User talk:Natgoo

I'm not editing much at all at the moment as I am way too busy. Please don't expect a speedy response to messages. Cheers!

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Abortion

I am sorry, but I think you may want to look at the abortion page before making edits. There have been zero opposing points. Why don't you look at the content of the links, the images are medically authentic. Or look at the page talk. Informativemiss (Talk) The current date and time is 21 May 2024 T 20:45 UTC.

The consensus is clear through the opposition to your additions. I can't see any consensus for the changes on the talk page. Regardless, you have violated the three-revert rule and have been reported. Natgoo 21:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Australia resources

Hi! I noticed your edits on Higher School Certificate and Victorian Certificate of Education. Just wondering if you're aware of the Australia-related resources around WP. There's Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, and a bunch more links from there, including the Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight. If you used to live in one of the capital cities, you may be interested in its WikiProject, such as WikiProject Melbourne. cheers! pfctdayelise 23:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikifun

Hi, I've noticed you've taken part in Wikifun before.

Just to let you know, Round 11 begins today at 0900 GMT. Dmn 04:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Australin Words

So it is. Thanks.

Léon

Hi there. It seem? from your talk posts that you what your talking about with beethoven in Léon the professional. However, I looked online and I listened to Ode to Joy and it was all upbeat and happy. It doesn't sound anything like the movie soundtrack. Can you help me?--God_of War 18:07, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

How Do You Quickly Revert a Vandalized Article???

I saw the Ben Mulroney article had been vandalized but did not know how to fix it. I alerted someone else, but then saw you fixed it. How does one do that quickly? Thanks, UncleFester 20:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Never mind. I've figured it out on my own. Thanks nonetheless. UncleFester 20:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

categorisation of NAMBLA article

Under WP categorisation rules a category and a subcategory cannot be on the same page. As the LGBT category is a sub-category of the pederesty category, it cannot be used on the NAMBLA article. Please do not insert it. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 21:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

This is still under debate, although the issue (and consensus) seem pretty clear to me. Natgoo 11:37, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Our consensus policy requires a supermajority (2/3). It's clear from the poll that there is no consensus for including NAMBLA in the category. 64.231.225.206 20:12, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm aware of that, thanks. The previous message was three days ago. Natgoo 21:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Reference desk

Hahahaha! Thanks for this. I want to say it every time I read the page. Kudos Natgoo 19:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm usually a pretty easy going guy, but that one caught me at a bad time. It was just too good to pass up. I feel so evil, in a good kind of way.--◀Puck^talk▶ 19:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikifun round 12

This is to invite you to participate in the next game of Wikifun.
Round 12 will begin at 11:00 UTC on Friday January 20. 2006.
-- Ravn 17:12, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Where's my baby tonight?

She's certainly not on wikipedia or checking her emails.

Where are you? x

Person Centred Planning

Hi Natgoo - I note you are interested in Person Centred Planning - I have put up a page on this topic, but it will need wikifying - please feel free! Max

Australian accents

Hi Nat, I find the whole subject of broad/general/cultivated accents interesting, mainly because so many people seem to get their assessments of which-is-which wrong, for so many different reasons (especially the positing of supposed regional influences). I haven't heard Jesse Spencer enough to comment on his voice. But your point about him squares with my experience in internet voice chat rooms, where I have sometimes been taken for a Brit, although I have a General Australian voice. (In my working life, I have spent a lot of time dealing with phone enquiries from around Australia and have been told at different times that I sound like Kieren Perkins and Pat Rafter. So much for regional accents, or maybe foreign accent syndrome has made me sound like a Queenslander :-0 hehe Grant65 | Talk 05:24, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Page Blanking

On 20-Feb, you blanked Developmental disability/Temp. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. In cases of temporary pages like this one, you should mark them for deletion. As the only author, you can use the {{db-author}} speedy deletion tag to have it deleted. I have marked this one for deletion. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 17:25, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks JLaTondre. I think I was under the mistaken impression that once links to temp pages are removed, the page eventually disappears in some sort of magical server cache dump - thanks for setting me straight. Cheers Natgoo 17:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem. -- JLaTondre 20:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Page blanking

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content (as you did on Cultural intelligence). Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! Stifle 22:08, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Cultural intelligence

