User talk:Michael Harpur Edwards

Hello, Michael Harpur Edwards! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Please note that wikis are not considered reliable sources, medically reliable sources or appropriate as external links (see point 12). Thanks, WLU (talk) 14:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You posted a comment in my archive. Please post on my talk page. WLU (talk) 18:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that you also seem to be the webmaster or something similar for wikisurgery. This places you in a conflict of interest, and is another reason you should not be adding the page to wikipedia. At best, you could try bringing this up on individual article talk pages or perhaps the medicine wikiproject for others to review and add to the page if they think there is merit. I don't hold out much hope for that though, it's a small wiki, and it's a wiki. There's no real support for wikis as reliable sources or external links. WLU (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisurgery

Please stop. If you continue to insert inappropriate links I will have to permanently suspend your account. JFW | T@lk 09:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question on WLU's talkpage:[1] it seems your resource is not peer-reviewed. Therefore, however relevant and useful the information, Wikipedia's sourcing policy opposes the use of other wikis and self-published sources. How about you drop by on WT:MED, where we can discuss the options for improving surgery-related content on Wikipedia. JFW | T@lk 09:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our policies concerning neutral point of view and biographies of living persons will not be tolerated. You have been blocked for 24 hours for continuing to violate Wikipedia policy despite several reminders. JFW | T@lk 09:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of More about Scalpels

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Image copyright problem with Image:113000715-DO-NOT-Scalpel-+-.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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Formatting

Just three minor tips that might make your "Wikilife" easier:

The pipe trick for Wikipedia articles works like this: [[some page|some other text]]. This results in some other text being visible. You just need to stick the character that looks like this: | in between the real article name and the words you want to display. The bar is called a pipe.

If you're linking to a full URL (anything starting with http://), then you only need one set of square brackets: [2] Double brackets, which are required for articles, look a little funny: [[3]]. URLs don't use the pipe trick to add text: they just leave a space: Wikipedia's main page

To sign your name, you just need four tildes: ~~~~ It will automatically add your name, talk page, and the time. (I think that three tildes is just your name, and five tildes is the time without your name.)

Hope this saves you some hassle, WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:45, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]