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It may seem silly to reply to a bot, but I might as well justify myself. In edition Telomerase_RNA_component, I wanted a wikilink to the word template to clarify the meaning of that word in the context of the article (especially to readers for whom English is not the native language). Disambiguation pages often contain entries to Wikipedia pages that are specific to the meaning desired, but in this case the meaning desired was in the "Molecular genetics" section — which only contains links to DNA and RNA. Moreover, for reverse transcriptase, RNA is serving as a template for DNA, not for protein. But linking to the disambiguation page gives lots of relevant information that will make the concept of "template" clear enough to non-English speakers or children. --Ben Best 13:12, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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OK, I think I have figured-out how to do this. -- Ben Best:Talk 15:26, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

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How can I contact SENS to verify the permission on that photograph? The file will be deleted unless we can verify the authorship (see c:Commons:Grandfathered old files). Magog the Ogre (t • c) 00:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

• send a message to Aubrey de Grey at aubrey@sens.org --Ben Best:Talk 04:02, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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• • The edit created an apparent error because it referenced a citation in a different section than the section I was editing. However, there was no error when my editing was complete because the reference was able to access the other section. --Ben Best:Talk 11:01, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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I am in China where I am forced to use a VPN because China will not allow GMAIL. The quality of my edits does not justify blocking my ability to edit on Wikipedia until November 2017. Additionally, I will be returning from China next week. Ben Best:Talk 06:31, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

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• Hello, you can ignore the above, this article is not being considered for deletion. Thanks for your work! Crow^Caw 18:14, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

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The problem was due to an "|" which was in the parameter field, but was not a parameter marker. It has been fixed. --Ben Best:Talk 01:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, I removed an additional coindance source you added to the Bitcoin article. In general one source is enough. Sometimes two sources might be good in the case where content is controversial (meaning other editors suggest to delete it). But in general one is enough. There is an essay about this called WP:OVERKILL that also talks about too many sources. Mostly that overkill essay is about edit warring and I am not suggesting you were doing that. Just wanted to show you the essay in case you were curious. Happy editing :-) Jtbobwaysf (talk) 10:14, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

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Please stop adding unsourced promotional content hyping the Latest and Greatest Whatever. This is not a newspaper or a blog. Jytdog (talk) 19:24, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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• You are the one engaging in unjustified reversions and edit warring. But you are too nasty a person to deal with and I am not prone to fighting like you are, so I will not carry this issue any further and will allow your reversion to stand. --Ben Best:Talk 21:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:24, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

• I do not own STEEM or participate in the Steemit social networking community. I was updating a page was reading for the first time to make the information current. You continue to defame my character without any evidence, which shows what a nasty temperament you have. Please be more civilized. --Ben Best:Talk 21:50, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying that you don't hold Steem. Our articles on cryptocurrencies have been getting hammered by people hyping them, editing and behaving badly. The community has already indeffed two people coming out of those communities and I imagine there will be more to come. Jytdog (talk) 01:20, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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Deleted article has been restored & moved to Draft namespace

After a speedy deletion of the International School of Temple Arts article, I asked that it be restored. An administrator has restored it &, at a user's request, has moved it to Draft:International School of Temple Arts. I would suggest expanding the article as best as possible from the stuff.co.nz, redrocknews.com, & brigitte.de sources. There is also http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/als-teilnehmer-bei-einem-tantra-seminar-splitternackt-1.3757783?reduced=true, which is behind a paywall & is in German. Peaceray (talk) 07:08, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Mention of the topic

Were does either one of these refs mention the topic in question?

"Cholesterol crystals are believed to both impair myelin repair and aggrevate inflammation."

Also please read WP:MEDRS. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

• • Did you read either of these papers before asking your question or deleting my entry? It is hard to believe that you did.
  • First reference (comment on the second reference), first paragraph: "...insufficient clearance (phagocytosis) of damaged myelin by aged macrophages results in accumulation of cholesterol crystals in these cells, which elicits a maladaptive inflammatory reaponse that is associated with impaired remyelination>'
  • Second reference (Science 359:684 (2018), in this case all you needed to do was to read the abstract in order to see: "Aged phagocytes accumulated excessive amounts of myelin debris, which triggered cholesterol crystal formation and phagolysosomal membrane rupture and stimulated inflammasomes... inducing a maladaptive immune response that impedes tissue regeneration."

