User talk:Ktmccusk

Your contributed article, Rare biosphere


Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Rare biosphere. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - biosphere. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at biosphere - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Status and Advice
Another admin decided (in my opinion correctly) that the article should not be deleted, as it is a valid specialized topic  but the style is not suitable for Wikipedia and you really should rewrite it. It gives the impression of being copied from other works, which is in  not permitted--even Sogin's PNAS article is s protected by copyright, even though it is open access for reading. Even if wholly original to you, the style is still that of an academic paper--but we're a general encyclopedia, and write in a considerable plainer way, assuming less familiarity with scientific vocabulary. In particular, the article needs a lead paragraph, explaining what the term means, and explaining that the concept refers to microbial systems specifically--at least all your articles refer to this, though I suppose the general technique might be used on a sample of macroorganisms as well. (If it has, I think that would be fascinating--please say so and add a reference.) In general, eee WP:FIRST for advice about our style.  DGG ( talk ) 18:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)