Davidruben

Profile   This user is a physician.   This user is male.   This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

I try to contribute to w:WikiProject Clinical medicine and w:Medicine Collaboration of the Week. Joined Clinic Medicines discussion on articles in progress and talk:MCOTW suggestion on articles for which collaboration sought, and created subpage w:WikiProject Clinical medicine/Collaboration.

Asplenia, hypos, IntraUterine System, Impaired fasting glycaemia, Menorrhagia (rewrite), Progesterone only pill, Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection, Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, Recurrent corneal erosion, Corneal abrasion, Congenital lacrimal duct obstruction, Salivary duct calculus, Temperature examination (rewrite of sections in medical record and core temperature), Health Visitor, District Nurse, Co-dydramol, revamp Flucloxacillin, Co-fluampicil, (rewrite) Cefalexin, Controlled drug, Tetracycline antibiotics, Cefradine, Lymecycline, Compliance (medicine), Fructosamine, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Seamen's Hospital Society, Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital, Dr Richard Morton, Procyclidine hydrochloride, Tioguanine, Mometasone furoate, Martindale: The complete drug reference, EMIS, Palmer notation (of tooth numbering). Image of BNF54frontcover.png. Round and round the garden, Co-amilofruse, Co-amilozide, Co-tenidone.

Pangur Bán, Depo (band)

Template:Birth control methods, Template:CAS, Template:DailyMed & Template:RareDiseases creator, major input to creation Template:Infobox Birth control and Template:Drugbox. Created Category:Drug navigational boxes and applied standardised header code and layout to these existing templates. Created Template:Angiotensin II receptor antagonists, Template:User WikiProject Dentistry

Rewrite London Lock Hospital and sections on managements of Lactose intolerance, Kidney stone, Renal colic, Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, reorder treatment of acne. Reorder & all verification/citing of assertions Tennis elbow. Rewrite of theories of application of Asymmetric dimethylarginine to possible therapeutic approaches. Restructuring of references in Folic acid, Cerebellum. Reordering & rewrite Perioral dermatitis. Copyedit, restructure refs and edit war mediation on Breast implant. Restructuring, rewrite and citation of Periodontal disease. Rewrite Mesalazine. Restructure Methyldopa. restructure and reformat citations of Tacrolimus, Dopamine, Baldness. Restructure and add opening management section Chronic pain. Restructure/rewrite Terbinafine & Template:Antifungals. Rewrite nuchal scan. Tranfer, rewrite & recite info from Sickle-cell disease as new article Nicosan. Added info Raymond Gosling on post-DNA work and uploaded Image:Raymond_Gosling.jpg. Restructure Marie Stopes. Restructure and cite inline refs of Cluster headache. Restructure Sensitivity (tests), Specificity (tests), Positive predictive value, Negative predictive value, Accuracy and precision, Restructure/re-markup List of medical abbreviations, Template:Infobox Hospital (upgraded and merge features of Template:Infobox NHS hospital for which all article upgraded and this template redirected). Rewrite and source Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy. Expand Livedo reticularis, Fournier gangrene. Restructure Meralgia paraesthetica. Rewrite Pityriasis alba. Restructure refs and copyedit Fibromyalgia, Inhalable insulin. Rewrite (following removal of most of copyvio article) Evans syndrome. Rewrite and add newer theories for cause Morning sickness. Rejig refs for Temazepam, Giardiasis re lactose intolerance. Expand MAG3 scan from stub to start. Restructure/recite Polymyalgia rheumatica

Merge and rephrase Creatinine Clearance Ratio and Glomerular Filtration Rate with Renal function. Expand Hepatitis B vaccine adding info on assessing response and duration of protection. Add PubMedCentral links to {{cite journal}}, also discussed & finally added doi_brokendate parameter.

Created {{Date style}}, being used at {{Cite web/sandbox}}. Created {{ECDC}} external link template.

Proposals

• Wikipedia talk:List of infoboxes#Suggestion to split proposed infoboxes to subpages, see Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox Abortion
• RfA/MastCell - 12 May 2007
• RfA/Lyrl - 13 August 2007
• RfA/Davidgothberg - 11 April 2008

I have contributed to a greater or lesser extent on:

Asthma, Eczema, Contraception (inc Oral contraceptive, Emergency contraception, Progesterone only pill, ECP)

 • Evans syndrome‎  • Ringworm vs dermatophytosis (mostly done)  • {{DartmouthAnatomy}} (add 2nd parameter and show reworking needed if only #1 ?)

Policies: WP:3RR, WP:Civil, no personal attacks WP:NPA, no original research WP:NOR, be bold WP:BB, WP:Cite (using reliable sources WP:RS), WP:Verify

Report incidents: WP:AN/I or of vandals: WP:AIAV

Enter just PMID number into User:Diberri's PubMed tool for wiki journal reference markup.
Method of adding javascript bookmarklet here.

Citation templates: Template:Cite news, Template:Cite web, Template:Cite journal, Template:Cite book

Classification templates: Template:DiseaseDisorder infobox, Template:Drugbox

Parser functions at WM:PF ParserFunctions#IF:

My version of a help page (cf Wikipedia:Footnotes) in my sandbox: WP:Cite:Ref - the wikipedia Reference-Footnote system.

Admin actions: Davidruben (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

The Original Barnstar Davidruben is hereby awarded this barnstar for both his fine efforts at mediation at Talk:Breast implant, and for his numerous other fine contributions! Thank you for your hard work! Mike1024 (t/c) 00:11, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		To all CLINMED participants – today is Physician's Day down here, and, both in honor of this day and in recognition of your tireless work towards making (and keeping, IMHO) Wikipedia a reliable source of medical information for laypersons and professionals alike, I award each and every one of you these shiny (rather rusty, actually) Original Barnstars!!! Wear them with pride! (feel free to add one to your user page/talk page if you like. Go ahead, you know you earned it.) Fvasconcellos 23:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		With thanks for your exceptional patience and kindness to newcomers. Cindery 03:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		For a job well done in upgrading the Infobox Hospital Template. Thanks for your hard work, and for ensuring that everybody's needs were accomodated! -- Aylahs (talk) 07:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Medicine Barnstar
		To DavidRuben, for outstanding commitment to medical articles. Axl ¤ [Talk] 15:28, 21 November 2008 (UTC)