User talk:Dancanm

A few tips:

• Integrate your article into other articles, including wikilinks and categories. That way others will see it and hopefully offer improvements.
• Conversely, wikilink appropriate terms in your own article: paclitaxel, docetaxel, etc.
• Add a Infobox to your article, possibly {{Drugbox}}. This should help in formatting, otherwise I think your structure is set up pretty good.
• Place a {{WikiProject Pharmacology}} on the article's talk page so it will be noticed by those involved in the Pharmacology WikiProject.
• Additionally, you can start a discussion on your article at the Pharmacology Project or solicit active editors there.

Hope this helps! Hoof Hearted 16:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Fusion mechanism

Much better! Thanks for expanding that, I think people will definitely get a more informative view now. Have you considered writing the cell fusion page too? Viperphantom 19:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Adoption: Welcome!

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your recent adoption, Dancanm, and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw that you have expressed an interest in being adopted by an experienced editor. Being an experienced editor myself, I accepted your request. Whether you want to learn about wiki markup, find something to do, or just talk to somebody, I'm the person to see about it - just leave a message on my talk page. Remember, I am willing to help you and make your time here more enjoyable. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and remember to "be BOLD!"- I'm here to help you; no question is a stupid one. In the mean time, here are some pages that you might find helpful, in case you haven't already gotten the official welcoming:

• What adoption is all about and how it will affect you.
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome and congratulations!

It seems as though you are already very involved in the project, so the following is a list of what will be covered in the adoption program, you just tell me what you know and don't know, and we'll work from there!

• Step 1: Welcome, policy, and basic editing
• Step 2: Referencing
• Step 3: Article Improvement
• Step 4: Vandal Fighting
• Step 5: WP:PRODs and WP:AfDs
• Step 6: WP:CSDs
• Step 7: WP:RfA
• Final Exam: Writing a new article

Adoption: Task 3

Alright, sorry about the delay, see Template:No-Internet... I'll be on a bit more, I promise. We'll get started now. Just a quick note, remember to sign your posts on all talk pages by puttting four tildes ~, on the page. Like so: --~~~~ Granted the fact that I'm stuck using a UK keyboard, which is a crap load more different then one would have imagined, please bear with me on any typos that I make. The following is task 3: (loading the page now) Alright, we've covered fixing minor things, and citing sources, so let's start making some major improvements to articles. Though there are many different things, we'll just go to Wikipedia:Cleanup, which is a big list of articles needing cleanup. You'll also want to find an article that could use more information, a stub would be the best for this, as they are already short, and could always use more complete information. Now, on to the assignment.

Assignment:

NOTE: For this step, I'm a bit vague, because this is just putting all the stuff you've learned together, and just telling you to add some information. BUT if you need any help, just leave me a message on my talk page. First, find an article that needs cleanup on that list, and figure out what's wrong with it. Try to avoid using articles that need sources for this assignment, but by all means add sources to those anyway. Try to do things that need to cooperate with style guidelines, or articles that have large amounts of incorrect information, etc. Remember to site any new information that you add. You don't have to fix the WHOLE article, if it's short, then go for it, if it's long, only do a section. If you WANT to fix the whole thing, by all means, do it!

1. 1. UPDATE: Excellent job! You added a lot of information, and fixed the article up a lot. I personally think it's a few minor things away from coming off the cleanup list, but don't worry, you just concentrate on the stub, I'll take care of that article.
2. Now, find an article that needs more information, like a stub article, or even an established article that lacks some information. Add some information, properly reference it, and save the page.
3. Send me the diff, and we'll move on!

NOTE! This is just a note for the upcoming step, Step 4 is Vandal Fighting, so you may wish to use Twinkle to fight vandals. Twinkle is an advanced tool that makes everything mostly automated. When you reply on my page with your diffs, please tell me whether you wish to use Twinkle or not, so I can customize the next step for you. Out of curiosity: Do you need any help? You haven't responded, and I'm just making sure you're around. If you don't need any help, great, if you don't reply to this in a few days, I'll assume you're away at the moment, and give you some breathing room. Thanks! ----HAL2008_TK ^CT 14:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! Don't worry about it, just get to it when you can. Though I do have to give you grief about one thing. You have to remember to sign your comments by putting ~~~~ at the end of your comment, it's in the rules, see WP:SIG --HAL2008_TK ^CT 15:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Great! If you just make signing a habit, then you'll... not make people angry, and you won't get a Template:Uw-sign notice.--HAL2008_TK ^CT 15:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Agent study

Looks better now, I removed the {{context}} tag. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 12:19, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Inactive?

Hi, your last adoption contact was more than 2 weeks ago, and your last contribution was a week ago. I am about to add you to my inactive adoptees list, you can take any following action:
If you would like to stay active: Just contact me! I won't add you to the list!
If you do nothing: You will be marked as "inactive", YOU WILL NOT BE TAKEN OFF THE ADOPTION LIST, you will stay an adoptee until you contact me again, ready to continue.
If you wish to be taken off the adoption list: Just contact me saying so, and I will cancel your adoption, and you can go on. There is no problem with this! And feel free to do this if you wish.
Just contact me with your choice. Also, it should be noted that I have applied for a name change, if successful, my new username will be HAL. Thank you. --HAL2008HAL?talk 03:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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