Talk:Edward J. Steele

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I stumbled over this page after having a discussion with my boss (who was taught by Steele). The article was a bit of a shambles so I did some google searching and hopefully improved it a bit. IMO it reads like an essay so i have tagged it as such as I think it needs some wikification. I know I have at least three or four experienced editors watching every edit I make, so maybe one of them can comment, or wikify the article? R:128.40.76.3 17:01, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

COI Edward J. Steele[edit]

Hi Jack, I noticed that you tagged Edward J. Steele with a COI. Just out of curiosity, which section of the article represents a COI? I found the article was unsourced, and discovered the unfair dismissal stuff from google whilst trying to reference the article (as per WP:NLP). Interestingly my supervisor went to University of Wollongong as an undergraduate and took Steele's Immunology course. He lent me a copy of Lamarck's Signature to obtain some background on my own Immunology based chemical biology project. I just hope that I am not part of the COI problem! R:128.40.76.3 13:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I have not met Steele, or even been to Australia for that matter. I think the article remains quite neutral though. R:128.40.76.3 13:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You implied a WP:COI in your post to the article talk page and again here. --Jack Merridew 13:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Really? After reading through WP:COI, I do not see any criteria which suggests I have implied a COI. I do not have an interest in Immunology (I hardly understand the area), but I do have an interest in Chemical Biology. And I have no close relationship with the subject,and even my boss does not know Steele personally (here was merely a student in an undergraduate course). I mearly added the comment to request that someone else have a look at the article as I have limited experience in preparing/expenading BIO articles and would like some advice. R:128.40.76.3 13:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I side with R. I don't see any evidence that his boss having been taught by the subject would necessarily constitute a COI. R is also telling us that he/she does not have a conflict of interest. Is there any other evidence weighing in on the other side of the matter? Silly rabbit 14:48, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is no evidence to suggest a COI, and I have removed the nonsense tag. I suggest if it to be replaced, then appropriate justifications from WP:COI be entered here on the talk page. R:128.40.76.3 09:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relationship to Ed Steele[edit]

I have no relationship to Ted Steele only through a mutual friend. He asked me to help him improve his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation page. I realized his own Wikipage needed improvement and so volunteered (free) to improve it in content and accuracy using many of the citations from the Somatic Hypermutation page. BSmith821 (talk) 22:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Australian Librarians : I have been struggling to improve the Edward J. Steele page . Any help or guidance you can provide is appreciate. 24.69.170.250 (talk) 02:05, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New paper I believe should be sited. “Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?” in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular[edit]

In 2018 Steele led a group of over 30 international scientists and scholars, from a wide range of disciplines, in publishing a paper entitled “Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?” in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.^[1] (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798)"

One particular focus in the paper were the recent studies which date the emergence of the complex retroviruses of vertebrate lines at or just before the Cambrian Explosion of ～500 Ma. Such viruses are known to be plausibly associated with major evolutionary genomic processes.

Steele has commented "..It make makes sense that any space-hardy living system landing in a new cosmic habitat could rapidly adapt to its new niche assisted by Lamarckian directional evolutionary processes involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics..."

Hope this is acceptable. BSmith821 (talk) 03:34, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Steele, Edward J.; Al-Mufti, Shirwan; Augustyn, Kenneth A.; Chandrajith, Rohanna; Coglan, John P.; Coulson, S.G.; Ghosh, Sudipto; Gillman, Mark; Gorzczynski, Reginald M.; Klyce, Brig; Louis, Godfrey; Mahanama, Kithsiri; Oliver, Keith R.; Padron, Julio; Qu, Jianwen; Schuster, John A.; Smith, W. E.; Snyder, Duane P.; Steele, Julian A.; Stewart, Brent J.; Temple, Robert; Tokoro, Gensuke; Tout, Christopher A.; Unzicker, Alexander; Wainwright, Milton; Wallis, Jamie; Wallis, Daryl H.; Wallis, Max K.; Wetherall, John; Wickramasinghe, D. T.; Wickramasinghe, J. T.; Wickramasinghe, N. Chandra; Yongsheng, Liu (13 March 2018). "Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Elsevier. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.004. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); External link in |doi= (help)

Could someone define or explain the terms "soft marking" and "upgrading"?[edit]

Could someone elaborate on the meaning of the terms "soft marking" and "upgrading" That is, upgrading of full fee paying international students. I cannot find a definition of those terms, which might be Australian English. I can't find any news articles, which might give a hint. The terms are in the article section titled "Dismissal and dispute". The complete sentence is "...Steele made several allegations to the media in regard to 'soft' marking resulting in the upgrading of full fee paying international students..." 68.35.185.82 (talk) 18:40, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Steele, Edward J.; Al-Mufti, Shirwan; Augustyn, Kenneth A.; Chandrajith, Rohanna; Coglan, John P.; Coulson, S.G.; Ghosh, Sudipto; Gillman, Mark; Gorzczynski, Reginald M.; Klyce, Brig; Louis, Godfrey; Mahanama, Kithsiri; Oliver, Keith R.; Padron, Julio; Qu, Jianwen; Schuster, John A.; Smith, W. E.; Snyder, Duane P.; Steele, Julian A.; Stewart, Brent J.; Temple, Robert; Tokoro, Gensuke; Tout, Christopher A.; Unzicker, Alexander; Wainwright, Milton; Wallis, Jamie; Wallis, Daryl H.; Wallis, Max K.; Wetherall, John; Wickramasinghe, D. T.; Wickramasinghe, J. T.; Wickramasinghe, N. Chandra; Yongsheng, Liu (13 March 2018). "Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Elsevier. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.004. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); External link in |doi= (help)

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