User talk:Eb708811

Welcome!

Hello, Eb708811, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Amkilpatrick (talk) 08:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject Computational Biology

Please accept this invite to join the Computational Biology WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to computational biology. Simply click here and add your username to the list to accept! Amkilpatrick (talk) 08:20, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Eb708811, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:49, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

ISCB Wikipedia competition 2018 - final stretch

Hi Eb708811, thanks for signing up as a participant in the ISCB Wikipedia competition. The period for eligible edits will end on May 25 (UTC), just over four weeks from now. On behalf of the organizers, I would like to encourage you to move forward along this final stretch of the event and finish any remaining edits: as a reminder, your claimed article is Multiple Sequence Alignment. If you've any questions or comments, I would be happy to read them on my talk page, or on the competition talk page. Thanks, and good luck! Amkilpatrick (talk) 08:55, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Proper mathematical notation

In Multiple sequence alignment, I found this:

$L\geq$ max{$x_{i}|i=1,\cdots ,r$}

The proper way to do that is this:

$L\geq \max\{x_{i}\mid i=1,\ldots ,r\}$

It's all within just one set of "math" tags:

<math>L \ge \max\{x_i \mid i = 1,\ldots,r\}</math>

Also, in such situations, you can google "latex symbols" and find out how to do things like this. 2601:445:4380:7DD0:A006:DC9D:7C48:E388 (talk) 17:44, 18 April 2020 (UTC)