Same from me. JFW | T@lk 11:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Extra period in PMID converter?

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of your citation generator, [1]...it's a great tool. However, I noticed that it generates an extra period (e.g. see negative studies in medicine). Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Andrew73 03:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Strange Signature

You asked if my signature was international. The answer is no, my signature is something I came up with. I live in the Eastern Time Zone, thats why it says "EDT" at the end. The time refers to what time it is in the Eastern Time Zone. Patricknoddy 7:05 AM October 30, 2005 EDT

Emergency department

I wonder if you would consider supporting Emergency department at Wikipedia:Article improvement drive, to raise the profile of medicine on the wikipedia. The ED is a key area where the public receive emergency care, but the current article is very inadequate. Perhaps you can give some insight into the emergency department in North America.--File Éireann 23:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Medical College is DIFFERENT From Medical School

I am aftraid that there is NO thing such as Medical School in India and so having the same article for two DIFFERENT entities is wrong

The basic education structure in India is different.

We have School that is common for all - Whether you want to be an engineer, doctor, lawyer, teacher, accountant, nurse, driver, district administrative officer, pilot or whatever you want to do, you have to attend the SAME school.

After that there are various colleges like

1. Medical College - for M.B.,B.S., - to become a doctor 2. Engineering College - FOr B.E., or B.Tech - to become an engineer 3. Law College - for B.L. - to become a lawyer and so on

Hence we need a seperate set of articles on the following lines

1. Medical College 2. Engineering College 3. Law College 4. Arts College

and so on

• In a medical School - students receive four years of the preclinical training, followed by two years of clinical training in hospitals of their own choice.

• In a medical college - students receive 5 and half years of SIMULTANEOUS PARA CLINICAL and CLINICAL traning and they do the clinical Training in the SAME hospital attached to the Medical College.

Another difference

• A person is usually not allowed to practise independently or open and establish a hospital when he finishes his medical school. He has to WORK further in a hospital under a consultant (or so)

• Where as in a Medical College, the student can, immediately after graduation, run a big hospital. he can even start his OWN hospital

Now that's a scary thought!! Mattopaedia 04:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Action potential

see action potential talk Synaptidude 23:03, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

For reverting the vandalism to my userpage. JFW | T@lk 22:48, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Neuroscience

Dave: I've noticed some of your edits on neuro pages recently, and wanted to extend the invite to join us over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience. I'm trying to revive this thing, so stop by and help out if you have time. Cheers! Semiconscious (talk · home) 19:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Pubmed citation bookmarklet

Hi, I created a bookmarklet that will automatically open your pmid converter from a pubmed abstract page, I hope you like it. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine#Pubmed reference bookmarklet. I don't know much about programming, just adepted an existing script for it, but it turns out to be quite useful for me. I still have some problems with it and I thought maybe you could help? It currently takes the last number of the current url as the pmid. But sometimes there are other numbers in the url as well which renders it useless. Do you know how I can get it to take only the number following &list_uids= as the pmid? Thanks. --WS 10:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems a great tool. One question though, the title of the article is shown enclosed in single square brackets '[....]' - is this correct ? Surely within single quotes or italicised would aid legibility & neatness (sorry if I am showing any ignorance of any debate & consensus elsewhere in wikipedia on reference convensions). David Ruben ^Talk 20:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I've not seen this behavior myself. Can you give me a PMID for which this occurs? One explanation may be that pubmed is reporting the journal article with a bracketed title, and my citation maker is just copying the title verbatim, brackets and all. A specific example would really help. --David Iberri (talk) 00:01, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, scratch that since it appears this was already addressed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine#Pubmed reference bookmarklet. It appears that languages other than English are given bracketed titles, according to WS. --David Iberri (talk) 00:07, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I was recently asked if there was information or a guidebook anywhere that would help a user understand how to locate a reference article and insert the reference to it. I was going to direct the user to the discussion on your tool & User:Wouterstomp's bookmarklet but Clinical Medicine's talk page was recently archived. Given that this is an ongoing tool to help with medical articles, I have copied and reorganised the details into the Project's front page under the section about references, here. I think any improvements to the explanation or the javascript should be as edits, rather than as a sequential series of entries seen in a talk page's discussion. Any thoughts on the explanation for novice computer/WP users ? David Ruben ^Talk 14:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Yo

Long time, no see! Just looking something up here on Wikipedia, and realized that I should stop by this page and write to say hi. I see that you're at Georgetown now. Drop me a line (same e-mail address as before) if you have a chance!! Hope all is well with you! --Steve Joiner

HTML::WikiConverter wishlist items

Hi, I like your HTML::WikiConverter! I'm currently using it to convert my old HTML personal site to a new wiki version using the web interface. Unfortunately, the old HTML sucked (it was originally created in MS Word, which loves span tags), so I'm going through and cleaning it up after conversion. This has lead me to wonder if can I maybe make a couple of suggestions to add to the wishlist for the converter? If so, in no particular order they are:

• Can the following two lines maybe be optimized out?