Hi there. I've reverted your reversion of the redirect (!) of this page to Race and intelligence because the two concepts are totally unrelated. Cultural intelligence seriously has nothing to do with race, which a quick perusal of the results of a google search would tell you. The page should be deleted, or the article about cultural intelligence actually written. Redirects are cheap, yes, but misinformation in an encyclopaedia kind of defeats the purpose. Cheers Natgoo 22:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I have returned this to a redirect. If you feel it should be deleted, please use WP:RFD. Blanking pages is bad (see Wikipedia:No blank pages). Stifle 22:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Your user page

You're welcome! :) - Tangotango 00:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Please accept my very belated thanks for Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Miscellaneous/February_2006#Knights. I was offline for a few weeks at the time and hadn't noticed it till today. It solves a very longstanding problem. Tintin (talk) 13:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

postgrad/undergrad

Thanks for the message. It's not that the distinction hasn't been clarified, though, just that it's different: a course either does or doesn't demand a prior degree — is either postgraduate or undergraduate. With regard to privileges, etc., there isn't generally the sort of separation between undergraduate and postgraduate teaching here as there is, for example, in the U.S., so I think that that sort of thing wouldn't really arise. In Oxford (and, I'd guess, at Cambridge) the Colleges do things in their own ways, but the usual approach is that second B.A.s (of whatever kind) are members of the M.C.R. as well as of the J.C.R. There are, though, no degrees here that are of undergraduate status but which only admit graduates (and I think that they're pretty rare in this country in general). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

That is just not true, Mel Etitis. The LLB is always an undergraduate qualification, and some unis offer it as a graduate entry degree. Natgoo 20:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Ocular prosthetic compatriot?

Was following links from ocular prosthetic, and I happened to find out you have one too (or at least own one...which would actually make you even cooler)! I hope I don't sound weird, but I always find it's nice to meet other people who have 'em. I only got mine a couple of months ago. Cheers! --Yossarian 13:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I've been a cyclops since I was five, heh heh. Got a good crack in the face from a neighbourhood kid and a stick (accidental, of course) one day at the park, and I was totally blinded in the left eye. I also ended up with a cataract, a paralyzed pupal, a lazy stare, and a green iris (I have naturally blue eyes). Aside from that, it was all good. In the past couple of years (2004 - 2006), however, the bad eye was acting up (haemorrhaging and severe headaches), and towards the end I couldn't even walk down a dimly lit hallway without sheilding my good eye; the pain in the bad one made me extremely light sensitive. I've always been light sensitive, but not that much! So it was out with the old, in with the new, as they say. I got surgery in January and the prosthetic in March. I'm very happy with it. People always used to ask me if I had a glass eye, because my real one looked so bizarre. Now that I actually have a glass eye, I don't think anyone will ever ask that again! It matches my good eye now, but I kind of want the next one I get to be green, since I've never really been "symmetrical" (an ex-girlfriend of mine is still getting used to it).

Can you move yours? I can move mine a bit, but only because they didn't remove the whole eye (an evisceration as opposed to an enucleation). I love the idea of leaving the baby eyes in people food. That's something I'd totally be into. I look forward to putting together a little collection of them myself. Maybe even get a novelty one...guys with glass eyes are always assured a part as evil geniuses in B-movies, and if I've got a cool one it just might happen! ;) Anyway, that's all for now. Why did you have to have yourse remived so young, if you don't mind me asking? Cheers! --Yossarian 08:21, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

PS: they should have a category for cyclops Wikipedians like ourselves...

I actually don't drive, but I do have my Learner's License (my "L", as it's known around here), which means I can drive with someone who has a full license. I don't even have to be driving...which is usually the case, heh heh (thank goodness for friends with driver's licenses). Oddly enough, when I got my Learner's the woman administering the test didn't even blink when I told her I was half blind. Then she tried to get me to do one of those tests where you have to judge a 3-d image or something. It took me a moment to get her to understand I have zero depth perception. I'm surprised at how little people are phased by it sometimes...almost to the point where they do really dumb things. For instance, whenever I used to go to the opthomologist, a nurse would always try to get me to put a blinder over my right eye so they could test the "vision" in my left (or put one over the left, which was of course redundant :). Then they wouldn't quite believe me when I told them it wasn't going to work! ("Oh, are you sure you can't see anything?" "Pretty sure.") I guess now that I've got the glass eye that won't happen so often!

