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Again, welcome! Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 05:29, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I reverted you at Negative feedback and Positive feedback. Without edit summaries, it was impossible to tell if there was a good reason for your changes to the definitions. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:17, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but your definitions aren't correct. While in neuroscience it will (only usually) involve increases and decreases in neural activity, that's not, in general what positive and negative feedback is, it's quite a general thing. It's to do with the direction a system parameter changes in. The parameter could be anything, insulin levels or an electronic signal, a sound wave, the amount of money, prices, or the angular distance between the direction an antenna could be pointed in, and the direction it should be pointed in etc. etc. It's very abstract. It's NOT simply changes in 'activity', and that's not true even in neural science. GliderMaven ( talk) 01:04, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rchurt,
Following your note, I've had a look over your changes to positive and negative feedback and the conversation above. I'm afraid I think Dicklyon and GliderMaven were right to revert your changes.
Firstly though, I just want to make sure you understand what Dicklyon was saying about the importance of cited sources matching the corresponding content. When an article says something like "leopards weigh up to 91 kg[1]", that's shorthand for "source [1] states that leopards weigh up to 91 kg". As a website that anyone can edit, Wikipedia has little or no authority in its own right; its only authority comes from the sources it cites. So it's absolutely imperative that readers can be sure that Wikipedia accurately reflects the sources it cites. It would be a serious problem to change 91 kg to a different number without updating the source, as the Wikipedia article would be falsely stating that source [1] provides a different weight for leopards. I'm sorry if that comes across as patronising, but it's a mistake I see a lot of new contributors make.
On the definitions themselves, I agree with GliderMaven that defining the feedbacks in terms of "activity" is not the way to go. To use an example I'm familiar with, a person's breathing tends to reduce the concentrations of CO2 and thus carbonic acid in their blood, therefore increasing their blood pH. If a person's blood pH becomes too low, negative feedback causes them to increase their rate of breathing, thus increasing their blood pH, pushing it back towards the ideal value. To me, that fits perfectly with the original definition of negative feedback from before your edits, but it's not obvious how it fits with your most recent version, which seems to predict some kind of decrease in the activity of the system.
On sourcing, I don't trust http://www.biologyreference.com/ at all. The site lacks basic information that we'd need to assess its reliability, such as the credentials of its authors or how it deals with errors. Using Google Scholar, Google Books, or an academic search engine tends to return better sources than a plain Google search.
Anyway, sorry if my response is less supportive than you'd hoped for. I'm glad to see you're using edit summaries now, as well as engaging with other contributors. Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 03:38, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rob. For what its worth, there has long been controversy about definitions related to feedback. Its worthwhile bearing in mind that "positive" has something like 5 distinct definitions, all of which I have seen applied to feedback. Ditto "negative". The scope of the above pages seems implicitly to be around the
Control theory definition(s). There are other uses of the terms, and I've tried to document them on my wiki page (with citations), but this
table might be a useful guide.
I hope that is helpful. Happy editing! -- Trevithj ( talk) 06:52, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rob,
Sorry for not getting back to you yesterday – bit flat out in real life at the moment.
When you or I or any other Wikipedia contributor click the "Save page" button, we're agreeing to Terms of Use that require Wikipedia (and re-users of Wikipedia content) to provide attribution to us through the page history. The problem with deleting Quantum efficiency of a solar cell outright is that it would also delete the page history. That wouldn't matter if all the content of that page was obliterated, but now that there's content from that page in Quantum efficiency and Solar cell efficiency, we're required to keep the history of Quantum efficiency of a solar cell in order to attribute the original authors. It's also necessary to indicate in the histories of Quantum efficiency and Solar cell efficiency that some of the content came from Quantum efficiency of a solar cell. I see you've already done that in Quantum efficiency with this edit summary; ideally you should do the same thing in Solar cell efficiency, perhaps by making a "dummy edit" that just adds a space or whatever, so you can write an edit summary acknowledging Quantum efficiency of a solar cell.
