Mokona72

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:42, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Finding an article

To find a good article to edit, check WikiProject Mass spectrometry, especially sections on articles by quality and importance: Wikipedia:WikiProject Mass spectrometry#Assessment; and articles by popularity: Wikipedia:WikiProject Mass spectrometry#Popular pages. There is also a tool that you can use to sort articles, for example Stub[1]and Start[2] class. Remember the goal is to move an article up two quality units: nothing to Start, Stub to C, or Start to B. --Kkmurray (talk) 03:01, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Trying Talk Page

Hello, I am just trying the talk page. --Dagui1929 (talk) 14:48, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Greetings from a classmate

Good Day I hope you are able to find a few interesting articles. Cwszot (talk) 13:24, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Project Article

Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry: Currently this page has a brief description of the ionization method and an application for this technique. I would like to improve this page by finding a diagram of an instrument, other applications, and background information for this technique. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mokona72 (talk • contribs)

This will be good - Stub to C Class. --Kkmurray (talk) 21:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

List of Sources

1. Smith, D and P Spanel. "The SIFT and FALP Techniques; Applications to Ionic and Electronic Reactions Studies and Their Evolution to the SIFT-MS and FA-MS Analytical Methods." International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 377, n.d., pp. 467-478.
2. Bierbaum, VM. "Go with the Flow: Fifty Years of Innovation and Ion Chemistry Using the Flowing Afterglow." International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 377, n.d., pp. 456-466
3. Pfeuffer, Kevin P, et al. "Halo-Shaped Flowing Atmospheric Pressure Afterglow: A Heavenly Design for Simplified Sample Introduction and Improved Ionization in Ambient Mass Spectrometry." Analytical Chemistry, vol. 85, no. 15, 06 Aug. 2013, pp. 7512-7518.
4. Smith, David and Patrik Španěl. "SIFT-MS and FA-MS Methods for Ambient Gas Phase Analysis: Developments and Applications in the UK." The Analyst, vol. 140, no. 8, 21 Apr. 2015, pp. 2573-2591
5. Brüggemann, Martin, et al. "Critical Assessment of Ionization Patterns and Applications of Ambient Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry Using FAPA–MS." Journal of Mass Spectrometry, no. 2, 2016.
6. Newsome, G Asher, et al. "Humidity Effects on Fragmentation in Plasma-Based Ambient Ionization Sources." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 27, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 135-143
7. Bouza, Marcos, et al. "A Flowing Atmospheric Pressure Afterglow as an Ion Source Coupled to a Differential Mobility Analyzer for Volatile Organic Compound Detection." Analyst, vol. 141, no. 11, 07 June 2016, pp. 3437-3443

Image copyrights

If an image is entirely your own work, it's your copyright and you're free to upload it. If you've simply copied another diagram and deleted a few bits to simplify the layout, it's a derivative work and you don't own the (full) copyright. In that case, you can only upload it if the original was released under a free license.

If it's somewhere in between, then it gets more difficult. If you're using a standard set of components, and the layout is the only logical layout or it's a convention in the field, then it's probably fine. If, on the other hand, it's something more like an infographic, where the layout of elements is creative, then you probably can't reproduce the layout (without it being a derivative work).

Regardless, you should always cite your sources; say that it's based on whatever source it's based on, in the upload notes. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:18, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Useful Source

Hey I found a pretty useful secondary source for flowing afterglow and I figured you could put it to use. citation: Ferguson, Eldon E. (1992). "A Personal history of the early development of the flowing afterglow technique for ion-molecule reaction studies". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 3 (5): 479–486. doi:10.1016/1044-0305(92)85024-E. ISSN 1044-0305. PMID 24234490.

hope this helps! NicoliTesta (talk) 02:03, 21 April 2017 (UTC)