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Changes to WP:COMPBIO landing page
Hi Alex, I've made some changes to the WikiProject landing page. Part of the new page lists the off-wiki collaborations including the ISCB article competition, for which I've named you as a contact — if you object to this please remove it. Similarly feel free to improve the competition text or any other part! Thanks, benmoore 12:47, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
ISCB competition
Hi Alex,
I think the ISCB competition is fantastic and students/trainees have already made some nice additions to several of the articles. However one common problem that I see in several of the additions is that they tend to include instructions for how to use a computational biology program and this conflicts with WP:NOTHOWTO. Also there is a tendency to add material that reads like a text book. While the competition announcement states that "all content ... must adhere to the basic policies and guidelines", I think it would be helpful if the announcement included a caution about these types of common mistakes with a link to Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, textbook, or scientific journal. Including this caution hopefully would make the process less frustrating for both the students and fellow Wikipedia editors. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 14:45, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have a specific example of an article I can point to for this? I hadn't really noticed this being an issue before. Alexbateman (talk) 15:02, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Perhaps this is a special case, but one especially problematic example is pharmacogenomics. Boghog (talk) 16:02, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
ISCB competition 2014
Hi Alex. I was wondering if the winners for the ISCB article writing competition 2014 have been declared. Also, if there is any further prospect of having a 2015 edition of the competition. I really loved the idea of this competition and would be really excited to know if it continuing further or not. Thanks. Vivek Rai (talk) 11:30, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Vivek. You can find the results of the 2014 competition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISCB_competition_announcement_2014.
- We plan to run the competition again this year and would be great if you can participate in some way. Alexbateman (talk) 12:43, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Catalytic Triad
Hello again, I'm here to ask if you'd be able to cast your eye over the catalytic triad page. It's been a pet project of mine over the last two years (since it used to be dreadful). I've put it through a Good Article review, but I'm contacting you, Craig Townsend, and Alexander Wlodawer to make sure I've not made any mistakes. Eventually, it'd be great to get it up to Featured Article status T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 12:10, 21 August 2015 (UTC)