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Hi- the flag you chose was non-free, so not acceptable- would you like to choose another? J Milburn ( talk) 21:21, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to the 2012 WikiCup! The competition officially began at the start of 2012 (UTC), and so you are free to claim any content from after that time. Your submission page, where you must note any content for which you wish to claim points, can be found here, and formatting instructions can be found in hidden comments on the page. A bot will then update the main table, which can be seen on the WikiCup page. The full rules for what will and will not be awarded points can be found at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There's also a section on that page listing the changes that have been made to the rules this year, so that experienced participants can get up-to-date in a few seconds. One point of which we must remind everyone; you may only claim points for content upon which you have done significant work, and which you have nominated, in 2012. For instance, articles written or good article reviews started in 2011 are not eligible for points.
This round will last until late February, and signups will remain open until the middle of February. If you know of anyone who may like to take part, please let them know about the comeptition; the more the merrier! At the end of this round, the top 64 scorers will progress to the next round, where their scores will reset, and they will be split into pools. Note that, by default, you have been added to our newsletter list; we will be in contact at the end of every month with news. You're welcome to remove yourself from this list if you do not wish to hear from us. Conversely, those interested in following the competition are more than welcome to add themselves to the list. Please direct any questions towards the judges, or on the WikiCup talk page. Good luck! J Milburn ( talk) and The ed17 ( talk) 13:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
On 3 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article United States Department of Commerce, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that elimination of the United States Department of Commerce has been proposed by both President Barack Obama and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States Department of Commerce.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your review. Please let me know if your concerns have been satisfied. Savidan 02:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
On 9 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Don Eigler, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters " IBM"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Don Eigler.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers ( talk) 17:53, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
On 18 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the ISNSCE's Tulip Award in DNA Computing was first given in Leiden, whose botanical garden is known as the birthplace of the tulip culture in the Netherlands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 21:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
On 9 April 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Valerie Aurora, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora (pictured) chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist Anita Borg? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Valerie Aurora.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 17:17, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Antony, I have begun the copy-edit you requested for the above article. As it's a very technical subject in which I have no expertise, I'll only be dealing with general prose issues rather than technical ones. Please feel free to revert or correct any mistakes I might make, and I'm sorry that you've had to wait so long for the copy-edit. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 03:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding arbitrary and capricious deletion/addition of material, illustrating probable undeclared (perhaps even unrecognized) bias. The thread is " NPOV or bias?".The discussion is about the topic Clearcut editing bias. Thank you. -- Voice of 5-23 ( talk) 13:49, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I have added some figures which show how sequential assignment can be done using triple resonance spectra, and added some missing references. It is far from complete yet, but if you want to submit it for consideration of DYK, you are welcome to do so, if it isn't too late. Hzh ( talk) 02:58, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
On 28 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy (spectrum pictured) is an integral part of determining the structure of proteins? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:02, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
I've enjoyed reading your DNA nanotech article and watching its FA progress - I really hope it makes it thru soon. In the other direction, I'm in dire need of someone to start the discussion on the GAN for the Frederic M. Richards article, since this Saturday I'll be giving a talk at Wikimania about my experience with drawing in content-expert editors thru the WikiProject Biophysics. It should be an easy evaluation, because it's already had a lot of good comment on the article talk page and the peer-review page, including content issues, organization, style, and a thoro review of the citations. However, it's been languishing in GAN without anyone willing to take on the eval. IMHO it's at least at GA level, but it needs someone uninvolved but with reasonable wiki expertise to start the discussion. I'd be enormously appreciative if you'd be willing to do that, and to give your take on the article. Thanks in advance for considering this! - Dcrjsr ( talk) 15:40, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey there, I reviewed the article you put on GAN. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 01:23, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of DNA nanotechnology know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on August 14, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 14, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
DNA nanotechnology is the design and manufacture of artificial nucleic acid structures for technological uses. In this field, nucleic acids such as DNA are used as non-biological engineering materials for nanotechnology rather than as the carriers of genetic information in living cells. Researchers in the field have created static structures such as crystal lattices, nanotubes, polyhedra, and arbitrarily-shaped DNA origami; as well as functional structures including molecular machines and DNA computers. The conceptual foundation for DNA nanotechnology was first laid out in the early 1980s, and the field began to attract widespread interest in the mid 2000s. The field is beginning to be used as a tool to solve basic science problems in structural biology and biophysics, such as protein structure determination, and potential real-world applications in nanomedicine and molecular scale electronics are under development. ( more...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:01, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
