User talk:Blastwizard

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Saw your infobox on the FASTA article...
Hi, So you are an expert in BLAST? Next time my team-lead asks me a question about comparing a PSI-BLAST and a SW based search result; I'm gonna bug you. Its cool to see someone like you contributing here, plz inform me if you wish me to help out on any page and I'll try my best. Here's one page that needs help: Comparative genomic hybridization or more necessarily the article: array-based CGH.

Plz msg back whenever you can. --h y dkat(msg me) 20:41, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Methionylglutaminyl...serine
There is a somewhat delayed reply to you at User talk:Sannse/Methionylglutaminyl...serine -- sannse (talk) 23:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Coffee Break!
Ever felt like needing a break from time to time? ... then see you at the Esperanza Cafe! --h y dkat 06:28, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Changes made to FASTA
A user has made a radical change to the FASTA page... I'm not sure whether his entry which is exact opposite of mine is correct or not. (and if he is right - I've got it horribly wrong!) Can you plz check out the page and tell me his entries are OK? --h y dkat 05:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanx --h y dkat 12:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Protein-protein interaction prediction
Hi. Are you aware of this new page: Protein-protein interaction prediction? It was off to an unlucky start, being listed on Articles for Deletion.

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 * I would like to welcome you as well. - [[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]]  nath a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W) 02:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes It is a Genocide
First I did not only put Turkish sources. I gave BBC, Scotsman and News 24 as sources. I am not a fully Turkish anyway... You argue that the events in Algeria was not genocide because France as hasn't been indicted for genocide before an international court of justice for these events. Do you think Turkey or Ottoman State was indicted before any court. But you name the 1915 events as Armenian Genocide with no verdict. Typical double standard. If France wants justice it has to be just. And I am sorry but I find you an ultra-French nationalist.David Falcon 19:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * No it is not. I am in no way a ultra nationalist you picked the wrong guy, I am in actual fact a left wing liberal. It is just that I'm picky when it comes to the use of the wrong vocabulary, and your non neutral point of view in the matter is blatant.
 * It is not because I'm French, I would do the same thing for other country pages, it just happens that I usually have a closer look at the page on France as I probably know more about it than the average wikipedian. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a forum for your opinion. If you were citing references from academic historians studying the matter rather than media sources and politicians which are neither neutral nor reliable (even the BBC), I would be more enclined to consider your point of view. The Ottoman Empire collapsed before the notion of international courts of justice existed that would be why it was never indicted for genocide. You should look at the definition of a genocide, it is the killing of group of people based on their ethnic or racial origin in the purpose of anihilating their population. As I said, French armed forces massacred a lot of Algerians (and the figures are still debated by historians, and is probably a large number) but not in the intention of exterminating these people. It was a civil war, and French forces were using very brutal retaliations, collective punishments and torture which I do not condone in response to terrosits acts (reminds me of two superpowers I would not cite here). In addition there were more arabs fighting alongside the French than within the FLN, so the accusation of the ethnic selectivity for the killings do not stand. You seemed to have a very peculiar definition of a genocide. In your definition, the US in vietnam war should be indicted for genocide as they were responsible for 2-4 million civilians killed. I think not because of the South Vietnamese alongside them - they were responsible for atrocities, maybe war crimes, but not genocide. I really think it is you who have double standards, as the fratricide killings between Algerian factions during the independance war were at least as deadly, and what about the the Harkis and the way they were treated after the independance or is it OK because the killings were between people from the same origin?
 * I also said that you were free to create an article on the massacres perpetrated by the French in Algeria and have a link in the page on History of France. It is just that the events in Algeria and your accusations do not belong to the page on France, you can't use it as a large part of the section on French history. If you know your history of France, you will see that in a thousand years of history the country has seen many more massacres. Why would this one would take precedence on others?
 * You said you are not fully Turkish which I didn't know anyway and does not change anything to the debate. That is unless you feel bad about my reference to the armenian genocide which conveniently has an article in wikipedia, instead of taking a significant part of the article on Turkey. Blastwizard 13:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


 * You use 'genocide' term for the Armenian case though there is no court decision and while the Turks strongly reject the claims, but you cannot mention the term of 'genocide' in Algerian case. What is the difference between them? The difference is the race or religion. All the genocied committed by the European powere were forgetten. David Falcon 09:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * For the Armenian genocide,the word genocide was coined later (1943) so could not have been used at the time. If you read the article on the Armenian genocide you will see that there was some sort of international trials and the perpetrators were condemned in absentia for crimes that would nowadays fall under the definition of genocide.I don't say that Americans perpetrated a genocide, I say that with your definition it would be the case, actually the oppression of Kurds by Turkish authorities could also fall into this definition of cultural genocide but it's far fetch because Turks are not evil westerners ;-). I explained in details why the term genocide do not apply to the case of Algerian war of independence but you persist in ignoring that. Beside which the French armed forces killed a lot of Algerian people, I would not put figures here are they are too difficult to verify; what defines a genocide is not the number of victims anyway but the motive of the killings based on racial or ethnic criteria (not religion). The massacres were perpetrated as a brutal repression of uprising not because they were muslims or arabs they would have been killed regardless of their origin, and that may constitute war crimes or non respect of the customs of war in respect to civilian populations but as it was not a war between two standing armies there would be a lot argumentation and wether it was a war. You also forget that 20% of the population in Algeria is of berber origin and not arab, actually arabs were the first colonisers of Maghreb but you claim that all the victims were arab muslims, so you ignore quite a lot of people! And no genocides perpetrated by European powers were certainly not forgotten, as the best known example of genocide is the Holocaust perpetrated by nazi Germany with the complicity of the Vichy regime in France and facist regime in Italy to name but few!!! Blastwizard 10:07, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

