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Y chromosome

Hello, Billtkd. Do you have a WP:Reliable source for these number changes at the Y chromosome article? If not, I will eventually change the numbers back to what they were before. Flyer22 (talk) 18:59, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Done. I have added the best ones I could get from here. I have more reliable sources via on-line subscriptions to scientific journals at work (I teach genetics at a university.) but I can't access them from home. Billtkd (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Billtkd, while I appreciate you providing a source for this material, I'm not sure that source counts as a WP:Reliable source; read the WP:Reliable source guideline for what I mean about what Wikipedia considers a reliable source. And for biomedical content in particular, such as chromosomes, the type of sourcing we should use is addressed at Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (WP:MEDRS). Flyer22 (talk) 21:11, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

The source for the number of genes on the Y chromosome is the US National Centre for Biotechnology Information. The other source (on the number of base pairs) was already cited on the page, in the section headed 'Human Y Chromosome'. I will try to get better sources (primary scientific articles) tomorrow at work. However, the Ensembl Project (the source of the reference) is a legitimate scientific source, set up by organisations such as the European Molecular Biology Organisation. See http://www.ensembl.org/info/about/index.html. In any case, I would classify this as molecular biology, not biomedical, but I may be prejudiced because I am a molecular biologist. I think Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (natural sciences) is therefore probably more appropriate. Billtkd (talk) 21:40, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks, RenatUK. I marked it 'minor edit' because I felt that I wasn't changing the intended meaning (namely, that there is a genetic component to acne), merely improving the syntax.

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Please do not add or change content, as you did at List of common misconceptions, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 01:56, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

I felt no need for a source since the danger of pencil shavings in a closed, weightless habitat (such as the ISS) is self-evident. Billtkd (talk) 11:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. As with most claims that "it doesn't need a source", if it's that self-evident, it doesn't need to be in the article because the reader would already know it. It's an irrelevant comment, and it's based on your personal misunderstanding of a pencil in space flight, which can be found in reliable sources; mechanical pencils were used. I'm not criticizing you. I just try to keep irrelevant cruft bloat off of Wikipeida, especially in an article like this one which is already bloated. So I point it out when I see it. Sundayclose (talk) 15:33, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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