Kneal0627

Welcome

Hello, Kneal0627 and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.

Go through our online training for students.

If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Please also read this helpful advice for students.

Before you create an article, make sure you understand what kind of articles are accepted here. Remember: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while many topics are encyclopedic, some things are not.

Your instructor or professor may wish to set up a course page, if your class doesn't already have one. It is highly recommended that you place this text: {{Educational assignment}} on the talk page of any articles you are working on as part of your Wikipedia-related course assignment. This will let other editors know this article is a subject of an educational assignment and aid your communication with them.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Chris Troutman (talk) 21:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Mitch Nemcek

Hi Katelyn, my name is Mitch Nemcek and it looks like we've been paired up for this project! I'm looking forward to working with you, it will be really cool to create a page for Wikipedia, seeing as I visit the site so often. I am in the bioinformatics program (2nd semester) and I have a background in biology. I got my undergrad degree (BS in Biology) from Indiana University in 2011. I see from your user page that you're focusing on Biodefense in your studies. That seems like a very interesting field. What types of jobs are there in biodefense? And what made you decide on that major? It sound really cool! Mnemcek (talk) 16:11, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Mitch! I'm looking forward to working with you as well. Editing Wikipedia seems somewhat tedious, but hopefully I will get the hang of it with some time. Bioinformatics is a great field to venture to! I am currently in my second semester of the Biodefense program. I received my B.S in Biology from National University in San Diego, CA. Biodefense definitely is an interesting field. Honestly, I've always been interested in diseases, particularly those involved in pandemics and epidemics. I have also always wanted to work with the military. My husband is in the USMC, and my brother serves in the USAF. Ideally, I hope to attain a position as a civil servant in which I would work to protect our military as well as our nation from biochemical warfare whether it be in research of potential hazardous biochemical agents, development of agents to counteract known threatening biochemical agents, or creating technology to protect our military from exposure to hazardous biochemical agents. Kneal0627 (talk) 20:13, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

I agree, Wikipedia does seem a bit tedious but that's what probably makes it a good resource. I remember when it first became popular and there was some debate on whether it was a credible resource. I certainly think it is, and it seems to continually get better and better. I'm glad you chose that major, we need scientists like you! PS my family used to live in San Diego (La Holla) while my dad was in medical school. They moved to the Chicago area right before I was born though!Mnemcek (talk) 21:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I remember that as well. I actually still come across several professors who refuse to let students use it as a source. I guess one way to bypass that is to start with Wikipedia and look at the sources that were cited throughout the article. Aw, thanks! Unfortunately, acquiring a job as a civil servant is highly competitive, but hopefully all my hard work will eventually pay off! La Jolla is beautiful-- expensive, but beautiful! Kneal0627 (talk) 02:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

First contribution

Hi Katelyn, hope you had a nice spring break! I have put together a short comparison of tandem repeats and gene clusters to add to our article. Have a look on the Gene Cluster article page and let me know if you have any edits. I also have some specific examples of each, but I'm not sure if this is the place for them. I also am planning on creating links within this section, but I was hoping to get your thoughts first. Looking forward to your suggestions. Mnemcek (talk) 00:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm also assuming we will organize this according to our preliminary outline, but this will come as we add more to the article. For now, I'm keeping it simple. Mnemcek (talk) 00:09, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

It looks good, but I would suggest adding some figures for visual aids in this section. As long as the specific examples are about comparing gene clusters and tandem repeats, then I think they would fit in fine in this area. It states for this week that we should get the main structure of the article down and as much content as possible. So I think we should make the outline on the article page and add at least a little content to each area for now. Kneal0627 (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Please take a look at the article page and let me know what you think. I added a few things and formatted our first point on our outline. I will also be working on this section extensively over the next day. If you could write a short introduction to the Bioinformatics and Research section, that would be greatly appreciated. And my Spring Break was wonderful. Thank you for asking! I hope you had a enjoyed your break as well! Kneal0627 (talk) 20:29, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

We should add at least one figure for our first contribution. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions for the figure.

Sounds good, I'll work on intros for the bioinformatics and research sections. Your contributions look great so far. I agree, we should get a little bit of content and the full outline down, then work throughout the rest of the semester to fill it out, add examples/figures/images/etc... Take a look at these 2 figures I found to compare tandem repeats vs dispersed gene clusters. Let me know which one you think works better. Also, how do we know if we can use images? It appears both are from a textbook. Here are the links - https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/IG1_19_Fig09.html and https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Dispersed_&_Tandem_repeats.htmlMnemcek (talk) 01:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! I'm going to run it through turnitin.com today to make sure nothing comes up as plagiarized. Both are very good figures, but I think the second one works best as a visual aid for those who are trying to understand it for the first time. Figures from textbooks should be acceptable. I think it just has to come from a good source. Also, I think this conversation should be on a talk page rather than the sandbox. Apparently, we're only supposed to use tiles on talk pages. I'm going to move it to the talk page, just to be safe. Kneal0627 (talk) 17:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm confused, isn't this a talk page? There's too many pages! Anyways, let me know if the picture checks out alright. Thanks. Mnemcek (talk) 01:37, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, this is a talk page. I moved this conversation from my sandbox, which is not a talk page. There is no picture on our article; however, I received an email saying the page was edited by another user. Perhaps it was removed? Kneal0627 (talk) 01:44, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for May 6

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Gene cluster, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Promoter and Locus (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:52, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your work as part of the Molecular Biology course project. I hope you enjoyed editing Wikipedia, and hope you continue to edit it whenever you find problems, or find something that you would like to add. Don't hesitate to contact me or any of the other OAs with any questions, any time you want. I wish you well in your future studies! Klortho (talk) 01:47, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Intrachromosomal duplication.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Intrachromosomal duplication.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

ATTENTION: This is an automated, BOT-generated message. This bot DID NOT nominate your file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 03:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)