User talk:WRKYpaul2

February 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page WRKY protein domain has been reverted. Your edit here to WRKY protein domain was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://therushtonlab.wordpress.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 23:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

WRKY
Hi Paul - welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you created a new article WRKY transcription factor family. It's great to see new articles on proteins, but unfortunately this one has a problem - the text is copied directly from this paper. We can't accept text that doesn't have a Wikipedia-compatible license for reuse and redistribution of material, which that journal does not. We could certainly use an article on the topic, though, so I'd recommend that you rewrite the article with new text that cites your literature sources (you can see simple examples of how to do that on Wikipedia here).

Regarding the link mentioned above - we generally don't do links to blogging platforms like wordpress, even if you're confident in the content, because they don't meet the definition of reliable sources used here. Opabinia regalis (talk) 03:20, 5 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Just to follow up on this, I went ahead and did some rewriting of the article, both to add wikilinks for context and to avoid text identical to or closely paraphrased from the review paper you cited. I imagine you're the author, in which case it seems to make sense to re-use your existing text, except that the paper does not appear to have a license compatible with Wikipedia redistribution (in scientific publishing that's usually CC-BY, i.e. what PLoS uses, or CC-BY-SA) - am I correct on that? The paper does not have a Commons license note and does not appear in this list of the journal's OA articles. On a related note, are you sure about the copyright status of the two images you included in the article? They are listed as CC-BY-SA, but again, the paper does not seem to have that license. Feel free to continue editing the article, of course! Just want to make sure the licensing is correct. Opabinia regalis (talk) 08:18, 16 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note; glad I could help. "Self-plagiarism" is indeed a silly concept but until journals switch to open access and reusable licensing, Wikipedia will be stuck with the problem. The article's intro and history section still look close to the original papers, but you're probably still working. BTW, you might be interested in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject - I'm sure we could use more people (i.e. anyone) interested in the molecular biology of plants. Opabinia regalis (talk) 09:07, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

WRKYpaul2, you are invited to the Teahouse!
Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page WRKY protein domain, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Your edit here to WRKY protein domain was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://therushtonlab.wordpress.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:41, 6 February 2015 (UTC)