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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Wikidata imaged Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. Birthday logo Links Now Wikidata is six, Signpost Special Report Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia., Wikimedia UK tweet and video ScienceSource and the Semantic Web sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool by Oravrattas to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the Cambridge Wikidata Workshop Whizzy use of SPARQL to map the London Underground system, whizzed past on Twitter. Wikidata birthday events mapped by SPARQL, too d:Wikidata:Sixth Birthday/Message from dev team If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. WikiCite issue GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018 In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector. Links Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018) LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University Shell Lessons for Librarians, Library Carpentry lesson At-risk content on Flickr, blogpost 3 November 2018, Andrew Gray Toward an Abstract Wikipedia, recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google) Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Learning from Zotero Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support. Zotero logo Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. Zotero demo video There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code. Links Zotero Comes to Google Docs, Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018. Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero T115158 Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17. Zotero Translators, documentation from zotero.org. Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript Example translator, for Wikisource. m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07 Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Everything flows (and certainly data does) Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations WMUK video page, with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy) Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior, Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age, Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com Making Wikidata visible, Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library Inventory, Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. What is a systematic review? Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg 2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit. Links Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives. What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre. Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane. PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols. Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006. Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Ethan Lindenberger for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ethan Lindenberger is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethan Lindenberger until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 06:32, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. When in the cloud, do as the APIs do Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do. Links Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information xkcd cartoon, API Guide If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:45, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, you are biased,

it seems against tables. The table format allows for inclusion of far more context than the previous one, but when you removed the table you said it was because it "...destroy[ed] the context." Please explain on the talk page of the relevant article the full rationale for your reversion. Thank-you. Sotuman (talk) 14:49, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

@Sotuman: No. Table format is a very bad idea, as explained in the talk page. Ixocactus (talk) 17:57, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Cloud computing logo Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb. Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1 d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata. SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)". SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata. d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right. ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons Links for participation http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Revertion of my edits on Kombucha

The source in question states "The author concluded that the therapeutic use of Kombucha could not be recommended owing to the lack of clinical efficacy and associated serious adverse events", however a single source is not sufficient to come to the conclusion that "Therefore, the potential harms from drinking kombucha outweigh any unclear benefits, so it is not recommended for therapeutic purposes.". I removed the sentence because it is not WP:NPOV. If you must restore it, please re-word it to remove the bias.— Preceding unsigned comment added by UKWikiGuy (talk • contribs) 03h43min de 30 de maio de 2019 (UTC)

Hi @UKWikiGuy: The source is a publication by Edzard Ernst. It is sufficient to explain the unclear benefits and potential harms of kombucha. Ixocactus (talk) 18:18, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Regarding my Ganzfeld Edit

I cannot accept that my edit was deemed unconstructive. I supplied data to support my claim that, contrary to what the debunkers here on Wikipedia are claiming, the Ganzfeld replication rate is 6 times that of what it should be if the null hypothesis were to be correct. Hence, it isn't accurate to claim that replication has been inconsistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AscentIntoOvermind (talk • contribs) 00:31, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

@AscentIntoOvermind: Wikipedia cannot accepts your opinion. Journal of Parapsychology is not a WP:RS. In fact, its WP:FRINGE. Ixocactus (talk) 02:29, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Judy Mikovits

Hi! I edit conflicted with you; I was going to switch it over to Category:Pseudoscience, as of course Category:Pseudocientistas does not exist on this project, being that it's Portuguese. Would you prefer that I instate my edit, or not have a category for it at all? Best, Vermont (talk) 04:00, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Vermont:! Sorry. My error. I confused the entries of pt-wiki and en-wiki. I will be bold and put pseudoscience cat there. Cheers! Ixocactus (talk) 13:07, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Franco Volpi (philosopher)

