User talk:TimVickers/archive 10

Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:48Z

Barnstar

It was a while ago, but I haven't forgotten. <Moved to trophy cabinet> :)

ref:deletion Satish Babu

Hi, The page Satish Babu was deleted on 13th of February.It was about the contributions of a journalist to the Regional Media. Can you let me know how it could find relevance and where i can find the deleted page? User:Madhuritalluri(talk)

Admiration

I admire your image works !

Thanks!

thank you very much!!! You´ve been very useful, keep in touch! blitox

RfA Thanks

A message from WarthogDemon.

Korean Fir I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent RfA, was unsuccessful with 61 support, 25 oppose, and 4 neutral. I've been taking the advice of the Opposes into practice and hopefully I can improve myself. Once again, thank you. ^_^

Thank you

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

Barnstar

Moved to trophy cabinet.

Thanks!

Moved to trophy cabinet

Well done

Moved to trophy cabinet.

For your help on Pulmonary contusion

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Smile!

A Nobody^{My talk} has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Barnstar

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Glutathione-ascorbate cycle

Dear Tim, thanks for your support and contribution for the article. I will include a section about the physiological role of the cycle in plants. You might want to have a look at the other article on roGFP I started; since my English is rather poor and I am new in the community you might have some helpful comments for this one as well.

Cheers, Laurent $olanum

Reincarnation research

moved.

Happy Holidays!

File:Nissen-2155 ubt.jpeg

Seasons greetings and best wishes for 2011! Boghog (talk) 16:20, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Main page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on January 10, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 10, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director, Raul654 (talk · contribs). If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch^™ and © 20:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

The Archaea are a group of single-celled microorganisms. They have no cell nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles within their cells. In the past they were viewed as an unusual group of bacteria, but since the Archaea have an independent evolutionary history and show many differences in their biochemistry from other forms of life, they are now classified as a separate domain in the three-domain system. In this system the phylogenetically distinct branches of evolutionary descent are the Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. Archaea are further divided into four recognized phyla, but many more phyla may exist. Of these groups the Crenarchaeota and the Euryarchaeota are most intensively studied. Classification is still difficult, since the vast majority have never been studied in the laboratory. Archaea and bacteria are quite similar in size and shape, although a few archaea have very unusual shapes. Despite this visual similarity to bacteria, archaea possess genes and several metabolic pathways that are more closely related to those of eukaryotes: notably the enzymes involved in transcription and translation. Initially, archaea were seen as extremophiles that lived in harsh environments, such as hot springs and salt lakes, but they have since been found in a broad range of habitats, including soils, oceans, and marshlands. Archaea are now recognized as a major part of Earth's life and may play roles in both the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle. (more...)

Missing you

Hi Tim. The MCB project is not the same without you. Your high quality contributions to Wikipedia are sorely missed. First and foremost, I hope you are doing well. Second, I do understand that real life takes priority.

I hope that you can drop us a short note. I and I am sure others would love to hear from you. Wishing you the best. Boghog (talk) 13:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey there, thanks for the note. I'm still around, but with a student to supervise and a grant to write, so I have very little free time at the moment. I hope to return to Wiki at some point in the future. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Great! I am relieved to hear from you and good luck on your grant proposal. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 21:07, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Evolution

Hi Tim. happy New Year. I hope you are well, and around. If you are, I think this would be a good time for you to take fifteen or twenty minutes and make a comment on the most recent discussion about revising the lead of the Evolution article. Best, Slrubenstein | Talk 23:13, 14 January 2011 (UTC) PS good luck with the grant proposal.

Haloarchaea

This article seems to duplicate Halobacteria, which seems to be the accepted scientific name. Thoughts on merging? The discussion is at Talk:Haloarchaea. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Editor assistance list

Hello. Since your account has recently not been editing very regularly, on the page Wikipedia:Editor assistance/list you name has been moved to a list of editors who are willing to give assistance, but may not always be available. There is an explanation at Wikipedia talk:Editor assistance/list#Problem with inactive accounts on the list. You are, of course, welcome to move yourself back to the other list if you wish to. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Archea

So, I sent my dad, who enjoys bloviating about various topics, to read Archea before he annoyed me to death with questions that aren't even wrong. He had this to say: "Read the article and agree that it was worthy of being featured. Well written, logical and at a level where people without detailed knowledge of biology could get something useful from it. Wikipedia rocks!"

