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Specific diketopiperazine isomers

Good job clarifying/comparing the general aspects of them in an overview page, with a more specific page for the 2,5- case. However, the way you did it, copying the whole Diketopiperazine content to create the new 2,5-Diketopiperazines one (sometimes called a "cut-and-paste move") is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history. That is, to move/rename a page to a new title, one literally uses the "Move" feature of the WP software--see Wikipedia:Moving a page for details. Let me know if you need help undoing and cleaning up from the c&p. DMacks (talk) 16:30, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that expanding the scope of the article to other isomers of diketopiperazines is a good idea. However, before realizing that you created a separate article with some of the content, I restored the content deleted from diketopiperazine. In my opinion, the content related to this topic really isn't long enough or in depth enough to warrant splitting - the content of the two articles would be best handled in a single article. Currently, that could be achieved by simply redirecting 2,5-Diketopiperazines to Diketopiperazine. Your thoughts? -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:41, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I fixed up the article histories. 2,5-Diketopiperazine now has the back-history of all the edits that had been at done on that topic at Diketopiperazine, and Diketopiperazine itself is solely the history of its overview that you started. I went with 2,5-Diketopiperazine rather than plural because other functional-group/scaffold articles seem singular as well, but left the plural form as a redirect so other articles can still link to it directly. And so I cleaned up some wordings to sync with the singular form.

When you're drawing images (I assume ChemDraw or similar drawing package?), please use ACS style setting...it's the chemistry style-guide spec for Wikipedia as well. Otherwise you get situations like the pixelated structure-caption text in File:Cyclised α-amino amides to 2,3-, 2,5-, 2,6-DKPs.png that doesn't scale well. Let me know if you need additional help with WP markup and stylings...as you have found, there's a bit of a learning curve for some technical aspects here. DMacks (talk) 06:14, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia. We really need chemists who know advanced material and are willing to explain basic general information to others.

For graphics, avoid any wording in the graphics. By doing so, Wikipedia in other languages can pick up your artwork. Also, leaving language out allows generally more flexibility.
Another suggested reading: WP:SECONDARY, the gist being *Wikipedia prefers citations to reviews and books, not primary journal references (tens of thousands appear annually). Citing (almost exclusively) secondary sources is the encyclopedic style.
Although this advice does not seem to apply to you, many new editors cite themselves mainly. That behavior is inappropriate per WP:COI.

Happy editing.----Smokefoot (talk) 17:26, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Copying licensed material requires attribution

Hi. I see in a recent addition to C286 you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 20:31, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dianne. Thanks for bring me up to speed with the attribution required by the Creative Commons 4.0 International License. However, I did not copy the prose, I wrote it myself. As the author of reference [2] I wrote the prose in this journal article and when writing a review of this published work for WikiP I summarised and edited the prose, condensing paragraphs into a few new sentences (normal procedure). I have checked back and none of the sentences referenced with [2] in the WikiP article C286 occur in the journal article in 2019 so they weren’t copied. This was no cut and paste job. So I have changed 'Text was copied' into 'Material was summarised' in the attribution statement.Alandb (talk) 10:33, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]