User talk:68.33.29.85
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Dear Matthew,
I'm not sure what gives you the right to leave me the following message: "Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Cyst. If you continue to do so, it may be considered vandalism. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you."
What I actually did was correct incorrect information, and I would ask your credentials to question the change. The fact is, cystic fibrosis is commonly thought of as a lung disease, but the cysts and fibrosis refer to the pancreas. Or maybe you think you know more about it than Wikipedia's own page on the topic as well as these other references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis (last sentence of third paragraph) http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/conditions/l/bl_cf.htm (second paragraph) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=219700 (first sentence!!!)
I have changed the page back to reflect correct information, please check your own sources before accusing vandalism. Special:Contributions/68.33.29.85 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Dear User:68.33.29.85,
I'm sorry for my mistake.
I do not know you or your qualifications and background, which is the biggest reason why I removed your edit. I was cleaning up the Cyst page due to vandalism by three different anonymous users, inside a period of just two weeks while I was on holiday! I saw your edit and assumed that yours was a fourth case of vandalism.
If you plan to make more edits, please let me encourage you to create an account with Wikipedia. It's free, and if you do that, and post a quick description of your expertise on your user page, other editors will be less likely to make the same mistake I did.
We all have the right to reverse what looks like vandalism, yourself included. See the following pages for further information:
- Wikipedia:Overview_FAQ#How do you prevent people from ruining articles? (Defacement or vandalism)
- Wikipedia:Vandalism#Dealing with vandalism
- Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset#Guidelines for writing high quality articles
Another reason I reversed your edit is because you removed content that looked right to me (as a layman), rather than correcting it:
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- Cystic fibrosis is an example of a genetic disorder whereby cysts develop in lung tissue and release mucus into the lungs (see Alveoli) reducing lung capacity and causing persistent coughing.>/I>
Is there some aspects of this statement which is half true? Is there some way you can edit this statement to make it correct? There's a Wikipedia guideline somewhere that encourages correcting erroneous text rather than just deleting it.
Once again, please accept my humble apologies for misreading your intentions.
- Matthew 1130 12:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
PS. You may want to check out Help:Contents/Getting_started for more information on contributing.
PPS. I've posted your entrez link up as a reference on the Cystic fibrosis page (copied below). I hope you follow it up and make sure the contribution finds it's best place on that page:
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- "Formerly known as cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, this entity has increasingly been labeled simply 'cystic fibrosis.'"[1]
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