I do actually wear specs, and I do find they hide that. I also get the problem with the pupil size, although I've been told I might actually have larger pupils (er...pupil) than average (hence the light sensitivity). I noticed the contrast in size quite a bit at first, but now I don't even remember the eye isn't real!

What kind of prosthetic do you have (or, rather, what is it like)? Mine is basically a cap I put over the implant they put under the shell of my eye, so pretty much a giant contact lens. I figure yours might be a bit different, since you got it as a kid. Speaking of implants, do you have one yourself, or did they do something different?

Don't worry about asking questions (I have plenty myself). I have plenty of eye stories (and not just about myself...my whole family [and even my girlfriend] have various eye issues) This is really cool. I've actually never met anyone else who was half-blind, let alone someone with a glass eye. Cyclops compatriots are so hard to come by. Cheers --Yossarian 14:38, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Fun with optometry students students indeed! I always feel slightly irritated, but I begrudge them not, heh heh.

Yeah, I haven't bothered getting any disability status or nothing, either, though I imagine I could. It's never really mattered. I'm still a bit worried by the driving, but I get around on the bus pretty well. It's probably more economical these days (considering gas prices).

Ouch! That chip must have smart. I was lead to believe they were sturdier devices...but I'll have to be careful in the future. I can actually get it out pretty well (they even gave me a little rubber suction cup for such purposes, but I can get it out with just my fingers).

In Canada these aren't actually free either. "Prosthetic eye? Totally frivilous! Let em go around with empty sockets!" But we can get the government to subsidize the cost. I my case, it was zero, as I was/am unemployed, and the government's money is based on how much you earn, so I got me a freebie eye. Hmm...Though I don't know the exchange rate between CND Dollars and AUS Dollars, I gotta say, $600 as compared to the $1900 I would have had to pay is almost criminal. I guess the ocupation of occularist isn't too lucrative? That or my government is insane (which it probably is if they think you should pay for something so vital).

I think my implant has pretty much fully healed, but oh boy do I ever have "brain snot" problems! It's so bad that I can't open my eye in the morning unless I've picked out the dried gunk. They didn't do anything to my tear ducts (or at least shouldn't have), so I imagine it's more the eye getting used to the foreign body. Not at all too much info, as I go through much the same myself. ;)

They tell me that the first eye is the one you have for the least time, as the new implant is still sort of settling. Otherwise it's every 5 years. I don't doubt your eye droops a bit after 15 years!

Do you have to get used to each new eye, or is your body pretty much adjusted to the idea of sticking a piece of plastic in there? Oh, I noticed that there's a slight difference between our eyes (after inspection of the photo). Mine has a little pink dot to indicate which way it goes up. Why doesn't yours have one (or do you know? or do you have one and I just can't see it from the angle the camera's pointing? :) Cheers --Yossarian 21:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

That link was quite interesting...I wonder how the ones that guy's making differs from the ones they make here. I asked all kinds of questions of the ocularist when they were making mine (nothing better to do when you have a piece of wax in your face!). I was particularly fascinated to find out they use little threads to make "blood vessels". That was all kinds of cool, I must say.

I'm pretty sure prosthetic eyes are that expensive all across Canada, though there's a sligfht possibility that it's just my province (the government here is very...anti-help-people-who-don't-run-corportations).

Hmm..that shower thing sounds like a good idea. Especially considering I find myself pulling crud out of my eye lashes all day (more and more often). I have particularly long lashes too, so that rather excacerbates the problem. But at least I have a sure fire way to end unwanted conversations!

Oh man...don't even get me started on my family. My dad has had three major eye surgeries over the past year alone. At first it was just to get his vision corrected, as he had very large cataracts. But after the first surgery his lens slipped. So they had to do another surgery to put on a sclera buckle, which is basically a little strap they put over your sclera to keep things from shifting. Now he sees weird distortions with that eye, and needs to put drops in every few hours or the lens gets into a weird position, causing his pupil to look like a half moon. That half moon thing isn't as bad as it sounds, but it's very strange. I think it all has to do with some form of myopathy...and the fact that he has "delicate eye tissue"...boy, considering the delicacy of normal people's eyes, I hate to see what "delicate" can do! (I probably have delicate eye tissue, too). Then he got the other eye done and the same thing happened...but it corrected itself so he didn't need another surgery. And a few weeks ago the half moon eye slipped AGAIN!