Hi there, I just want to let you know that I declined the speedy deletion tags you applied to this article, because the article (in my view) does not fall into either criteria you tagged, namely A1 and A7. A1 strictly applies only to very short articles which lack sufficient context to identify the subject. Here the subject of the article, Franco Volpi, is clearly identified and understandable, and this already is enough to take the article outside of A1 territory. A7 only applies to articles with no credible claims of significance. There are some borderline statements making such claims in the article, and more importantly if you do a search of the subject in google, you can find the author has been mentioned in some sources (of questionable credibility), and that he has authored many books in his field of expertise. While these facts alone may not necessarily justify notability, they are enough (in my view) to take the article out of A7 as well. Please consider tagging this for AFD if necessary, if upon further search you found questions as to the subject's notability. Please let me know if there are any issues. Cheers --Dps04 (talk) 06:12, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Dps04: I do not like wikilawyering, but your reasons sounds me HEPOT. I didn't encounter any philosopher talking about this guy or his works, and the only source on the entry is a tiny obituary, per GNG and ONEEVENT. But you are the admin editor here. The BURDEN is yours and I do not have english skills to AFD this. Cheers! Ixocactus (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, not sure what you meant by HEPOT, but it is not difficult for you to AFD this. Your rationale could be something as simple as (in your own words): the only source on the entry is a tiny obituary, fails GNG and ONEEVENT. If you encountered technical problems attempting to send this to AFD, you may install Twinkle (in case you have not), which would complete the nomination for you in an automated process. Finally, sorry if you find me going into too much details in the earlier message, but I just wanted to bring out the message that, as a general rule, speedy deletion (including A7) is only used in very limited circumstances, failing which you would have to send the article to AFD for community discussion. And although I am not an admin here, please do let me know if you encountered other questions on the way. Cheers --Dps04 (talk) 05:19, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks @Dps04:. I see many icons in your userpage and wrongly understand you are an admin and wrongly thinked that only admins can revert one A7 request. Now I have readed WP:CSD and not finded objections for your removal of deletion tag. But your WP:CCS reasons sounds WP:HASPOT for me (My error when writed HEPOT), but it not meets WP:NRVE. I will try AFD with Twinkle. Cheers. Ixocactus (talk) 08:03, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Ixocactus, no worries! Perhaps you can think of WP:CCS this way: assuming all the statements (which are reasonably credible) in an article are correct and verifiable, would the article have a potential for notability? If the answer is yes, then A7 probably does not apply. So yes, CCS is a much lower stanadrd than notability, and does not require verifability (WP:NRVE is only relevant to assessing notability). Happy editing ~~ Dps04 (talk) 08:10, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

You nominated the AfD, which is technically your delete vote, now you voted keep on it, really all you need to do is withdraw your nomination and self-close if you want, or if you don't know how to do that, you could ask an admin to close it for you at WP:AN. Govvy (talk) 08:45, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Govvy: Thanks for advice! I do not know the correct procedure, because this I voted keep. I will try AN. If I make some mistake, please correct me. Thank you very much! Ixocactus (talk) 09:08, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Qorbuch

I wasnt sure whether here or pt.wiki was a better place to post this since I dont speak Portuguese but ... someone offsite has alerted me to a likely hoax article on pt.wikipedia, at pt:Língua qorbuch. On the talk page of that article is a long summary in English of the reasons why the language likely does not exist. I considered just typing a {{delete}} message on the page with no explanation, but since the talk page message has been there for quite a while I figure this might not be such an easy case. I wanted to find someone fluent in both English and Portuguese, and I apologize that I didnt look at all of the admins on the pt.wiki list, I just picked a name I recognized. (I dont know where I saw you, perhaps Nibiru?) I hope you can help or if not find someone who can take a closer look at this. Thank you, —Soap— 22:25, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Never mind, it has now been deleted by DarwIn. after a different user put it on PROD. —Soap— 18:04, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

@Soap: In Portuguese the article didn't had a single reliable source. In those cases we can speedy the deletion, if there is reasonable suspicion of a hoax. thank you very much for the notification. Darwin ^Ahoy! 19:19, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Soap and DarwIn: Thanks for all. Ixocactus (talk) 19:55, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

