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==Accounts== | |||
===Account names=== | |||
In Proteopedia, each login account name shall be the real, full name of the account holder, as their name would appear as an author of a scientific publication. Middle names may be omitted or abbreviated. Titles (such as Professor or Doctor) are omitted, as they are in scientific publications. | |||
Account names shall have the ''given'' name first, and the ''family name'' last, as is the custom in scientific publications in English. (Articles may be in other languages; see [[Proteopedia:Languages]].) | |||
===User pages=== | |||
When an account is created, a User page is also created, for example [[User:Jaime Prilusky]] or [[User:Joel L. Sussman]]. Your user page is a good place to keep links to articles you are working on, articles you refer to often, a list of your contributions, and so forth. | |||
===Responsibility and credit=== | |||
Every contribution made by an account holder will be marked with their real full (account) name, at the bottom of the page under ''Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors'', and more specifically for each edit in the ''history'' tab. Thus, members are responsible for the accuracy of their contributions, and they receive credit for them. Well-developed articles will be assigned [[DOI]]. | |||
===Geographic location, institutional affiliation and position=== | |||
In order to receive an account, a member is expected to identify their city, state or province, and country, and their institutional affiliation, just as would be given for the author of a scientific publication. Also their position, for example student, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, staff member, researcher, professor. This information is displayed on each member's User page, in order to help identify them. The mention of an institutional affiliation is purely for identification, and does not signify approval of their contributions by their institution. | |||
===No Shared Accounts=== | |||
Each contributor must have their own separate personal account. Sharing of an account by multiple persons will be cause for termination of the account and banning from Proteopedia. | |||
===No duplicate accounts=== | |||
Each member may have only a single account. Attempts to create multiple accounts will be cause for termination of those accounts and banning from Proteopedia. | |||
==Links to Wikipedia== | ==Links to Wikipedia== | ||
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Do not link to Wikipedia (or to any external site) from the main body of a Proteopedia page. You may place a link to the Wikipedia page that deals with the same topic as that Proteopedia page at the bottom of that Proteopedia page in a section called "External Resources". Make "External Resources" the last section in the page, right after the "References" section. | |||
====Additional Explanation about Links to Wikipedia==== | |||
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#Any topic related to structural biology should have its own page in Proteopedia, even if initially that page contains nothing but a link to the corresponding page on the topic in Wikipedia | |||
#If the page exists within Proteopedia, you should link to it, and not to Wikipedia. | #If the page exists within Proteopedia, you should link to it, and not to Wikipedia. | ||
#If the page topic is a protein or a molecule, especially one that could benefit from Jmol applets and scenes to describe it structurally, then a "red" link to an empty page in Proteopedia might encourage someone to create the page within Proteopedia, and should be created. | #If the page topic is a protein or a molecule, especially one that could benefit from Jmol applets and scenes to describe it structurally, then a "red" link to an empty page in Proteopedia might encourage someone to create the page within Proteopedia, and should be created. | ||
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#When Wikipedia has an article relevant to Proteopedia, one should never hesitate to link to Wikipedia. However, such links to Wikipedia should nearly always be made on a page with the same topic in Proteopedia. There is no reason to duplicate what is in Wikipedia within Proteopedia. However, often Proteopedia may wish to emphasize or summarize specific aspects of a topic, whereas Wikipedia will attempt to be broad and comprehensive. That is the reason for the following rule. | #When Wikipedia has an article relevant to Proteopedia, one should never hesitate to link to Wikipedia. However, such links to Wikipedia should nearly always be made on a page with the same topic in Proteopedia. There is no reason to duplicate what is in Wikipedia within Proteopedia. However, often Proteopedia may wish to emphasize or summarize specific aspects of a topic, whereas Wikipedia will attempt to be broad and comprehensive. That is the reason for the following rule. | ||
#For most topics, and certainly when in doubt, it is better to create a new page within Proteopedia, and then put a link to Wikipedia on that Proteopedia page on the same topic. This provides a place to emphasize aspects of the topic important to Proteopedia, even though these aspects may be mentioned somewhere in Wikipedia's article. For example, the Proteopedia page on the Protein Data Bank could emphasize that new entries are released weekly, and that following each weekly release, new Proteopedia pages are created for each new entry automatically, a process called "seeding". However, the Proteopedia page on the Protein Data Bank need not repeat everything that Wikipedia says, and should certainly link to the Wikipedia article for more information. Also, we don't want to scatter links to Wikipedia's articles throughout Proteopedia articles, and then later realize it would have been better to have all those links go to to a Proteopedia article (which in turn links to Wikipedia). This would probably create a maintenance problem, trying to find and update all those links. | #For most topics, and certainly when in doubt, it is better to create a new page within Proteopedia, and then put a link to Wikipedia on that Proteopedia page on the same topic. This provides a place to emphasize aspects of the topic important to Proteopedia, even though these aspects may be mentioned somewhere in Wikipedia's article. For example, the Proteopedia page on the Protein Data Bank could emphasize that new entries are released weekly, and that following each weekly release, new Proteopedia pages are created for each new entry automatically, a process called "seeding". However, the Proteopedia page on the Protein Data Bank need not repeat everything that Wikipedia says, and should certainly link to the Wikipedia article for more information. Also, we don't want to scatter links to Wikipedia's articles throughout Proteopedia articles, and then later realize it would have been better to have all those links go to to a Proteopedia article (which in turn links to Wikipedia). This would probably create a maintenance problem, trying to find and update all those links. | ||
#If the page is unrelated to proteins or molecules (like a page for an organism), and the page exists and is useful within Wikipedia, you may link directly to Wikipedia | #If the page is unrelated to proteins or molecules (like a page for an organism), and the page exists and is useful within Wikipedia, you may link directly to Wikipedia, but ideally not within the main body of the Proteopedia page (See the [[Proteopedia:Policy#External links|external links]] section of this page) | ||
#A link to Wikipedia should be inserted as <nowiki>{{Wikipedia|PAGE NAME}}</nowiki> | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||