Then there's my mum. She had some sort of weird infection a little while back, or something (they don't quite know), and the vision in her right eye has become progressively worse, and even lost some colour recognition. Oddly enough, it seems to be getting better on its own, but I trust nothing to do with eyes in this family, so we'll see what happens.

My girlfriend has a good one too. She had a birth defect, and as such her eyes weren't "even". One was very lazy and weird (I can't remember the specifics). It could have been corrected, but, because she was born in the former Yugoslavia (where modern medical science had yet to find it's way, according top her), they didn't do anything about it. They moved to Germany when she was about 1, and the doctors their were horrified to figure all this out. So she had to where a patch over her good eye so her brain would learn to correct the other one to some extant, but it was too late to make it "normal". Now she's got one near sighted eye and one far sighted eye, and very strange looking glasses (the lenses look entirely different because one is such a high power). Apparently normal sighted people who try them on get a real head rush! Anyway, the bad eye is so bad that if anything ever happened to the good one she'd be legally blind.

The only surviver seems to be my sister, who's a little near sighted (traitor indeed!). So you see what I mean when I say I have weye stories! Cheers! --Yossarian 18:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Abusive edit summary

I removed your insult of the troll at the reference desk and note your edit summary: "Fuck off idiot." While I understand that trollish behavior can be infuriating, which is what motivated your post and edit summary, abusive edit summaries and personal attacks should still be avoided. --Fuhghettaboutit 20:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - he caught me at a bad moment. The sentiment is still apt, however. Natgoo 20:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

The sentiment is apt. See ya!--Fuhghettaboutit 20:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Rude comments on Reference Desk

I found your comments about me on the reference desk to be ignorant and rude. Even if you do think me asking how I can politely tell my girlfriend she is gaining weight is trolling, I don't think Wikipedia is the place for comments like yours.

Good day, sir Mayor Westfall

Sorry, Mayor Westfall. My comment was rude and uncalled-for, I agree. That said, you need to think about how your question is going to be interpreted if you want serious responses - your question in this case could have been framed a lot better. As it reads you sound like a controlling, deluded misogynist who doesn't want his girlfriend to grow into a woman, hence the responses you got. If you really want to stop the accusations of trolling, you need to not post comments such as these. Think them (if you must), then step away from the computer - people are only going to think you're a tool if you continue to act like one. Natgoo 09:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Natgoo, thank you for your comment on my talk page.

I am a misogynist, but that doesn't make me a troll. I realize that misogynism isn't very politically correct, but the reference desk shouldn't be a place for just PC questions. Women have been a source of frustration for me, and men in general, IMO. Nonetheless, I think my comments were far from trolling.

I'm not really that controlling when comparied to most men, and especially when compared to other cultures where women are truely controlled. I see how you could have assumed this from my post, but I'm a very candid person, so my natural inclination is to tell my girfriend "You're gaining weight. It isn't a problem now, but if it continues you will become fat." However, I don't think that's the best way to handle the issue. If she does get fat, I'll just move on. That might make me a jerk, but I wouldn't seek to control/manipulate her weight beyond just telling her how I feel about it.

As to my comments on the talk page, which is intended for discussions on changing the articles, I feel that allowing any small child to use a drill isn't very wise, but much less so when the child has down syndrome. I'm no expert on DS, but I think you can understand why the situation is dangerous. Even if you don't agree, I'm sure you understand my concerns.

Anyways, I thought I'd explain the comments you referenced. Have a nice day. Mayor Westfall 13:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Dude, seriously. As a self-professed atheist, what was your motivation for posting this? Sarcastically posting a spoof site deliberately to inflame and incite argument is the classic definition of trolling, not to mention inappropriate for the Ref desk. Natgoo 12:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, first, I would like to point out that no one was inflamed or incited to arguement over my Ref Desk entry. If you scroll up from my RD post, you'll see several "questions" (really strawman arguements) by a religious person. I wanted to point out the sillyness of someone asking the "how can people not believe in god when X is true?" on the RD. I also found the 300 proofs amusing and wished to share them with others who had answered the previous questions by the person I suspect was either trolling or using the RD to evnagelize. Mayor Westfall 13:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Australian English vocabulary

