2008/12/18 David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>om>:
WP is a survey of knowledge at the encylopedic
level--it does not
include each scientific report separately, but at the summary level
that would correspond ,ore closely to a published review article. If
a journal publishes an article on something, of particular interest,
almost always other journal articles will deal with the subject
also--and the Wikipedia article on the subject should be written to
present an account of all of them together--with the paper in RNA or
other particular paper only one of several references.
To the extent that the journal publishes papers that are sufficiently
broad to meet the description of a summary at the integrative level of
an encyclopedia (and the first one mentioned does seem to be of this
sort), then they are suitable for WP. I would be surprised if all or
even the majority of the papers in any particular scientific journal
were of this nature. It's not just quality, or appropriate level of
writing, its sufficient generality.
But that's the great thing about a wiki - we can come along afterwards
and merge articles and otherwise fiddle around with them to get them
to meet our requirements. We don't need to turn down contributions
just because they're not perfect.