So what should happen to Quantum efficiency of a solar cell is that it should be converted to a redirect to the most relevant page, probably Solar cell efficiency. If you think that's the appropriate redirect target, you can just replace the entire page contents with this:
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Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 14:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Adrian,
That makes sense. Thanks for your help (and for taking the time)
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Again, welcome! Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 05:29, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I reverted you at Negative feedback and Positive feedback. Without edit summaries, it was impossible to tell if there was a good reason for your changes to the definitions. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:17, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but your definitions aren't correct. While in neuroscience it will (only usually) involve increases and decreases in neural activity, that's not, in general what positive and negative feedback is, it's quite a general thing. It's to do with the direction a system parameter changes in. The parameter could be anything, insulin levels or an electronic signal, a sound wave, the amount of money, prices, or the angular distance between the direction an antenna could be pointed in, and the direction it should be pointed in etc. etc. It's very abstract. It's NOT simply changes in 'activity', and that's not true even in neural science. GliderMaven ( talk) 01:04, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rchurt,
Following your note, I've had a look over your changes to positive and negative feedback and the conversation above. I'm afraid I think Dicklyon and GliderMaven were right to revert your changes.
Firstly though, I just want to make sure you understand what Dicklyon was saying about the importance of cited sources matching the corresponding content. When an article says something like "leopards weigh up to 91 kg[1]", that's shorthand for "source [1] states that leopards weigh up to 91 kg". As a website that anyone can edit, Wikipedia has little or no authority in its own right; its only authority comes from the sources it cites. So it's absolutely imperative that readers can be sure that Wikipedia accurately reflects the sources it cites. It would be a serious problem to change 91 kg to a different number without updating the source, as the Wikipedia article would be falsely stating that source [1] provides a different weight for leopards. I'm sorry if that comes across as patronising, but it's a mistake I see a lot of new contributors make.
On the definitions themselves, I agree with GliderMaven that defining the feedbacks in terms of "activity" is not the way to go. To use an example I'm familiar with, a person's breathing tends to reduce the concentrations of CO2 and thus carbonic acid in their blood, therefore increasing their blood pH. If a person's blood pH becomes too low, negative feedback causes them to increase their rate of breathing, thus increasing their blood pH, pushing it back towards the ideal value. To me, that fits perfectly with the original definition of negative feedback from before your edits, but it's not obvious how it fits with your most recent version, which seems to predict some kind of decrease in the activity of the system.
On sourcing, I don't trust http://www.biologyreference.com/ at all. The site lacks basic information that we'd need to assess its reliability, such as the credentials of its authors or how it deals with errors. Using Google Scholar, Google Books, or an academic search engine tends to return better sources than a plain Google search.
Anyway, sorry if my response is less supportive than you'd hoped for. I'm glad to see you're using edit summaries now, as well as engaging with other contributors. Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 03:38, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rob. For what its worth, there has long been controversy about definitions related to feedback. Its worthwhile bearing in mind that "positive" has something like 5 distinct definitions, all of which I have seen applied to feedback. Ditto "negative". The scope of the above pages seems implicitly to be around the
Control theory definition(s). There are other uses of the terms, and I've tried to document them on my wiki page (with citations), but this
table might be a useful guide.
I hope that is helpful. Happy editing! -- Trevithj ( talk) 06:52, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rob,
Sorry for not getting back to you yesterday – bit flat out in real life at the moment.
When you or I or any other Wikipedia contributor click the "Save page" button, we're agreeing to Terms of Use that require Wikipedia (and re-users of Wikipedia content) to provide attribution to us through the page history. The problem with deleting Quantum efficiency of a solar cell outright is that it would also delete the page history. That wouldn't matter if all the content of that page was obliterated, but now that there's content from that page in Quantum efficiency and Solar cell efficiency, we're required to keep the history of Quantum efficiency of a solar cell in order to attribute the original authors. It's also necessary to indicate in the histories of Quantum efficiency and Solar cell efficiency that some of the content came from Quantum efficiency of a solar cell. I see you've already done that in Quantum efficiency with this edit summary; ideally you should do the same thing in Solar cell efficiency, perhaps by making a "dummy edit" that just adds a space or whatever, so you can write an edit summary acknowledging Quantum efficiency of a solar cell.
