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Medical Advice

they're not supposed to. think about it, the legal can of worms that that represents. looking for a project? if you know of other articles offering medical advice? CHANGE THEM! there is another wiki site called wiki howto, or something like that. if you're really determined to post your techniques for tick removal, try there. however, i suspect that their policy on medical advice is much the same. the issue of advice on tick removal has been debated in the past and this represents the decision. :)Toyokuni3 (talk) 16:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the difference that you may not be appreciating: yes, many articles contain descriptions of treatment you may receive, but not how to treat yourself.as i said earlier, if you know of advice in wikipedia for home treatment, go delete it. Toyokuni3 (talk)`

Walter de Haas

I was just looking at Walter de Haas, which you translated from the German wikipedia on 21-22 February, and my eye was caught by a couple of red links. The easy one to fix was the Die Rheinpfalz am Sonntag citation, which doesn't exist in the English wikipedia, so I had to link to the German version using the syntax [[:de:Die Rheinpfalz am Sonntag]]. So far, so good, but when I started to do the same thing for Franckh‘schen Verlagshandlung things got complicated. The bottom line is that I eventually found a stub article on Kosmos here on the english wikipedia. I've done my poor best (with the help of babelfish) to edit the Kosmos stub and the Walter de Haas article so that the latter can link to the former. Would you care to take a look and see whether you can improve anything? The original German article is de:Franckh-Kosmos and the English stub is Kosmos (publisher). Thanks!

Oh, by the way, when you have translated an article it helps to put the relevant cross-language links onto the original and translated pages. The syntax omits the leading colon (e.g. <nowiki>de:Hanns Günther and en:Walter de Haas) which tells the wiki software to list the other language link in the left-hand-margin "languages" box (rather than insert a link in the body of the page, as happens with the leading colon). - ~~~~