<span style="font-family: Symbol;"></span>
<span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span>

These can be removed by enabling the "remove_empty" attribute. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Can this:

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Updated:</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wanted: Software to detect the maximum refresh rate that a monitor can do.</span>

maybe become this:

'''Updated:'''
'''''Wanted: Software to detect the maximum refresh rate that a monitor can do.'''''

Normalization of CSS properties is avaialble in H::WC 0.60. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Can this?

Test.<br> Foo <br /> Bar.

maybe become this:

Test.

Foo

Bar.

Hmm. I'll look into this. This would probably fall under the HTML normalization category. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Can this:

where I’m coming from. ‘defeat’ Linux. “not yet ready for the desktop.”

maybe become this (i.e. convert the weird quote marks to the standard ones):

where I'm coming from. 'defeat' Linux. "not yet ready for the desktop."

Isn't there a CPAN module that already does quote conversions? --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Can this:

<span lang="EN-US">Yggdrasil </span>(back in the days of the 0.99 & lower kernels)

maybe become:

Yggdrasil (back in the days of the 0.99 & lower kernels)

This could be added relatively easily. I'll look into it. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• This:

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Updated</span>: These
appear to be available with the 2.6 kernels. 

gets converted to:

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Updated</span><nowiki>: These appear to be available with the 2.6 kernels. </nowiki>

Don't see the need for the nowiki tags?

They're added whenever a text node begins with a special wiki character (eg, colon, semicolon, asterisk). This is to prevent the wiki from incorrectly interpreting an innocent asterisk at the beginning of a line of HTML as a bulleted list item. Unfortunately the way these special characters are detected is a bit too dumb to realize that the beginning of a text node isn't equivalent to the beginning of a line. I'll fix this eventually. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Can this:

<div>As a result of.</div>

maybe get converted to this:

As a result of.

Yes, this will be available in H::WC 0.60 with the "passthrough_naked_tags" attribute. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've nearly finished now, but thought that maybe the above feedback could be useful for future users. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, Nick. Hopefully I'll have a few of them implemented by the next release. --David Iberri (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that

Your original "bypass redirect" at "atmospheric reentry" looked like vandalism due to a typo, i.e.

"This article is about the atomspheric phenomenon. For reentry in the heart, see Reentrant dysrhythmia."

I don't have a clue what "Reentrant dysrhythmia" means and the word "atomspheric" looked like a play on "atomic weapons" against "atmosphere". I concluded (incorrectly) this was some form of lunatic vandalism.

There must be a better way to do your bypass redirect. As it stands, the "bypass redirect" has uglified the Atmospheric Reentry article.

I don't want to get into the "reversion / unreversion" loop. An expert should be consulted about this.

Egg plant 03:40, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Migration to cite journal

Thanks for the great tool, Dave. It's really streamlined my citations. However, I just noticed someone's been updating the references for the articles I've created. Apparently {{cite journal}} is replacing {{Journal reference}}. I know you're busy, so I'd be happy to help update your code. Let me know Zyryab 14:35, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Connecting tubule

Hello. I noticed that you are a participant in the WikiProject Preclinical Medicine. The article Connecting tubule has been nominated for deletion. As this is an anatomical subject I was hoping to get somebody within the project to adopt the article for expansion. I could find no way to add the article to this project. I hope you or your fellow particpants would consider adopting this article to love. James084 22:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

• I disagree about your suggestion to Merge/Redirect as the page you suggest merging/redirecting to just links right back. I think we should treat all 3 as separate but related articles. Just a suggestion but feel free to be WP:BOLD, either way I'll help rewrite this article, just let me know what you decide to do. Mike _{(T C)} 02:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

Just in case you're curious, I'm not an alumnus. It just so happens that your alma mater provides some good historical info on their website :-) --Diberri | Talk 01:34, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Why did you change "Notable alumni" to "Notable students"? I think "alumni" sounds better and is more accurate; those listed clearly aren't students there anymore. --Diberri | Talk 17:34, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

I changed it since some the people on the list of alumni did not graduate for the school.--chemica 22:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Just curious about a mental health topic.

