User talk:Plumbago/Archive 7

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Fixed. Miremare 14:10, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Miremare. Sorry I've not been around much to help with these problems. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 17:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:All Knowing Vortigaunt AYool.jpg

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Diatoms

Hello, and thanks for the comments on the contribution on the diatoms article. I agree with you, it is better to keep the two orders that are, though possibly paraphyletic, still widely accepted (and consistent with the rest of the article). Diatom taxonomy is far from straightforward, and many articles, books and reviews present different views. Hopefully we will get more results from RNA sequensing in the future so the phylogeny schemes will float a little less.. I am quite new to wikipedia, and have not written many articles here yet, but in the future I would love to participate in a project for more species articles about diatoms.--Rex shock (talk) 15:23, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Xen halflife 09 AYool.jpg

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Using your image AYool_GLODAP_del_pH.png

Dear Plumbago, is it possible to use your image AYool_GLODAP_del_pH.png to illustrate an article on climate change and oceans on the Allianz Knowledge website www.knowledge.allianz.com (on Climate Change, Microfinance, Demographic Change)? It is a corporate site, but we do not talk about products. Here is an example for how it could look like: http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/media/galleries/energy_profile_wind.html Best, ThiloKunzemann (talk) 16:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:AvP2_P03_AYool.jpg

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Archive box

I am attempting to make a new archive box, in which there is no box-width parameter, and one of the few pages still using the box-width parameter is one of yours. Is there any way possible to remove the box-width parameter from that box? I would recommend in your case to instead use:

{{archive box|
* [[User_talk:Plumbago/Sandbox 1|Seawater pH, April 2007, 8.7 Kb]]
* [[User_talk:Plumbago/Sandbox 2|Evolution FAC, June 2007, 24 Kb]]
}}

It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 22:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I missed this. I notice that you've fixed it up now. Thanks! --Plumbago (talk) 17:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Xen halflife 09 AYool.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:AvP A01 AYool.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:AvP A03 AYool.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:AvP P01 AYool.jpg

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Black Mesa Research Facility

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Removal of Credible Information from Ocean acidification

I don't understand how the University of California Santa Barbara is not a credible source of information? I added VERY credible, reliable information about ocean acidification conducted by a researcher who was examining sea butterflies. I fail to understand how this cannot be verified or is not credible. A little mollusk (talk) 18:38, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I deleted the information because it didn't add anything that wasn't already there (pteropods were already mentioned immediately before) and because the source was unobtainable (and therefore unverifiable). I don't doubt for a second that the information is valid, but when it can't be (easily) verified, and when it doesn't add anything new, I'm afraid that I'm a bit deletionist. I've seen too many good articles become encrusted with material that, while accurate and informative, degrades readability. Anyway, sorry if my edits seemed a bit brusque, but please feel free to contact me again if needs be. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 08:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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pH

If you find in pH the notation for the structure of a galvanic cell using vertical bars too confusing, or too much resembling a wiki metacharacter accident, I'm sure it could also be typeset more elaborately using a colorful table. The current version is merely a faithful reproduction of the quoted reference. (Sadly, nobody looks at quoted references on Wikipedia ...) Markus Kuhn (talk) 11:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah-ha - I understand now (well, as much as I can, being a non-chemist!). What you say makes perfect sense, what with all of the "pipes" it just looked like a bit of a formatting mistake to me (... since I didn't read the reference!). Thanks for taking the time to set me straight. I'll have a think about following up your suggestion about typesetting a colour table. Maybe editing the diagram over at galvanic cell would be an idea. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 11:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

DOI bot

Thanks a lot for pointing this out. Should be easy to fix... I'll get onto it!

Verisimilus T 15:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD on Category:Evolution controversies

Hi. I noticed that you recently commented on this category's talkpage. You may wish to participate in the CfD on it on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 April 10. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 11:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Yup - I've flagged it for deletion. Thanks for the heads-up. --Plumbago (talk) 11:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Ecosystem model

Great work on the Ecosystem model. I probably should have told you this in person half a year ago. Now I have take an other look at this article and I raised a question about the scoop of this article on the Talk:Ecosystem model page. I wonder if you could take a look at it. Thank you. -- Mdd (talk) 15:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks ...

