Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 01:56, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Arcadian, well done for this template. I'm not sure about its use though. It presumes that every disease has causes and diagnostic tests that can be fitted on the space of one or two lines. It would impose a rather reductionist view on the Wikipedia medical articles, something I'd rather avoid. It is also open to all sorts of chaos, as can be seen on auditory processing disorder.

Without criticing you in any way, perhaps you should have discussed the use of the template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine and Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathology before inserting it into articles of broad scope.

Finally, it has no referencing apparatus, and it therefore very hard to see what the origin is for incidenc/prevalence numbers. This is especially so in cases where there is regional variation (e.g. hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma in Southeast Asia). JFW | T@lk 23:15, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Salve!
I nominated W. Mark Felt as a WP:FAC. As you commented on the Deep Throat talk page, I'd appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. Mark Felt. PedanticallySpeaking 15:49, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Arcadian, I have a question for you about where you got some of your information on the article about Strong's concordance--I have a dispute about the number of words in the concordance. Thanks, Raymondofrish 20:01, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Here's one source: [1] (http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/kjvstrongs/CONINDEX.htm). --Arcadian 00:50, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Arcadian, if you look more carefully on that site, you'll see that not all of those numbers are used. This is what I posted on the article's talk page: The article states that there are 5624 Greek words in the new testament, but I do not believe that this is accurate. Indeed there are 5624 Strong's numbers for the Greek, however, only words with the same root were numbered, so αγαπησεις appears the same as αγαπατε, for example--both are listed as Strong's #25 "αγαπαω". Even disregarding different stems for these words, however, there are not even 5624 root words, as numbers 3203-3302 are simply not used. See http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/STRINDEX.htm. I would love to change this to the proper number, but I'm not sure what it is. Raymondofrish 01:14, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Concerning template:DiseaseDisorder infobox:

• Shall we move it to a shorter name?
• In the boxes you placed, each one says "hypoglycemia"
• Are we using ICD-9 codes (as you have done) or ICD-10 ones?

JFW | T@lk 5 July 2005 14:39 (UTC)

I cannot possibly imagine there would be restrictions of referencing to ICD-10 codes. There may be copyright issues on republishing the WHOLE list, which we may need to settle. All large health organisations use ICD-10 for coding, so I shouldn't think there would be a problem in using it.

Strictly speaking, do you think the box needs at the top? I'm open to persuation either way, but many articles have images at the top that would be cluttered with a box. On the other hand: where else would we put it? JFW | T@lk 5 July 2005 19:24 (UTC)

Well done for adding more infoboxes. Would you mind also adding ICD-10 codes? The URL is here. JFW | T@lk 18:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks so much for placing the excellent InfoBox template on the epilepsy article. You should be aware, however, that many patients with epilepsy are coded via ICD-9 under 784.0, "Other convulsions." Is it possible to insert 784 into the template as well, or will this break it?

I am not familiar with ICD-10 at all, so I am concerned that it may have another convulsion category floating around (although this was one of the things people like me were hoping it would fix) - I'll look into it. --Ikkyu2 22:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

The duplicating of text is not vandalism, it is cause by people copying and pasting their text when they get an edit conflict on a section. As and admin you can help by protecting the page temporarily before fixing it. Have fun. ed g2s • talk 19:17, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Glad that you're interested in the MCOTF too! Feel free to tweak the directions on the page or make any suggestions on the talk page. And to nominate any articles as well. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:30, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

FYI: Template:Song infobox, which you created, has been nominated for deletion at Templates for deletion by WB. BlankVerse ∅ 14:33, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on the first Wikipedia:Medicine Collaboration of the Week! I'm quite proud of how much the article improved, and I hope we remain an active force, improving medical articles on Wikipedia. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:42, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Arcadian. It looks like you may have used outdated info. to edit List of law firms. The current rankings are at [1] (free registration required). I'll try to get to this, but feel free to edit in the meantime. Nelson Ricardo 17:45, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

