User talk:Rjwilmsi/Archives/2017/December

Category:Wikipedians who like NationStates
Hey! Based on your edits to NationStates, I thought maybe you would be interested that I started a series of userboxes for the game. Feel free to add any or add your own!- 🐦Do☭torWho42 ( ⭐ ) 05:38, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from Canada's Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

"Link rot" in Wikipedia - Cryofixation.
Hello Rjwilmsi,

I am Keith Ryan, now retired (in 2004) from the Marine Biological Association (Plymouth, UK), Plymouth Marine Laboratory and University of Plymouth.

Apologies for this approach, I don't know any other way. I am writing after seeing you edited "Cryofixation" recently.

I noticed a while ago that the link from Reference 5 - Ryan, Keith P. (1992). "Cryofixation of tissues for electron microscopy: a review of plunge cooling methods". Scan. Microsc. 6 (3): 715–743, went dead sometime after the journal "Scanning Microscopy" "folded" in 1998. I could probably provide a PDF copy of this paper similar to that for Reference 3 by Dubochet et al. My finding about the efficiency of ethane in plunge-cooling is about the only real contribution that I made to science.

However, I wouldn't know what to do with it! If you would like to see the link made good, any advice would be appreciated. My knowledge of editing on Wikipedia has "withered on the vine" since I wrote the article "Dartmoor Preservation Association" a while ago. I would like to fix this link as I used to know Jacques Dubochet (co-Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 2017), having spoken at meetings where he also spoke - this is my only claim to an Almost Nobel Prize!

Best wishes for 2018 - Keith Ryan — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoadRunnerCwll (talk • contribs) 16:43, 27 December 2017 (UTC) Apologies for not signing, I am way out of practice. RoadRunnerCwll (talk) 13:08, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Having a free-access full text link to a published paper is always welcome. If you have a PDF or scan, and licencing permits, then I would look to upload it to the Internet Archive and then add the url to the citation in the article. Regards Rjwilmsi  15:37, 30 December 2017 (UTC)