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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

April 2008

OK :)

User:Doctor Bojangles

I see where you warned him for his racist comments. Did you see this? This guy needs close scrutiny. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 16:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

"Welcome to MCB"—Thanks a lot. That's very nice of you. Regards. —KetanPanchal^taLK 22:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you again ...

... but I have asked a simple question, and it is being deleted, repeatedly. If my conduct is wrong, please tell me. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Intelligent_design#I_don.27t_understand_this_undo.2C_given_here_by_difference Doug youvan (talk) 02:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Tim! :)

Thank you very much for keeping an eye on the Encyclopædia Britannica! I've had my head down these past few weeks with trying to learn Galois theory and noncommutative algebra and who-knows-what-else to help Emmy Noether reach her FA. Thoughts of other articles — including Lactoylglutathione lyase! :) — wander into my brain from time to time, but there's only so much room in my brain at one time and Emmy's math is hard, at least for me, so I'm trying to concentrate on that alone. Everyday I have a little breakthrough or two, which makes me happy, but then I realize how much further I have to go to really understand her work... :P

Would you mind looking after the EB for another week or so? For better or worse, I don't think Emmy's FA can last much longer than that. I'll ask Awadewit if she could help, too; she likes encyclopedias, and I still smile thinking of her help with the EB back then. :) Willow (talk) 03:43, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Horizontal gene transfer

I reverted some edits here. What do you think? You may care to read:

• Horizontal gene transfer - article in Citizendium
• Horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes - article in Citizendium
• Horizontal gene transfer in plants - article in Citizendium
• History of the study of horizontal gene transfer - article in Citizendium

WAS 4.250 (talk) 04:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I just ran across Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Mae-Wan Ho. This is the first I have heard of a problem with her credentials. WAS 4.250 (talk) 04:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in. I'll defer to your opinion on this. WAS 4.250 (talk) 05:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

New aircraft pictures

Thanks for the heads-up on WP:AIR - these are really nice :). I was able to spot one that you'd missed - one of your pics is now illustrating the Curtiss-Wright CW-12. Looks like there were a lot of interesting machines there :) Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 04:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. My name is Taraneh. I am an Iranian biochemist. I invite you to visit my Web site. Please accept my best wishes for your activities in wikipedia. I am sure that you do your best. Javanbakht (talk) 20:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

If you have the time....

I found Achromobacter clevelandea while on NP patrol and I'm not really sure what has to be done to clean it up. (biology was never one of my strong areas....) I was wondering if you could cast an eye on it and maybe clean it up or something. Thanks. Thingg^⊕⊗ 21:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:June 2008

I've changed my username (Wikipedia:Changing username/Archive44#Bstlee → Luuva). Thus I modified these wikilinks into my present name. luuva (talk) 04:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW^talk 13:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, here is the link

Pretest webpage

If you have any question during pretest, please contact me.

Please finish it before 25 June. Thanks a lot. :)

JnW^talk 14:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

For the welcome. Echinoidea (talk) 17:43, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Clues that Paul is Dead

there was far from consensus about deletion on that admittedly silly article - don't you think you were a bit high-handed in deleting it? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 20:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I am about to explode

Tim, I am having an ongoing discussion with Pdeitiker (talk · contribs) on Talk:Coeliac disease that is going nowhere. I am at the end of my tether with this user, and was hoping you could stop me from WP:NPA. JFW | T@lk 19:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, Tim. You've hit the nail on the head. JFW | T@lk 07:15, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Why deleting Heat Source Unit Nuclear Reactor ?

I created one entry Heat Source Unit Nuclear Reactor a few days ago. When I wanted to add more contents to it, it was deleted.

Can you tell me the reason you deleted the page?

If it is valid reason, I will post my pages in somewhere other than wikipedia. If the deletion was a mistake, please put it back.

AndrewHangChen (talk) 17:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Signpost Dispatches

Tim, sample Dispatches, published in the Signpost are at {{FCDW}}; would working on this with Laser brain interest you? Please respond over there to keep it all in one place, and if you decide to participate, the temporary workspace will be WP:FCDW/June 30, 2008. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:20, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Tim, no problem! There are plenty of dispatches to go around. :) --Laser brain (talk) 21:12, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Primary/Secondary or Research/Review distinction over at WP:OR

I commented over here on that issue and I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter. Specifically, I'd like you to address what I consider to be 3 invalid conclusions: that reviews put things in context whereas primary studies don't; that reviews are easier to read; and that reviews are less biased. I've provided a counterexample. It seems more important to me to judge things on a case-by-case basis -- some reviews will be great, others won't. Same goes for "primary" articles. Thanks. ImpIn | (t - c) 06:23, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Deletion nomination to make a point: Reply

Please do not disrupt Wikipedia to make a point, as you did when you nominated Centre national de la recherche scientifique for deletion. -- SCZenz (talk) 18:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

You also added a PROD tag to Peter L. Hurd, an article that has been through AfD. This is not acceptable behaviour. Any further disruption will cause you to be blocked. Tim Vickers (talk) 03:10, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I just think that this article on Centre National De la Recherche Scientifique lacks references, must be improved or removed. As for the article which had resisted AfD I did not know that it did, and think that the references are spurious because they amalgamate own works and third-parties references. For me it is a vanity article close to self-promotion. I have much respect for Wikipedia's policies. My role as editor is to let them be applied, which includes quality of references. --Jessika Folkerts (talk) 13:04, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

comments about other editors?