I am looking at resolving this particular item on TFD (see Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Ludwig_van_Beethoven). Rather than render non-admin summary jugement and interpret the commentary as it stands, I was wondering whether you would like to revise your input or leave it as it stands considering the comments made by User:EldKatt which appear to have been convincing for a couple of other people providing input and were made after you had provided your own input. Thanks for revisiting the TFD entry and considering the finality of your decision. Courtland 05:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi! You showed support for Biochemistry, this week's Medicine Collaboration of the Week. You are invited to help improve it! — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:06, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Please do not put ICD boxes on pages just dealing with a symptom[2]. This creates confusion and adds very little information. JFW | T@lk 06:26, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Could you please respond to my message before putting the box back? Ataxia is not a diagnosis, and even the ICD itself recognises this. I think that by putting ICD boxes on symptom pages we cause confusion. JFW | T@lk 20:26, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I will be responding on the WikiProject. JFW | T@lk 22:21, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

No prob. Bold is the new black. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:21, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm new to Wikipedia, and I'm confused. You're an admin and spend time on the Cleveland pages. A wikipedian keeps moving, or deleting text, I add re the Metroparks on the Cleveland page to the Metro Cleveland page or oblivion. I don't want to get into a revert war, but several reservations are in, or cross, the city, and the Zoo is entirely inside the City. There's no reference to these otherwise, except in briefest passing. Why would references to these be dumped to the Metro page? I've already put these back only to have them dumped without comment. I thought that this space was a collaborative? MARussellPESE 15:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Mille Grazie! Excellent advice. I was going to try to start a Metroparks page myself as time permitted.

FYI The Cleveland, Summit, Lorain and Lake Metroparks are each independant political subdivisions of the state, but generally serve Cuyahoga, Summit, Lorain and Lake counties respectively. They have taxing authority and their own sworn police forces (rangers). Each have robust conservation, education and preservation programs. The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is federal, but they all collaborate. Outdoorsy Clevelanders really have it good.

Thanks again, MARussellPESE 19:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

You've made a great template, Template:UnitedStatesCode. It uses FindLaw. I'm an attorney and I use and like Findlaw. On the other hand, Cornell's site is a lot cleaner, slicker, and more attractive to the common user & Wikipedian. So I'm looking into trying a Template that uses Cornell's site: Template:USCode. However, I'm not having much luck because I'm not good at this stuff. Can you give me some advice? You can answer here instead of my user page. --Mark Adler 21:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I'll respond at Template talk:UnitedStatesCode instead of here, to make it easier for people to follow the discussion in the future. --Arcadian 20:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

I've simply removed it. This is rubbish. JFW | T@lk 19:46, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed you've been working on some short articles on medical conditions. If you find yourself tagging those as stubs, may I suggest using {{med-stub}} instead of {{stub}}, which is deprecated? Even if you don't, stub-sorters will get to them before long, but you could cut out a middleman that way. For more info, see WikiProject Stub sorting and the list of stub types. Cheers! GTBacchus 20:02, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Good job with the muscle infoboxes. These were badly needed. Just to let you know, there was already a page for the scalene muscles, so I redirected Scalenus anterior muscle, Scalenus posterior muscle, and Scalenus medius muscle to that page. I think it makes more sense to talk about the scalene muscles as a group. I gave each scalene muscle its own infobox on the scalene muscles page. —Brim 06:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

There are plenty of systemic mediators whose "hormonicity" is a bit of a grey area. I think you've made fair choices on that template. JFW | t@lk. 16:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Pleased to make your acquaintance. I've finished the merge, per Talk:Intraparenchymal hemorrhage. However, this probably only should be a temporary merge, and once there's some significant content for Intraventricular hemorrhage, we could split them out onto two pages again. I just put a few sentences at Intra-axial_hematoma#Intraventricular_hemorrhages to get the ball rolling, but you might want to take a look at it when you get a chance. --Arcadian 21:20, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Good meeting you too. I had a look and added a small amount on intraventricular bleeds. You must have made a redirect from intraventricular hemorrhage, and I did one from intraventricular hematoma. You think we should remove the stub template?