--Ben Best:Talk 12:58, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Apologies was looking at the wrong source. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:12, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

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Possible class project on the SASP page

I am thinking about having my 300 level Biology of Aging do a Wikipedia project on the Senescent-Asssociated secretory phenotype page this spring semester. Do you think there is enough there for a small class project to make a figure and to build on your work on the the page?Jparcoeur (talk) 12:12, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

I think that there is much that could be studied on this project, but I don't think I am able to answer your question. And I don't know what you mean by "make a figure" (a summary illustration?). If you are having trouble with having enough material, you could expand the subject to all properties of senescent cells. --Ben Best:Talk 15:27, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Ben Best for deletion

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Endothelin edits

On my talk page you said, I am not confusing endothelin with endothelium, but I did mis-spell as endothelin-1 as endothelium-1. I generally avoid "revert wars", but I reverted your revert in this case because I did not notice my mis-spelling, and because the information I wrote was solidly based on information in the review articles I cited. One of these articles is easily enough accessed by PMC text: Endothelial function and the regulation of muscle protein anabolism in older adults so you can see for yourself. Unless you have access to a university library system, you may not have access to the other article, but the information I reproduced is accurate. Please revert your revert.

Your content and choice of sources are off topic. There are several reviews on endothelin (not about endothelium). --Zefr (talk) 19:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

You are confusing my mis-spelling with being off-topic and you are not reading the papers I cited to verify that the subject of those papers included discussion about endothelin-1. It is incorrect to conclude that the paper titled "Endothelial function and the regulation of muscle protein anabolism in older adult" does not included the information about endothelin-1 that I described. You could verify this by reading the paper rather than just looking at the title. For the other paper, in the paragraph before Protection from adverse effects of risk factors the Seals, et al paper states "Expression of ET‐1 in vascular endothelial cells increases with age in sedentary healthy men (Donato et al. 2009)." where ET-1 is abbreviated from endothelin-1 at the top of that paragraph. Please revert your revert (with the spelling correction, of course). --Ben Best:Talk 19:24, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Caps and redirect bypassing in journal names

You should cite journals like this instead. Journals should not be capitalized, and redirects should not be bypassed (this is especially important because if a journal is created in the future, we want readers to be taken to the journal article, and not the lists). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:42, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

You're still doing this BTW. It's annoying to have to clean up after you when this could simply be done correctly the first time. Please be more considerate in the future. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:24, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your patience @Headbomb (Headbomb) or even your impatience, and I apologize for my lack of understanding what you were telling me. I now understand that you have created redirections for the "Trends (journals)" journals which do not have wikipedia entries, such that if I write | journal = Trends in Ecology & Evolution or | journal = Trends in Molecular Medicine, both will redirect to the "Trends (journals)" page. That simplifies things. I would rather use this facility than capitalization and redirection. Have you implemented redirection for every journal under "List of MDPI academic journals" ? The notes at the top of that page only list redirection for Aerospace (journal) and Biosensors (journal). What other journal lists has redirection been implemented for? I think it would be helpful to put note informing other Wikipedia editors of the redirection facility at the top of such pages, to be more general than the Aerospace and Biosensors journals. I would do this myself, except that I defer to your vast editing knowledge. I may not literally be a "newbie", but compared to you I am. -- Ben Best:Talk 12:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Most journals have redirects setup yes. It's possible some of the newer ones don't, but redlinks are fine to have. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:19, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

I have attempted to emulate your efforts by creating a redirect page for the journal Integrative medicine research Integrative Medicine Research to List of Elsevier periodicals#I, but it doesn't look up to your standards. So perhaps you can clean-up this mess I made as well, @Headbomb. --Ben Best:Talk 16:24, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

