Tmckenne

Welcome!

Hello, Tmckenne, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Getting Started
• Introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. 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. Again, welcome! Neelix (talk) 04:13, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Adding another's sandbox

. Neelix, how do I go about adding someone else's Sandbox? Tmckenne (talk) 22:04, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

I see no need to do that. The other user will already have a link to their sandbox at the top of every Wikipedia page, right next to the links to their user and talk pages. Clicking that link will allow them to create the sandbox themselves, including a pre-loaded {{User sandbox}} template. Huon (talk) 22:26, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

However, if you're still determined to do that (say, for example if you need to collaborate with someone), you can link the sandbox from your userpage using two methods:

• Copying and pasting the URL to your userpage.
• Using wikilinks Basically, you would put two brackets around User:Example/Sandbox, replacing "Example" with their username. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 22:35, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Tyler, Just dropping a quick note to say hello. I saw that you also posted on my page, so I'll respond to that next. I look forward to working with you on this project. Talk soon. Msmrugby (talk) 03:36, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Testing New Section Functionality

Dropping a second note to make sure that I'm creating new sections correctly. Hopefully this works. Msmrugby (talk) 03:43, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Article Selection

Hi Tyler,

I just glanced at the assignment for this week, and saw that we need to select our article. I'll try and provide my suggestions before the end of the weekend, and we can then focus on selecting one and writing up the rationale by the end of the day on Tuesday. Work for you?

Msmrugby (talk) 15:49, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Msmrugby, that sounds like a great plan to me, I'll provide my suggestions before the end of the weekend also.

Tmckenne (talk) 02:25, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Tyler. My thought with regard to article selection, is that selecting an article that is a stub or has even less content gives us a clean slate to work with. If we work with something that is further along, we lose some flexibility with regard to options for organizing and format. Based on this strategy, my suggested articles are below.

• Branch Migration - This is not listed on the list, but figured I'd throw this out there for discussion. We are learning about this in the current unit. When I went to the wiki page, it is 3-4 sentences, and that's it. This would give us a clean slate. This would also require approval.
• Northwestern Blot - This is also a stub and gives us many options. It's a common technique and I'm confident we'll be able to find plenty of information and source material.
• Acetyltransferase - This is also a stub and I think provides us with plenty of options with regard to organization and source material.

Thoughts? Any articles that interest you? Msmrugby (talk) 12:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Msmrugby, I think that's a great idea! Working on a stub will allow us to create the article from a clean slate. I would prefer we do the Northwestern Blot article as I have a lot of experience with gel electrophoresis and Western Blotting so I could perhaps bring some personal knowledge to the article. How does that sound to you? Tmckenne (talk) 02:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Also Msmrugby, I'll claim the article on the course page so we can make sure to get it, however if you really don't want to do Northwestern Blots, we can change it before Tuesday too, just want to get us down for one. Tmckenne (talk) 02:20, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Tyler, Northwestern Blot works for me. Thanks for claiming the article. I wrote up a rational for selecting it based on our discussions and posted it on our Group Page. Take a look tonight and feel free to make additions or changes. It needs to be finalized by 12pm tonight. Talk soon. Msmrugby (talk) 00:38, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Hello Tyler,

I am one of your online ambassadors. I am around to help you out, You can contact me by email or on my talk page. Since I'm in Australia my timezone is quite different to yours. I have no special knowledge of molecular biology, but I am hoping that you can write so that I can understand it! Its a good idea to pick an article if you plan to succeed! I am responsible for the idea of the list of red-linked ones that do not exist yet. At least the list was trimmed back. These will be an extra challenge for you to make, but I am sure you can write something on one of the topics here. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:35, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Revision history

Hi Tyler,

I'm glad you contacted me on this issue. There is certainly no need to retype anything you have already written. To find out what happened to the content that has disappeared, click the "View history" tab at the top right-hand side of the article. That will bring you to the article's edit history page, which lists all of the revisions of the article and the editors who made each edit. If the removal was accidental or vandalism, you can click "undo" to undo the removal of the content. Feel free to contact me again if you have any additional questions.

Neelix (talk) 02:34, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

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) 02:18, 12 May 2014 (UTC)