Hey, question: do you know where I can find a page on conventions about the references section? e.g., whether to put the date after the name or at the end, whether to put the name of the article in quotes, whether to capitalize every word in the article name or just the first letter, etc? Anyway, thanks for the contributions. Peace, Delldot 23:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Well done on that page. I've added VAD. There are probably many more that I've forgotten for the moment. Oh, ECF is epirubicin-cisplatin-fluouracil (used for gastric and oesophageal cancer).

As for the infobox, it would be a good idea to group them according to mechanism of action. JFW | T@lk 08:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if you would consider raising the profile of medicine on the web by supporting this article at Wikipedia:Article improvement drive. The emergency department is one of the most important ways by which the general public access medical care, yet the article if very basic. Good luck with your medical studies!--File Éireann 19:17, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

== Nice addition in newborn screening== alteripse 00:56, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, wondering if you accidentally left off the end of your sentence in your comment on the d-TGA talk page...it seems to have been prematurely terminated...when it is an what? Thanks bcatt 19:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I was also wondering about the infobox...what is the ICD-9 for d-TGA? Same as l-TGA? bcatt 19:38, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I think you should not have been so worried as to leave a note on my talk page. Good edit, btw. :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex.tan (talk • contribs)

You seem to be under the impression that Streptococcus pneumoniae and "pneumococcal pneumonia" are synonyms. They aren't. The first is the name of an organism. The second is the name of one of the many types of disease caused by that organism. - Nunh-huh 22:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Arcadian, I must express my admiration at your unbelievably hard work at inserting infoboxes on so many pages. Your efforts at classification and organisation are doing a great deal to systematise the medical and scientific content on Wikipedia. My compliments. JFW | T@lk 23:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting that bit. I didn't realise it was a student paper. It is good that you are checking that what is being written is reliable. Thanks again. Wallie 19:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

How would you add information on the history of the discovery of CRH? Currently the only reference is to the publication of the structure, but there's nearly 30 years of work before that, including some that was relevant to a Nobel prize award. Rsaffran 11:50, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

See the Guillemin review that I cited in Releasing hormone. It will solve your problems. JFW | T@lk 12:47, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Arcadian. I've noticed that you've done a lot of work with templates and info boxes. Would you mind looking at the aforementioned template sometime and make any changes that you think are appropriate? I added Photoreceptor cell, Giant retinal ganglion cells, and Photosensitive ganglion cell to the template, but I was wondering if the template should someone make it clear that Cone cell and Rod cell fall under Photoreceptor cell, and that Giant retinal ganglion cells is a type of Photosensitive ganglion cell which is a type of Ganglion cell. I'm not sure exactly how to address those things, if at all. Edwardian 21:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello, again. FYI: Your name has been invoked in a debate in Talk:Natasha Demkina in case you're interested in helping smooth things over. Edwardian 05:57, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I tried to help, but gave up since it appears to be a long-standing debate between two individuals that has spilled over into Wiki. Oh, well. Edwardian 23:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Edwardian has run away from the matter. If you have any advice on this dispute, it could be used. The whole point of me getting involved in this dispute and bringing it to WP:RFC was specifically so that I could help the matter through the proper process, not get stuck in the middle of something I don't have any familiarity with. TIA, Keith D. Tyler ¶ 20:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

"Run away" is decidely POV, but I agree with the gist of his suggestion. Edwardian 04:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Really, even if I'm a pathologist, my present, main interest into wiki are horses and nature; I'm working mainly into it.wiki, and I come into en.wiki sometimes (Neuroma was mentioned into the Navicular disease article...). I think, my contributions to en.wiki will not be so many, since (as you can see  ;-) ) my English is not so good. Nevertheless, I created two new categories into Commons (Normal Histology and Histopathology) and (when I'll can...) I'll upload there some microscopic pictures from my daily work. Take a look sometimes, just to see there is something useful.

Please: there is a template saying "Please, edit this bad English if you can" into en.wiki? I'll use it often!

--Alex brollo 05:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The source I used was the 2003 version that I linked at the bottom of the page, but you're right, that was a typo; I just went back and looked at the page I got that from.

Oh, and you're welcome.--Rmky87 05:33, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if you have it on your watchlist, but I summarized all of the optional and mandatory parameters on Template talk:NFL player ×Meegs 03:17, 18 December 2005 (UTC)