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[edit] Airbrushing History

It is also not the job of Wikipedia editors to airbrush history. This is a serious issue.

Wikipedia is already skewed towards the leisured class.


Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. RexNL 21:14, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to Geron Corp.. It is considered vandalism. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Vengeful Cynic 16:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Geron Corp. article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing!

Today (my time, not UTC time) you added what looks to be the entire content of a Wall Street Journal article to Geron Corp.. This is a violation of the WSJ's copyright, and I have removed it from the page. That article would be a valid, reliable source for you to reference in adding a sentence or two in your own words to the article. GRBerry 02:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding real content to Geron Corporation. --Sid 12:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ian Wilmut

I appreciate your efforts to make the controversies around Ian Wilmut known to the world, but the material you insert keep the article in misconduct with the official Wikipedia policy for biographies of living persons. I suggest you use the page Dolly the Sheep (Controversy) to elaborate on the controversy and help clean up the Ian Wilmut page so it stays in line with the Wikipedia policy.

ToK


[edit] Talk: Gideon Koren

Could you join us at the above page to talk about the material you want to insert into Gideon Koren? Thanks. JChap2007 21:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

That he has been reprimanded for misconduct.


[edit] Do Two Friedman Units Equal One Okarma?

http://biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=3539

The criticism is not aimed at Okarma's comments about feasibility of stem cells treatments but that the human trials he promises never materialize.

The information is accurate. It is in context. The Geron page used to read like a company prospectus. In the field the people who run the company are thought not to have any ideas of their own. For example they did very little to further the field of telomerase yet on reading the company information you would think that they had made significant contributions. For example Elizabeth Blackburn, the woman who discovered telomeres has said that one of their chief scientists does not have any ideas of his own. The company can pretend to be developing many products so they can always point to something that is not what they were speaking about.

On the whole scientists do not like this company's approach of appropriating many technologies and then wanting money to use these technologies. One nickname for the company is "the evil telomerase empire". The company is part of the problem, not the solution. Instead of encouraging cleverness it all becomes the battle of bank accounts. Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal have pointed this out. Companies spend lots of money on their image and ordinary people do not have the time, or resources, to counter the propaganda. Wikipedia has become an unwitting victim of this, another example of "rich man's justice". People are frightened to speak out as they will be denied access to the technologies and the scientific world is not based on scientific mmerit but the usual way of the world which invloves money.

[edit] Richard Dawkins

Please do not insert nonsense claims in articles as you did several times in this case. This will be interpreted as vandalism, and you could be banned from the site if it continues. Metamagician3000 02:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Dawkins is nonsense.


[edit] April 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with Mark Spector. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Stoic atarian 15:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice

[edit] Genomic Imprinting

I notice that you have taken an interest in the article on Genomic Imprinting. Great! I see that you seem to have knowledge of imprinting in insects. This is an area where I am not so experienced. It would be great if you could enhance the article by adding your knowledge of imprinting in insects as a separate section on the page. However, I think we need to be careful not to confuse the two issues; it seems that imprinting in insects is somehow involved in sex-determination "In females all chromosomes remain euchromatic and functional. In embryos destined to become males, one haploid set of chromosomes becomes hetrochromatinized". Whereas in mammals, imprinting is involved in controlling expression of genes involved in embryonic development of both sexes. So although the mechanisms may be the same, the explanation may not be. I have spent a lot of time and effort in trying to enhance the page from what it recently was. I would appreciate it if you could avoid editing/removing details that are well referenced and easily verifiable. Thanks! 131.251.33.62 10:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what the explanation is, you don't know what the explanation is, except that it is all part of evolution. The best is to report what is known without theorizing. Whether imprinting is involved in sex determination, just given as one example, or involved in embryonic development, which is the case in insects, as mentioned in the quote you take, as well as in mammals, it is involved in the regulation of genes which is the fundamental point. There may be several biological consequences. That some of the biological phenomena have different names may not mean that the mechanism is different or that the biological phenomena are that different. Sometimes one aspect of biology is studied in one set of organisms and another aspect of biology in another set of organisms. The information is is simply incomplete. From such incomplete information it is not warranted to say that in a particular organism a phenomenon is the cause of certain processes, and not others, as the other processes may not have been studied.

[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] WP:OWN

Please stop assuming ownership of articles such as Ian Wilmut. Doing so may lead to disruptive behavior such as edit wars and is a violation of policy, which may lead to a block from editing. Ekantik talk 19:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NOR

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did to Ian Wilmut, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ekantik talk 19:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Please see WP:CIVIL and Don't be a dick. Ekantik talk 01:05, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Geron Corporation

I have removed a substantial amount of "information" from this article as it clearly fails WP:NPOV. Please do not add this back unless you are re-writing it from a more neutral perspective. Content such as "Belly up for 2008?" What is the future for a company heavily invested in outmoded technology?" and talk page responses such as "The comments were well sourced. Are you so stupid not to think that Geron Corp. does not feed this site? Don't you think Geron Corp. does not opinions like propping up its share price?" are not constructive and unwelcome around here. Do not add this content back without a major rewrite. Regards Nouse4aname (talk) 08:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Contrary to your belief, I have no association with Geron Corporation. I am simply trying to maintain the article as a neutral and informative piece that is free from opinion, unverified claims and irrelevant information. It appears that you have a negative view of this company, and thus I suggest that you do not edit this article or any others associated with it, unless you can maintain a more neutral stance. Nouse4aname (talk) 13:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Warning

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.

Regarding links added to Geron Corporation. Regards. Nouse4aname (talk) 18:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wilmut knighted

This BBC News story reports the honour and also refers to him as "Sir". Regarding investiture I think we can take it as a given. Ekantik talk 20:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stop!

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

You clearly have a bias against Geron Corp. Now for whatever reason this is, I do not really care. However, it is about time you grew up, got over any grievances you may have, and stop vandalising wikipedia. Nouse4aname (talk) 11:13, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion of references

I don't want to sound unwelcoming, but please do not discuss references in an article, as you did here. The proper place to discuss the references is on the article's talk page. I hope this helps. CM (talk) 02:05, 19 January 2008 (UTC)