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Batts SA, Anthis NJ, Smith TC (2008) Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy. PLoS Biol 6(9): e240 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060240

Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types: Induction of Transformation by a Desoxyribonucleic Acid Fraction Isolated from Pneumococcus Type III listed at RfD

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DYK for Rollin Hotchkiss

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DYK for Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment

On 5 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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The 25 DYK Medal

		The 25 DYK Medal
		Ragesoss, I came to say thank you very much for your contributions to WP:DYK. About 25 of your articles of various topics that you contributed to have appeared in the "Did you know..." section on the Main Page, and for that, I, RyanCross (talk · contribs), hereby award Ragesoss (talk · contribs) The 25 DYK Medal! Keep up the good work and your contributions to DYK. Take care. – RyanCross (talk) 01:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Journal papers discussion

Would you be interested in Wikipedia talk:Notability#Journal papers? Carcharoth (talk) 14:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Joe the plumber: Your sort of famous

your sort of famous:

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/wikipedia_vs_joe_the_plumber.php

FYI: Talk:Joe_the_Plumber#RFC_on_Joe_the_Plumber_tax_lien_on_house Inclusionist (talk) 20:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

History of chromatography

I was trying to work out what partition chromatography was in relation to this Nobel Prize, and just after I redirected it to chromatography (it seems to cover a general class of chromatography techniques, but more specifically the ones that started the modern field of chromatography), I found User:Ragesoss/History of chromatography. So I thought you might like to turn the redirect into a short article or section somewhere. I was trying to link it from the 1952 entry at List of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, but I'm now thinking that they really invented modern chromatography. i.e. Their work was the basis for what followed. But if you could quickly help out here, that would be good. If you are interested, you could also review the hours of work I put in on linking the stuff in the citation (or rationale) column at List of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. I did want to put the links in a "further reading" column, rather than pipe the links inside the quotes, but it is up for 'featured list' status, and I don't want to change things too much. Some of the links were wrong, though, or just too general, so I think what I've done there so far does point people towards the best places in Wikipedia to read about the Nobel stuff. But I am trying to get second opinions. Carcharoth (talk) 19:55, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

For example, for the 1948 entry for Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius, I linked "adsorption techniques" to thin-layer chromatography, on the basis of this Nobel presentation speech. But I am not 100% sure of that. I did notice, though, that that presentation speech did mention Tsvett, if that helps at all. Like partition chromatography, adsorption chromatography seems to be a general term and currently redirects to chromatography, which, unless you are an expert in chromatography, is not helpful! Carcharoth (talk) 20:00, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Wasn't rambling at all - was very helpful! I removed the piped link behind "adsorption analysis" as this is not clear. The link to electrophoresis is enough, though it would be nice to see something on Tiselius in the history of chromatography. I agree about the Nobel Lectures - some care is needed. Though reading up on and linking to such lectures can be very helpful. Another series I came across was the "Lister Oration". Have a look at Lister Medal. I'm currently failing to track down the most recent three medallists. You would have thought the awarding institution would have a list online, but no luck it seems. Most of the work behind that list can be seen at Talk:Lister Medal. Some other science history stuff at Rede Lecture, Robert Muir (pathologist), and Robert E. M. Hedges (well, he's not really history, at least not yet, but he was a red link at Royal Medal, so I created a stub). It is Lister Medal that I'm really quite keen to take a bit further. Any advice on which of the bits on the talk page I should bring over into the main article? I have a table I've been preparing offline, so I'll paste that in now and let you see what you think. What I'm not sure about is how much of the non-RCSE Lister stuff to mention (do some searches and you will see that there are many in other countries - though I suspect they are all "Commonwealth" or "Empire" countries that did Lister "memorial stuff" inspired by the original Lister Memorial Fund set up by the Royal Society. There is a link on the talk page to the history of that Fund, showing donations from all around the Empire. Hmm. Enough to add to a newsletter? :-) Carcharoth (talk) 23:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

The "less uncritically celebratory" project sounds a great idea. There are some real characters in the histories when you keep going. Some of the ones I came across were Robert Burns Woodward (several priority disputes and this is hilarious). And I was reading Elias James Corey and ended up reading this article. As an undergraduate, I did a final-year research project in a chemistry research laboratory, and though I didn't work in organic chemistry, I recognise the same sorts of egos and single-minded scientists being mentioned in those articles. Moving on to physics, tt might be apocryphal, but the story at Nuclear transmutation#History about Soddy and Rutherford really brings things to life. And to finish on a heart-warming note, Luis Federico Leloir sounds like really nice guy. Sorry. Will let you get back to your dissertation now! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 00:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Light as a feather, stiff as a board

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Re: Most popular nonexistent articles?

Hello ragesoss,
I am referring to User_talk:Erik_Zachte#Traffic_stats_tool; please see Wikipedia:Most_missed_articles :-) --- Sadly much "spam" stuff in it though, Melancholie (talk) 17:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

After an update yesterday, the list is based on a 149 day period (5 months) now. By making use of the JavaScript mentioned on very top, almost all searches would be counted as well; resulting in a much cleaner list. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 21:57, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

John Willis Fleming (disambiguation)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Willis Fleming (disambiguation). Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 22:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

==Deletion review for Cost per Day

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Concerning the proposed deletion of Cost per Day.

I have zero connection to this company and in no way was trying to promote their products or services. I am a surveyor of the Digital Signage industry as a whole and find their approach mathematical, analytical and scientific and I wanted to share that with others here on wikipedia, in a attempt to see if others would add their knowledge about the algorithmic formula they employ.

Please restore. thank you.

Joshua

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History of Science!

As it happens, I'm about to enter the graduate program at ASU in history of science, specifically biology -- so yeah, I'd be very willing to help out with the History of Science project. Isn't Wikipedia almost entirely written by graduate students? :) Ceramufary (talk) 20:24, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

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Church of Life

Hi, could you please put a copy of the deleted Church of Life article in my user space? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vmcphail (talk • contribs) 08:35, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Wishing you the very best for the season. Guettarda (talk) 01:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)