Thought that you might appreciate that. PS. How does one join the pro-felid cabal? --Danger (talk) 16:18, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Problematic edit: incorrect DOI added to Glutathione disulfide

Hi. In this edit you added a citation to PMID 3053703 with doi:10.1073/pnas.0508621102. The DOI is incorrect for the paper. Was this a one off mistake, or is there an external data source or larger list of edits/articles that need checking? [I noticed because the articles on Amino acid, Antioxidant and Glutathione reductase cite the same PMID.] Thanks Rjwilmsi 22:32, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I think that was a one-off mistake. I usually use the diberri tool to generate citations templates, and this PMID doesn't return a DOI automatically in that tool, so I guess I added the DOI manually. Tim Vickers (talk) 22:23, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay, no worries. Thanks Rjwilmsi 23:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Viruses is back

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coenzyme

Hey, I noticed you were the one that blanked the coenzyme page. It was very confusing when I followed a link through coenzyme and found out that cofactors had to be non-proteins. I think we should either bring coenzyme back or make cofactor cover coenzymes. Otherwise all the proteins that bind to other proteins to catalyze reactions are in la-la land. Lepidoptera (talk) 17:16, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

"Hi there" User:Guswen/Lukaszyk-Karmowski metric

Dear Tim, Two years ago, you voted for userfying the article about my PhD thesis at the Wikipedia [[1]]. At his time there were no "three or more independent groups of mathematicians" working on this concept. Recently I found some new independent references (book, PhD thesis, article) to this metric which in my opinion justify its presence at Wikipedia mainspace. Besides most authors cite [[2]] which is odd since the metric indication has been left there though there is no definition provided in the mainspace. I will appreciate your opinion about moving this article back to the mainspace. Thank you and take care, Szymon Guswen (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Invitation for a short research survey

Hi, I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University doing some research into editing and reverts on Wikipedia. I am asking Wikipedians that I have found are active in the biological sciences on Wikipedia to complete a short survey that will help me develop interfaces and tools for newcomers and administrators. The survey will take about 10-15 minutes, and will involve you pretending that you are editing the page on genetic engineering and making some quick judgments on how controversial or likely to be reverted a word sampled from an edit might be. This will help me to validate a model that predicts which words will be reverted based on the history of an article, which if successful will be turned into an interface to help with Wikipedia editing and encourage newcomers. If you would like to participate, please complete the survey on SurveyMonkey here. You can find out more about me on my user page and personal home page. I'm more than happy to talk more about this research on my talk page or by email, and thank you for your time. JeffRz (talk) 03:37, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Marshall protocol

Hi Tim,

You're not too busy on wiki these days, but I thought I'd metion this anyway - I just did some editing with extreme prejudice at Trevor Marshall, of the Marshall protocol "fame" (famous for breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria maybe). If you are interested in taking a look, I'd love the review. Thanks, WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:31, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Image Deletion

A deletion discussion has just been created at Category talk:Unclassified Chemical Structures, which may involve one or more orphaned chemical structures, that has you user name in the upload history. Please feel free to add your comments.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:08, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Wiknic in St. Louis this weekend

Details have been finalized for the second Wikipedia meetup in St. Louis, happening at 12:00 noon this Saturday at Forest Park.--Chaser (talk) 20:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Tuberculosis' FAR

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File:Tree of life with genome size.png listed for deletion

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Children's Museum backstage pass

The Children's Museum Backstage Pass! - You are invited!

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is hosting its second Backstage Pass and its first Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, August 20. The museum is opening its doors to Wikipedians interested in learning about the museum's collection, taking them on a tour of the vast collection before spending the afternoon working with curators to improve articles relating to the Caplan Collection of folk toys and Creative Playthings objects. Please sign up on the event page if you can attend, and if you'd like to participate virtually you can sign up on the Edit-a-Thon page. ---LoriLee (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Main page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on September 5, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 5, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 19:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. The chemical reactions of metabolism are organized into metabolic pathways, in which one chemical is transformed through a series of steps into another chemical, by a sequence of enzymes. Enzymes are crucial to metabolism because they allow organisms to drive desirable reactions that require energy and will not occur by themselves, by coupling them to spontaneous reactions that release energy. As enzymes act as catalysts they allow these reactions to proceed quickly and efficiently. Enzymes also allow the regulation of metabolic pathways in response to changes in the cell's environment or signals from other cells. The metabolism of an organism determines which substances it will find nutritious and which it will find poisonous. The speed of metabolism, the metabolic rate, also influences how much food an organism will require. (more...)

