User talk:Iamwillthinnes/Bio460Sandbox

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A bit of confusion here...
Jtrivedi92 and Iamwillthinnes, there is clearly some confusion about this assignment – at least I’m pretty confused about what you have posted. I see that you both set up new sandboxes with your article suggestions and that Jtrivedi92 posted Xist as your choice article on the course page. I'm clear this far….

The idea underlying this part of the assignment was for you to create one new project sandbox that both of you would use (putting a link on both user pages). Both of you would post suggestions for WP articles to edit on this shared project sandbox. Then both of you would discuss with each other on the sandbox talk page which of the articles you liked best and why. By looking for references about each article, you might have some idea of how hard or easy it would be to find good sources to expand the article as well as possibly finding articles for your presentation. By discussing on the sandbox talk page, I would know what you were thinking and I’d be less confused.

It looks to me like Jtrivedi92 identified 2 WP articles that are development-related stubs much in need of expansion, but not related to your presentation topic and Iamwillthinnes found two journal articles that are possible primary sources for your presentation and (I think) could serve as references to expand the Xist article, but did not actually specify WP articles for expansion?

If this is correct, here are some of my thoughts…. Xist already has a lot of content. It could be expanded and improved, but an article that is not as complete would be easier to improve. It looks like Iamwillthinnes has identified several journal articles on Tsix. Instead of expanding the section on Tsix in the Xist article, why not expand the Tsix article. This is just a stub and an orphan, so the first thing to to might be to insert a link to Tsix (gene) in the Xist article. As I reviewed the Xist article and the section in Gilbert related to your presentation I noticed two other topics, Dosage compensation, and Polycomb-group proteins that are also stubs if either of those are more interesting to you.

Please merge your two project sandboxs into one (it doesn’t matter which one, but maybe since my comments are here you might stick with this one), and insert a link to the one you are both using on your User pages. Then please take a look at articles I mentioned above and discuss in your project sandbox talk page (i.e. this page) to select something you both want to work on. I know some of this was pretty confusing so let me know if you have more questions. Biolprof (talk) 03:44, 10 February 2014 (UTC) (aka Dr. O)


 * When you have reached a consensus or if you want more feedback from me, you can alert me by inserting my user name anywhere on the posting like I did with your names at the beginning of this post. If your not sure whether you did it correctly, you can send me an email. :-) Biolprof (talk) 17:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Which article?
I think we should work on the Tsix article for our project. I found an interesting research article about it, and it relates to our group presentation well. What do you think? Iamwillthinnes (talk) 02:51, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Article choice
I agree with the Tsix article, it's a stub and could use work. Also we there are research articles available. Biolprof said that it would work as an article. Jtrivedi92 (talk) 02:53, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Tsix Improvements
The page could be broken up into sections. The first could be an intro, and the later ones can delve into its function and, if we can find it, how it is regulated.

See normal article page of this article for improvements. Iamwillthinnes (talk) 03:54, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

We can add links to Tsix page on the Dosage Compensation page and Xist page. Iamwillthinnes (talk) 03:13, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Just did that :) Jtrivedi92 (talk) 03:17, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Active References List
Sébastien Vigneau, Sandrine Augui, Pablo Navarro, Philip Avner and Philippe Clerc. "An Essential Role for the DXPas34 Tandem Repeat and Tsix Transcription in the Counting Process of X Chromosome Inactivation."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.Vol. 103, No. 19 (May 9, 2006), pp. 7390-7395. []

Huntington F. Willard and Laura Carrel. "Making Sense (and Antisense) of the X Inactivation Center." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 98, No. 18 (Aug. 28, 2001), pp. 10025-10027. []

Additional resource
As you think about what to include and how to organize the page, you may find it helpful to refer to the Style guide for gene and protein articles set up by the WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology. Biolprof (talk) 23:54, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Talk pages vs article/sandbox/user pages
User:Iamwillthinnes & User:Jtrivedi92, WP pages can be confusing places. The talk page should be for anything that you want to communicate to someone else or the entire WP community about the article or sandbox page (or with a specific user on their User talk page). Everything that you enter on a talk page should be signed. Anything that is potential content for your article should go in the user sandbox/project page. Thus, the "Active references list" on this talk page should actually be on the sandbox page. Hope this helps. Also, please put a link to the sandbox page on each of your user pages so I can find it easily. Thanks, Biolprof (talk) 18:37, 16 March 2014 (UTC)