... for defending my user page. I don't know what I've done to offend that anon editor - except maybe that I have spotted and reverted the vandalism that has been going on at Inishbofin, Donegal. Snalwibma (talk) 18:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

No worries. The anon seems to have taken rather tame edits as a personal affront. Ho-hum. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 21:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Ocean acidification

Hi,

I've replied to your note on the article talk page, so that others can have their two cents more readily.

All the best

Verisimilus T 11:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Aloha Plumbago,

Thanks for your note a few weeks back and pardon the slow reply (busy here!). I think the edit you made that you were referring to looked fine. I just made a copy edit of the stuff that someone put in regarding the new Feeley paper -- unfortunately there were a few statements that are either unsupported in the actual paper, or downright incorrect (my understanding is that colder waters absorb more CO2 relative to warmer water, not less). Please feel free to check and make any corrections to my edit. Btw, I'm too busy right now to tackle this and you probably are as well, but I think given the increasing prominence of the topic in the general media, a significant expansion of the article with more background on particular aspects (ex. what is aragonite saturation and why it's important; areas of lingering uncertainty, etc. etc.) would probably be beneficial. Your thoughts? Cheers, Arjuna (talk) 23:55, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Arjuna - sorry, missed your note till now. I'll have a look at the article again. I noticed that you'd already had a go at the text on the Feeley paper, and I generally agree with your assessment (having only read the paper's abstract!). I'll have a look myself - once I've had a proper go at the Feeley paper! Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 08:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Junk DNA

Hi Plumbago, You reverted my edit at the artical of Epigenetics. See the following links below to see that my edit was not "junk".

• Junk DNA
• Survival of the Sickest (book)

Ervinn (talk) 14:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ervinn. I'm not sure that these references help me. The article on junk DNA makes no reference to epigenetics, and it's difficult to follow the logic in the summary presented for the book. That the book appears not to have been well-received by the scientific community (at least if one if to believe the article) is not a good sign. More generally, the name epigenetics is a reference to inheritance that lies outside of the genetic code. Standard examples (already described in the article) include transmissible chemical changes to DNA that affect transcription, inheritance of maternal/paternal RNA, prion proteins and certain organelles. Anyway, I stand by my reversion: your text directly equated epigenetic inheritance with junk DNA, despite the content of the article, and without providing any sources. Sorry. --Plumbago (talk) 15:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Plumbago, That is the problem, people who reads the article thinks that epigenetic's inheritance lies outside of the genetic code. But that can not be. You may argue that it comes from God. But seriously it must come from the genetic code. The epigenetic inheritance is also product of evolution. And evolution means collecting and sorting information which needs to be stored somewhere for the offspring. It means that evolution may not be linear. Evolution itself may be subject of evolution. That's the meaning of this new field of epigenetic. How this information is stored in the DNA. Nobody knows yet, but it must be in the DNA. It is true that it is not in the part of the DNA that the human project mapped. But that is only 10% of the DNA information.

Anyway, Who are you to make that decision what goes in to the article? You said that you are not an expert. What goes in to the article should be decided by experts. I’ll will put my edits in the discussion page and let see what others say.

Anyway the purpose of my edits was the following:

• I wanted to make it clear that Epigenetic processes are not much known and most part is unknown, it is a very new field.
• A lay people reading the article may think that Epigenetic is external to DNA information. When they mapped the human genome, they mapped only the part of the DNA that responsible to decode enzymes. That is about 10% of the DNA. What the other 90% is for they don’t know yet. Because the epigenetic processes is also governed by the DNA(it must be). It is very likely that is coded in that 90% of the DNA, which initially they called the Junk DNA.
• I wanted to explain epigenetic, in simple words.

Ervinn (talk) 01:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi again Ervinn. Discussing your proposed changes on the article's talk page is a good idea. That's what it's there for. Although it's certainly true that I'm no expert, I am a biologist so am fleetingly aware of the concepts of epigenetics. As such, the article's current content, which describes a number of epigenetic mechanisms, appears more accurate than simply ascribing all epigenetic inheritance to junk DNA. Still, as you note, it's a young field, and as more becomes known our view of apparent epigenetic inheritance mechanisms will be refined. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 09:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Richard Dawkins

Hello Plumbago! We are trying to promote the article Richard Dawkins to the FA status. I think you can make contributions. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Masterpiece2000. I had a look on the talkpage but I'm unclear what the story is: is there a FAR to respond to? I can see there's some review gone on recently, but is there a project page for this that I'm missing. Probably just me being dim. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 15:06, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

