User talk:David D./Archive8
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[edit] Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject Newsletter
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The project main page has gotten a facelift!
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| When people visit the project, the very first thing that they see tends to be the project's main page, and with this in mind, the main page has been completely overhauled. To enhance readability the various "goals" sections have been merged, and a detailed "how you can help" section has been added. To increase accessibility for more established members, the links to any resources that were in the main body text have been moved onto the navigation bar on the right. Finally, the whole page has been nicely laid out and given a nice attractive look. |
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New project feature: peer review
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| I'm proud to announce the addition of out newest feature: peer review! The MCB peer review feature aims serve as a stepping stone to improve articles to featured article status by allowing editors to request the opinions of other members about articles that they might not otherwise see or contribute to. |
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Project progress
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The article worklist
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| We’ve had quite a bit of progress on the worklist article in the past month. Not only has the list itself nearly doubled in size from 143 to 365 entries, but an amazing three articles have been advanced to FA status, thanks in great part to the efforts of our very own TimVickers! Remember, the state of the worklist is the closest thing we have to quantifying the progress of the project, so if you get the chance, please take a look at the list, pick a favorite article, and improve it! |
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Collaboration of the Month
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| Last month's Collaboration of the Month, cell nucleus, was a terrific success! In one month, the article went from a dismal stub to an A-class article. Many thanks to all of the collaborators who contributed, especially ShaiM, who took on the greatest part of the burden. This month's Collaboration of the Month, adenosine triphosphate, isn't getting nearly the attention of its predecessor, so if you can, please lend a hand! |
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Finally...
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| The project has a new coordinator, ClockworkSoul! The role - my role - of coordinator will be to harmonize the project's common efforts, in part by organizing the various tasks required to make the project run as smoothly and completely as possible. Many thanks to those who supported me and those participated in the selection process. |
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[edit] RNA interference peer review
Well, I have finally gotten a round tuit and done some extensive work on RNA interference, which is now up for peer review here if you want to take a look. IIRC, you are considerably more knowledgeable about the history and specifically earlier plant work than I am; any comments or fixes would be great. Thanks! Opabinia regalis 02:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Do Not Remove Sources
On the article Cactus cat, you removed a link in a Sources section. Don't do that. You claimed it was "self-promotion"; it probably was. Nevertheless, the article was based on it; (in fact, the article was a dangerously close paraphrase of a single source, which we really shouldn't do. In any case, removing items listed as sources is a big no-no; if the source is spam, get the article deleted, or sourced from somewhere else; don't just remove the link. Thanks for your attention. 71.128.189.190 (really User:JesseW/not logged in) 00:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Whoa, don't shoot the messenger. I may have felt bothered to do something about it if you had come here voicing a pleasant concern. However, your chiding and patronizing message here makes me wash my hands of it. David D. (Talk) 01:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I applogize for the tone; I was in the middle of fighting with someone on the phone, and I guess it leaked into my comments here, as it shouldn't have. Regarding the page, I marked it as copyvio; it'll be deleted eventually. Glancing over a google search for the term, I didn't immediately see further sources. I think the copyvio template is sufficient for now. Again, I'm sorry about my tone in the previous message. JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- I accept the gracious apology and likewise apologise for snapping. Since I have not come across you much on wikipedia I was not sure if this was your normal voice but obviously not. Thanks for sorting out the copyright issue. I just saw you added that to the article immediately so my fix it yourself type comment was OTT. David D. (Talk) 05:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- I applogize for the tone; I was in the middle of fighting with someone on the phone, and I guess it leaked into my comments here, as it shouldn't have. Regarding the page, I marked it as copyvio; it'll be deleted eventually. Glancing over a google search for the term, I didn't immediately see further sources. I think the copyvio template is sufficient for now. Again, I'm sorry about my tone in the previous message. JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cellular respiration
Didn't mean to revert this, somehow I got a blank page, thought it was empty and needed a stub. Sorry about that, never had that happen before. Must have been a wiki error of some sort! Thanks for fixing it. Isoxyl 03:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- No problem, i noticed what you had done and understood why. I had not considered it vandalism at the time. David D. (Talk) 17:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RNAi FAC
FYI, I moved RNA interference to FAC here, so please continue with any further comments/criticisms/glowing praise there ;) Opabinia regalis 06:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Amazing and enlightening gift! :)
Thank you so much for your most excellent gift; I'm just delighted! It's really a double gift, since it makes the page beautiful, and opened a window in my little brain through which I can glimpse how all that stuff works. I'd always wondered about everyone else's page, but it always seemed so daunting. So you're getting more than a double helping of thanks from me :) Willow 22:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Peppers?