Hi! I've got kind of a mental health question for you.

I'll start by saying that I know you're neither God nor Sigmund Freud, but you were the only person with mental health experience that I saw on the "list of mental health diseases".

So here goes:

-Is androphobia a real disorder? -Is it a subset of some other disorder like "Anxiety Disorder"? Thanks.

--Zaorish 07:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Source code of your html2wiki

Hello. This is Sam. I'm a member of chinese wiki site. I recently crossed your page http://diberri.dyndns.org/html2wiki.html. But the problem is that users in China cant access the page. Would you like to share the code for it? I can be reached yusiye@gmail.com Thank you.

Problem with the html-wiki converter on your dyndns site

Here is the error:

System error

error:  Can't use string ("") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm line 125.
context:  
...  
121:  # Pass '{internal=>1}' as first arg for params that aren't attributes
122:  sub _attr {
123:   my( $self, $opts, $param, $value ) = ref $_[1] eq 'HASH' ? @_ : ( +shift, {}, @_ );
124:   my $store = $opts->{internal} ? $self : $self->__attrs;
125:   $store->{$param} = $value if defined $value;
126:   return defined $store->{$param} ? $store->{$param} : '';
127:  }
128:  
129:  # Attribute accessors and mutators
...  
code stack:   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm:125
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm:419
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm:109
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm:92
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm:101
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/WikiConverter.pm:89
/var/www/diberri/html/html2wiki.html:104
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:753
/var/www/diberri/mason/data/obj/html2wiki.html:32
raw error

Wow, you managed to catch me in the 5 minutes that I was updating a couple files. Thanks for the report -- this should now be fixed. --David Iberri (talk) 18:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

(Userbox removed so I'm not categorized under WikProject Saints. --David Iberri (talk) 20:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC))

I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

Thanks! --evrik 17:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

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Your pubmed tool

I just used your "PubMed citations for Wikipedia" tool for the first time -- truly magnificent. Thanks for building it. --Arcadian 20:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. It's my pleasure! --David Iberri (talk) 04:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Giffard crest.JPG

Regarding the copyright on this image I drew it myself using Paint as you can probably tell. I don't know how to change the copyright tag.

Wow -- replying to a message I wrote in 2004? Ah, the asynchronous web! Anyhow, to change the copyright tag, edit the image page and add the appropriate tag (eg, {{gfdl}} to license it under the GFDL). PS: Please sign your posts with ~~~~ so others don't have to look at the history of a page to see who left the message. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 19:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Behavioral test

hi there. I am willing to start a full scale work on behavioral test like light dark box, plus maze, watermaze etc. I have all types of image avaliable coming from my own lab. But I am new here so I am having difficulties with formatting. Can I count on you in this? dont get me wrong not only about formatting but everything in general. And about citations is it ok to cite only scientific papers or should we cite more accessible sources? thanks!!!neurobio 23:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, neurobio! While the field you refer to is outside of my expertise (I tend to focus on anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology rather than psychology and behavioral sciences), I suspect you might be able to find other interested contributors on the Neuroscience WikiProject. I'd be happy to comment on or help with any formatting issues you've encountered. On the issue of citations, in my experience scientific papers are not the best reference materials for an encyclopedia, since journal articles typically focus on cutting-edge research, while an encyclopedia should concern itself primarily with well established facts. Thus textbooks and review articles are my primary source for Wikipedia references. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 20:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Your templates

I love your template building tool. Is there any way I could talk you into building a parallel feature to build templates for Template:Protein, possibly using the Hgncid to link to this site to get the fields? (Parsing the locus into subfields might be too tricky, and it doesn't have PDB, but most of the other fields are available there.) Also, the protein template hasn't gone through as many iterations of development as DrugBox, so it isn't as mature, so if you have suggestions, they would be quite welcome. --Arcadian 11:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Great idea. I've added this tool that hopefully fits the bill. Comments welcome at Template talk:Protein#Automated filling. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 17:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Andrew Bushell

Hi Diberri. As a courtesy, I felt I should keep you informed on this. You nominated the above article for deletion (here). After some communication with the subject of the article, I have restored it, and provided further - referenced - assertions of notability. I hope that you are now satisfied that the article contains enough references to notability. All the best, Proto///type 08:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the email - I don't reply directly to Gmail users, as I don't want them to have my email address; you never know who they might be, as Gmail hides the originating IP. At the moment, I think there's things that need to be gotten to the bottom of. Recreating a deleted page is always permissible if further information comes to light.

