Talk:Principles of Biochemistry/Biosynthesis of lipids

Issue with content
This "book" chapter was created, in large part, by pasting in content from the English Wikipedia, without, in many cases, the fine sources that appear there, and/or, without presenting corrections that have been made there. It is consequently a poorer presentation of material, than were we instead to give students a reading list of the current Wikipedia articles whose content was herein extracted. This is a fundamental problem across Wikipedia, but especially an issue for the books derived from en.wikipedia, and the plain English articles likewise derived. None of us have time to correct/update things in multiple places. If the technocrats and leaders cannot offer you a means to automatically propagate corrections and changes made at your source document, to this book chapter, then there is no hope for a correct and up-to-date volume—this is an exercise in self-delusion as to its value. Compare the Non-mevalonate pathway Figure (which I updated) and the Table (which I did not) to the same content on en.wikipedia, to fully understand the point being made. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (discuss • contribs) 06:44, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Be very careful
With regard to discussing BLP subjects, absent any sources at all, as you do in the boxed story mentioning Ben Johnson, Wade Exum, and Evelyn Ashford. I would either source the content, checking the content against those sources, or delete the whole thing. As bad as the discipline of complying with WP:VERIFY is at en.wikipedia, this book endeavour, if this chapter is any indication, is on target to become not the encyclopedia's "poorer cousin," but its absolulte bankrupt one. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (discuss • contribs) 06:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)