User talk:Ex nihil

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[edit] Water-related stuff, e.g. Shallow water blackout

I removed the template as the article is up to A+ standards. Good work on Wiki, your edits are really beneficial. Ksenon 14:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Asphyxia through hypobaric, Altitude, conditions

Hello and thank you!. Very interesting suggestion. It will however take some research since i'm not familiar with the biological mechanism that causes unconsciousness under hypobaric conditions. It will have to classify as asphyxia (aka. an overall reduction in oxygen in the body) to be included in the article. Unconsciousness due to acceleration, does not for instance count as asphyxia if we use that definition. But i'll see what I can do! ---Marcus- 08:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

I noticed that you tagged the page WAP (disambiguation) for speedy deletion with the reason "adds no value and is misleading". However, "adds no value and is misleading" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you still want the article to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 11:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

  • No probs, I've now used a AfD and it looks like its on the way out anyway Ex nihil 03:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Therapeutic horseback riding and Great Strides Therapeutic Riding, Inc.

I saw your comments about Great Strides Therapeutic Riding, Inc. Could you please take a look at the articles Therapeutic horseback riding and North American Riding for the Handicapped Association and make any changes or additions that you think appropriate? TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 05:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Therapeutic Riding is just fine, I couldn't improve on it and don't know the subject. I think the comment you referred to was probably deleted after I read these. The problem is only with GSTR, if GSTR has additonmal information this should sit in THR. Ex nihil 06:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:SWB3 temp.jpg

Hi. Nice pic. On Talk:Drowning the question came up if the image is staged (I assumed so). Could you please clarify, preferably also on the image page. Many thanks! -- Chris 73 | Talk 11:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Image is staged I am happy to say as it is my daughter. Ex nihil 08:25, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Agree, User:FoxSportsRadio smells like a troublemaker or at least needs a lot of info about copyrights. I found the sources for two images Image:Drowning 1st.jpg and Image:Drowning 2nd.jpg and added them to the image pages. They are copyrighted by the french red cross. -- Chris 73 | Talk 08:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

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[edit] disambiguation pages

hey, i randomly picked a user from the list of disambiguators, so i hope you don't mind answering my question. i've got a spot where i need to create a disamb. page, but in my searching i can only find out how to FIX disamb. pages, not create them. can you point me in the right direction? cheers! Murderbike 21:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry not to reply earlier, Murderbike. I am working in Dili, Timor Leste on an Australian capacity building project and getting reliable enough bandwidth on the internet to continue things like Wiki is very, very trying. There is a template for disambiguation but I can't get around the Wiki site fast enough to find it for you, just open a good example in edit mode and cut and paste the template with suitable changes. Ex nihil 23:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drowning

Hi. I have no problem with the image being staged, and it illustrates the situation very well. Also, the image has a proper license. What i am concerned with are the 4 other images with unsuitable free-use license added by another editor. Sorry for the misunderstanding --. Chris 73 | Talk 07:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey Ex Nihil, regarding those comments about "vandalism" about the reversed image, what's the difference. There has been a great deal of controversy over the image, and even if this doesn't totally help, this is meant to give a new angle to the drowning staging. It is not vandalism. Catherine Woods 02:33, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Greetings, Catherine Woods. I took the picture to try to show people exactly what a victim of SWB looks like. Floating on the ceiling doesn't really convey the right image of what's happening. I appreciate your interest in the article but I would be really, really grateful if you could let it rest. Apart from anything else I am here in Dili, Timor Leste on an aid project and my internet bandwidth and access is extremely limited and unreliable. I am not able to cope with a lot of activity on my principal pages until I get back to Australia, it's about as much as I can do to download my watchlist and it's kind of stressful. I guess if the picture is going to get adjusted we'll just have to pull it but I think it's useful and it balances of the other one in deep water blackout. The picture is also there with the permission of the lady who helped me stage it, and I need to keep her happy that the image is being used as it was originally intended. Please help me to do that. Ex nihil 02:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I like the new caption a lot better. Cheers! Jzerocsk 16:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cut and paste moves

I just noticed your edits to Wireless Application Protocol and WAP. It is very important that we keep the edit history for an article in one place and don't split it across multiple pages. When people contribute content to Wikipedia they retain copyright on their contributions so it is important that we can see who contributed what. By copying and pasting content from one place to another, you make the edit history less clear.

I've fixed the edit history on that article, but in future if you want to move an article either use the "Move this page" function or if that is not available please ask an Administrator.

Thank you. AlistairMcMillan 05:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

  • OK, no probs, thank you for pointing that out. Ex nihil 08:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Crystallization (love) AFD

Hey, this AFD was listed improperly, so I fixed it. However, when I went into the history, it says that you actually created the page with your keep vote, and added in the deletion reasoning later. However, it seems like you put someone else's name on it. Does User:JWSchmidt actually have anything to do with this? It's not really cool to put someone's name on an edit they didn't make. GlassCobra 19:13, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Thank you for fixing the AfD. JWSchmidt did actually AfD it but I don't think it was done correctly, it included a rather abrupt template that said it would be automatically up for deletion in five days if there was no response. I thought it needed some discussion and I changed the template, this also semed to delete the AfD. I was trying to acheive something I did not really know how to do properly, I still don't know how to do it properly but I know more than I did. My apologies. Ex nihil 08:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blackout

No, blackout is one of the stages before loss of consciousness.

The stages go, greyout, tunnel vision, black out, g-loc. You also have redout under negative g situations.

The use of the term blackout to mean g-loc or simple loss of consciousness is a misuse of the term, but it's commonly done and can doubtless be found in dictionaries.- (User) WolfKeeper (Talk) 02:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Gastão Salsinha

A tag has been placed on Lieutenant Gastão Salsinha requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Steve Crossin (talk) 00:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your post to my talkpage. Do you have any independent, verifiable reliable sources to back up your claims? Without sources, this article doesn't stand a chance. Please ask if you need assistance in citing sources. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 01:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

  • I have now provided a number of references and crosslinked to references to his name already in a number of other articles. Ex nihil (talk) 04:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)