Tim, this must be a misunderstanding, Where did I comment about other editors on the temazepam page? I am sure this is a misunderstanding. Can you please explain for me? 70.137.161.241 (talk) 14:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

In the old archive there are some comments about other editors going back a few months. Tim just wants everyone to chill. Tell ya what anon, lets try and chill and sort out our differences on the temazepam article. I am sure we can do it, afterall we have at least 3 admins involved now LOL.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 19:14, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Temazepam

Argh. I had a deadline due yesterday, and simply couldn't put RL on hold to do more here. I do hope I'll be able to help out more now and still maintain some distance—I'm fighting the urge to hack away at the article become involved. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. I'll start by removing the copy-pasted stuff (abstracts! PI sections!). Copyvio trumps content dispute, and it's a step towards getting the article into more encyclopedic shape. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:40, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm fine with unprotection, but I think we should hold Literaturegeek and TheGoodSon to the revert parole originally suggested by AndonicO on their Talk pages—0RR, no tolerance: disagree with an edit, take it to the Talk page. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:20, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, seems only fair; 0RR and trial unprotection it is, then :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion

Thanks for catching those; I tend to make vast numbers of silly errors when typing - double letters are particularly bad. I use IE and don't have Firefox installed on this computer, so I can't use that spellchecker. I think AWB is meant to work in IE but I still need to check it out properly; maybe not.

One of your edits concerns me - here. Maybe a copyedit would be good, but was it really required to be deleted completely? Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, I did that. Thanks again for cleaning it up. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:37, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Query

I don't see you anywhere in the edit history of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Polyclonal B cell response? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Do I see...

Another FA in the making? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 21:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I sure hope so. This article is much better than its current rating suggests, and is listed on Wikipedia:Vital articles. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikiblame

This should make things much easier in the future. Thanks! St3vo (talk) 23:58, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. How did you find this? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 00:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

A reading

Hi Tim, in case you do have some time and energy, it would be nice if you could look at ant and smooth out any particularly rough bits. Don't bother if you are hard pressed for time. Thanks. Shyamal (talk) 03:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Archaea

Sure, any section in particular? The article seems pretty good so far, but I notice something in the talk page. Living in space is quite possible, a fact remarked by ALH84001 and the current NASA mission in Mars. Since archaea microorganisms are the most basic life form it should be notice the possibility of a link via theory of Panspermia. You also suggested using the same schematics as the bacteria article. About the relations with other organisms there is a image showing that archaea is a major component of plankton, being plankton as the bottom of any aquatic food chain archaea has a major importance in the carbon and energy cycle. Please talk me if you have more ideas about it. --ometzit<col> (talk) 18:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Archaea are common in the plankton, and yes plankton forms an important base of the "food chain", but that does not mean that archaeal plankton is an important part of the food chain. Archaeal biochemistry is radically different from bacteria and eukaryotes. I'm not aware of an studies showing that archaeal membranes can be metabolized by other organisms, or that they form any significant fraction of any organism's diet. If you know of such a study, it would help. Without such a study, any text written about the role of Archaea in the food chain would be entirely speculative. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

But they're not just ether lipids, they're also enantiomers and isoprene-based. The handedness would require a different set of enzymes, yes? --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Not entirely, I mean many carbon-based energy sources are so different but using the same array of enzymes all of them can be diverted into a simple one like glucose or any saccharide. I am not aware of the diferences between the composition of archaea and prokaryote membrane, but if they cannot be used as carbon sources then their ecosystems would lack the entire base for energy cycle and therefore be locked in inorganic sources. The image in the infobox should be a microorganism of importance and relevance to the archaea. I sugges Pyrococcus.--ometzit<col> (talk) 03:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

You can find more information about fundamental membrane chemistry differences in the Archaea article; the differences are rather profound and require different enzymes for handling the backwards molecules. I do not understand what you mean by "their ecosystems would lack the entire base for energy cycle", sine an ecosystem does not depend on any one species. If you can provide an image of Pyrococcus, that would be great, but the article has the best image of an archaean currently available at Commons. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Ummm well handling the "backwards" molecules would require a isomerase which is, in fact a pretty simple enzyme present in many life forms but I´m not gonna fall in original research and claim that for fact. About the energy cycle, forget about it I was just thinking that archaeal ecosystem like acid mine drainage or underwater thermal vents would (it could) be locked to extremophiles, lithotrophs would be in environmental advantage against heterotrophs. Now this article [1] mentions that archaea compose over 60% of plankton as a oceanic microbial community. --ometzit<col> (talk) 03:51, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Message from God in our DNA

Should I put this article back with a title that does not say it's from God. Why was the article deleted. The people that wanted it deleted seemed to not disagree that the letters were in FACT there. Is it because of what it interpreted. I think it's valid info. You don't have to agree with the interpretation, and that doesn't mean it should be deleted. It seemed that the people that wanted it deleted were mad at it. Maybe it should be left for the controversy of a message in DNA. People may have soon started to appear that did like it, but it was deleted only 5 hours after the discussion started. Was that fair.Creation-of-Heaven (talk) 01:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

What can I do to revise the article, what do I need to omit. Can you help me out.Creation-of-Heaven (talk) 02:31, 24 June 2008 (UTC) I think it's important information that there is a 9 letter message in 1 vowel, 2 consonants, 3 letter words in all DNA. Don't you.

I would greatly appreciate that. Could you put it into my userspace so that I can refine it. I will look into what should be done, to make it acceptable, Thank-you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Creation-of-Heaven (talk • contribs) 03:09, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you very much. I will be working on it.Creation-of-Heaven (talk) 03:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)