User:Delldot

IRC • ABL • CFDW • GAN • stats • books • cite

To do (or possibly to forget about and remove later)
Prenatal cocaine exposure Prenatal amphetamine exposure Prenatal nicotine exposure

What is up with this delldot person anyway?

I'm very rarely around any more but I still get an email when you leave me a message on my talk page so feel free. Or email me any time.

I am a housing and human rights activist and work with local housing and homeless advocacy groups like Food Not Bombs. I wrote an undergraduate thesis about excitotoxicity in head trauma in college. Most of my content edits are to neurobiology- and medicine-related articles.

My username is based on this symbol: ∇. It has nothing to do with computers, I kind of hate the username since I worry it gives the Dell company advertising, but it would be such a pain to change...

I try never to be mean and am very rarely sarcastic. It's very rare that something I say has any subtext. If you're not sure what I meant by something, please ask me about it and give me a chance to clarify. I think that giving constructive feedback, positive or negative, is the right thing to do and is a gift to the recipient. I try to hold myself to that and give feedback even when it's not easy, and I appreciate receiving feedback.

I think advertisements are an absolute deal-breaker: I would leave the project if they were introduced. They would create a conflict of interest and critically threaten the project's neutrality.

Sock, subpages, and interwiki links

Sockpuppet

delldot on a public computer talk (contribs)

for editing from insecure computers,
to protect my password

Subpages

Interwiki

Useful links and stuff

Referencing
- Help:Citation tools
- Citer tool - URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC, or Google Books URL
- Diberri template filler - pubmed ID
- tool for fixing url refs

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Proofing

Researching
- PLoS
- Pubmed
- biomedcentral
- Trip database for clinical guidelines
- The Wikipedia Library
Maintenance
- Duplication detector (to check for copyright violations)
- search for pages in both of two categories, etc.
old upload form

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Contributions

Pages I started

Pages I work on a lot or keep an eye on

From AFC

GA reviews I've done

= WP:DYK · = WP:GA · = WP:FA · = failed GA · = GA on hold · = Second opinion requested

Userboxes

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This user participates in WikiProject Medicine.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 6 months and 13 days.

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

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This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia.

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This user believes in insisting on sources.

Awards

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, Persian Poet Gal, hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for all of your anti-vandal reverts! *¤~Persian Poet Gal* ^(talk) 04:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For being so kind and helping me get my editor review page set up! That was awesome of you!! Mystify85JEC 21:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

for all your help reverting vandals from my talk page RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 01:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Delldot, for patiently answering my questions and helping me to become a better editor. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 21:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Presented to Delldot whose stalwart efforts helps keep Wikipedia resilient to vandals, spammers and trolls. Much gratitude! -- Levine2112 ^discuss 23:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		For jumping in and clearing some of the backlog in AFC! --Xnuala (talk)(Review) 22:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thankyou for reverting the vandalism on my talkpage! Much appreciated. :-) Lra drama 17:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For protecting the george w bush page from vandals, vandal fighterDacheatcode 23:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I meant to do this earlier, but then got sidetracked by a couple other things. I wanted to acknowledge your hard work at vandal fighting. Excellent! *Into The Fray* ^T/C 09:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, Stormtracker94, award the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar to Delldot for amazing vandal fighting. STORMTRACKER 94 22:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		I, Demidov2007, award the Copyeditor's Barnstar to you, Delldot, for your enormous copyediting efforts. A. Demidov (talk) 08:30, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award this Barnstar to Delldot for the continuous vandalism fighting and beating me to the reverts. Also, keep up with the humour on IRC :) Happy New Year! The Helpful One ^(Talk)^{(Contributions)} 14:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

For your hard work on neurotraumatology content. JFW / t@lk 18:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		In recognition of all the help you've provided to myself and other well-meaning souls overwhelmed by Wikipedia policies and all the help you will, undoubtedly, keep providing in the future, I award you this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Peace! SWik78 (talk) 15:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

		The Reviewers Award
		Thanks for being "firm but fair". Fainites ^barley 19:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		I award this Barnstar to Delldot for the kindness, friendship and help as my mentor. Thanks for always being there for me! --12:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)CrohnieGal^Talk

		The Original Barnstar
		For all the work you've done at Editor Review. Epbr123 (talk) 13:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Medicine Barnstar
		Rewarded for the exceptional efforts placed towards often tedious tasks related to medicine. We all appreciate your hard work, Delldot! Regards, CycloneNimrod^Talk? 11:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

		All Around Amazing Barnstar
		To delldot, for outstanding dedication. Axl (talk) 09:17, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

		The Guidance Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for helping me to learn the process of reviewing other editors, and for giving me great advice on my Editor Review I have learned alot from you through both processes and just wanted you to know that I appreciate it%%-SYKKO-%% (talk to me) 15:03, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

		The Mammal Barnstar
		To thank you for your effort in the finally successful Primate GA review, I hereby award you the Mammal barnstar. Rlendog (talk) 22:40, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

delldot has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, We've officially declared today as delldot's day!
For being totally awesome,
enjoy being the Star of the day, delldot!

Best Wishes,
The Cabal of Awesomeness
18:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for last years contributions (GA review) to the Choctaw article. The article is shaping up nicely. Rob (talk) 13:42, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Pulmonary contusion. TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:17, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For shrinking the classical albums by year categories I created down to decades, I hope you have some powerful software tool making that easier. If you need any help with clean-up please holler. Thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for improving Wikipedia in the area of WP:Human rights, specifically with your efforts to help contribute to upgrading the article Slavery in Haiti to WP:GA status. — Cirt (talk) 14:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

The Cure Award

In 2015 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs, and we would love to collaborate further.

		WikiProject Disability Barnstar
		Awarded for hard work, stamina and quality of work done in creating and improving Sexuality after spinal cord injury to Featured Article quality and thus contributing to WikiProject Disability. Awarded by: Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:02, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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