As he communicated with me via private email, I will not let you know what he said, but there was a lot of 'soap opera stuff'. But he also pointed me in the direction of enough references to satisfy WP:NOR, WP:VAIN and WP:V, which the current article now fulfills (other than one citation request).

Whether or not it fulfills WP:BIO with regards to notability is another question - I was going to re-AFD it (as it is different from it's prior state, it is not suitable for speedy deletion). Given that I'm recieving wildly conflicting emails from yourself and from Mr Bushell, I need to get to the bottom of it. Give me a day or two; the article had been up on Wikipedia since May 1 2005, so a day or two more won't hurt. Proto///type 12:09, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your helpful reply. I agree that recreating a deleted page is permissible in some circumstances, but in my experience Wikipedia:Deletion review is the preferred channel.

Regarding the references Bushell has provided: Have you added these to the article? The four references in the body of the article do not establish anything about Bushell beyond his having worked for various news outlets. As I mentioned in my e-mail to you (which I'd be happy to duplicate here if anyone else is interested), an article that recounts one's employment history constitutes nothing more than a curriculum vitae. And again, as mentioned in my e-mail, the article still does not stand up against WP:NOR, as there are numerous other unfounded claims aside from the one marked with {{fact}}.

I don't envy your position in getting to the bottom of this issue. :-) Please let me know if I can be of any help. In the meantime, I certainly encourage you to renominate the article for deletion, so that we can again reach a community consensus. Thanks again. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 13:09, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I will do so, probably in a day or two. Once I've gotten some advice from wiser and more battle-hardened admins than myself. If you would like to either remove all the unfounded claims you spot, hide them (with the <!-- and --> tags) or simply tag them with {{citation needed}}, that would be a big help. Proto///type 14:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

As I said, give me a bit of time. Is it true you know him in real life? He believes some kind of personal vendetta is going on. I think I'll userfy the page. It's at User:Lqcincinnatus/Andrew Bushell Proto///type 06:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I userfied the article (as was my original intent, before changing my mind and thinking it should stay). I then recieved a request from the owner of the userspace (Mr Bushell) to delete the article. So it's been deleted. The references I added came from me looking on Google (prompted by the original email from Mr Bushell I was sent) - I wanted to see what I could verify. Proto///type 12:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your comment. Nrets 18:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Irvine Unified School District

I am unsure about your changes to the Teacher of the Year section. While it is incomplete, it covers the most recent teachers honored in the district. Rationale for removal? If it simply needed a citation, there are flags for that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Octagon77 (talk • contribs)

I provided my rationale at the time I made the edit. It's at Talk:Irvine Unified School District, where we can continue the discussion if you'd like. --David Iberri (talk) 13:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Hippocampus / Cornu ammonis

Hey, I saw your merge note over at the HC/CA pages. I made a suggestion on the HC talk page about one way to deal with it and wanted your opinion. I've also beefed up the CA page to demonstrate what I meant. What do you think? Digfarenough 17:01, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Problems with HTML::WikiConverter

I'm really enjoying this module -- or at least what I can get from it on your site. I've installed the bundle through CPAN, but I have no real knowledge of Perl and no idea how to make my own HTML frontend for it. Is there a chance that I could get yours from you?

BTW: There's a small bug I found. <hr> will be translated to ---- in the same place that the <hr> is located. The tables I've been translating have all had <hr>s as, uh, not the first elements in their lines. It's a very minor problem, but I thought I'd mention it to ya.:65.25.99.39 02:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The frontend is written in Mason, which is a Perl module that allows you to embed Perl in HTML pages. You can get Mason from CPAN, and the Mason component for the web frontend to HTML::WikiConverter is available here.

Thanks for the note about the <hr> problem. I'll look into it. --David Iberri (talk) 18:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I also noticed something else -- linked images become an image link inside of a link, which means that when you upload the image, the link that was previously there is broken. I'm not sure if that makes sense. Ah, <a href="beer.html"><img src="/images/beer.jpg"></a> becomes [blah blah/beer.html [[Image:Beer.jpg]] ]. It's a very minor problem (at least to me) and I'm not sure how easy it is to fix, but I thought you might like to know about it just on general principle.

