User:PJCollettJHU/sandbox

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Editing Wikipedia is fun and interesting

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Science is cool

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Pizza is the best Italian food

Wikipedia's Five Pillars:

1. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia Wikipedia is a place for facts, not advertising, ranting, or spreading personal opinions.

2. Wikipedia has a neutral point of view Wikipedia does it's best to express all sides of an issue. There is no right or wrong view as long as there is fact to back up a statement.

3. Wikipedia is free content Anyone can edit or modify Wikipeda. Do not plagiarize.

4. Wikipedians should interact in a respectful and civil manner Be polite, be open, and welcome all users' views.

5. Wikipedia does not have firm rules As stated in the training videos, BE BOLD, mistakes can be corrected.

Summary of Characteristics of Target Article

The goal of this Wiki assignment is to transform a stub class article into one falling into the B to GA range.

The Wiki assessment scale ranges all the way from a basic template at the bottom end all the way to FA at the very top, considered the highest quality Wiki article. We are going to improve a stub class article; bare bones description of a topic to an article that qualifies as B or GA.

A "B class" article doesn't address all there is to address about a topic, but also does not have any major fault. Wikipedia has a 6-point rubric that, when fulfilled, qualifies an article as "B class."
 * 1. Suitably referenced with reliable sources.
 * 2. Covers the article without obvious errors.
 * 3. Contains clear structure.
 * 4. Well-written, but not "brilliant."
 * 5. Contains supporting materials, such as images, where they may be useful.
 * 6. Is understandable to a broad audience.

An article assessed at GA is, by Wikipedia definition, a "Good Article." This GA article isn't quite up to encyclopedia status, but with some fine tuning could be. For this there is also a 6-point rubric to determine if an article will fall into this class.
 * 1. Well-written as specified in the manual of style
 * 2. Is verifiable, contains no original research, and continues to comply with the layout style guideline
 * 3. Broad but focused
 * 4. Maintains a neutral point of view
 * 5. Does not spark an edit war, so as to maintain consistency
 * 6. Images are used when helpful and are appropriately tagged with copyright information

Inline Citation Practice
 * Topic: Biodefense microbiology and vaccines

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3242838/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896660/

A lot of work has been done, specifically since 2001, when anthrax was sent in letters through the USPS, to protect against biological agents that could be used in terrorist attacks. An obvious line of defense against these biothreat agents is to develop vaccines. The primary focus and concern is on Category A agents, such as B. anthracis, Y. pestis, F. tularensis, and variola virus which causes smallpox. However, given the high profile nature of these agents and the high containment facilities they require, developing these vaccines have posed numerous issues. Even given the difficulties presented, we currently have vaccines for B. anthracis and variola virus. Additionally, many of the other known biothreat agents have ongoing studies working for find suitable antibodies for potential vaccine development.

Unit 7
Do some initial work on your article:
 * Pick one of your team members' sandboxes in which to work ... it does not matter which.
 * As a team, begin to research the topic of the article, identify key points that should be in the Wikipedia article for this topic. Discuss this on your group talk page.
 * Move the list of references found in Unit 5 from your group page to the working sandbox page.
 * Find more high-quality references, and add them to a list. As you add them, it would probably be a good idea to skim them over and, for your teammate's benefit, add a few bullet points explaining what useful material the reference contains.
 * Search for any suitably-licensed images that you can add. If you find some, create a list for these on the working sandbox page, and add them to it.
 * As a team, prepare a preliminary outline for the article, and write that in a new section of the working sandbox page.
 * Add your ideas for how you would like to improve the article to the talk page of the article. This will open communication between your group and other wiki editors who are interested in improving the article.

I chose my page, only because I think I'm the first one to post for this Unit

As stated in the manual of style we need to create a lead section prior to a table of contents. The information currently in the adenosine diphosphate article is so bare that it doesn't have a table of contents. Essentially the current information should be the leas section, and then we can flesh it out and create additional sections with more specific detailed information.

I made an initial assessment of this article on our group page; Group 82C.


 * Preliminary outline

adenosine diphosphate Table of contents References
 * opening paragraphing giving quick high level information
 * A section on the structure of the molecule. Already some good information here.
 * A section on cellular respiration with subsections on glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and Oxidative phosphorylation (pictures exist on these pages that we can use.)
 * Role in ATP synthase complex (maybe a larger section here, this seems pretty important) p. 729 in principles of biochem book. (Lehninger)
 * Binding change model for ATP synthase (lehninger p. 729)
 * ADP-ribose as secondary messenger cyclic ADP-ribose
 * Sections already on the page Thrombus formation subsection endothelial-ADPase
 * Single nucleotide reactions (already on the page) and RNA world hypothesis
 * Further reading/information


 * licensed images''