FAR

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Talk:Chiropractic/Admin log

(N.B. I also posted this to admins User:Mbisanz, User:Lifebaka, User:Elonka and User:KillerChihuahua earlier today)
Hello there, you are listed as an interested admin on Talk:Chiropractic/Admin log. Firstly, a declaration of interest: I proposed deletion of the page here (which was unsuccessful), and my name appears on the page as an editor that has been warned of sanctions.
The page is stale. If this page is to remain I think it should be maintained. As such, could you please either:

1. Remove your name from the page, if you do not want to maintain the page

or

1. Update or delete the "Other recent editors" section. I would suggest deleting it, and
2. Delete the "No action by admins" section by User:QuackGuru. This editor has been topic banned for one year, and that section was disruption by him, and
3. Remove "Shell Kinney" from the list of uninvolved admins. I believe she has retired from Wikipedia, and (done by Lifebaka)
4. Include a wikilink for each warning given in the "Editors notified of restrictions" section with the date the notification was given.

Many thanks, --Surturz (talk) 05:11, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi I'm new to wikipedia and i want to translate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CollapsedtreeLabels-simplified.svg this file to my language to put it in wikipedia masri how does this work? thanks, oh btw loki is so cute :) --Kid 007 (talk) 13:45, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

In case you have a free nanosecond.....

See Talk:Science#Let.27s_cook_up...... as there is a push to buff Science to GA/FA level. For some reason only beknown to the almighty (or flying spaghetti monster) I have ended up trying to coordinate this. Anyway, if time is really limited, any input on the interface/coverage betwixt science and natural science would be gratefully received....Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:09, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Merge of "tau protein kinase" / "GSK-3beta" articles?

Hi, as I don't know where to ask, I write to you... I think that tau protein kinase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau-protein_kinase and GSK-3 beta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSK-3beta is the same protein, as stated in the list of synomyms of tau protein kinase. Unfornately, I didn't found a Uniprot identifier to compare with GSK-3beta. (And in GSK-3 article, there is a link for tau protein kinase.) But I'm not sure enough and even don't know how to merge the pages. May you forward the question to a specialist? Sorry not to be logged in, but it seems that I only can log in fr.wikipedia. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Pmuller_addal Regards, Pascal 92.103.127.34 (talk) 12:44, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for butting in here, but there are at least four different humans proteins with tau-protein kinase activity (BRSK1, BRSK2, GSK3A, GSK3B). Logically if GSK3B were merged, then BRSK1, BRSK12, and GSK3A would also need to merged into tau-protein kinase. Given the sizes of the infoboxes in these articles, I don't think the proposed merger is practical. Boghog (talk) 15:16, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

TimVickers has not edited since July, so without "butting in" there is likely to be no response at all. Looie496 (talk) 15:26, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I'm not around much. However, I do tend to watch my talkpage. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Aha! Looie496 (talk) 15:41, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

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Question

Dear Dr Vickers

I came across this web site: [[3]]

It is a wiki based metabolic pathway modeling system. As the director of the MCB project on WP, it occurred to me (perhaps incorrectly) that this might be of interest both to yourself and to wikipedia in general. The interface uses the Google Maps API which will be familiar to many people. IMHO this looks replicable for more than just B. subtilis.

I would appreciate your opinion.

Disclaimer: I have no association with the aforementioned website nor are any of the developers or authors personally known to me.

DrMicro (talk) 11:33, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

All files in category Unclassified Chemical Structures listed for deletion

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Immune system

Hi Tim. I notice from its history that you were involved with this article when it passed WP:FAC. It has recently been significantly changed and I was wondering if you might be interested in glancing at it. The talk page discussion is here. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 08:19, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

I use some of your photos

Hi Tim!

