User talk:Adrian J. Hunter/Archive4

Re: Welcome

Thank you for the welcome! SniffCoke (talk) 20:14, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: Welcome

Thanks for your warm greetings :) First and foremost, I'm determined to continue expanding Polish version of the project. Nevertheless, I keep revising articles from my areas of interest. At this moment, my contribution would rather not go beyond submitting some minor caveats :) Lb.at.wiki (talk) 07:37, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

DNA methylation

Title added, moved to bottom Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)}

Thanks for the welcome note, Adrian! I hope to branch out and in time contribute to other molecular biology/genetics related articles. Right now I'm reading lots of papers on DNA methylation so it seemed like a good place to start! --Sbabovic (talk) 19:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Checking in

Title added –Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)}

Hello, it is nice to have the opportunity to talk to you. Just checking in, nothing much to report, except that I have been elected as a WikiAnswer Premier Contributor. I'll continue per your suggestions. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 23:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

re Dna clamp

I just reread the article. I have often wondered about this, your profile shows me that you can answer this: the Entity-betaclamp is/was well defined. It has not been demonstrated that there are any types of Dna clamps OTHER THAN betaclamp! In other words, will you name any or all Dna clamps other than betaclamp? Best regards and much obliged. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 05:51, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

How was last Winter? Getting set-up for Spring?

I have some information. [Your]first: I wrote, near the top of the Article "betaclamp" {wherein I compressed Mr. B. Lewin's compressions} that betaclamp was a dimer in prokaryotes and a trimer in eukaryotes. Indeed, the result of the Merge that made it worthwhile and pleased me much was the appearance of the wonderful 'pictographs' -the dimer and trimer- 'beside' each other - I had wondered how to get this done & then it happened.

Next, PCNA. Yikes I just noticed that the trimer pictograph is labelled PCNA. This should be betaclamp;maybe, this msg is struggling to keep up with the updates! (See next line pls)

B. Lewin Genes VI gave six pages of Dna Pol III and betaclamp. {Note that mention made re Dna Pol delta and PCNA was only just very recently found, see last pls.}

Genes VI gives just two CURSORY mentions of PCNA. One in reference to SV 40 virus and PCNA as a 'processivity enhancing adjunct' to Dna Polymerase delta; and a shorter reference, re cell cycle and growth regulation = " ...cdk-cyclin dimers are usually found in the form of quaternary complexes that contain two further components. One is PCNA, a component of Dna polymerase delta, which may provide a connection with Dna replication. The other is the inhibitor p21."

One paragraph references the Dna polymerases alpha, beta, delta, epsilon and gamma. Then a graph label identified Dna Pol delta and Dna pol III as being the same entity. The reason for the name change is that when discussing Dna pol III, its subunits are labelled alpha, beta, delta, etc.; and I was about to conclude with "PCNA is beta clamp" , when I happened upon page 490 that includes under the topic "Initiation at the SV40 origin..." the use of terms Dna pol delta and PCNA. I'll need to review this and Yikes! this info is on the last half of the sixth page of the six mentioned above. 3 long paragraphs more & we'll have the Answer. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 07:45, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello Adrian, just a note to thank you for your correspondence, not late, not as late as this reply. The examination of the text [3 long paragraphs more] I have yet to do. Please be to be standing-by. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 02:39, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello Adrian, just a note to say that many advantageous editorial changes have been made by Boghog to both Dna clamp and Betaclamp-Sandbox. Your input as regards the outcome of these 'events' is anticipated. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 07:27, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive invitation

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Thanks!

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for going over the Genetic Code→Effect of mutations. I think it's fair to say that this section of the article is much better now thanks to us. Good work Adrian! P.S. if you get a chance, feel free to improve the sources... hehe, thanks again! КĐ^♥ 19:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

After reading through Mutant and Mutation, I have to agree with you. I'll put in some thought and try to help, but I am inexperienced at merging articles so it will be a learning curve for me! КĐ^♥ 14:59, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

HTML e-mail link deletion

I thought that the link I added to the HTML e-mail article was a very useful update (most of the external links are historical and rather dated). I was surprised to find that it was removed on April 2nd. LittleBen (talk) 06:40, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Schmuck

No, you have well done. :-)

The dirctionary gives me neat, pretty, (smart), spruce, tidy.

