Here's my
list of edits. I mostly fix 'little things', such as disambiguation pages, or typos that I see. I also like to add well-referenced pages to articles' 'external links' sections, or reference lists.
Suggested edits for other Wikipedians
I have unearthed a fair amount of interesting information about
the subjects of my comics. However, I am not in the habit of adding my own work as references / 'external links' to Wikipedia articles, since I would be seen to be 'benefiting' from the extra traffic this would send to my website.
Having said this, there are many Wikipedia articles that would be improved by incorporating information which I have researched as part of my comics and blog posts.
Here's a list of articles that could be improved. Including suggested references on my website, and suggestions for what about the article could be adjusted. I'll let other Wikipedians make the edits if they agree.
Rat Park - My
Rat Park comic is intended to provide a solid overview of the 2 most famous Rat Park experiments (nicknamed "the seduction experiment" and "kicking the habit", though these terms were not mentioned in the scientific papers). Also, my '
making of Rat Park' blog article is filled with my insights into the research process, scans of 1970s/1980s newspaper articles about the experiments, and examples of common misconceptions about the experiments.
This is probably the biggest request that I have: I would like someone to greatly expand the
Rat Park article's Related Research section to include a list of follow-up experiments to Bruce Alexander's Rat Park experiments. Categorise each published paper/experiment into "fail" and "replicated". Doing this would provide greater clarity to internet discussions/arguments
like this where people try to understand the external validity of Rat Park.
It would be helpful to include both papers that closely replicate the original experiments (
Wistar rats and morphine), but also include other variations, such as cocaine and monkeys.
Here's my
list of edits. I mostly fix 'little things', such as disambiguation pages, or typos that I see. I also like to add well-referenced pages to articles' 'external links' sections, or reference lists.
Suggested edits for other Wikipedians
I have unearthed a fair amount of interesting information about
the subjects of my comics. However, I am not in the habit of adding my own work as references / 'external links' to Wikipedia articles, since I would be seen to be 'benefiting' from the extra traffic this would send to my website.
Having said this, there are many Wikipedia articles that would be improved by incorporating information which I have researched as part of my comics and blog posts.
Here's a list of articles that could be improved. Including suggested references on my website, and suggestions for what about the article could be adjusted. I'll let other Wikipedians make the edits if they agree.
Rat Park - My
Rat Park comic is intended to provide a solid overview of the 2 most famous Rat Park experiments (nicknamed "the seduction experiment" and "kicking the habit", though these terms were not mentioned in the scientific papers). Also, my '
making of Rat Park' blog article is filled with my insights into the research process, scans of 1970s/1980s newspaper articles about the experiments, and examples of common misconceptions about the experiments.
This is probably the biggest request that I have: I would like someone to greatly expand the
Rat Park article's Related Research section to include a list of follow-up experiments to Bruce Alexander's Rat Park experiments. Categorise each published paper/experiment into "fail" and "replicated". Doing this would provide greater clarity to internet discussions/arguments
like this where people try to understand the external validity of Rat Park.
It would be helpful to include both papers that closely replicate the original experiments (
Wistar rats and morphine), but also include other variations, such as cocaine and monkeys.