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== This month's winner is [[RNA interference]]! == |
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Please refrain from posting your opinions using all capital letters. It is rude, and makes useful collaboration difficult. I am fairly certain you are also user:80.47.142.143, and this goes for "him" as well. If I am mistaken in this assertion, please let me know. - Halidecyphon 10:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Crick
Hallo Martin- I reverted your (extensive) cut and pasted reviews because a) they were just blatant advertising; b) there is a potential copyright issue- it is not acceptable to simply cut and paste material from other sources. If you want to draw attention to what may be a new source for the article, then you would be best to include a SHORT paragraph explaining that a new text is available, and perhaps a link to a decent external review. An alternative would to simply read the book and add (with proper references) any useful information to the article proper, rather than the talk page. It's probably best NOT to link directly to Amazon unless really necessary however, as this is considered 'linkspam' by some (links to commercial websites are a bit of a no-no). Please bear in mind that the Francis Crick talk page is for discussing changes to that article- it is not a general bulletin board for discussing his life and work. All the best, Badgerpatrol 14:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Caius stained glass and F. Crick
Hey, don't worry about your comments being too negative — not only are you entirely right, but I found the additional information that you provided to be very interesting. Keep up the good work ! Schutz 09:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! It's a real change to receive a bouquet, rather than a brickbat!! I am still on the trail of the 1958 chair of Genetics issue - as I believe in leaving no stone unturned. regards, Martin
- As a piece of well-meant advice Martin- the brickbats might occur less frequently if it weren't for the fact that you implicitly or explicitly insult other contributors with almost every comment you make. Civility is a necessity on this encyclopaedia, not a luxury. Badgerpatrol 19:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear "Shutz",
Two down and four to go! What about Sherrington, Green, Fisher, and Chadwick?
Well done (so far)!
- I have uploaded the image about Fisher already, see article Ronald Fisher. I have the one for Sherrington as well, which I will upload soon. Unfortunately, when I was in Caius College, I did not have much time and took only the 4 photos of the windows celebrating Venn, Fisher, Crick and Sherrington, but did not manage to get the other two. I don't know of a place where these images would be available under a copyright licence free enough to allow us to upload them on Wikipedia.
- PS. My Wikipedia login name is "Schutz", with a "c".
- PPS. If you want to leave me a message, please do it on my talk page, and not on my user page, thank you. Schutz 13:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- Sherrington is done; as I wrote, it's the last picture that was in my files. Schutz 20:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
high jump
"the bar has been raised!" <-- Do you have any specific changes/additions in mind? --JWSchmidt 18:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
More to the point: have YOU from reading the first 25% of it? Nitramrekcap 18:27, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- I think I previously passed my comments on to you. From reading the first 25%, I did not feel that Ridley produced the kind of book that I enjoy. "Discoverer of the code" strikes me as the kind of book that is published in order to cash in on the death of a famous person. It strikes me as having been heavily edited in order to increase its "mass market appeal". I find it very hard to read such a book when it does not bother to cite its sources. Given its failure to cite sources, I doubt if it can fruitfully be used as a source for Wikipedia. On the more general issue of expanding the Wikipedia article on Crick in order to say more about his work on the code, I have no doubt that improvements could be made to that section of the article. However, doing so is not a high priority for me. There are many other topics that are of equal or gereater importance in biology that still have not found there way into Wikipedia. I'd rather work getting that information into Wikipedia than expand on and modify what seems to me an adequate section of the Crick article. --JWSchmidt 20:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Amazon review
<Sigh>. Fair enough "Martin", I shan't revert again for the moment, because there seems to be very little point on a sunny evening... Just out of interest, a) why have you posted the Amazon review, and what do you hope to achieve by cutting and pasting it to the Crick talk page?, and b) why is it impossible to link to the Amazon review externally? It's commendable if you're worried about linkspam, but this case is possibly acceptable, you can canvass the opinion of others on that. Anyway, for your consideration, here are a selection of potentially useful links for you- this one, regarding the proper use of talk pages (which shouldn't generally be used to post massive amounts of useless or near useless cut and pasted text, which may be considered a copyright violation and hence illegal), and these ones [1] [2] for general wiki protocol, which may be useful to you. Thank you for signing in properly, for once, it's unfortunate that you can't do it more often! Badgerpatrol 18:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
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This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
Cell nucleus The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is cell nucleus. |
– ClockworkSoul 22:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject Votes
The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject has recently opened two surveys that will help to decide the direction of the project. First, nominations are currently being accepted for the position of coordinator of the project. Second, votes and additional suggestions for the official title of that position are also being taken. As a member of the project, we hope that you'll drop by and voice your opinion. – ClockworkSoul 03:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
Adenosine triphosphate The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is adenosine triphosphate. |
– ClockworkSoul 21:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
One more vote for the coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject
Since two of the three editors nominated for Coordinator of the MCB Wikiproject declined their nominations, one more vote has been posted: should the remaining nominee, ClockworkSoul, be named as the coordinator, or should nominations be reopened? Every opinion counts, so please vote! – ClockworkSoul 17:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
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This month's winner is proteasome!
Proteasome The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is proteasome. |
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This month's winner is RNA interference!
RNA interference The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is RNA interference. |