User talk:Waldemahr

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Thank you for the kind welcome!

I remain thankful for the helpful hints and if I will need help I will definitely ask for hints, Wizard191 !!! I do not know the contributors that initiated the "Metastability" article, we must be all grateful for the initiating work. Hopefully the altered introduction and the restructuring I applied to it will be easily accepted, my having done some years of research in metastable systems (proteins, atomic clusters).

I am certainly looking forward to seing this article further improved by other people working in the field !!!

Having been involved in condensed matter and nanoparticle projects and being a physicist I will stick to what I know. If contributing to the physics sections I will try and be as methodical, exhaustive and concise as possible when describing facts. I find that a lot of articles in the physics section are too long, have difficulty in arriving to the essence of things and so cannot stop and wonder that I may not be the first physicist trying to help - and how much resistance will there be... I will hope for the best.

More recently I studied heavy-duty biology, microbiology and some genetics. In those fields I am more introspect... But I feel I could contribute in discussion forums and with some of the biological macromolecules, especially proteins.

Speaking of the 5 pillars of Wikipedia I find if curious that professional knowledge is not one of the foremost mandatory conditions in arguing a point. It is one thing to be polite to each other and another thing to get lost in endless arguments about things we are not quite sure of, just because we are not ready to accept the authority of people that know their professional realities. Much time may be and possibly is wasted this way. You may take a look for yourself, the discussion tabs of the articles become way longer than the articles themselves !!!

I will not promise a ton of contributions but I feel that I may be able to help bringing some order and cohesion to the presented materials. As for writing my first article - some of the topics in physics have to be dramatically reorganized... This may take LONGER than starting from scratch. Will see what the future brings.

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Deletion nomination of Talk:Microparticles

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Your edits to Adsorption

Hi Waldemahr, and thanks for your contributions.

I've reverted your edits to Adsorption as there were several problems. You changed the definition without changing the citation, incorrectly making it appear as though www.brownfieldstsc.org supported the definition you provided. It's essential that if you change cited text you update the citation. Also there seemed to be problems with the definition you provided – the term "monomer" is normally used for a component of a polymer, and I don't believe it's essential for a film to be formed for a process to be called "adsorption".

Finally, please don't mark edits like that as minor. As described at Help:Minor edit, you should only mark edits as minor if they could not possibly be disputed, such as typo corrections or vandalism reversion. Edits that change meaning should never be marked as minor.

Thanks, Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 04:19, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Again, you can't change a cited statement without changing the citation, as you did at Monomer ([1]). To do so is to introduce an error, as the article is implying that the cited source says something that it does not.

It's great that you are educated in the topics you wish to edit, but at Wikipedia content disputes are settled by citing sources, not by claiming superior authority. I'm challenging your claim in Adsorption ([2]) that molecules that adsorb to a surface are called monomers (I realise this will be true in certain cases, but I don't believe it's generally true); per Wikipedia policy described at WP:BURDEN, the onus is on you to provide a citation to support your claim.

Thank you, Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 16:47, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, you changed the definition of Chemisorption ([3]) to indicate that it is something different to adsorption rather than a type of adsorption, which is inconsistent with every source I can find, including this and many other sources found by entering "define:chemisorption" into Google, and presumably with the original cited source (to which I do not have access). Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 17:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Embryonic heart

Could this article be merged into Heart development, or are they two separate things? S.G.^(GH) _ping! 17:09, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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