User talk:GavinThomas

Gavin. Thanks for your message and for expanding the stub on Holbrook Gaskell II. I was interested to read that there were more than 3 HGs. I used "II" and "III" because I had been writing a series of articles on the pioneers of the chemical industry in Widnes and Hardie's book refers to them as I, II and III &mdash; so I copied him. By the way could you add inline citations to all your additions (including what you have written about HGII). (You also seem to have lost my references but I will replace them when I get the time.) It seems a bit excessive when one is new to Wikipedia, but in the long-term as articles get expanded, if inline citations are not there, the article has to be re-written more or less from scratch. You can get advice on this from WP:CITE (or more or less copy what I have done &mdash; that's how I have learnt a lot about the necessary techniques). In addition if you write something about yourself on your user page, you will get an official welcome and some guidance on where to go for the information you will need. Best wishes. Peter. Peter I. Vardy 21:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Photo of Hillary Lappin-Scott.jpg
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Contacting Editors from the Ada Lovelace Editathons
Hi GavinThomas,

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you via your talk page. I’m a new Editor to Wikipedia, part of a small research team based at the University of Birmingham in the UK. I’m getting in touch as we’re trying to contact all the Editors who were involved in the Ada Lovelace Editathons in Oxford or London. If you have been, or still are, involved in editing, whatever the scale of your involvement, we would be very grateful for the opportunity to talk to you about your experiences. In the first instance, we’ve set up a short (10 minute) survey, which you can access via my User Talk Pages. If you are interested in helping with our research project, please can you drop me a line?

Thanks, RuthPage (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:56, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello GavinThomas, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Microbial Genomics (journal) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. /wiae /tlk  20:37, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Microbial Genomics (journal)
Hi GavinThomas. I saw that User:Blythwood put a Speedy Deletion tag on the above article, but I don't think it was correct, as the journal is peer reviewed and as such is notable within Wikipedia and deserves an article, so I have removed it Please ensure the article has all copyright material removed. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and if the article is not cleaned up quickly it may still be deleted per WP:AFD by User:Blythwood. scope_creep (talk) 23:14, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note to article creator and to : being peer-reviewed is absolutely not sufficient to declare a journal notable. I have looked at this journal and as far as I can see, it fails all criteria of WP:NJournals (the inclusion criteria for academic journals) and WP:GNG (the general notability criteria). I have put a "PROD" template on the article and will take it to AfD should that be removed. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 13:55, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Microbial Genomics (journal)


The article Microbial Genomics (journal) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable new journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Randykitty (talk) 13:51, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Microbial Genomics (journal)
Hi GavinThomas. I sorry, but I understand that your journal article is heading for the WP:AFD for deletion, since the last PROD tag has been removed. The fact that it is peer reviewed does not make it notable apparently, which I thought it would have. Sorry for misleading you.scope_creep (talk) 00:26, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Microbial Genomics (journal) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Microbial Genomics (journal) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Microbial Genomics (journal) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Randykitty (talk) 13:31, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I understand your frustration, article creation is one of the harder things to do here. Meanwhile, I've brought the article on mBio up to our standards, removing all the promotional stuff and a lot of unencyclopedic trivia. Compare it now to the article on Microbial Genomics... Some good tips on how to write good articles on scientific journals can be found in our journal article writing guide. Hope you won't give up. WP can be frustrating, but in the end also very rewarding. --Randykitty (talk) 15:58, 15 April 2017 (UTC)