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Speedy deletion nomination of Altogen Biosystems

Hello MeredithGitre,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Altogen Biosystems for deletion, because it seems to be an article that was previously deleted by a consensus decision.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

SamHolt6 (talk) 03:30, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Referencing cell lines using publications and not vendors sites

Hi, I have noticed you are entering references to properties of the cell line entries that you are creating that are linked to vendor pages (ATCC, Altogen, etc) or databases (such as mine, the Cellosaurus). This is not a good practice, you should reference the original publications for the properties your are descrining. For ATCC at least you are citing a resource that distributes these cell line but for Altogen this is problematics as they only distributed transfection kits for the cell lines, so they should not be cited at all.

Furthermore there is quite an heterogeneity in the ways you and others have named cell line entries in Wikipedia, some have the name "cell" appended (like HCT116), some even "cell line" (like BT-20) and in many cases the name used is not the "official" one from the original paper (like HCT116 that should be HCT 116). This will cause inconsistencies when all cell lines (more than 100'000) will be entered in Wikidata (in a few weeks using a bots that we are developing).

Best regards and many thanks for the work you are doing in Wikipedia on cell lines. Note that you can contact me through the contact link on the Cellosaurus. --Amb sib (talk) 19:20, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

No problem, if you're having a bot add the cell lines then I'll wait for you to do so. I'm just trying to add general info on the major cell lines I know of, and usually vendor pages/databases have easily accessible information (I'm not subscribed to any journals, so it's kind of difficult to get original papers). I agree that the title naming conventions are not standardized; I assume that you have a set format in mind, so if you want to change the titles go ahead. Let me know when your bots have finished working and then I'll expand some more pages. Thanks! MeredithGitre (talk) 00:29, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Meredith: the bot will add cell lines to Wikidata. not in Wikipedia and will probably be first deployed in early June. So you can go ahead with cell line creations in Wikipedia as it will not be a duplication of effort. Just create them with the name which is the one used in the Cellosaurus. If you need help to access a paper you need to populate one of the Wikipedia entry let me know, i will be glad to help you Amb sib (talk) 10:52, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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