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@FredModulars: I'm not editing warring. In fact you are in 3RR. I'm not. I am only enforcing V. Could you please provide a RS to add the term? I have read a couple of sources about the dictatorship and realize that "Quinta República" is used as weasel word only by marginals and deniers, not by profissional historians. Ixocactus (talk) 21:52, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

No. 3RR is more than three reverts ("An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period."). I reverted my last revert (before you replied, I should add) to allow for discussion. I believe there are other sources that use the term "Quinta República", but even the Chamber of Deputies chops up Brazilian history into six republics, whether they were republics or not or whether the timeline fits. See here.

I am not a denier nor do I welcome the actions the dictatorship did, but for purposes of chronology and navigation, this period in Brazilian history should be classified, not literally, as the Fifth Republic. FredModulars (talk) 22:26, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

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Parapsychology Edits

Hey. This is fdk32020. My edits for the parapsychology page were taken down. I removed the sentence saying that parapsychology papers do not appear in mainstream scientific journals because they do. See:

1) https://www.dropbox.com/s/50v9d1zt2zujlxj/Cardena%20American%20Psychologist%20psi%202018.pdf?dl=0

Published in the American Psychologist (flagship journal for the APA).

2) https://www.dropbox.com/s/0jd7p6tjpvz9iam/2021%20RadinPhysicsEssays.pdf?dl=0

Published in Physics Essays.

3) https://www.dropbox.com/s/1dgkfk3ey9n53fj/Sherwood2003MetaDreamESP.pdf?dl=0

Published in Journal of Consciousness Studies.

4) https://www.dropbox.com/s/3n69c9cyv3fw0wr/Storm2010MetaFreeResp.pdf?dl=0

Published in the Psychological Bulletin.

5) https://www.dropbox.com/s/do8uaoferr3go30/Mossbridge%202014.pdf?dl=0

Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

I wanted to post this in the summary for why I removed the sentences but I was given limited character length.

Is it possible if I may still remove it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdk32020 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Fdk32020:. In context, parapsychology papers are not published in mainstream journals because psi fails to be useful to advance other sciences. There isn't a metallurgy journal that publishes a paper about pig iron improving by psi powers. In fact, your cherry-picked sources only confirms the contents of Pigliucci & Boudry (2013). Cadeña, Radin et al. are considered not-reliables by WP WP:PAGs. But look about our WP:GOODBIAS. Ixocactus (talk) 02:04, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

"parapsychology papers are not published in mainstream journals". I only gave you some examples. I could keep listing more and more if you want.

"because psi fails to be useful to advance other sciences. There isn't a metallurgy journal that publishes a paper about pig iron improving by psi powers". Well yeah that's cause metallurgy has nothing to do with psi powers. But there's psychology journals that explain how to improve psi powers. So therefore it is useful to advance other sciences.

" Pigliucci & Boudry (2013). Cadeña, Radin et al. are considered not-reliables by WP WP:PAGs. But look about our WP:GOODBIAS". Wait how are Radin and Cardena not reliable? They're accredited scientists who have been studying parapsychology for decades. It's like posting research papers from a chemist in Wikipedia Chemistry page and saying that they are not reliable. How is Pigliucci reliable? He is an evolutionary biologist and card-carrying skeptic who never did a day of parapsychology research. Also this is a secondary source not a primary source. I'm an only citing primary sources from peer-reviewed literature. You can include their opinions but you have to show what the actual parapsychologists say in response to those opinions. Otherwise, you will end up misrepresenting the subject matter. Also Pigliucci is not a good biased source according to Wikipedia biased source standards because he does not have "a reputation for fact-checking, and the level of independence from the topic the source is covering". These are not peer-reviewed comments so they are not fact-checked and he has not independence from the topic being covered as he is a card-carrying skeptic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdk32020 (talk • contribs) 02:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Also with respect to your GOODBIAS link, the founder Jimmy Wales says this "Wikipedia's policies ... are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately."

