User talk:Rob Scarrow

P450 picture
Hi Rob,

Thanks for pointing out the error! The file is an SVG, so it can be edited in Inkscape. I'll fix it and let you know when it's done! --Slashme (talk) 14:33, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

OK, there seems to be a bug happening right now on Wikimedia's servers, so I've broken the picture and can't immediately upload a new one. This is a first for me! --Slashme (talk) 15:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Whew, now it's working again! Thanks again for the fix, and please do check the text for mistakes. This is slightly depressing: my M.Sc. thesis will now forever have that mistake. I'll have to email my mentor and ask him to put in an erratum!

Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, and please help improve the articles! As for your question on whether you have permission to fix the picture, that's explicitly the case for anything on Wikipedia. Remember, you can't break anything, because every edit since the start of the article is right there on the "history" tab, so anything can be retrieved. Also, if people are rude or impatient with you, just laugh it off: there are self-important fools here just like everywhere else.

I've put a "welcome" template on your page - it's a generic one for people who have already decided to give their students some tasks on Wikipedia - that was not my implication, but it has some useful links, so I'm keeping it there. The background to that template: As a lecturer, you might like to give your students Wikipedia tasks. It has been shown that students are more careful in their work and less likely to plagiarise if they publish it on Wikipedia, because they know that others will see, use, and judge their work. For ideas on what kind of things need work, take a look at WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Worklist and especially (for student projects) Category:Biochemistry stubs! Did you know that anyone who manages to enlarge a stub five times, using good references, can get their work on the front page of wikipedia, through the Wikipedia "Did You Know" program? --Slashme (talk) 15:20, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

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List of steroid abbreviations
Hi Rob, another thought:

I started a list of steroid abbreviations on Wikipedia, mostly for my own reference. You might find it useful, and maybe you or someone in your department can correct or add to it. --Slashme (talk) 15:32, 22 April 2012 (UTC)