Talk:Rosetta@home

Great work, really. -Tribaal 08:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a how-to guide

I actually used the "How to join" section to install Rosetta@home on this computer. However, articles aren't supposed to read like instruction guides. Could any user suggest a way to rewrite that section to conform to style guidelines? --Grace 07:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The 'how to join' section is not appropriate. Perhaps just a link to the project's how-to page would be acceptable. 129.64.68.20 19:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From my perspective (having written most of this page), the goal was to allow the Wikipedia reader to find the needed information as painlessly as possible. As the first poster said, he/she installed it per the instructions in Wikipedia. As long as it helps people, I don't see why it can't be kept. So, let it be for the moment please, thx. Dhatz 20:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good work writing the page, but the section does need to be rewritten according to Wikipedia policy. Rather than the imperative "Install the program like this", it needs to have the descriptive tone of "This is how the program is used" - or it could be replaced with a link to the project's how to page as the second commenter said. --Grace 08:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, could you point me to that Wikipedia policy? Also, which link to the project's how to page do you suggest to use instead (specific URL please)? Btw the prior poster didn't suggest, he simply DELETED the entire section. Dhatz 17:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NOT is a good start. On a sidenote, I think the 'how to join' section is ok, only needs a little editing.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus talk} 16:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation?

I've noticed that this page uses large amounts of verbatim text from other websites: is the Wikipedia copyright policy being followed here? (Specifically, read section 4 - "Contributors' rights and obligations".) Mike Peel 10:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please be specific about which sections you mean. Any verbatim text is quoted (with quote marks), indented, has a link to the original source at the end and has been copied over with permission. Dhatz 17:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to many parts of the page - basically every section which quotes more than a sentance from an external source. So long as the verbatim text has been copied over with permission from those with the copyright, then I don't think there's a problem. Mike Peel 19:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Although it would be best if the Rosetta@home project would licence their contents under GFDL or CC or some other copyleft licence we could use.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus talk} 16:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project Signifigance could do with some rewording.

ie. "Decoding the human genome may be the greatest scientific achievement of this century. But before we can...", sentances starting with "But". --FauxFaux 15:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]