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Template:Alt Image has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Trialpears (talk) 00:14, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:06, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

knitting math wisdom

Thank you for quality articles about diverse topics, including Prolate spheroidal coordinates and Lace knitting, adding missing encyclopedic articles, for "maybe you could take an article under your wing that I loved", - Willow, repeating from 4 May 2007: you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2606 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:16, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda! Das ist so lieb von Dir — herzlichen Dank! Dein strahlender Juwel und warme Worte sind mir um so kostbarer, weil sie schöne Erinnerungen von Phaedriel und unseren Gedichten erweckten. Ich freue mich sehr, dass Du diese schöne Tradition weiterführst. Scheint die Sonne, so gedeihen die Rosen, oder? So können auch Wikipedianer durch inspirierende Wärme erblühen. LG, Willow (talk) 07:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

blushing, thank you, made my day, and the roses just began to bloom - great to meet you! - Phadriel was unbelievable, picking a poem for each, and the ones I checked matching the person! (PumpkinSky, SlimVirgin ...) - Rilke for you seems also an excellent choice. Do you remember the image? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:54, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very glad. :) I remember the image well: it was a picture from a web-comic No Rest for the Wicked. Phaedriel knew somehow that was (well, and is) my favorite web-comic — perhaps I had alluded to it? — and that made her gift all the more joyful for me. The poem that Phaedriel chose for me was also perfect. Although I wish that Phaedriel (and the web-comic) would come back, I'm grateful for the memories and gladdened to think that she and the web-comic's author are out in the world, making it more beautiful. It's also lovely to think that Phaedriel's daughter is now fourteen; time does fly, doesn't it? We've all been busy. Willow (talk) 09:31, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I have nominated Cyclol for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:56, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Willow. Just to confirm, I'm happy to help out if you're interested in updating the cyclol page. I'd probably need you to do things like the book page numbers since you nkow the content better, but I can definitely do the stylistic stuff to help out. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 07:03, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Willow. It is great to see that you are active again. Enzyme inhibitor is undergoing a article review and I am trying to bring it back to FA level. I see that you were an signficant contributor to this FA article and I am hoping that you can help me, particularily with the sourcing. Dissociation constants section contains some formulas to which look very reasonble, but I have been unable to track down a source that supports this exact formulation. Equation P3 in NBK92001 comes close, but it doesin't include both alpha and alpha'. Do you have a relavant citation for this section? Cheers. Boghog (talk) 11:39, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Boghog! I will look at the formula and try to dig up a reference. Unfortunately, real-life intruded rather rudely into my life a few weeks ago and I've got my hands full. Add to that, I don't have my library with me. But I'll do my best. Willow (talk) 05:54, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Willow. I hope this message finds you well. I hope this is how I'm supposed to leave a message here and apologies if I've done it incorrectly. I wanted to message you because I noticed some wonderful-looking rainbow protein ribbon models you've uploaded in the past using the MOLMOL molecular viewer. I have this program too and have some experience using it. However, after looking through the manual and attempting an exhaustive search online, I cannot find a way to color protein ribbons by rainbow (from N-C terminus as you have done) and I was wondering if you could explain the steps by which you achieved that coloration if that is okay with you. Thank you in advance! BiomedicineLover (talk) 23:12, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BiomedicineLover, it's been roughly 15 years since I made those diagrams, so I confess, I've forgotten how I did it. It's possible that I wrote my own software to make a script for MOLMOL, but my recollection was that it was relatively easy. But I will be happy to dig through my old records and see if I can remind myself. Good luck! :) Willow (talk) 13:55, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Willow. Thank you so much for your reply! That would be great! I did notice that the figures were from about 2006. They are beautiful figures and I've always though the MOLMOL protein ribbons looked the most aesthetically pleasing compared to other molecular viewing software. I will keep looking to see what I can find. Thank you :D! BiomedicineLover (talk) 22:04, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If I understand the history correctly, you were the editor who included the section on Structural Studies in Sulfinoalanine decarboxylase and similar sections in many other enzyme articles. Unfortunately, however, Late 2007 is getting on for 15 years ago and no one seems to have updated the information since then. It seems to me that anyone who needs this information can find it in up-to-date form by following the PDB links in the infoboxes. So I'm wondering if these sections still fulfil a need. What do you think? Athel cb (talk) 15:14, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! I saw on Talk:Catullus/References/talk that you were largely responsible for compiling the bibliographies for individual poems on Catullus for Wikipedia's articles. I've been working on List of bibliographies of works on Catullus and thought you might possibly have thoughts; I've submitted it to be a featured list candidate and so would greatly appreciate any feedback or reviews if you happen to have any thoughts, but mostly I just thought you might want to know that the sources you've compiled on Wikipedia have been themselves cited a few times as a bibliography -- in an Italian edition of his Carmina and in the original Oxford Bibliography of Catullus. I realize Catullus might not one of your current editing interests on Wikipedia, but thought that this still might be of interest to you. :) Umimmak (talk) 22:17, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Universe has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:33, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

X-ray crystallography has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:30, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article Simian virus 40 late polyadenylation signal (SVLPA) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Hi. I see you’re a member of the Fashion WikiProject - I’ve made some proposals to update the article about Daphne Guinness, posted here Talk:Daphne Guinness#Request Edits for February 2023. Because I have a conflict of interest, I can’t do these edits myself. Could you have time to look at these and consider? Thank you very much.YhSA99b3tTnCnLdr (talk) 19:14, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I just noticed you became active again on wikipedia in 2021. (As of now no new contributions after June 2022 though, so I don't know your current status.)

The main reason for seeking contact: on Wikisource there is your translation of the second addendum to Leonard Euler's 'Methodus inveniendi' That translation is of great value to me.

I have created an educational resource for the following: instances of Calculus of Variations application in physics. ( Calculus of Variations )

For the introduction of Calculus of Variations I use the following two cases as motivating examples: the soap-film-stretching-between-two-parallel-concentric-rings problem, and the catenary problem. The surface areea of the soap film is a minimal surface. Also, it is a surface of revolution, so the problem can be treated as a 2-dimensional problem. The minimal surface problem and the catenary problem have the same solution: the function that describes the shape is the hyperbolic cosine function.

Interestingly: Leibniz had already solved the catenary problem. (More than a century before the introduction of calculus of variations by Euler.) Leibniz had solved it using differential calculus. What that means is that the catenary problem is a Rosetta stone for the relation between differential calculus and calculus of variations.

As far as I can tell very little has been written about Maupertuis' action concept. Hamilton's stationary action superseded Maupertuis' action concept. As far as I'm aware of: Maupertuis' action concept was never used by physicists. In his work 'Mechanique Analytique' Joseph Louis Lagrange argued that for mechanics Maupertuis' action was of no particular relevance. According to Lagrange: Maupertuis' action concept is, if anything, a corrolary rather than a principle. I concur with that assessment.

Your translation of the second addendum to the 'Methodus inveniendi' is one of very few resources for Maupertuis' action concept. I hope you may be interested in exchanging ideas about application of calculus of variations in physics.

While on the subject of wikisource contributions: back in 2011 I completed the translation of Einstein's On a heuristic point of view article that you had commenced. Actually, there was one sentence that I could not figure out. I added an entry for that on that translation's Talk page. Cleonis | Talk 19:33, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I have nominated Emmy Noether for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 20:30, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Taxonomic links has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Plantdrew (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Taxonomic references has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Plantdrew (talk) 22:41, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]