Talk:David Vetter
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I have written a few articles and here's something I noticed. When you write stubs they tend to stay that way very long, until they get noticed by somebody else and grown. But then when you contribute with a long article, althought many reviewers makes a lot of small contributions the total text stays basically the same. In neither occasion the text actually evolves to a full grown colaborative write-up. In some cases, articles too big will tend to stay with structural errors. That happened to my first article, Oscar Niemeyer, that has a lot of language faults (mainly because english is not my mother tongue) that are still there because nobody got the trouble to fix it all. (One wikipedian rule is always left something to be done)
This article is an experiment. I wrote a relatevely big article about what I consider an interesting theme but left out gaps on purpose to be filled by other contributors. I am curious to see what it will look like when it grows.
--Alexandre Van de Sande 02:15, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I gave up with all of the above. please read the not helpful part. --Alexandre Van de Sande 00:07, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
It's too bad that you left the article incomplete. I would complete it except that I don't know anything about David Vetter and searched his name in order to find out more about him. There are a few problems with the grammer, which I will try to fix. Maryevelyn 10/28/04
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[edit] what about the bone marrow transplant? highly confusing paragraph
The 2nd paragraph of the birth section currently reads "The doctors had decided that a bone marrow transplant may give David's immune system a jump start, however they had expected that David's sister, Katherine, would be a match. Now, what was set up as a temporary solution had now become his home..."
Was she or wasn't she a match? Would or wouldn't a bone marrow transplant give David's immune system a jump start? 70.231.188.124 15:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] cleanup tag; highly suspect copyvio for obvious reasons User:Antaeus Feldspar
What are those obvious reasons? --Alexandre Van de Sande 03:08, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- This also should be taken off did you know. An article should only be written if things are KNOWN about the subject, and not a fill-in-the-blank skeleton like Mad Libs. Mike H 03:11, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
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- No it was not. I am avsa, and Antaeus wrote that --Alexandre Van de Sande 11:38, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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- This is old discussion but I would like to add this link just so nobody will think I got nuts..--Alexandre Van de Sande 15:48, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
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Some links: http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1997-04-10/feature.html http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/dnames-nf/David+the+Bubble+Boy http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/scid/a/042702.htm 130.195.86.37 03:18, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Not helpful
I find this whole article idea patronizing and at the end of the day, it doesn't help anyone to have an article like this.
This article is an experiment. I wrote a relatevely big article about what I consider an interesting theme but left out gaps on purpose to be filled by other contributors. I am curious to see what it will look like when it grows.
This article has stayed very stagnant. If you know about the subject, why force others to write about something they wouldn't really want to write about? Mike H 09:18, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
Ditto on that. What do we need now, Wikipedia is not a toy? Wikipedia is not Mad Libs? Far better to write a complete article and let it stagnate than write an incomplete article and let that stagnate. - Furrykef 02:23, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I agree, this experiment was no good at all. I learned that wikipedia articles are not written bit by bit but more on someone writes, a lot of people correct, then someone writes again. You cannot force when this writing will happen, just wait. In the end, all taht happened is taht I forced people to write the boring stuff, like his full name and exact date of birth.
Sorry fellow wikipedians, i will not do this again. When you think is time, remove the cleanup tag...
--Alexandre Van de Sande 00:04, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] inheritance...
I changed the sentence about every child that the couple bore would have the condition. This is genetically inaccurate. (Safely) assumming the condition is recessive a child would have a 25% chance of inheriting the gene from both parents. Also referred to is his apparently healthy sister who donated bone marrow to him - trying to effect a cure. CustardJack 07:57, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- It is actually an X-linked recessive condition, so the odds for the disease would have been 50% for a boy and 0% for a girl born from such parents. A girl, however, would have a 50% chance of being a healthy carrier of the defective gene.
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- agreed with above. Not everything is as simple as 8th grade biology :)207.127.128.2 13:59, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
