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Before you go ahead and merge articles, you need to be sure that consensus has been reached! That is not the case with merging meiome into meiosis. It would be polite of you to have placed a message on the talk page a few days before beginning your edits. Nadiatalent (talk) 13:15, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry that I did not use the talk page to discuss this before merging the Meiome page. I am new to merging pages, discussing, etc. Thanks for the heads up on what is polite in these cases.

Could you please let me know the appropriate procedure, once pages are merged, for how one should proceed with the smaller pages that were merged into the larger page? Should I be trying to remove the smaller pages at some point? What if one smaller page is mine, and if another smaller page is not my original content?

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Origin and function of meiosis was copied or moved into Meiosis with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

The entire from page (Origin and function of meiosis) was not copied, but most of it was copied into the receiving page of Meiosis. The original text of the Meiosis page was also edited in about 3 sentences and about 1 removed sentence to integrate the sense of the Meiosis page with the added sense of the Origin and function of meiosis page.

In particular, while the Meiosis page acknowledged one possible selective advantage of the genetic diversity created by recombination during meiosis, the modified sentences also acknowledged the published theory that the genetic diversity was a by product of homologous recombinational DNA repair.

The newly added merged material had a number of references both to the "selective advantage of the genetic diversity created by recombination during meiosis" and to the "theory that the genetic diversity was a by product of homologous recombinational DNA repair." Thus, I believe that the merged material was not biased, and the added sentences and removed sentence(s) of the original Meiosis page removed a bias that was there. Bernstein0275 (talk) 15:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Meiome was copied or moved into Meiosis with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

I merged most of the first two sentences from Meiome (outlining the topic and its relationship to Meiosis) to the Meiosis page and updated it with material from a recent article in Science (referred to).

Hi, I don't do a lot of merging either. My guess would be to place the templates that you have used above on the talk pages of the merged-from pages and change those articles to redirects #redirect [[Meiosis]]. You should also check "what links here" from the toolbox, and change those to go directly to the substantive page. Nadiatalent (talk) 23:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cancer

I reverted all of your edits. First, a lot of them were uncited and read like original research. Also, you created some weird links. Finally, and this was the most challenging part, was that some of your writing was filled with technical jargon. We have to assume that the reader doesn't have a Ph.D./MD in oncology from Harvard. I don't think you did anything terrible, but you really should review some of the guidelines around here, and maybe try rewriting in your Sandbox and ask for some advise or something. Just a suggestion. SkepticalRaptor (talk) 21:20, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Inherited human DNA repair gene mutations that increase cancer risk for deletion

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Sexual reproduction

Hello, nice work at Sexual reproduction! I've tweaked the citations so they use citation templates in most cases, in line with other references in the article. I do this by typing {{cite journal|doi=<doi>}} and then getting the citation expander to do the rest of the work. See Help:Citation tools for other tools that you may find useful. Also, when citing the same reference more than once, it's better to use named references (which are now used in the Sexual reproduction article) rather than writing out the reference several times. Graham87 06:50, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Who is "our"? According to Wikipedia policy, an account must belong to just one person. It would be better to have a distinct account for each individual. You can email me about this using the "E-mail this user" link if you don't want to talk about it publicly. Graham87 01:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fair enough then! Graham87 02:40, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Left a comment on Talk:DNA damage (naturally occurring)

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Thanks a lot for catching this error! I have fixed it now to refer to Complementation (genetics). Bernstein0275 (talk) 18:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for catching these 2 errors, now fixed.Bernstein0275 (talk) 23:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sexual reproduction II

Hello, what are you trying to do to the Sexual reproduction page? I know you were previously trying to add links to your cited papers, which I reformatted. I'm not sure about your reasoning for the most recent edits to that page, however, so I've undone them for now. Graham87 06:37, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for reformatting our links!! I had previously failed to provide the URL for most of the citations to our open access journal articles in about 15 Wikipedia articles. These journal articles had been co-authored with my husband, and he had searched for and found the Wikipedia articles that did not have the URLs (for easy access to the articles with a simple click). I showed my husband how I could replace the previous Wikipedia citations without the URLs with new citations with the URLs. I am afraid that in the 15 or so replacement processes I inadvertently replaced your properly formatted link that already had the URL. I am still somewhat of a beginner at using Wikipedia formatting. I will try to be more careful in the future when I see the template format indicating that links were updated. Again, thanks for your care!

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Thank you for your suggestion. I have tried out the this template filling tool (gave the author a donation) and will try to use this tool to improve my citations. The tool seemed to work completely on many citations but on others it did not fill in the blanks. Bernstein0275 (talk) 17:07, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Secondary sources

Please use secondary sources rather than primary ones as references per WP:MEDRS. A 1980 primary research paper does not support "Bile acids appear to be of particular importance in colon cancer" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 07:38, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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*Complete reduction of C-6 - Likely via F420-dependent tetrahydromethanopterin (H4MPT)) reductase and H4MPT:CoM methyltransferase
other related findings, can be explained by the idea that during sexual processes in prokaryotes ([[Transformation (genetics|transformation]]) and eukaryotes ([[Meiosis|meiosis]]) DNA crosslinks

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 20:41, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed our error and the other error on the page. Thanks

Recombination articles

Hi, I noticed your recent contributions to Genetic recombination. Have you seen Homologous recombination? There's a good amount of overlap between the latter and your recent contributions to the former, right down to the figure depicting the SDSA and DHJ (aka DSBR) pathways. The recombination articles as a whole could probably be organized much better, but I thought I'd point out the HR article in case it passed your notice. Cheers, Emw (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for bringing it my attention!! Bernstein0275 (talk) 17:24, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

microRNA

Nice edit on the miRNA article!!! —Love, Kelvinsong talk 03:50, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Bernstein0275 (talk) 19:19, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Asking for feedback

Hi, could you please take a look over Talk:Genetic_recombination#Mini-review? I'd like to get your feedback there if possible. Thanks, Emw (talk) 23:29, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interests

Hi Bernstein0275, I noticed that you have been inserting content on DNA repair/damage in multiple WP articles (e.g., Natural selection, evolution, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, etc). Although I am sure DNA repair is a subject of significant importance in its own right, I am not so sure it deserves to be featured so prominently in general biology-related articles such as evolution and natural selection. Given that this is your area of expertise and that you have also inserted primary research articles that are co-authored by you and your collaborators, your edits may potentially violate Wikipedia's policy on conflict of interest, original research, undue weight, and NPOV. Please realize that Wikipedia is not an outlet for you to highlight your research interests or to highlight articles/books that were written/edited by you. I strongly recommend that you review important WP policies such as WP:COI, WP:NPOV, WP:OR, and WP:V before making further edits in this area. Thanks. danielkueh (talk) 18:16, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. I have reviewed the policies.Bernstein0275 (talk) 15:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion about your edits

Hi, I have started a discussion at the molecular and cell biology Wikiproject about your edits. Can you take a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology#Self_published_source_widely_used_in_articles? Thanks SmartSE (talk) 15:48, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have discussed this now on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology#Self_published_source_widely_used_in_articles. Thanks. Bernstein0275 (talk) 17:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, I plan to remove the reference.

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Thank you. I was copying material of which I was the sole author. I plan to soon try to acknowledge the copying as you indicated I should do so.

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