I have use some photos of Dracaena guianensis and Babyrousa babyrussa in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia)

You can see directy in the follow links and clicks over button "Siguiente":

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=32493 http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=32575

If you wish, you can send me some letters or/and a photo for your "contributor card" in Animalandia: http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Tim%20Vickers

This is my "contributor card", for example: http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Fernando%20Lis%F3n%20Mart%EDn

In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!! Regards! Fernando Lisón

--Fernando.lison (talk)

File:Nucleotides v2.png listed for deletion

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File:4-deoxypyridoxine.png listed for deletion

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Alkermes (company) article

Dear Tim,

This article, which I contributed to, has a "close paraphrasing" template on it. I made changes to address that concern. Could you possibly look over the article and let me know if my changes have been sufficient to warrant removal of the template? Thanks!Michael Leeman (talk) 14:58, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject Virus Revival

You have previously shown an interest in Wikiproject Viruses by adding your name to our List of Participants. We are currently reviving the project, and would be grateful if you could indicate whether you are still interested in contributing or not on our Talk Page. You do not need to have expertise in virology to contribute to our project, as we welcome people with any degree of knowledge of the subject.
Thank you.

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Evolution re-edit

Thanks for your feedback, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Autonova#Evolution, just noticed it! Keep up the great work :) (note: please allow four years for replies to be sent) Autonova (talk) 21:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear TimVickers,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.115.210 (talk) 20:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Donna Eden

You may be interested to know that there's a new AFD discussion on this topic: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donna Eden (2nd nomination). I'm mentioning this to you because I note that you took part in previous discussions about the notability/verifiability of this article. --Salimfadhley (talk) 13:45, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Tuberculosis

I am working on getting this article to GA. Wondering if you are interested in helping as I see you where a major contributor in the past.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:18, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Glycemic efficacy

How are you? If you or you know anybody who can expand this let them know!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:30, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Graft update

Wondering if you could update this graft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TB_incidence.png with this data http://who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2011/gtbr11_main.pdf Otherwise I will figure it out in a couple of weeks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Liverpool Care Pathway

Hi. You did a fantastic job a couple of years ago sorting out our article on the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient. An editor Mdntcallr (talk · contribs) has recently added a "Controversy" section, (diff) making some rather sensationalist allegations based largely on an article in the Daily Mail. Pseudomonas (talk · contribs) has tagged the new section as POV, and writes on my talk page that he sees the edits "are already being used as polemic fodder".

This is without question a topic which can be very sensitive, and needs us to lay out the issues carefully, from the best sources. I was therefore wondering if you could find time to look at these latest edits, and again apply your abilities and experience to sort it out. Jheald (talk) 17:54, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Aabomycin

Can you add to this? I salvaged it from speedy. Albomycin might be the other name and have more hits.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:21, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

You're invited to Wikipedia Takes St. Louis!

Dust off your Polaroid camera and pack your best lenses. The first-ever Wikipedia Takes St. Louis photo hunt kicks off Sat, Sept. 15, at 12:30pm in downtown St. Louis. Tour the streets of the Rome of the West with other Wikipedians and even learn a little St. Louis history. This event is a fun and collaborative way to enhance St. Louis articles with visual content. Novice photographers welcome! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 14:04, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Hello

This may interest you. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 12:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

The Missouri Botanical Garden needs help!

Hi Tim! The Missouri Botanical Garden is currently working on the Art of Life project, which might build a very useful collaboration with the Wikimedia Commons. They're currently working on creating computer software which can identify the hundreds of thousands of illustrations in the 39 million pages scanned and published online by the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The identified illustrations are going to be pretty metadata-poor: the BHL only has bibliographic information on each book, and won't be able to add much more information to the images. The BHL is thinking about uploading those illustrations which are in the public domain to the Commons, where they could be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles and (hopefully!) have additional metadata added to them.

I worked with the BHL over the summer preparing the groundwork for this process, including setting up a collaboration page, setting up a category and creating a template for BHL metadata. But the next step -- building bridges between the BHL and the Commons -- is going to be critical, and I'd really appreciate your help in making that happen. User:Marcus Qwertyus suggested that you might be interested! If you are, please join us on our new mailing list!