In Neat it is mostly "5. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful." (clothes, things, apartment, house) but also underline "Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities." (apartment, house) and as second "6. Well-executed; skilful [aesthetic], (precise)." The ethymology "from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), from niteō (“I shine”)." sounds good.

It is an old word, today not often used as adjective. In today English, i think the most common word is pretty. --Franz (Fg68at) de:Talk 12:55, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

USDA sweeteners graph

Hi Vossman, and nice job on File:Usda sweeteners.svg.

Just one little thing: would you be able to change "glucose" to "glucose syrup", as per the source? I noticed the problem because the graph currently has separate lines for dextrose and glucose, which have the same meaning in the context of sweeteners. Glucose syrup has a different meaning to glucose. I'd fix it myself but I've never worked with a .svg.

Cheers,

Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 10:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I will try to get around to it soon. SVG are really simple text files. If you open the file in a text editor, you *should* be able to edit the text directly. But because Wikipedia has issues with SVG files I had to convert all the text to lines and it cannot be edited. --vossman (talk) 17:02, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Polly Plummer etc

Thank you for fixing the titling of the article. However it appears I went with the wrong source for the spelling. Yes its spelled with two M's a lot, but her sister's article (which I though was a WP omission) was found (blanked by the mass blanking effort) spelled with one M, backed up by Sports Reference. So the original name was, in fact, correct. I've fixed the article. Trackinfo (talk) 20:08, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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Metastability

Hi, Adrian. I put an "Inadequate lead" tag on the page Metastability and wrote on the talk page that it is entirely to be rewritten. If you have a look at it and at its history page you will understand what I mean by "inadequate" and why I want to change the lead section with its version before february 2010. Nobody has objected on the talk page in a week, so I think I will copy and paste the old lead deleting the existing one. My question is: since I have no rollback rights, is it correct for me to make this? Also, I warn you: W. again active! --GianniG46 (talk) 23:59, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Household Income Question

Hi Adrian. The table on household income comes from two sources; the OECD one you had, and also from Luxemborg Income Study. There is no discrepancy between what those sources say and what I put in the table. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lneal001 (talk • contribs) 17:24, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Re:Ripchip Bot

Hi Adrian,

The two bots are right, Adrian. Have a difference between both articles. One (removed by XZeroBot) have a ´ above the -. in the "o". The second article (included by my baby) don't have that ´. Only the second one have article, and by the taxobox and picture, are the same animal. But thanks for advice me, and if you see Ripchip doing anything "strange", please let me know (in pt.wiki or IRC).

Changing the subject: You study environment? Or microbiology? I'm asking because of that.

Best regards, Béria Lima ^msg 10:58, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Peregrine Falcon

Adrian J. Hunter: I notice your insistence on reverting F. peregrinus' edits. You say it is "one of the fastest" creatures.

My logic is as follows: I can find no faster creature and thus call it the fastest extant member of the known animal kingdom. Is this not logically correct? If I can't find a taller structure in NY than the Empire State, should I not call it the tallest building and not "one of the tallest." ? What I am saying is It is intuitively obvious that it is taller because everything else is shorter. Occupying the position of fastest or tallest is not something that requires "proof," how could you prove it except by virtue of everything else being shorter/slower? There is nothing intrinsic to having such a position, and thus nothing that requires validation. It is a relative statement.

You tell me the burden of proof is on me with respect to my claims. My proof is given above, in the purest form possible. Thank you Xabian40409 (talk) 01:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

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82.219.197.42

Hiya. When reverting a sequence of vandalism like the one from 82.219.197.42, you can be more aggressive about warnings, or just go straight to WP:AIV. There's no need to AGF when someone has pissed on the 'pedia fifteen times in half an hour! - Pointillist (talk) 01:29, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the help on the Dumbo article. It looks good. Didn't expect such a quick response from anyone. :) 98.166.111.32 (talk) 06:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: December 2010

In regards to my edit on the article Animal sexual behaviour, I was correcting the article. The reason being that the article made certain claims without proper citations.

All I did was make the article more accurate. I read the article that the former editor used, it had claims but no scientific evidence. http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/20718.aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankrato (talk • contribs) 02:53, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

List of children of the Presidents of the United States

All of the removed data needed to be there. I assume this edit was an accident? <( User:Couch on his Head and Smiling (talk) )> 03:39, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

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