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comprehensive scientific concepts | |
Thank you for the courage to let us understand scientific concepts comprehensively, for example DNA nanotechnology, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:48, 14 August 2012 (UTC) |
you probably have read WP:3RR? you should probably engage in a discussion on the talk page once you have been reverted by two different editors. Frietjes ( talk) 17:02, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
On 6 September 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article United States fiscal cliff, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts mandated for 2013 have been called a fiscal cliff due to their projected economic effects? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States fiscal cliff. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 16:02, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
On 3 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Caltech–MIT rivalry, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a 1.7-ton, 130-year-old cannon (pictured) was stolen and transported 3000 miles from Pasadena to Cambridge as part of the Caltech–MIT rivalry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Caltech–MIT rivalry. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 08:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for your quality improvement efforts to the article, DNA nanotechnology, a great contribution to Wikipedia in the topic of SCIENCE! :) — Cirt ( talk) 06:56, 8 November 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, From the version history on the Nanoelectronics entry, your edit of 8-25-2009 seems to have been the origin of the nice discussion of scaling issues in the Fundamental concepts section; this begins "The volume of an object..." and includes the drill power vs. friction analogy. This seems to be a highly copied section, as it is on many other web sites w/o citation. The paragraph is found in full, essentially verbatim, on p. 274 of "Textbook of Engineering Physics, Part II" by Neeraj Mehta, supposedly published in 2009, ISBN : 9788120337015, 8120337018. If I wanted to quote this para in a paper, should I cite Mehta, or Wikipedia, or can you advise me as to the original source of this text? It is elegantly and succinctly stated, which perhaps explains why it has been copied w/o attribution by so many. Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks. 0rpheus93 ( talk) 23:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
I am completely puzzled as to the purpose of the comment "(Someone more interested in nanoscale technologies should expand this description.)", placed directly into article text, by you, first way back in 2007 in Impact of nanotechnology, and then again more recently when you added similar text to History of nanotechnology last year. I wouldn't say anything, but as it's been in both articles for many months, I feel there must be something I'm missing. I've hidden it in the former and deleted it from the latter; my apologies if I'm at all stepping on your toes in doing so. Mysterious Whisper (SHOUT) 04:27, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Hi- the flag you chose was non-free, so not acceptable- would you like to choose another? J Milburn ( talk) 21:21, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to the 2012 WikiCup! The competition officially began at the start of 2012 (UTC), and so you are free to claim any content from after that time. Your submission page, where you must note any content for which you wish to claim points, can be found here, and formatting instructions can be found in hidden comments on the page. A bot will then update the main table, which can be seen on the WikiCup page. The full rules for what will and will not be awarded points can be found at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There's also a section on that page listing the changes that have been made to the rules this year, so that experienced participants can get up-to-date in a few seconds. One point of which we must remind everyone; you may only claim points for content upon which you have done significant work, and which you have nominated, in 2012. For instance, articles written or good article reviews started in 2011 are not eligible for points.
This round will last until late February, and signups will remain open until the middle of February. If you know of anyone who may like to take part, please let them know about the comeptition; the more the merrier! At the end of this round, the top 64 scorers will progress to the next round, where their scores will reset, and they will be split into pools. Note that, by default, you have been added to our newsletter list; we will be in contact at the end of every month with news. You're welcome to remove yourself from this list if you do not wish to hear from us. Conversely, those interested in following the competition are more than welcome to add themselves to the list. Please direct any questions towards the judges, or on the WikiCup talk page. Good luck! J Milburn ( talk) and The ed17 ( talk) 13:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
On 3 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article United States Department of Commerce, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that elimination of the United States Department of Commerce has been proposed by both President Barack Obama and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States Department of Commerce.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your review. Please let me know if your concerns have been satisfied. Savidan 02:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
On 9 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Don Eigler, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters " IBM"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Don Eigler.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers ( talk) 17:53, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
On 18 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the ISNSCE's Tulip Award in DNA Computing was first given in Leiden, whose botanical garden is known as the birthplace of the tulip culture in the Netherlands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 21:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
