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00:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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I see you have been editing your sandbox, which is a good thing. A couple of points.
Hi MUSenior2014. To answer a question you posed at
User:Sargento21/proposal (specifically: Can we use the already existing 'LBA stub' for this section? Are we allowed to do that?): The short answer is yes, the longer answer is rather more complicated...
As you've notices, we already have an article on
Ligand binding assays. However, we also have an article on
Ligand binding assay (singular), with different sources and content. These two pages have been proposed for merging for about a year, but (due to the merge not being requested properly) nothing has been done about this.
You guys have an opportunity to rectify this here. What I would suggest you do is incorporate the content and especially the sources of both these article into your draft. When the page is ready to go "live", I can move it for you to
Ligand binding assay, delete
Ligand binding assays and
merge the histories of all three pages to preserve attribution of the content. What we'll end up with is one article formed from your draft, with the work of the previous writers preserved in its history. Bit of a fiddly thing to do, but much better than creating yet another new page about ligand binding assays...
Yunshui
雲
水
20:28, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, User:Yunshui. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such helpful feedback! I apologize for just now getting back to you -- our group will be meeting on Monday morning, in which case I will show them your suggestions and let you know if we have any further questions. Additionally, I do have a question for you about references at the bottom of our page User:Sargento21/proposal. When I was attempting to reference one article multiple times, it turned out to reference it if it was a different article each time. Being said, how do I avoid this in the future? Thank you very much for your help and I look forward to any and all help that you may have. MU Senior2014 ( talk) 04:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
<ref name="unique reference identifier">
instead of the opening <ref>
tag. For example, the first reference in your draft would be <ref name="CeretoMassagué">
{{cite journal|last=Cereto-Massagué|first=Adrià|coauthors=María José Ojeda, Robbie P. Joosten, Cristina Valls, Miquel Mulero, M. Josepa Salvado, Anna Arola-Arnal, Lluís Arola, Santiago Garcia-Vallvé, and Gerard Pujadas.|title=The good, the bad and the dubious: VHELIBS, a validation helper for ligands and binding sites|journal=Journal of Cheminformatics|date=201|volume=5|issue=36|page=1-9|doi=doi:10.1186/1758-2946-5-36|url=http://www.jcheminf.com/content/5/1/36}}</ref>
<ref name="unique reference identifier"/>
(note the / - it's important!). You don't need anything else (no details of the reference, no closing tag). Anywhere you place the code <ref name="CeretoMassagué"/>
in the text, it will generate a citation to the Journal of Cheminfomatics source.Hello, MU Senior2014, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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DES
(talk)
00:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I am a designated online Wikipedia online volunteer for the
Neurobiology (Spring 2014) class in which you have enrolled. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have about how to use or edit Wikipedia. I can be reached by posting at
User talk:DESiegel. You could also post any questions at the
Help desk, which is a page for anyone with a question about how to edit Wikipedia.
DES
(talk)
00:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
I see you have been editing your sandbox, which is a good thing. A couple of points.
Hi MUSenior2014. To answer a question you posed at
User:Sargento21/proposal (specifically: Can we use the already existing 'LBA stub' for this section? Are we allowed to do that?): The short answer is yes, the longer answer is rather more complicated...
As you've notices, we already have an article on
Ligand binding assays. However, we also have an article on
Ligand binding assay (singular), with different sources and content. These two pages have been proposed for merging for about a year, but (due to the merge not being requested properly) nothing has been done about this.
You guys have an opportunity to rectify this here. What I would suggest you do is incorporate the content and especially the sources of both these article into your draft. When the page is ready to go "live", I can move it for you to
Ligand binding assay, delete
Ligand binding assays and
merge the histories of all three pages to preserve attribution of the content. What we'll end up with is one article formed from your draft, with the work of the previous writers preserved in its history. Bit of a fiddly thing to do, but much better than creating yet another new page about ligand binding assays...
Yunshui
雲
水
20:28, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, User:Yunshui. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such helpful feedback! I apologize for just now getting back to you -- our group will be meeting on Monday morning, in which case I will show them your suggestions and let you know if we have any further questions. Additionally, I do have a question for you about references at the bottom of our page User:Sargento21/proposal. When I was attempting to reference one article multiple times, it turned out to reference it if it was a different article each time. Being said, how do I avoid this in the future? Thank you very much for your help and I look forward to any and all help that you may have. MU Senior2014 ( talk) 04:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
<ref name="unique reference identifier">
instead of the opening <ref>
tag. For example, the first reference in your draft would be <ref name="CeretoMassagué">
{{cite journal|last=Cereto-Massagué|first=Adrià|coauthors=María José Ojeda, Robbie P. Joosten, Cristina Valls, Miquel Mulero, M. Josepa Salvado, Anna Arola-Arnal, Lluís Arola, Santiago Garcia-Vallvé, and Gerard Pujadas.|title=The good, the bad and the dubious: VHELIBS, a validation helper for ligands and binding sites|journal=Journal of Cheminformatics|date=201|volume=5|issue=36|page=1-9|doi=doi:10.1186/1758-2946-5-36|url=http://www.jcheminf.com/content/5/1/36}}</ref>
<ref name="unique reference identifier"/>
(note the / - it's important!). You don't need anything else (no details of the reference, no closing tag). Anywhere you place the code <ref name="CeretoMassagué"/>
in the text, it will generate a citation to the Journal of Cheminfomatics source.