User talk:Proteins/General archive 1

Welcome!

Hello, Proteins, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Awadewit (talk) 15:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DNA clamp et al.

So you know, I replied to your message here. Opabinia regalis 05:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi friend. Thankyou for your lovely email. I've responded although I had a bit of trouble with my text alignment. I would love to keep in contact with you on here. Perhaps we could work on making some of my ideas for the advancement of wikipedia a reality. But we need a strong team to get something done about it by the wikimedia people that make the "ultimate" decisions. Best regards and I look forward to hearing from you. P.S. my latest is Medical treatment during the Second Boer War although I generally create masses of stub articles on places and notable biographies due to the sheer amount of notable subjects missing!! I call it "plantin the seeds" ! Count Blofeld 17:53, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently working on 2003 Bam earthquake which we should have up to GA in a few or too and eventually geared towards a featured article. Needs a lot of work but should get there eventually! Count Blofeld 19:38, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, my friend, to you as well!

Your e-mail was heart-warming to me as well, and I'll reply there, if you don't mind, to save space here. I've long admired your "seeds" and I'll try to be helpful to you on Bam. Proteins (talk) 22:27, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi thanks. Perhaps you could start an article on Acaloric Count Blofeld 18:22, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Count, nice to hear from you! I'm a little confused because, in biochemistry, acaloric is used mainly as an adjective ("lacking in energy"), rather than as a noun. Perhaps the term is/was used as a noun in other fields? Or maybe you mean something like acaloric compound or pseudofat? There's also "acaloric diet", which I believe is a special case of fasting. Fill me in and I'll begin throwing something together. Proteins (talk) 20:59, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was referring to Pseudofat. I saw it red linked in the Jojoba oil article and was intrigued to know what it meant. Count Blofeld 20:43, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any particular reason ...

... that your contributions to the Manual of Style talk pages are made by hitting the "edit this page" button rather than the particular subsection's "edit" button?

Hi ButwhatdoIknow, I do use the subsection's edit button. However, I usually write my own edit summary, instead of relying on the default summary. Is there a particular reason for keeping the default text? I'm still a relative newbie to editing. Proteins (talk) 15:43, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing that BWDIK would like to be able to know by looking at the history which section you're editing. For those of us keeping up with many conversations at once, it makes life a little easier. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 16:02, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dan55 beat me to the punch. Here is what I wrote before seeing his entry: The benefit of keeping the default intro text (for example "/* Is there any particular reason ... */") is that it allows someone viewing the edit history to know which section you are editing. Thus, for example, I have no interest in the edit war regarding hyphens and can ignore those entries IF I know that they are about that issue. So it is a courtesy to the readers to leave the section identification text in. Of course, you can always add whatever you want after that text, so keeping it doesn't prevent you from writing your own summary following the default language. Thanks for asking. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:07, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip! I hadn't thought of that aspect, although I usually specify whom I'm replying to in my edit summary. I'll try to remember to keep the section in my edit summaries from now on. If you see me making any other faux pas, please let me know; I don't want to accidentally rub people the wrong way. Proteins (talk) 16:37, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I thank you because you will be doing me a favor by tipping me off to which section you are adding to. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A gentle (I hope) reminder: Your recent edit to Wikipedia talk:Accessibility did not provide the section information in the explanation. I had to go to the page to find out that you were talking about something that was not of particular interest to me. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:04, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]