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Y chromosome
Hello, Billtkd. Do you have a WP:Reliable source for these number changes at the Y chromosome article? If not, I will eventually change the numbers back to what they were before. Flyer22 (talk) 18:59, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Done. I have added the best ones I could get from here. I have more reliable sources via on-line subscriptions to scientific journals at work (I teach genetics at a university.) but I can't access them from home. Billtkd (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Billtkd, while I appreciate you providing a source for this material, I'm not sure that source counts as a WP:Reliable source; read the WP:Reliable source guideline for what I mean about what Wikipedia considers a reliable source. And for biomedical content in particular, such as chromosomes, the type of sourcing we should use is addressed at Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (WP:MEDRS). Flyer22 (talk) 21:11, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The source for the number of genes on the Y chromosome is the US National Centre for Biotechnology Information. The other source (on the number of base pairs) was already cited on the page, in the section headed 'Human Y Chromosome'. I will try to get better sources (primary scientific articles) tomorrow at work. However, the Ensembl Project (the source of the reference) is a legitimate scientific source, set up by organisations such as the European Molecular Biology Organisation. See http://www.ensembl.org/info/about/index.html.  In any case, I would classify this as molecular biology, not biomedical, but I may be prejudiced because I am a molecular biologist. I think Identifying reliable sources (natural sciences) is therefore probably more appropriate. Billtkd (talk) 21:40, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * School was established in 1902 but opened in new premises, shared with [Stepps Public Library] on a different site in 2007. Most of its pupils go on to Chryston High School. St Joseph's

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The style in which collective nouns are treated as plural (e.g., "the committee are in favour") is not a general UK phenomenon. It is mainly used in England and there mainly in business jargon. It is not common throughout the UK, e.g., in Scotland or the North of England. Billtkd (talk) 12:23, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks, RenatUK. I marked it 'minor edit' because I felt that I wasn't changing the intended meaning (namely, that there is a genetic component to acne), merely improving the syntax.

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I felt no need for a source since the danger of pencil shavings in a closed, weightless habitat (such as the ISS) is self-evident. Billtkd (talk) 11:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding. As with most claims that "it doesn't need a source", if it's that self-evident, it doesn't need to be in the article because the reader would already know it. It's an irrelevant comment, and it's based on your personal misunderstanding of a pencil in space flight, which can be found in reliable sources; mechanical pencils were used. I'm not criticizing you. I just try to keep irrelevant cruft bloat off of Wikipeida, especially in an article like this one which is already bloated. So I point it out when I see it. Sundayclose (talk) 15:33, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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