User talk:Bassophile

Hi there. Anything of mine that needs attention, or anything you'd like me to look over, please leave me a link

Bassophile 13:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Phosphatase

Phosphatase looks great! I've gone ahead up upped its class to B status. :) Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 18:20, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein!

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Custom Userbox

Hi Basophile,

I notice you have created your own userbox, viz;

This User is an X-ray crystallographer

Can I ask a huge favour? Can you please give me a few pointers on how I can create one myself, or point me in the right direction?
PS. I see you are a protein crystallographer. I have a bit of a crystallography background my self, but pertaining more to condensed matter.
Sincerely, Romaioi (talk) 04:26, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

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Isaac Newton

Hello, I am a new editor here at Wikipedia and I am interested in elevating Isaac Newton to FA status. But since I am new, I have been advised to seek the help of other more experienced editors before submitting it for FA. I was wondering if you can help me with the article, or to seek out other editors who can do that? The article is very nearly FA status; and only needs someone experienced to handle all the trivial details that need to be ironed out. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 07:40, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

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Permissions

Hey. When you uploaded file:Eden.png, you specified that it could only be used in the article on X-ray crystallography, and that if anyone wanted to use it elsewhere, they'd have to get your permission first.

This isn't really compatible with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. As well, it's not optimally illustrative for that particular context — but your insistence on permission means that if we replace your image with a more suitable one... we'll have to delete yours. Because there's no other use to which we're allowed to put it.

If at some point you read this message and would like the image restored, this can be done by any admin — although you'll have to accede to its use by anyone for any purpose. DS (talk) 01:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

It's actually a bit of two unrelated situations. First is the licensing concern. We generally can't host images that are not fully compliant with certain types of free use regardless of whether the image is highly useful in this article. So it's not if we replace, we then delete but instead we pretty much must delete period unless you provide us greater permission. My other concern is that the image is not well suited to illustrate this encyclopediac content. I'll explain here why, though this is all solely my opinion and we can certainly discuss it if (and only if) the image itself were to have suitable license... Although the central bonds are clearly drawn as line segments, the electron-density map is too faint and large-grid mesh to see well, and much of the backbone is actually curved. Instead, the point seems to be to illustrate density or probability, so we might want to see the surrounding cloud more clearly, and the point is about resolving atom locations, so actual curves rather than segmented bonds is not that. DMacks (talk) 02:04, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm perfectly happy for anyone to use the image for whatever, and to update the license accordingly. It might have been helpful to have been given more than an hour to reply before the image was deleted. Regarding the map - The mesh size is typically based upon the data resolution - the map can be resampled on a finer grid if needed, but this isn't typically done. The faintness of the mesh can be fixed. The backbone is curved as it is a spline-fit to the alpha-carbon positions. This type of visualization is widely used in macromolecular crystallography. IIRC the original caption made it clear that this was a spline fit (aka 'cartoon' representation), but as the image has already been deleted, I cannot double check this. --Bassophile (talk) 09:01, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Image restored; please update the license. DS (talk) 01:25, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

I agree that the mesh is reasonably based on the level of data available. But it was too faint to be seen easily, so it was not great for those who don't already know about either the limits of the analysis or even what/where they should be looking to see anything. And I agree that the curved nature of the backbone is likewise a standard type of abstract representation for non-well-defined areas. But that is at odds with the whole concept of using specific atomic coordinates and then updating them iteratively. One should not have to know about backbone vs the main focused area, or average spine fits if the goal is to discuss individual atomic locations and modeling based on their bonding nature. DMacks (talk) 04:25, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

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