So what should happen to Quantum efficiency of a solar cell is that it should be converted to a redirect to the most relevant page, probably Solar cell efficiency. If you think that's the appropriate redirect target, you can just replace the entire page contents with this:
#REDIRECT [[Solar cell efficiency]] {{R from merge}}
Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 14:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Adrian,
That makes sense. Thanks for your help (and for taking the time)
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Thanks for your comment! Thank God some people are actually interested in this stuff haha. That has been mentioned before in one of the discussions already, but the two editors are no longer active. But yes! It is a recurring idea, and I want to make it happen. At the moment, I get the feeling that people are on their exam periods, and don't have time, so, again, I have to put it off until later. But thanks for your comment and if you want to help, please do! Kinkreet ~♥moshi moshi♥~ 12:43, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, You noticed that the Effective dose (radiation) page was too technical. I think the effective dose is important as it is required to calculate the effects of many real life exposures, natural and man-made, and I see many wiki links to it.
I've made some edits and tried to get more on the page's talk page. Is the page better now or is there more that we can do? Stephen David Williams ( talk) 12:52, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new non-profit organization we're forming at m:WikiMed. Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.
Hope to see you there! Anthonyhcole ( talk) 04:42, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your edit to Neuromodulation. Much appreciated! Lova Falk talk 08:51, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
I saw that you added the SfN userbox to your page, and I'm happy to see another editor with interests in neuroscience! Please feel free to get in touch with me any time if you have any questions at all about editing here. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:04, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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Tryptofish ( talk) 19:25, 14 March 2013 (UTC)Hi, the signalling article has been passed as a "Good Article"... and the references and citations have been carefully laid out and checked. There is more than one possible way to do this. It is generally not acceptable to change the referencing system of an existing article. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 07:46, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello User:Rob Hurt, Your edit on the Schizophrenia page yesterday was moved by someone to the Talk page there & you may want to look at it. The edit looked good, and since the Schizophrenia page already makes multiple reference to the 1990 ICD-10, which predates your own citation, this should be in your favor. You may also add your edit to the DSM4 to DSM5 transition edit list on the Talk page there as well. BillMoyers ( talk) 06:42, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
You just added an image at that page, and when I looked at the file page, I saw that it comes from a journal article, but that you claimed a CCxSA3 license for it. Unless the publisher actually licenses everything that way, you may find that the editors at Commons aren't going to let the file stay. It has to be licensed by the publishers, not by the editor who uploaded it. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:48, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Rob Hunt! I hope that you are well. I recently saw you adding some articles to WP:NEURO. We have an interesting bit of cross-over; I've been trying to place (with you and other users) neuroanatomy articles under this category: Category:Anatomy_articles_about_neuroanatomy, in case you'd like a list to check for any additional articles that haven't been properly tagged. Not sure if this is helpful or not, but thought I'd let you know in case you didn't. Kind regards, -- LT910001 ( talk) 01:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Rob Hurt. Thank you for your work on patrolling new pages and tagging for speedy deletion. I'm just letting you know that I declined your deletion request for Talk:Phasic transmitter, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. Please use WP:PROD or WP:AFD in the article page to propose for deletion, not the talk page. See WP:CSD for more information on speedy deletions Please take a moment to look at the suggested tasks for patrollers and review the criteria for speedy deletion. Particularly, the section covering non-criteria. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion or proposed deletion for biographies of living persons, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion. § FreeRangeFrog croak 02:24, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Please use secondary rather than primary sources. Thanks Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:48, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.
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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.
Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.
What's happening?
I've ( CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
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There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as
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Polish, and
Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not
MEDRS (
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Romanian,
Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.
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Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by
CFCF
During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!
At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!
We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!
Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.
-- CFCF 🍌 ( email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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Great work on the new images you've been adding! A quirk of pdfs on wikicommons is that the previews are pixelated. One solution is to upload images as svg files ( inkscape can change the format for you). Keep up the great work! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:44, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, this is great to know! Is there a way to upload the same file in two formats to a Wikimedia Commons page, or do you have to make separate ones? -Rob
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Hello, Rob Hurt. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Chromatin assembly factor 1".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 03:10, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
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