FYI. I {A none Frenchman :-) } have put Algerian Genocide Claims up for speedy deletion. The given reason is: "Recreation of deleted material: See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Algerian Genocide and Talk:Algerian Genocide Claims". BTW I have for most of this year (on and off) been working through Genocide and Genocides in history trying to reduce cliams like this one, because I think the overuse of the word Genocide undermines its impact for those acts which were Genocides. You may be interested in this talk page section on this issue particularly the reference in the section to Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic - Appeals Chamber - Judgment - IT-98-33 (2004) ICTY 7 (19 April 2004) paragraph 8. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I really appreciate your work on genocide and entirely agree with you, the term should not be used as lightly as many unfortunately do. I'm equally appalled by negationism but that is another matter. I also feel relieved as I tried as hard as I could to be neutral, and I'm glad someone who could not be accused of French nationalism (as I have been accused of by User:David Falcon) got involved. Blastwizard 13:46, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
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sequence alignment on the Main Page
I wonder if you noticed that the today's main page; Today's Featured Article is sequence alignment! --h y dka t 06:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
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One more vote for the coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject
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This month's winner is proteasome!
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This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein!
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Metabolic network
Hi there, I've tried to find a definition to add to the start of this page. TimVickers 17:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:CVU status
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naval troops
for some reason you have a problem with the fact that troupes de marine means naval troops. you may of course rename them if you become president of france, but for the time being we will stick with the name they actually have. perhaps you dont understanding the french or english phrases involved. if you still don't agree, please discuss it on the talk page so that your error can be further made clear to you. Mesoso2 (talk) 10:21, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Please have a look at my answer in the discussion page. Blastwizard (talk) 11:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Blastwizard:

I added the statement to the English TDM entry that the TDM had their own separate basic training base. Is this still true? Also I plan to add more of the amphibious landings performed by the TDM and La colo to show the "marine" side of their history. Jmosman (talk) 13:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * When I did my military service at 1er RIMa back in 1997; the basic training was the same as any infantry basic training in the French army, the AMX 10 RC crew had to go to a cavalry school near Marseille for training drivers and gunners in addition to the basic training. The regiment was composed of half conscripts and half professionals. The basic training for professionals was of course longer than that of conscripts and certainly more thourough but the general content was the same. As far as I remember, the instruction squadron, was also in charge of training recruits from a Combat Helicopter Regiment that was not Troupes de marine and they had the exact same training. At the time, the Troupes de marine had not on the contrary to other armes a specialisation school for its commissioned officers, they were training in the relevant specialisation school from other armes (Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery,...); since November 2003 there is a specialisation school "Ecole de l'outre-mer et de l'étranger". I have old pictures from my military service, during a training exercice in the Meditterranean sea onboard Ouragan LPD with the San Marco Regiment, the Infanteria de Marina and the Corpo de Fuzileiros, if I can find them I will scan them and add them to the page. Blastwizard (talk) 15:07, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou for your message of long ago to which i have not replied having been busy with other things. The consensus on the page seems to be that the french title should be used, so i will have to accept that. Nonetheless "la marine" translates as "navy" and thus the posessive construction "de marine" does without any doubt translate as the english posessive adjective "naval". The English word "marine" means 'of the sea' and so "marine troops" would be "troupes de (la) mer" in French. Mesoso2 (talk) 18:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I still maintain that your litteral translation is wrong, first of all the word marine in English was almost certainly borrowed from French language and has exactly the same meaning as in English, and it originates from the latin root mare which means sea. Then, naval refers to military ships, and although troupes de marine were in the past part of the navy, now they are part of the army and their role amongst French armed forces is overseas operations, either seaborne or airborne as other marine units around the world. Blastwizard (talk) 08:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of 6th RG


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Couldn't you userfy it until you have finished working on it? --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 14:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I clicked on the wiki link from other article and the article didn't exist and I was offered to start, which I kindly did, and I suppose it is a standard way of doing in wiki since the option is available. The idea is that anyone else can contribute to the article, which would not be the case if it was in my user directory. Blastwizard (talk) 14:53, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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Splitting discussion for Clitoris
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