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Here are a few updates in the realm ofWikiProject Pharmacology:

• The Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week has been changed toCollaboration of the Month, based on current participation levels. It is also more likely that articles collaborated on for one month are more likely to achievefeatured quality than articles worked on for only a week or two.

• The currentCollaboration of the Month for November isReceptor antagonist. Please take a look at that article and contribute to it if you get a chance. Ideally, the article should adhere to thefeatured article criteria.

• Therapies for multiple sclerosis is currently afeatured article candidate. If you are familiar with thefeatured article criteria, please visitWP:FAC and review the article.

• Anabolic steroid is the wikiproject's newestFeatured Article, having been promoted onOctober 8,2007.

• Theobromine was delisted as a Good Article. ThePeer review andGA reassessment discussions provide suggestions on improvement.Muscle relaxant was recently reviewed forGood Article status, but not promoted. Please see the full reviewfull review here for details.

Dr. Cash22:05, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. (No pun intended ...) Can you help me out? An anonymous editor made a change toArabic language, claiming that the Arabic word "kitab" (book) is used in Armenian. Is this true? Thanks.Cbdorsett (talk)12:05, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks for your help.Cbdorsett (talk)12:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, the convention for the rank athletic events to be given as the position in the heat and for swimming events to give the overall rank is due to the differences in how next round qualifiers are decided in the two sports. In swimming qualifing competitors are decided only on a time basis, so if, e.g., heat 1 is is faster than heat 2 it is possible that all the competitors from heat 1 and none from heat 2 would get through to the next round. An example isMen's 50m freestyle. However in athletics qualifiers for the next round are decided by the first X athletes in each heat getting through, i.e. at least X athletes from every heat will get into the next round. Hopefully i've explained this without being too confusing but if not leave me another message and i'll try and find the right page on the olympic website to direct you to.Basement12 (talk)10:35, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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