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Richard Dawkins

Hello Plumbago. I have some problems with the biography of Dawkins. Don't you think that there should be a clear chronological biography and a non-biographies sections? Sections like 'Personal life' and 'Education and academic career' creates confusion. Look at the biography of Max Weber. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Masterpiece2000. I'm inclined to agree with you, although integrating personal information (birth, marriages, etc.) with academic career can be a bit fiddly. Chronology isn't helpful on this count since it just mixes up such disparate material. I'd certainly suggest making both current sections into subsections of a "Biography" section. Anyway, I'll try to have a look during lunch today. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 09:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Pinching formatting things

You're welcome! All pretty quiet on the RD/NB front these days, huh? SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 08:28, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! You're right about our mutual friend though - he's practically vanished (pushing RD to FA status might stir him though!). Last time that I checked his blog (which was quite a while ago now) he seemed to be involved in writing both a book with Polkinghorne and some paper with a neurologist. Those promise to be interesting — and will doubtless be quickly added to the WP. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 09:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your update to the cremation page

I politely disagree with the definition of cremation. Cremation is a common practice and is widely used as a means of disposition in many countries. I feel that the current definition uses "jargon" or technical language used in England or western Europe.

The definition should include other viewpoints and incorporate language common other many countries.

The words crematorium, furnace, crematory fire, cremulator are not widely used in the United States among/between crematory operators or surviving loved ones. In addition, the word corpse not used when referring to a deceased loved one or relative (who will be cremated). A corpse can be found in a laboratory, medical school, horror movies, TV or can be used to refer to a dead human body not yet identified. --Thanat101 (talk) 21:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there Thanat101 (you certainly have an appropriate name for the article!). Thanks very much for your note. I should quickly point out that I was merely restoring a large section of text that seemed to have been incrementally deleted in a succession of unexplained edits. I wouldn't claim the slightest expertise on the topic, but just wanted to protect the article from what looked, at times, a bit like vandalism.

That said, what you say above sounds perfectly sensible to me. The use of "corpse" does, as you say, seem both disrespectful and inaccurate as terminology. I would add that although some of the cremation-related terms may not be widely used in the US (though some do sound familiar from Six Feet Under), they are in use elsewhere so shouldn't necessarily be removed on nation-specific grounds (for instance, we certainly have crematoria in the UK).

Anyway, not that I need to tell you, but please go ahead and edit the article. And be bold, since there appear to be a number of editors on this article who aren't helping the WP. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 08:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Plumbago, Thank you for the response regarding the edit. If you are o.k. with me changing the definition to incorporate universally accepted language, I will do so. Also, I would be happy to review the cremation process/method section to accommodate the actual logistical process as opposed to the physical bodily process (that would make another good article). --Thanat101 (talk) 18:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Thanat101. I'm absolutely fine with the language, just be aware that this is not a US-only encyclopedia.  :-) And it'd be good to have a more experienced eye go over the section you mention. Anyway, as I said before, I'd encourage you to be bold in your edits since you've definitely got article improvements in mind. Best regards, --Plumbago (talk) 20:58, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Dawkins again

Hello Plumbago. You removed the following:

"Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Dawkins moved to England with his parents at the age of eight. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Dawkins spent two years as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the faculty at the University of Oxford in 1970."

This information is important. Look at the biography of Obama. It is important to mention few thing about Dawkins' early life and education in the lead. Masterpiece2000 03:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Masterpiece2000. No worries - I was mostly just being bold, so don't mind being reverted in the least. I note that the text has been removed again, however. Just to be clear, I removed it for a number of reasons: firstly, the information is repeated and expanded on immediately below the lead; secondly, it's not really got a lot to do with his notability (although Dawkins occasionally talks about his early days in Africa, they don't appear to have played an especially large role in his later life; and I've not read any reference by him to his UCB days); thirdly, the lead was too long, IMHO. On the latter point, I may not have removed the most redundant text - there still needs to be some fusion and deletion around the religious aspects of his life (creationism, theism), which are a bit repetitive.

Anyway, by all means restore stuff that I remove, you've put a lot more effort into the article and are in a better position to judge it than I. I did want to ask though if there are any plans to put it up for another FAR? Keep up the good work! Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 08:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Plumago, you have a point. I have made over 450 edits to the article and I still think that it will be very difficult to promote this article to the FA status. I think the lead is fine. We have to focus on other areas. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (Talk) 08:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)