User talk:Temperate phage

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Marine bacteriophage[edit]

Thanks for writing this article. I've move the article and changed the tone to make it more like an encyclopedia article and incorporated your references as inline sources to give readers a better handle on the topic and background information if they need it. I research plant pathogens and am also interested in marine pathogens, so any additional particularly pertinent sources that should be added to the article would be helpful. Please either add the text yourself or post references on the talk page and the specific relevance. There is a lot of information about marine bacteriophages, but I am not conversant enough in their ecology to select the best references without a lot of independent research work. I would appreciate your input in selecting references for this article. Thank you. --Blechnic (talk) 02:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Tony. I do not know how to insert images. You obviously have to upload it first, then insert it. I am also pretty new. Usually when I want to figure out how to do something I hit random article a dozen times, then find an article that has what I want (a taxobox, an image, a citation from a journal or book), then copy, edit, and paste the code.

I removed a lot of the article because the tone was not right for a general article on a technical subject in a general encyclopedia, including the general background to phages, which belongs in that article. The article should be simply an article about marine bacteriophages, well defined in scope, and straight forward, factually written. I do not remember a part about basic phage lysis mechanics, but if it was on phage lysis mechanics in general, it does not go with the marine bacteriophage specific article. The part about the Ganges can be reinserted if you have a reference to it. Try uploading using the link to the left, apply a correct permission (copyright), and see where that gets you for starters. Or is the image already uploaded. To insert an image onto the page, just find an article about the same size and formatted the same, or link to the image on the talk page and I will insert it. --Blechnic (talk) 03:53, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS I do not know what is meant by you lack the authority? There were some things I could not do when I first got the account, like I could not move the marine phage article to a page titles marine bacteriophage. Maybe your account was too new? I see what the deal is about the material on lysing. Someone else deleted it. It was about lysing in general, not specific to marine phages. It should have been explained in the edit history or on the talk page. --Blechnic (talk) 03:59, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]