User talk:Frankatca

Image:WmGlasser.jpg
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glover dna sequening
can we trim this section back abit ? sounds awfuilly like advertising, considering there is no public info available; the patents have not even issued let alone been allowedCinnamon colbert 19:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Archon X Prize
You recently changed the entry from "no more than one error in every 10,000 bases sequenced" to "no more than one error in every 100,000 bases sequenced". This is debatable as the competition guidelines from the [official website] apparently differ from the PDF you reference. As the PDF is dated November 2006 and is a revision (version 2.0), we may assume it to be the intended value. Bottom line- I'm not changing your entry, but I will monitor this. Clerks 13:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Communicating with Wikipedians
Hi Frank, to send messages to other Wikipedians you simply add edits to their User\Talk pages. You shouldn't edit their actual user page. See Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines Clerks 16:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of Other Images
Got your message. I deleted this sub-section because it is not relevant to the subject. I could go to any page in Wikipedia and search its title on Google, reporting the number of results in the article, but this would be unreasonable. This article is about the subject in particular, not about the number of hits it may return on a search engine. Overall, I thought it was a piece of information that didn't make the article any more informative. Thomasmallen 20:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:DrWmGlasser.jpg listed for deletion
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re: deletion of page/picture of glasser
i didnt delete anything and you all can go fuck yourselves, you think your better than me because you spend your life on wikipedia learning everything ever made, well your not, you need to go get a life, they dont cost much these days you know. In conclusion, i did not delete any image so know your facts first.

Re: Image:DrWmGlasser.jpg
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 * P.S. The relevant criterion was WP:CSD, not I13. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 23:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Curriculum Associates
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Glover DNA sequencing
Could give me any journal publications and secondary sources that mention this "ZG Genetics" sequencing technique? I feel the section needs to limit itself to published and notable methods, and so I tried to use some sequencing review articles as a guide for notability. Madeleine ✉ ✍ 00:49, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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Curriculum Associates

 * See User talk:Anthony Appleyard. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

"FYI. I have drafted a new article (Curriculum Associates) on my personal page: [frankatca] If you'd care to have a look at it and make suggestions to ready it for possible submission as a new article, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks,"--Frank Ferguson Frankatca (talk) 16:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)"
 * "Frankatca, you wrote:


 * Frank, I do not know as if I would go so far as saying that the rough draft version of Curriculum Associates is advertising, though it offers little more than a "brochure perspective" of the school. On the whole, I believe that Curriculum Associates is noteworthy (and as such probably is entitled to a lesser degree of notability than most editors demand for  articles) but I would like to see the article developed much more with things such as curriculum vitae for its various instructors, and analysis of the instuctional materials. From the viewpoint of copy-editing, I suggest that you take heed of the WP:MOS guidelines for everything, specially the handling of book titles, articles, and etcetera; and things like the use of capitalization. Anne Teedham (talk) 21:18, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Curriculum Associates
A tag has been placed on Curriculum Associates, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

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 * In answer to your question, the topic fails WP:N (specifically Notability (organizations and companies)) which is the guidelines on notability. In other words, the company is not significant enough in the world of companies to warrant coverage. Hopefully the notability page will contain the information you require. Regards, --SGGH speak! 20:55, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposed rename for List of American gentlemen's clubs
You've made some good contributions to the 4-year-old article List of American gentlemen's clubs, which is a great list article. Though nobody's ever objected before, some people now are trying to change its title to "List of North American private social clubs." There's an ongoing discussion on that article's talk page. I thought you might want to put in your two cents. Clubwiki (talk) 17:32, 11 September 2011 (UTC)


 * IMHO this page would be considerably improved by changing the name to International List of Social Clubs with a listing of several hundred such clubs, worldwide, most of which "reciprocate," opening their facilities to visitors from their accepted reciprocals. In addition to those in the USA and Canada, there are several hundred such clubs around the World, i.e. in the UK, Africa, Europe and the Far East, Australia, etc.  See, for example, the list of International Clubs that reciprocate with www.algonquinclub.com.   Frankatca (talk) 22:45, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Lorraine Ferguson


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