If you have any other questions or feedback, please get in touch on my talk page or by e-mail . -- Gaurav (talk) 20:37, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

NIH

Hey Tim. Am going to be speaking at the NIH here in a week. Hopeful to restart what you began in 2009. Hope to see you editing more :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 11:58, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I also wanted to inform you of this as I am participating also. I am in touch with User:Wadewitz for advice based on how things went last time and if you want any input in this at any point then we all would be interested in whatever you had to share. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:37, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Article notability notification

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ATP vs ATP ratio

In the article on Adenosine triphosphate, it stated that the ATP to ADP ratio is thousandfold. This was added 13 August 2007 and has survived for almost six years without being corrected. I would think the misconception comes from the large difference between free energy of hydrolysis at standard state vs under physiological conditions. It is true that under physiological conditions, the reaction quotient Q is very different from 1 (which would be standard conditions). The reason is that ATP, ADP and phophate are all present at millimolar concentrations. The ratio of ATP and ADP is close to one (5:1 approximately). These concentrations are in the denominator and numerator of the equilibrium expression, and almost cancel out. However, phosphate is in the numerator as well, and is much smaller than standard state (by a factor of about 200). Overall, you get a Q that is quite small (on the order of 1/1000), and a correction of the free energy of RT ln Q, which is approximately 2.5 kJ/mol * ln (1/1000) = 2.5 kJ/mol * (-6ish) = -15 kJ/mol.

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File:77-cm primate cage.jpg missing description details

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* Southern limit of the distribution of the green anaconda

Good evening:

Please allow me to share an article with you. Maybe you will find it interesting:

http://www.naturapop.com/home/southern-limit-of-the-distribution-of-the-green-anaconda — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.2.207.74 (talk) 00:12, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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I use some of your photos

¡Hello Tim!

I have use a photo of Babyrousa celebensis, some of Dracaena guianensis and one of Ophiophagus hannah from wikimedia in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia)

You can see directly in the follow links and click over "Siguiente" ("Next") several times:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=32493

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=32575

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=37015

I have also taken the liberty of summarizing your profile in wikipedia and your photo, for your contributor profile in Animalandia:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Tim+Vickers

In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!!

Regards!

Fernando Lisón

--Fernando.lison (talk) 16:26, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

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I am a US academic that is leaving the Steroids editing fold after too much wasted effort. In a survey of the Talk, you will find me the one providing outside comparisons of our content, being hard-nosed over the lack of citations, making lists of suggestions/omissions (history, chemical synthesis, pharmacology, etc.), and then engaging in the battle with the entrenched other chemistry editor (e.g., over conformational dynamics, him saying "they're rigid", me saying "it's more complicated than that"). The serial suggestion-making began after I gave up on the thought of actual content contributions, since the tags I wrote to call attention to lack of referencing, need for review of the images, and the broad need for expert attention were edited, then removed wholesale.

As an article that is under one of your Project's umbrellas, I would note that while Steroid has solid though somewhat narrow-leaning chemistry expertise [(no secosteroid mention, no partial and total synthesis, no conformational analysis (see Nobels)], it direly needs biological and higher level attention. There is no mention of nuclear/steroid receptors in the article, for goodness sake, no mention of the major roles of inhaled and injectable steroids, and spotty coverage of the actual breadth of steroid roles in vivo and across the Kingdoms. Hence, it's biochemical, pharmacologic, and related biological sections are a shambles.

Moreover, its general appearance is that of a sandbox—much more always a "work in progress" than anything very useful at a given point in time. The unshakeable difference in editor perspectives between Boghog and myself on this—that I don't believe headings should appear without text, or that filler text should be created off top of head and placed in articles without references, assuming that they might be added later (even when such filling is done by experts like he and I), or that earlier citation-free text should be allowed to stand after 3-6 months—is what is leading me to leave the article.

In my experience, presence of low quality begets low quality content insertions, while the opposite is also true. My suggestion is that all the unreferenced text, empty headings, etc. (in essence, the article as a whole) be replaced by a shorter, uniform higher-quality, pithy article drawn from current content, that can thereafter be expanded based on a Talk-agreed upon outline. This suggestion has been rejected in Steroid Talk by Bohog (who is current most active editor). Were he persuadable, at any level, things might move forward. At this juncture, his daily presence and confidence and quickness to retain the status quo (at a high level) keeps the article as it is. I would say, he owns it.

