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Edits to Viral Entry

Thanks for your contributions to Viral entry. Unfortunately, the result is way too dumbed-down. In particular, you have removed (e.g., Adsoption, Entry Pore) and replaced it with inexact verbiage. Overall, the tone of the artice is very inexact and not well referenced. E.g., the mention of food coloring diffusion is not so much good pedagogy as reference-writing, i.e., WP:OR. The change of numbered steps to Wiki sections seems to also reduce the value of the presentation. Can you please restore the value present in the article before you added to it? ManVhv (talk) 17:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

p.s. Try putting templates in your Sandbox.

PhD Dre: looking into it, gathering some sources and rewriting ASAP, will be ready in a few days

You rock! Your updates are excellent! May I apologize for my negative tone when I first reacted to your edits? My feeling has been that Wikipedia articles should create a "bridge" between college education and research literature, in part by assisting with the vocabulary. Now that "adsoprtion," et al., are available to the reader -- and so nicely framed, I would add -- the article is now a great service to education. Thanks again for your contribution! ManVhv 21:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

chronic since 1992

I am nosy and was just wondering what you have that's chronic, if you don't mind saying? email me if you prefer. Sorry if I'm too nosy:) Merkinsmum 00:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

PhD Dre: Ahh, it is just an allusion, I'm not afflicted with a chronic disease or anything. Those pos-pressure suits keep us protected quite well from the viruses I study.

Details for jpg of sample HM47

Hi- I was curious about how the image for "sample HM47" was obtained? I'm a post-doc working with viruses and when I send my samples off for analysis, the EM's that I get for my samples aren't nearly as crisp. Is this an embedded sample (ie epoxy versus cryo) and do you have any info on the stains used (ie uranyl acetate, osmium, etc)? They are very nice images! Is this a lab strain? Thanks in advance!-Julie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.154.147.159 (talk) 22:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Emo

Don't you think you're being a little bit Emo, leaving Wikipedia "forever?" Yes, Wikipedia has problems, like anything. That's why we need to stay and make it better, not emo out. Come back and bring on the Microbiology. Ed Sanville (talk) 14:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Virus tegument article and image

Hello,

I don't know if you put in the information originally, but perhaps you can help. Can you add in references where appropriate to verify the information given in the article virus tegument?

Also, can you upload an SVG version of Image:Virus tegument.JPG, or at least a higher quality PNG version? For SVG images, I suggest using Inkscape, if you haven't used it before. Also, it would be really cool if you made a version without the aliases at the bottom. Thanks. J. Finkelstein (talk) 23:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:Image use policy

As per Wikipedia policy, it is prohibited to watermark images to state ownership. Watermarking is against Wikipedia's WP:Image use policy; If you don't like it, don't upload to Wikipedia. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 06:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

No modification notice

Hi PhD Dre,

I noticed on some of your images you seem to suggest that you don't want the image to be modified (e.g. at File:Em flavavirus-HCV samp1c.jpg you say "retain author on unmodified photo". I wanted to make sure you're aware that the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license and GFDL both permit derivative works to be created based on your work and permit the work to be modified in any manner. Notices like this contrary to the license will have to be removed. Although your images are really helpful and valuable, I understand if you're not willing to release new images in the future under terms that allow derivative works. Dcoetzee 19:32, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikiproject Virus Revival

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Science lovers wanted!

Science lovers wanted!

Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 20:15, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Improving Immunology Articles

Hi PhD Dre, I am simply an editor who thinks some of the immunology articles on Wikipedia are far from complete and the quality can be easily improved. I'd love to do it all by myself, but it'd be even better to do it in a team, to be more efficient as well as to get a wider viewpoints (from the medical, molecular and cellular viewpoints for example). If you are interested, please go to here and just start editing. The purpose of the page (it's a new page) is simply to get everyone together and collaborate, as to ensure there's editors for different topics. I look forward to working with you soon, any help would be greatly appreciated. Kinkreet^{~♥moshi moshi♥~} 00:55, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

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