I failed to capitalize all initial letters in the journal article, but can't seem to fix that mistake, @Headbomb. --Ben Best:Talk 16:29, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Like I said, redlinks are fine, see WP:REDLINKS. You don't have to create redirects. Redirects were created for MDPI and Frontiers because those publishers churn journals like people give candy at Halloween, and most MDPI/Frontiers journals aren't individually notable. It's also pretty easy to find if a journal is published by MDPI or Frontiers, and there's not much else you need to know about individual journals. Elsevier publications however, are hugely varied, published under dozens of imprints, regularly acquired, sold, etc... which makes mass redirects to List of publications much less desirable, or needed. s Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Again, here. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:13, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Pterostilbene edits

On my talk page, you said: You cited MDPI, although the journals are reported to be of variable quality. What evidence do you have that Molecules is not of acceptable quality, other than the apparent bias you have against Pterostilbene? Do you really believe you are being objective about this subject, or about me?

Publishing in MDPI is a WP:REDFLAG for Wikipedia editors because we know editorial practices may be compromised or absent. There seems to be general agreement by medical editors that each article in an MDPI journal be assessed individually, with skepticism.

Concerning this edit, which I suggest should be viewed as possibly non-replicable results (see WP:MEDANIMAL and WP:WHYMEDRS), this lab research does not belong in a section on Research because it is far too preliminary and potentially misleading to non-medical readers, WP:NOTJOURNAL #7. As we have for the Research section on Resveratrol, the Research section should be devoted to the highest-quality human studies available. Such a qualification is self-limiting for pterostilbene because there is no "high-quality human research" on this compound. For many articles, such as endothelin and pterostilbene, your editing indicates a preference to treat lab research as informative about human health or disease (pharmacokinetics is a separate matter). You are right - I disagree, and will continue to challenge, preferring that an encyclopedia is WP:NOTEVERYTHING and follows rigorous WP:MEDRS reviews. Zefr (talk) 17:13, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata journal links

In edits like these, please don't add Wikidata links like you did. Linking on Wikipedia should be to Wikipedia articles, not Wikidata entries. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:45, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Phytic acid, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. You need to consider your sources more carefully, as you are choosing references poorly for several articles you have edited. A strong WP:MEDRS review source would be needed to make statements about anti-cancer effects. Check first the FDA or EFSA websites to see where regulatory agencies have reviewed anti-cancer evidence - you won't find any for phytic acid. Be more careful. Zefr (talk) 21:39, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

On what grounds do you justify your claim that reviews in the Journal of Nutrition or Journal of AOAC International are unreliable sources? --Ben Best:Talk 22:03, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

This statement reveals the issue with your editing: you are not reading (not understanding?) WP:MEDRS. It is not a matter of general reliability, but rather an issue of expertise by authors and editorial boards on the field of medicine and anti-disease evidence for Wikipedia content. Neither of those sources is a location where experts on human diseases publish - see WP:MEDASSESS - "Assessing evidence quality" means editors should determine quality of the type of source and quality of the publication. Respect the levels of evidence." Try to understand this: you are placing a significant amount of misinformation into the encyclopedia because your choice of sources for nutrition, human health, and anti-disease topics is often from non-expert literature, then you misinterpret (such as from lab research on rodents) a human health benefit or anti-disease effect. This produces misinformation that unsuspecting users may believe, and creates work for other medical editors to correct your errors. Zefr (talk) 22:17, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Re: BioMed Central

Hi ben, the BMC series is BioMed Central's own collection of journals, led by their own staff editors. The other titles on their platform are led by independent academic editorial boards, and often owned by other organisations (societies, institutes, etc) contracting the publishing platform etc from BioMed Central. There's more info explaining it here: https://www.biomedcentral.com/p/the-bmc-series-journals Joe D (t) 18:45, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for starting this article. The scope seems to be the cardiac ganglionated plexuses (or plexi), so it's worth considering a page move to include the work 'cardiac' in the title. I think that this is relevant, because, for example, the enteric nervous system consists of a set of ganlionated plexuses. There is much more than can be added, so I think that the 'stub' template is still warranted.

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