On 9 April 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Valerie Aurora, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora (pictured) chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist Anita Borg? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Valerie Aurora.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 17:17, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Antony, I have begun the copy-edit you requested for the above article. As it's a very technical subject in which I have no expertise, I'll only be dealing with general prose issues rather than technical ones. Please feel free to revert or correct any mistakes I might make, and I'm sorry that you've had to wait so long for the copy-edit. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 03:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding arbitrary and capricious deletion/addition of material, illustrating probable undeclared (perhaps even unrecognized) bias. The thread is " NPOV or bias?".The discussion is about the topic Clearcut editing bias. Thank you. -- Voice of 5-23 ( talk) 13:49, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I have added some figures which show how sequential assignment can be done using triple resonance spectra, and added some missing references. It is far from complete yet, but if you want to submit it for consideration of DYK, you are welcome to do so, if it isn't too late. Hzh ( talk) 02:58, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
On 28 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy (spectrum pictured) is an integral part of determining the structure of proteins? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:02, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
I've enjoyed reading your DNA nanotech article and watching its FA progress - I really hope it makes it thru soon. In the other direction, I'm in dire need of someone to start the discussion on the GAN for the Frederic M. Richards article, since this Saturday I'll be giving a talk at Wikimania about my experience with drawing in content-expert editors thru the WikiProject Biophysics. It should be an easy evaluation, because it's already had a lot of good comment on the article talk page and the peer-review page, including content issues, organization, style, and a thoro review of the citations. However, it's been languishing in GAN without anyone willing to take on the eval. IMHO it's at least at GA level, but it needs someone uninvolved but with reasonable wiki expertise to start the discussion. I'd be enormously appreciative if you'd be willing to do that, and to give your take on the article. Thanks in advance for considering this! - Dcrjsr ( talk) 15:40, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey there, I reviewed the article you put on GAN. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 01:23, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of DNA nanotechnology know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on August 14, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 14, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
DNA nanotechnology is the design and manufacture of artificial nucleic acid structures for technological uses. In this field, nucleic acids such as DNA are used as non-biological engineering materials for nanotechnology rather than as the carriers of genetic information in living cells. Researchers in the field have created static structures such as crystal lattices, nanotubes, polyhedra, and arbitrarily-shaped DNA origami; as well as functional structures including molecular machines and DNA computers. The conceptual foundation for DNA nanotechnology was first laid out in the early 1980s, and the field began to attract widespread interest in the mid 2000s. The field is beginning to be used as a tool to solve basic science problems in structural biology and biophysics, such as protein structure determination, and potential real-world applications in nanomedicine and molecular scale electronics are under development. ( more...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:01, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
The Good Article Barnstar | ||
Your recognition for 1 GA reviews at the last June-July GAN Review Round. Regards. — ΛΧΣ 21™ 04:30, 13 August 2012 (UTC) |
comprehensive scientific concepts | |
Thank you for the courage to let us understand scientific concepts comprehensively, for example DNA nanotechnology, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:48, 14 August 2012 (UTC) |
you probably have read WP:3RR? you should probably engage in a discussion on the talk page once you have been reverted by two different editors. Frietjes ( talk) 17:02, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
On 6 September 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article United States fiscal cliff, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts mandated for 2013 have been called a fiscal cliff due to their projected economic effects? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States fiscal cliff. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 16:02, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
On 3 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Caltech–MIT rivalry, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a 1.7-ton, 130-year-old cannon (pictured) was stolen and transported 3000 miles from Pasadena to Cambridge as part of the Caltech–MIT rivalry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Caltech–MIT rivalry. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 08:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar | |
Thanks so much for your quality improvement efforts to the article, DNA nanotechnology, a great contribution to Wikipedia in the topic of SCIENCE! :) — Cirt ( talk) 06:56, 8 November 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, From the version history on the Nanoelectronics entry, your edit of 8-25-2009 seems to have been the origin of the nice discussion of scaling issues in the Fundamental concepts section; this begins "The volume of an object..." and includes the drill power vs. friction analogy. This seems to be a highly copied section, as it is on many other web sites w/o citation. The paragraph is found in full, essentially verbatim, on p. 274 of "Textbook of Engineering Physics, Part II" by Neeraj Mehta, supposedly published in 2009, ISBN : 9788120337015, 8120337018. If I wanted to quote this para in a paper, should I cite Mehta, or Wikipedia, or can you advise me as to the original source of this text? It is elegantly and succinctly stated, which perhaps explains why it has been copied w/o attribution by so many. Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks. 0rpheus93 ( talk) 23:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
I am completely puzzled as to the purpose of the comment "(Someone more interested in nanoscale technologies should expand this description.)", placed directly into article text, by you, first way back in 2007 in Impact of nanotechnology, and then again more recently when you added similar text to History of nanotechnology last year. I wouldn't say anything, but as it's been in both articles for many months, I feel there must be something I'm missing. I've hidden it in the former and deleted it from the latter; my apologies if I'm at all stepping on your toes in doing so. Mysterious Whisper (SHOUT) 04:27, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |