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Welcome to the Wikipedia, Sparkleyone! And thanks for fixing the bad Wikilink over on the Controversies in autism article. Hope you enjoy editing here and becoming a Wikipedian! Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, Sparkleyone, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 04:55, 13 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hiya Sparkleyone

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You might be interested in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_alma_mater:University_of_Western_Australia

Cheers, Serephine 13:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Invitation

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Please weigh in on this proposal and see User:Leifern/Wikiproject health controversies. Thanks in advance, and feel free to spread the word. --Leifern 17:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

pov Bio-psychiatry article

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Hi Sparkleyone:

Thanks for your recent contribution to one of the articles in my watchlist. Recently, pro-psychiatry advocates nuked the Biological psychiatry article and placed instead a highly biased pro bio-psych article. I have fought them in Talk:Biological_psychiatry but they outnumber me 5 to 1.

Last year Francesca Allan from MindFreedom International also fought alone against the shrinks of another article, the “Psychiatry” article. Like me today, Francesca was outnumbered and she withdrew from Wikipedia.

Is there anyone around that can give me a hand? That pro bio-psychiatry article can do great harm to the Wikipedia readership if it remains unchallenged. I am only asking for little help.

Thank you!

Cesar Tort 05:28, 19 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

effects of war on organsiation of medical services

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I'd say (based on some experience and the reading of the references) that the major effect on smallpox vaccination in the Philipines was not so much missing vacciantions, indeed one of the tropes repeated is that many people were multiply vaccinated and caught Smallpox later, but rather that with the loss of the orgnaised chain of supply of reliable vaccine until the incoming Americans built infrastructure to do it, much of th evaccine passed along the supply route was cooked to uselessness. If you know that your supplies are of dubious effectiveness, then you repeat vacciante when you get the chance, and given that the population and the doctors were as smart then as we are now, it is unlikely that the people revaccianted would be ones who had observed in themselves and been observed to have a proper "take" of the vaccine, it was probably accurately targetted at those who remained vulnerable. There is a similar problem with live Polio virus in the tropics nowadays, and maintenance of the cold chain - which we can do rather better now - is a big preooccupation even in England. I hope that background is useful - you may care to revisit the paragraph in the article? Midgley 21:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for de-spamming Hypochondria.

Professional IQ Testing

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Thanks for your message. First, it's not my website that I continue to post on the Intelligence Quotient page. It is the wittiest and most creative method, however, of instructing potential "IQ test" users about the perils of online intelligence testing, an oxymoron if there ever was one. You should review it before dismissing it out of hand, taking time to look up unfamilliar terms and concepts. Second, I created a new section on the discussion section to guide our link removals/additions. Third, kindly review my credentials. Class dismissed.  :)

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Hi Sparkley. Are you happy with "psychological disorder" being listed as an alternate title at the head of "Mental illness"? It was not one of your original choices. (I'm not thrilled with it.)--WikiCats 13:30, 29 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Psychology Wiki

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Hi Sparkleyone,

In case you havent seen it yet, please check out the Psychology Wiki.

Please let me know what your thoughts are about it :)

Tom Michael - Mostly Zen   (talk) 01:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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