Talk:Stem cell

Article Checklist for "Stem cell"

Workgroup category or categories	Biology Workgroup, Health Sciences Workgroup [Editors asked to check categories]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Matt Mahlmann 17:10, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

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Hi David, just read through this quickly and noticed the references you are adding cite specific page numbers. Do you think we need such detailed cites? It may be fine to just have the same reference cited multiple times. Chris Day (Talk) 23:02, 8 February 2007 (CST)

I just made an example edit, please feel free to revert if that's not you want. Just want to make sure you know the option is available. Certainly this could be done for the first two uses of the bioessay article since they are literally identical even to the page number. Likewise i added the template to the stem cell picture you uploaded earlier, again, as i was not sure if you knew that option was available. Chris Day (Talk) 23:10, 8 February 2007 (CST)

Thank you for informing me of the existence of inline reference syntax that allows multiple occurrences of the same reference number. The specific page numbers may be useful to the reader who wishes to review the source material in the journals cited. However, where the references are entirely identical, they can be combined. David Ellis 22:16, 11 February 2007 (CST)

Those recent edits makes a lot more sense. Certainly reduces the redundancy in the refererence section. Chris Day (Talk) 22:44, 11 February 2007 (CST)

Way more can be written about stem cells before the article goes in to usages. Morphology (looks like lymphocyte?), location in body, a flow chart for words like pleuripotent, totipotent, etc, etc. Examples of specific known stem cells...History, discovery, how they are cultured, medium cultured on, ways of making them differentiate... I just think the article jumps in to political stuff too fast and could hit the basic science first. -Tom Kelly (Talk) 23:24, 11 February 2007 (CST)