HI MATE. SORRY ABOUT THAT I WASN'T AWARE!! YOU WOULD CLEARLY KNOW MORE THAN ME AS AN AUSSIE!! IT'S JUST I HAVE A NUMBER OF STEVE IRWINISMS AND ALF STEWARTISMS STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!! CRIKEY!! FLAMING GALAH! POMMY IDIOT!! NO BITIN'. 'WAGGING' SHOULD BE OKAY THOUGH?? I HAVE MADE ALMOST 1000 NEW EDITS MOST OF THEM SERIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL ONES- THESE ARTICLE EDITS WERE KIND OF A BREAK!!! CHEERS. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by James Janderson (talk • contribs) .

what about canines being halal

hi. i read ur nice reply on whether Hen is a Halal or not???

it seemed satisfactory, but it aroused a second question in me. if there is a dog or any other canine who is fed only on non meat products, (dont worry, u'll find many in India), and who is slained according to Dabiha in the name of Allah, does it become halaal. please, just give me ur opinion on it. i dont need an authoritarian answer. its somethin i m askin for personal knowledge only. nids 09:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

actually, i asked this question in response to ur answer of hen being halal in certain circumstances. in my view both hen and canines are haraam for they possess talons and are fanged beasts of prey. it shouldnt make a difference if hen are fed non-meat products throughout their life. anyways thanks for ur reply. nids 09:44, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Your page has Wikipedia's Picture of the Day

Well, have you seen Wikipedia's Main Page? When you, Natgoo can scroll down and see a Picture of the Day thing... and a thing YOU copied, is Main Page copying. Dont worry, it is not bad jokes, but be sure to replace it.

--NeutoAisi 21:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)NeutoAisi

United States Maritime Commission

Thanks for renaming it. Lou Sander 19:22, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sandbox/Word Association/Ultra Game

I've removed the second and third words you added in successive edits to this game. Even if multiple people have added words since your last turn, please only add a single word at a time. This keeps the game interesting and fun for the greatest number of people. Thanks, Thryduulf 19:11, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that - I thought it was one word to each possible combination, not one at a time for the grid. Thanks for setting me straight. Cheers Natgoo 19:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Word association

Well, the difference between "no consensus" and "keep" is pretty much semantics, because the result in both cases is exactly the same. Consensus doesn't mean "the debate is unfinished", it means there's no real agreement but people should agree to disagree since the nomination is now closed.

The reason I listed this as "no consensus" is because I considered the four "sandbox" nominations together; the argumentation for and against deletion of all four of them is pretty much the same, and several of the commenters are also the same. The four as a whole don't show anything much of a consensus, hence I closed all four in the same way. But since this is mostly semantics I wouldn't mind changing it to 'keep' if that makes you happy. (Radiant) 09:03, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

No, it's all good. I didn't see those. It's just odd to see a debate in which the result is so overwhelmingly to 'keep' labelled as 'no consensus', even though the result is the same. Cheers Natgoo 16:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

G'day 2

Hi Nat!

I'm very well...as is the prosthesis. Actually, I just had an appointment with my doctor about it. By a funny coincidence, there was a chap at the office who required the same surgery as I did (for different reasons), and the doctor wanted to show my eye to him. I was happy to oblige. I figured the poor guy (and his mother) would feel better...he was in an accident, I think.

But yes, I'm quite well. I'm actually just finishing up my first term at the University of Victoria. How are you and what have you been up to? Cheers! --Yossarian 03:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi again Nat!

I definitely feel like an old pro. It amuses me very much to pull it out and show it off. A friend of mine (who has prosthetic teeth) and I have a joke that we're the "People With Removable Body Parts". I suppose it's not a talent, but it's always interesting.

As for schoolin', the government here offers student loans (one of which I have), which they make you pay back (with interest, if you're not careful). The Swedes just pay people to go to school, I hear...I don't know why they won't do that here. I guess the government figures only the rich and those who are willing to be in debt for the rest of their lives should be educated.

Sounds like you had a great vacation. I wouldn't mind picking which historic monument I'd like to go to each day. That would be brilliant (which I suspect it was for you!).

