User talk:Susan Korres

Leptin
ARRTAF (talk) 20:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Please do not delete content or add commentary to Wikipedia articles based on your own personal analysis, as you recently did to Rudolph Leibel and Leptin. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources. ARRTAF (talk) 20:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Leptin part 2
Hi Susan Kores. I noticed what appears to be a disagreement between you and user ARRTAF regarding the attribution of the discovery of the leptin gene. ARRTAF has contributed on this topic to the leptin Wikipedia article (among others) and has cited published sources to corroborate that the leptin gene was co-discovered by Rudolph Leibel, Jeffrey Friedman, and their research teams at Rockefeller University together with Douglas Coleman. It appears that you have been editing ARRTAF’s contributions, deleting the inclusion of Rudolph Leibel as a co-discoverer of leptin, despite ARRTAF’s substantiation of this fact. While you have not responded to the comments ARRTAF made on your Talk page, you have made statements within some of your edit summaries that attempt to clarify your position: that Leibel cannot be attributed as the co-discover because Friedman did not include him on the paper that reported the isolation of the leptin gene. ARRTAF has successfully countered your position by referencing a preponderance of published sources that demonstrate Leibel’s role as a co-discoverer of the leptin gene. A search of the PubMed database reveals that Leibel was first author or contributing author of every paper that Friedman published in scientific journals in the early 1990s regarding the molecular genetics of obesity – until the December 1994 “Nature“ paper where Friedman excluded Leibel and others involved in the discovery. Supporting ARRTAF’s contributions is the impartial report about the events surrounding leptin’s co-discovery that journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell made in her 2002 book “The Hungry Gene.” This, among other published sources ARRTAF cites, substantiates ARRTAF’s Wikipedia contributions regarding the co-discovery of the leptin gene by Leibel and Friedman. In short, the fact that Friedman chose not to include Leibel as a co-author of a single paper and subsequently received millions of dollars in related compensation (as Shell reports) as well as many prizes and awards does not negate Leibel’s co-discoverer role and is not sufficient grounds to justify your deletion and edits of ARRTAF’s contributions. As ARRTAF referenced on your Talk page, Wikipedia strictly adheres to a neutral point of view policy. Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without bias, “all” of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources. Please consider this when making future edits and contributions in Wikipedia. I hope this is helpful to you and to ARRTAF, and encourage you to dialogue with me about it on my Talk page if you have any questions. Thank you. Pamaorg (talk) 01:47, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Citation suggestion
Hi. Thanks for your contributions to the leptin article. In case you haven't seen this yet, please check out User:Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool (instructions). Given a PubMed ID, one can quickly produce a full citation that can be copied and pasted into a Wikipedia article. This tool can save you a lot of work and ensure that the citations are displayed in a consistent manner. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 17:28, 8 August 2013 (UTC)