Thanks again for the module :-)

65.25.99.39 21:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Missing year in PMID tool

I used your PMID citation generator on PMID 15279880, and the year field was not automatically filled in.4hodmt 20:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look at it. --David Iberri (talk) 11:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Tool for Drugbox

Really enjoying using the tool. Following talk-page discussion, I've added some country specific parameters for pregnancy-category and legal-status. Your tool wont be able to fill them in, but could your tool show these in both the shortened and extended versions of the markup. I'm undecided whether it should show the possible values (which I've enclosed in hidden tags so the options are not shown if left undefined).

So either this:

 | pregnancy_AU =  <!-- A / B1 / B2 / B3 / C / D / X -->
 | pregnancy_US =  <!-- A / B / C / D / X -->
 | pregnancy_category =  
 | legal_AU =      <!-- Unscheduled / S2 / S4 / S8 -->
 | legal_UK =      <!-- GSL / P / POM / CD -->
 | legal_US =      <!-- OTC / Rx-only -->
 | legal_status = 

or this:

| pregnancy_AU = 
| pregnancy_US = 
| pregnancy_category =  
| legal_AU = 
| legal_UK = 
| legal_US = 
| legal_status = 

Yours David Ruben ^Talk 19:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. For now I've added the version with the commented-out options. Let me know if you later decide that the other version is better. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 21:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Could you update your tool re Drugbox template, as there is now a Canadian legal code parameter. Hence:

 | legal_AU =      <!-- Unscheduled   / S2 / S3 / S4  / S8 -->
 | legal_CA =      <!--               / Schedule I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII -->
 | legal_UK =      <!-- GSL / P / POM / CD / Class A, B, C -->
 | legal_US =      <!-- OTC / Rx-only / Schedule I, II, III, IV, V -->
 | legal_status = 
 

I do not yet know what the normal (non-scheduled) classificatiopn system is in Canada (i.e. for OTC, pHarmacy and normal prescriptions only items).

re cite journal template from PubMed, I note that the template fails to pick up the year of publication if there is also listed a month in an odd format, i.e. if the month is neither MMM nor MMM DD format, but MMM-MMM. Hence see this for PMID 12197324 as an example of this.

• For that matter, it would be nice to routinely have the tool complete the month parameter too, i.e. whatever is left following the year 4-characters before the ';', which may of course be a null string (does the tool parse free text like this, or read XML variables from PubMed ?) :-) David Ruben ^Talk 12:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

HMG-CoA fix

Thanks for your great images on cholesterol synthesis. Recently on Talk:HMG-CoA reductase pathway an anonymous user noted a small error in HMG-CoA's structure in Image:Cholesterol-Synthesis-Reaction1.png (which was extracted from Image:Cholesterol-Synthesis-Complete.png, so it needs fixing too). Basically, carbon six needs to be replaced with a hydroxyl group. If you could take a look at this, it'd be much appreciated. Best, David Iberri (talk) 14:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the original source file and the software I used (Chemdraw) were on a computer that was replaced months ago, so I can't even recreate it from scratch. I'll try to dig it out but it will probably take a while. Anyway, I see you've created a few structs yourself, so maybe you can fix it if you have a minute. --jag123 06:32, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

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Have any pet MCB subjects that you think need attention? Have you been longing to be part of a team of like-minded editors working toward a common goal? If so, the MCB Article Improvement Drive is for you! On the first of every month a new article is selected by the MCB with the goal of promoting it to good article status. Make your nominations and cast your votes now, because the first article will be chosen on September 1!
Discussion: do we need an MCB director?
In an effort to organize and motivate the MCB activities, it has recently been proposed that a member of the MCB project take the role of "director", who would be responsible for the administrative side of the MCB project, including but not limited to coordinating recruiting efforts, spamming the newsletter, and maintaining the Article Improvement Drive and MCB Portal. A special discussion/vote page has been created for this proposal, and the vote will run until 23:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC), unless the community decides otherwise.
Odds and ends: what else you got?
In an effort to raise our profile and possibly attract some new blood, a shiny new MCB project banner template has been created at {{Template:Wikiproject MCB}}. Please add it to the talk pages of all MCB-related articles.
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ClockworkSoul 06:39, Sunday August 27, 2006 (UTC)
If you wish to opt out of having the newsletter posted on your talk page in the future, you may add yourself to the opt out list Newsletter concept and layout blatantly "borrowed" from the Esperanza newsletter.