The fact that solid edits—e.g., removing two stray sentences on microbial processing of steroids from a total chemical synthesis section—are reverted in drive-bys, then re-reverted, etc. ... leads one with any knowledge of solid academic content (and any real life time constraints) to wikipedial despair. You may know how to express leadership in this Wild West. If there is a significant change in appearance and mode of operation, I will return there and edit. Apart form some evidence of such a major change in "attititude" at that article, there is no practical point in my trying to contributing. Cheers. LeProf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.179.92.36 (talk) 01:00, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

I rewrote the lead to the article on natural product if you wish to see what I can accomplish quickly if game playing can be avoided. LeProf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.179.92.36 (talk) 03:35, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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You might have a brief look here

...at the edit proposal I made, here [4]. If there are typos in the proposed edits, feel free and correct. (It is late, and I was working fast.) Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 09:11, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

A highly resolved Tree of Life

Hi Tim,

The diagram you created seems incomplete, there being more forks than labels. Is there another version somewhere with the missing labels? Protozoa for instance have four forks.

Perhaps though it's simply that there is a genetic differentiation between the forks but as yet no labels to match all of these.

BTW I like you observation about doing favours for people. Two problems. The first is that calling them in is not a trivial task, the other that favours seem to only accrue value to a certain critical amount before their value collapses, sometimes almost entirely. People don't like people who make them feel in debt.

All the best, especially with the Leishmaniasis project.

LookingGlass (talk) 08:16, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Tim, long time no see! I had wandered back here a couple of weeks ago to clean up some odd nomenclature issues with the ribonuclease articles, and then the enzyme FAR popped up on my watchlist. I cleaned out some of the creeping cruft, often by restoring sections of your more tightly written 2006 version. Anyway, good to see you pop in! Opabinia regalis (talk) 21:59, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

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Collapsed Tree Labels svg

Hi Tim

I am writing to you as the author of the Collapsedtreelabels diagram [5] because ... err ... that diagram would appear to require some minor changes to the labels.. I am not qualified to do much about this (and don't know how to change the diagram even if I were).

My story is that when I checked a diagram on the taxonomy article that details the development of biological taxonomy, against your diagram .. I fell down a rabbit hole. Chromista isn't on your diagram and, on the Algae and Slime mold pages, I found that both are polyphyletic groups, elements of which are not "closely related". Algae is classified on its page as both Eukaryota and Bacteria which confused me so, assuming that Algae SHOULD be in Eukaryota I crawled deeper, got lost, and ... well here I am!

So, what I seem to have found is the following:-

Algae and Slime mold are "informal terms" meaning the terms are catch-alls to contain life forms that are considered (?) to date not to have been "satisfactorily" placed into currently accepted taxonomy. It seems that Algae and Slime Molds may fit somehow somewhere into the old Protista kingdom that has now (?) been divided into the Protozoa and Chromista kingdoms in the Eukaryota domain yet some algae also fit into the domain of Bacteria. In your diagram therefore, the kingdom labels Algae and Slime mold do not seem to "belong".

Anyway, even though I am unable to get to the bottom of it there seem to be two simple alternatives. The first is to delete the references to Algae and Slime mold in your diagram as they aren't comparable to the other kingdoms shown under Eukaryota. The second is to delete the term Algae, add the kingdom Chromista (which would cover some algae), and then either delete Slime mold or introduce another domain for it (would that include Obelia?). I guess adding a "domain" would be heresy but to me it seems unreasonable for those-who-know to leave it to lay people to sort out the confusion (if they have they will!). In my opinion (and particularly on Wiki) knowledge complexity/depth should be gradated i.e readers shouldn't be asked to go from, for instance, your diagram straight into the depths of cutting edge taxonomy with no intermediate stops along the way.

Although I think I now understand it's taken me hours/days to figure out what in the end seems simple. Personally I think it's important to do something so as others do not need to go through this. Your diagram is widely cited (for good reason) and it seems there is no reason that greater clarity and simplicity could not readily be achieved. If your diagram were clarified with respect to the anomalous Algae/Slime mold thing then the other articles could relatively easily be harmonised without either any loss to their integrity or any claim being inferred that scientific knowledge is anything but an ongoing process of discovery ad description.

I'd be grateful of your advice and comments. Apologies for the length of this!

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These are occasionally useful, so I've made an Afd close. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:59, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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(talk page stalker) As the K_i values refer to receptor binding and not enzyme inhibition, I think your redirect is appropriate. The target section of the redirect was not as clear as it could be, so I have edited a bit and hopefully it is now a bit clearer. Boghog (talk) 11:47, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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Ether lipid.png ERROR ?

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Intra-organelle fluid

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