Cute ;) What made you think of peppers? Opabinia regalis 03:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- It reminded me of "hot papers", I know, corny! I did not search too hard for a good image. I just wanted to see if it was possible and to see if others liked the concept. David D. (Talk) 04:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Ahhh, I get it now... that, sir, is an impressively bad pun ;) I do think it stands out better with an image rather than just bold text; I know it's the thing to do these days, but those highly formatted citation templates drive me nuts, and make the whole list hard to read. There are probably other heavily-cited articles that could use a similar treatment - I don't know why I hadn't thought of it till now, but I like the idea of highlighting the major works in a field - but I don't have time to go looking right now; can you think of any? Opabinia regalis 07:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Antioxidant FAC
Hi there. I wondered if you had time to review this article? The FAC nomination is here. Thank you. TimVickers 05:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Citizendium message
Hi David,
I just got your message over at Tim's Talk page, where I replied. What was it that you wanted us to consider? I'll be gone soon, though, so don't be surprised if I can't reply for a while. Thanks again for your wonderful update of my Talk page; I enjoy it and wonder at it every day, Willow 18:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- Just thought you should check it out. See http://pilot.citizendium.org It is a new wiki that it much less tolerant of vandals and has fixed versions of articles, reviewed by experts, as well as working drafts. Otherwise it is similar to wikipedia, but much much smaller. Another difference that it aims to be family friendly. Not sure if it will take off but an interesting concept. i'm glad you enjoyed the changes i made to your talk page. It was fun to do it. David D. (Talk) 18:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Biological Value
I noticed you appear to be involved in biology articles or WikiProjects relating to biology and human processes. This article, on a method for evaluating biological utilizations rates of proteins in humans and animals, was started in August and is in need of the attention of an expert. We are having trouble locating one and the article desperately needs it. This method is used constantly in bodybuilding magazines and products and is the subject of much misinformation and half-truths. On the other hand it does appear to have some value. Please help if possible. In case you're wondering why I picked you I just looked through some Science WikiProjects and biology articles and your name appeared a lot in one or both categories. Incidentally if you decide not to do this for whatever reason there's no need to reply. I'll just take it you're busy or uninterested and leave it at that. Thanks. Quadzilla99 22:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This is a WARNING, you will be reported Ragib for Systematically following me and Vandalizing the articles I worked on
+++YOUR COMMENTS ON MY Page+++++ Adding spam and irrelevant external links Please do not add a very large number of unrelated external links to articles. See WP:NOT for what Wikipedia is NOT. If you continue adding such links, you will be reported to the administrator's noticeboard. Thank you. --Ragib 10:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. --Ragib 10:52, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
+++++MY COMMENTS++++
Dear user Rajib, please don't vandalize the articles I have worked on, instead of improving the articles you are just deleting the "reference list" for the article, this has gone on for couple of articles, you are systematically following the articles I worked on and vadalizing them, I will shortly be reporting you to wikipedia Administartors. Consider this a Warning!!!!. If you want to improve an article you dont take out its reference list. You could have contributed to Wildlife of Bangladesh, I even asked for help on your page, but the article remains at square one after so long while you have had lot of time arguing with me and vandalizing my other articles. Please do not remove this comment from your page, let other be warned too of your great credibility and coopretaion.
Atulsnischal 20:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
CAn somebody please talk to Ragib, one argument that started with him on Bengal monitor page has led to an ongoing onslaught on the articles I have worked on, instead of improving them, he is been removing Reference list from my articles, following the idea from another user David D., can you please talk to both.
Thankyou Atulsnischal 21:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Could you expand on this? I'm not sure what you are trying to say here? Are you giving me a warning? Or are you informing me of a warning you have given to Ragib ? David D. (Talk) 23:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- It looks like he has copy-pasted the same thing into ANB/I, my talk page, and your talk page. It is equally unclear to me who he is addressing, the first part addresses me (misspelled) and then the second part seems to address someone else. This user has the habit of doing this, i.e. copying same comment to as many talk pages as he can, no matter how tangentially related the talk pages may be to his comments. --Ragib 00:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Evolution
I understand the way you feel. If GA really leaves, that's terrible, and Samsara's edit summary was unnecessarily rude. But it doesn't do anyone any good for you and pschemp to get into a fight over this. It really doesn't help anyone. Guettarda 19:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the support. It was a bad edit I must admit, and I over reacted. Bad day boiling before I logged onto Wikipedia. Thanks for reverting Smooth Muscle article-a childish reaction on my part. I do need a break!!!!I do thank you for your kind words and support. Perhaps I will return with my sanity after a break. GetAgrippa 21:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
