User talk:Carl Henderson/Archive 1

Welcome to the Wikipedia

Here are some links I find useful

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Utilities
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
• Wikipedia:Brilliant prose
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 02:45, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Frank Belknap Long

Excellent article. I added an external link, but only for the photo it provides. Maybe you can find a public domain photo to ad? Sam [Spade] 03:10, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

AIDS

I'm sorry that you deleted the link without responding to my argument and questions on the Talk page. Could you explain your point there before deleting it again? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

AIDS revert ot May 26

Fine, I have done as you suggested. Sci guy 04:02, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Oral sex / HIV infection

Good research Carl. I am bothered by the wide ranges of estimates though - fluctuating 10% on a risk that is estimated via that CDC chart to be less than 1%. I think the biggest factor for HIV infection via oral sex is the presence of abnormal trauma to the mouth/throat because of drug use or STIs. Are there any studies that control for this? JoeSmack (talk) 18:33, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

I didn't find any that did. I don't think there is a conclusive answer to this yet. What would be best to do for Wikipedia is to present the sourced information we have together with the context. Carl Henderson 22:32, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Origins

Good job on that origins section! :) JoeSmack (talk) 23:44, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I'm going to tackle a few other sections in the same way. I'm probably going through the stuff that 207.224.198.170 added about differences in susceptiblity between races and see if I can reference it (and rewrite towards more of a NPOV) next. Carl Henderson 15:26, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Test

HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (2002). "The Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms, 4th Edition"

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2004). "ICTVdB Descriptions: Lentivirus"

Friedman, Eric A. (2003). "HIV Transmission in the Medical Setting: A White Paper by Physicians for Human Rights"

AIDS article work

Come on man, we gotta start buckling down on the AIDS article. I've got my hands full dealing with Sci Guy and keeping up the references section, we need your help! JoeSmack (talk) 13:11, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Joe--what Sci Guy is doing is a passive agressive form of article vandalism. I've seen him in action before. His modus operandi consists of:

• Making tiny changes so as to weaken unequivocably true statements (like "HIV causes AIDS"),
• Replace clear language with obtuse--but scientifically correct--technobabble so as to hide things from the casual reader,
• Slipping critical changes in the middle of a host of small changes (usually with no annotation of what the change is on the revisions page), and
• Demanding standards of proof that are not possible in any field of science.

The viewpoint he's pushing is the "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" silliness. He's just good at doing it and obfuscating what he's doing. The good thing is that he appears to have a short attention span. In the past, it seems like he goes through a flurry of "improvements" then drops out of sight for a few weeks. I think matching him revision for revision is a waste of time. Either just revert all the changes he makes, or wait for him to go away and fix the article. Eventually, he will get bored or get a life.

If you would like to discuss this offline, feel free to email me at jch@carlhenderson.net.

Carl Henderson 19:40, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

HIV

The version of the HIV article you recently "restored" is impossibly long and contains so many large images that it rarely loads - over 200K. Please work within the article size guidelines of under 32K Sci guy 01:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

AIDS as featured article main page appearance

hi there. in case you missed it, i thought you might like to know AIDS is appearing on the main page as a featured article on June 15th (this month). if you could, it'd prolly help to have someone keeping an eye out for vandals specifically on that date, since as of right now there is at least one vandalizing a day since it's FA status. now would also be a good time to copyedit it before the big slam on its main page day. :) JoeSmack ^Talk 16:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)