Anyway, talk to you soon. Cheers --Yossarian 09:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Escorts

Thanks for moving that convo, I was thinking of doing so myself. Sorry to get OT on the board. Anchoress 10:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

No worries! Natgoo 10:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the assist :-)

... on my query about Santa Fe pants. I'd been overly reliant on the visual image, and this was a valuable lesson: a text description can go far beyond that in providing meaningul info! -- Deborahjay 02:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Cyclops

'Sup. Black Carrot 19:54, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Oddly enough, no. My vision is as 3-D as it ever was. That's what people always wonder, though, when they find out only one of my eyes works, is whether I have depth perception. I'd always learned that it disappears when you lose an eye, and apparently so has everyone else. It didn't, though, and I'm fairly mystified by that, so I'm asking around. If you know any other one eyed people, what do they say about it? Thanks for the tip on 'partially sighted' - it sounds more like what people would put as a search term. Black Carrot 17:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, yes and no. I don't see double when I cross my eyes. Things just get a bit blurry. And, as you say, Magic Eye pictures and 3D movies would be a challenge if not impossible. Other than that, though, and the fully blind spot on my right side, everything looks just like it did before, and I certainly haven't had trouble judging distances. I wonder how many people would tell me to my face that I don't have depth perception despite that. My brother has. It seems to be dogma. No, I haven't found any scholarships, and my school's scholarship office hasn't heard of any either. It's possible nobody considers it a big enough problem to fund. I can't honestly say I've been devastated by it. Black Carrot 02:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikifun

Round 14 is starting just about now. --Spondoolicks 16:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

RCI Diagram

Thanks for the heads up, hope i didnt delete it I just recently restored from an earlier version so it could have been my mistake. Anyway I look forward to seeing the end result.

Cheers again for the great communication Crunchynut 07:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey Dude

The diagram is better, but still not perfect. It helps but still looks like the off shoots has killed off the mother so to speak. Any way to maybe list which organisations still exist? Maybe a RCI (1958-Present), RF (1995-Present) etc etc? What do you think? Im not into edit wars so Id much rather find the middle ground in a much more civilized fashion.

Cheers Crunchynut 05:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Why have you exported the diagram as a jpeg? Wouldn't a png or svg (or even a gif) be better for a diagram? Jpegs are intended for photos, not simple black-and-white diagrams. PS. The The Revival Fellowship article has been unprotected, although it hasn't really got much further. You might want to have a bit of a look and possibly provide some constructive input or edits :) Markdarb 11:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Would like your suggestions on a biased article

Hi, Natgoo.

I've been looking at the article on dyslexia, and I thought of you because you made such good comments on getting the 'learning disability" article focused and to the point. The dyslexia article is pretty biased, to say the least, and the talk page indicates there has been some heated dispute over the content.

I'd like to help get the article on track, but I'm so new to Wiki I was hoping that you'd be willing to take a look and give me some suggestions on how to go about it. Or maybe you'd like to involve yourself directly.  :-)

Some of the things that seem questionable to me are:

• Weasel wording, e.g. "Dyslexia is a condition or learning disability that ...."
• Mixing of facts (statistical and scientific) with information that is more philosophical in nature (such as personal beliefs and attitudes toward dyslexia as a thinking style)

I'm not suggesting that one domain of information is not valid, but that they shouldn't be mixed willy-nilly and not clearly delineated as one or the other

• References to "experts" whose work is highly questionable, (e.g., Ron Davis who wrote The Gift of Dyslexia and a self-help philosophy called NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)).

Thoughts?

Thanks!

smoran 16:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! I look forward to hearing your thoughts. smoran 02:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Natgoo, I hope you're feeling better. Thanks for the feedback -- it's good to know that I'm not way off base on this. I look forward to your further comments! smoran 23:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Proposal for dyslexia navigation template

Hi, Natgoo.

There is a proposal to create a navigation tool for the dyslexia article. As you know, we have plans to break the article up into a series of articles. The goal of the navigation box is to assist users in moving from one topic to another easily, and to suggest a brief list of topic areas (not necessarily individual topics) that are related.

I would very much like to get your feedback on the template before it is implemented.

Take a look at the Talk:Dyslexia page, then scroll nearly to the bottom of the page for information and links to the strawmen I've put out for review and discussion.

Best, Rosmoran 12:57, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Person Centred Planning Peer Review

Hi Natgoo, after extensive work, I've put the Person Centred Planning article up for peer review. I think your intervention in such a review will be absolutely crucial to a successful outcome. Hope you can help. Max (talk) 18:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

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