User talk:Touchstone42

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[edit] Polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria

You added a section about pseudomonas to the polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria article that appears to be a copyright violation (see: {diff}, copied from (blacklisted link).

I read your user page (User:Touchstone42) and am aware that you seek permission in all cases; however, I have no way of independently verifying this. In any case, I think the material is inappropriate for the polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria article. Also, I believe that an original contribution that is throughly referenced (with articles that are open access) is of more value.

While I do not know the true objective of your edit, I believe it could be mistaken as an advertisement for the book you reference. Wikipedia has policy about ads. If you're unfamiliar with it I think you should read it-- see: WP:ADS. Thanks, Nephron  T|C 19:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for your comments regarding this matter. I am happy to say that the text in question is in fact available under the GFDL license and this has now been made clear on the original web page at (blacklisted link).
I always try to add source citations to any material I add to the Wikii site. This is in accordance with Wiki policy: "In general, the most reliable publications are peer-reviewed journals and books published in university presses; university-level textbooks; magazines, journals, and books published by respected publishing houses." See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
Touchstone42 15:38, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oral microbiology

Updated DYK query On 4 November 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Oral microbiology, 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.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 17:09, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Double-stranded RNA viruses (nom)

Hi. I've nominated Double-stranded RNA viruses, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created.2Fexpanded on November 21, where you can improve it if you see fit. — Komusou talk @ 17:51, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 26 November 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article double-stranded RNA viruses, 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.

--Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 18:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] saRNA

Hi. Your addition to RNA duplicates info, if you think the text that was already there is poorly written you should modify it instead of including the same thing twice. Also, I think if you want to write about saRNA (which seems like a synonym for siRNA/miRNA in a particular context, so not a word for summary-style sections and articles) it should be in the Upregulation of genes section (currently too short) in RNA interference rather than the lead - the lead is for summary. Oh, and consider editing small interfering RNA and microRNA, both could use a section about RNAa. Narayanese (talk) 15:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions Narayanese, I will certainly make the changes you suggest. Touchstone42 (talk) 17:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Archaeocin

Updated DYK query On 22 March 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Archaeocin, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 10:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Horizon Press

Hi, just to let you now that some of your recent edits are being discussed on ANI, here. Van helsing (talk) 13:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, many thanks for your comments about this matter. Sorry for any problems caused. As you suggested, I have read Wikipedia:Conflict_of_Interest and realise that there may be a COI as defined in these guidelines. I have access to selected scientific reviews published by Horizon Scientific Press and I have permission to make this material available on Wiki under the GFDL license. For purposes of Verifiability I understood that the correct citation would be the book that the material comes from. I do not have access to any other published material so the only references I cite are to Horizon Press books. In future I have three options:
  1. Stop adding content to Wiki
  2. Add content without references
  3. Add content with references to Horizon Press books
I welcome any help or suggestions and will take your advice seriously. Thanks again. Touchstone42 (talk) 09:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Cimb.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Cimb.jpg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check

  • That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for each article the image is used in.
  • That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --23:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale added to Image:Cimb.jpg Touchstone42 (talk) 12:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)