User talk:AvatarAang94

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Another welcome
Hi AvatarAang94. I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment. If there's anything I can do to help with your assignment (or, for that matter, any other aspect of Wikipedia) please feel free to drop me a note. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:54, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Reminder to do online training
Dear AvatarAang94: Looks like you are off to a good start. Don't forget to do the online student orientation.Dbzam (talk) 16:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Dear Dbzam,
 * I did the whole orientation the day I first got my account. Did it not go through properly?
 * AvatarAang94 (talk) 00:02, 23 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Dear AvatarAang94: Well, whatever you did differently the second time it is now recorded as completed, so you are all set.  Have a nice weekend.Dbzam (talk) 13:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Original Research Reminder
Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you took content from an article and copied it to your Sandbox in order to integrate your own research, likely as a part of the class project you are participating in. Since you did this edit in your Sandbox, there is nothing against the rules on this per-say, just be aware that WP:NOR prohibits you from including that research in the actual published article. Just a friendly reminder. RegistryKey(RegEdit) 04:11, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the reminder RegistryKey. I'll be sure to cite all information I add to this article correctly, and will avoid including original research. Yes, this is for a class project. AvatarAang94 (talk) 04:23, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Great Work on Wikipedia Article Draft!
Hi! I have taken a look at your draft Wikipedia Article about CA in the Sandbox. The section you added is clear and informative overall.

Just a couple things I find in the draft that might cause difficulties in readers reading it:

1) Explain some words a little more, or provide a link to a wikipedia page by adding, such as: cambialistic (not quite sure what this means), diffusion limit (chemists know this but not necessary people who are not) etc.

2) The section (Similarities and Differences to Other Carbonic Anhydrases) can be better organized. i.e. "The cadmium ion is bound by two cysteine residues, one histidine residue, and a hydroxide ion." (is this a similarity or a difference?). The second paragraph is not much about similarities and differences.

If you'd like, you could come and edit my draft article too! My article is still quite drafty at the moment, so comments are welcomed!

Wilzzw (talk) 03:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Peer review for CHM437H1S
Hey AvatarAang94, great work on your article. Your topic is really interesting! Just a few tips that might help strengthen it:

1) Maybe define/link cambialistic, or use a less technical term.

2) Link a few more terms to other Wikipedia articles using.

3) Adding an image might strengthen the article a bit. Maybe use PDB viewer to overlay the structure of cadmium carbonic anhydrase with another carbonic anhydrase or draw the active sight in chemdraw.

4) “It was found that many of them contain CDCA-like proteins that were were homologous to the CDCA found in T. weissflogii.” There is a typo here, were is written twice. This sentence could also be shortened: "It was found that many of them contain proteins that are homologous to the CDCA found in T. weissflogii." I think it would still get the same message across but be a little less wordy. I also think 'are' should be used instead of 'were'.

5) Maybe change “In all species tested, CDCA-like proteins were found to be expressed in high levels even in high concentrations of zinc and in the absence of cadmium.” to “In all species tested CDCA-like proteins showed high levels of expression, even in high concentrations of zinc and in the absence of cadmium.” I think it just makes the sentence a little more clear.

6) It would be nice if you expanded on the section about industrial applications and carbon dioxide capturing. It sounds really interesting.

Hope these comments help! Eprince93 (talk) 22:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank You
Thanks for your feedback on my article. It is very helpful!

Wilzzw (talk) 04:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

CHM437 peer review
Hey AvatarAang94, I really liked your article especially your picture of the active site of the enzyme. I little suggestion that I might have is that it would be more awesome if you added the history of the discovery of carbonic anhydrase. Furthermore, if possible you could add the reaction mechanism showing the intermediates. Cheers. It would be cool if you could comment my sandbox article. Thanks a lot. Rahman437 (talk) 19:52, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Refence Question
Hi AvatarAang94,

In regards to your question about your references, I took a look at your article and noticed that I couldn't find the full length reference information in your wikitext. For instance for ref name "Book on Cadmium" there doesn't appear to be the corresponding full length reference based on my ctrl+F search. I could only the find the short form:

Just as an example of full length reference, here is one from my page:

Perhaps the full length one was removed somewhere along the line?

Hope this helps LacMJ (talk) 00:00, 10 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi LacMJ. I took a look through my references just now and found that most of my references have been deleted from my "Named References" list. Not sure how that happened? Thankfully I saved them all so getting them back shouldn't be too hard, but still that's strange and kind of annoying. Thanks for your help!


 * AvatarAang94 (talk) 00:08, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Image copyrights
Thanks for your note. Image copyright issues can be complicated.

I'm assuming that this is the Protein Data Bank you're talking about. Their reuse page says two things about images


 * Molecular images from RCSB PDB Structure Summary pages are available under the same conditions. The authors of the structural data producing the image and the RCSB PDB should be cited.


 * Molecule of the Month illustrations are available under a CC-BY-3.0 license. Attribution should be given to David S. Goodsell and the RCSB PDB.

Assuming the image you used came from one of these two pages, they're free to reuse on Wikipedia.

If your downloaded image one of the former kind, it's in the public domain. It depends on the level of creativity involved in your modification to determine whether your work created a new copyright derivative work or if it still remains in the public domain. I would recommend that you just tag your upload as being in the public domain, and link to the original work.

If your image was based on the latter type, a "Molecule of the Month", then it's a derivative work based on a CC-BY image. In that case, you should link to the original work in your upload, label it as a derivative work (since that's explicitly allowed in the licence) and tag is as CC-BY-3.0.

Whatever you do, you should upload the image to Wikimedia Commons. Make sure you add the appropriate tags when you upload it, otherwise it's likely to be deleted.

The second case, generally neither information nor simple structures are eligible for copyright. So you should be safe using the information in that article to create your image. I would strongly recommend that you follow the guidelines here:
 * Manual_of_Style/Chemistry/Structure_drawing, and especially note
 * Manual_of_Style/Chemistry/Structure_drawing

Hope this is helpful. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:08, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Articles
I'm sorry about that - I didn't know you were still working on it. You should feel free to keep working on it in mainspace. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:33, 17 July 2015 (UTC)