Talk:Biobank

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Hello. I would like to get in touch with the author for this 'Biobank' article. (email address redacted)

[edit] Article scope

Some weeks ago, I edited this article heavily to remove the how-to guide and original research, but I was reverted, so here I am to try again. An shrill edit summary in the article history complained I 'emasculated' the article, which is interesting. I've been here for a while and I didn't know until today that Wikipedia articles had gender issues.

I've formatted the lead to conform with the Manual of Style - I don't know what purpose the old formatting served, but it doesn't conform to guidelines or the rest of the encyclopedia. I've also re-introduced the external links section and moved some ELs in the body of the article to the EL section. The lone image that was used was, unfortunately, copied from the manufacturer's website, but the uploader claimed it was in the public domain. Therefore, it was speedy-deleted under our criteria for speedy deletion I9 as a blatant copyright infringement.

This article is about a biobank, not about DNA extraction, RNA extraction, genotyping, or the numerous techniques and media and storage used in molecular biology. Category:Molecular biology, Category:DNA profiling techniques, and Category:Biochemistry each contain several articles to use a table called 'approaches to sample collection' and much of the other good information that does not belong here.

I hope I'm being clear enough. I'm not saying that the information is not encyclopedic, because it very well may be if handled in the right way. I'm simply saying that this article is the wrong place for it. People who want to know about genetic fingerprinting, Phenol-chloroform extraction, RFLP and/or PCR are going to go to those articles, not here.

A layperson who wants to know about a biobank doesn't particularly care about which sample medium provides what result. It's like an article about a car that has a big section in the middle about how the tires are manufactured. The tires are important, but that information is out of place in an article about the car. It's a distraction from the main topic, which is the car.

Biobanks come with some controversy, as I'm learning during research for this article. There are several books on the subject, and that's the content about which visitors will want to read. I have added references and will continue to add relevant information to the article over the next several weeks. Please stay on topic, which does not include a tutorial on how to make the tires samples. - KrakatoaKatie 20:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)