Every single one of those papers (and many more) I linked here were published in "respectable scientific journals" and they can "produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments" (if you read the papers you will see this is apparent). So by this logic, Wikipedia should appropriately the topic of parapsychology and treat Radin and Cardena as credible sources (according to it's own policy). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdk32020 (talk • contribs) 02:39, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Fdk32020: I tried to respond your question. In plain words, because is not possible remove the content based on your claim "I wanted". Per your responses I wish good luck to you, but suggest you to keep a respectable distance from WP:FRINGE topics because your appears WP:NOTHERE to build this encyclopaedia. Ixocactus (talk) 05:09, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Ixocactus sorry I was busy for the past month so I could not respond to this comment. The "I wanted" phrase I used pertained to an explanation for why I changed the "Parapsychology" page on Wikipedia and why I made the edits I made. I was limited by character length into giving a summary as to why hence I said "I wanted" to post that explanation there but could not. It had nothing to do with me "wanting" to believe something and as a result making according edits to the page. With respect to WP:NOTHERE, I was able to read through it and one of the tenets was "Little or no interest in working collaboratively". Given that you have taken down all of my edits, deemed all of my sources "unreliable" even though they appear in peer-reviewed publications, have no interest in showing both sides of the argument (respecting Wikipedia's tenet of neutrality_ and are disregarding Wikipedia's policies in regards to your own sources, it seems that you are not interested in working collaboratively. So hence you are WP:NOTHERE. Fdk32020 (talk) 19:20, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Psi encyclopedia

@Ixocactus: This is notification of the warning posted by myself on my talk page. --Brian Josephson (talk)

I am still waiting for your response. Meanwhile, at my suggestion the editor of the encyclopedia has changed the 'about' page so that the only critical comment on WP is much milder than before, viz: However, a vocal minority of sceptics – often active in sceptic organisations – campaign against psi research in books, in the media, and on the internet and in Wikipedia, disparaging it as 'pseudoscience' and disputing its conclusions. Are you OK with that now? If not then I shall go ahead with reporting you for disruptive editing, as before. --Brian Josephson (talk) 19:26, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@Brian Josephson: The correct location to report disruptive editors is WP:ANI. Look at our WP:PAGs and WP:BOOMERANG too. But feel free to advance your ideas. Ixocactus (talk) 17:50, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I had been planning to use that location, but have been too busy to do anything as yet. Brian Josephson (talk) 18:31, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Still been too busy ... Some things are even more important than the job of fixing WP to make it more neutral. Brian Josephson (talk) 08:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Feldenkrais Method URL

@Ixocactus: Thanks for pointing out how to reestablish dead links.
Still dead is the first part of reference 2 : Baggoley C (2015). "Review of the Australian Government Rebate on Natural Therapies for Private Health Insurance" (PDF). Perhaps you can correct it to the redirect you added.

Note that the article currently states from a 2015 reference: "There is no good medical evidence that the Feldenkrais method improves health outcomes. It is not known if it is safe or cost-effective, but researchers do not believe it poses serious risks." while the actual 2015 reference below only uses the term uncertain. Since 2015 there has been considerable further study in Australia and some are underway.

=== Feldenkrais === from

"The Feldenkrais method was invented by Moshe Feldenkrais. It is a gentle form physical therapy that focuses on breath, posture, and movement. What the Feldenkrais technique promises is vague and seems to revolve around nonspecific “wellness” rather than any objective effects. While several systematic reviews were found, few contained any RCTs. Data quality, again, was poor. Overall, the effectiveness of Feldenkrais for the improvement of health outcomes in people with any clinical condition was felt to be uncertain."

Since 2015 there has been considerable additional literature about Complementary and Integrative Health which is not cited in the article. Australia calls these topics Natural Therapies whereas Wikipedia calls them Alternative Medicine
You might find of interest:

The reliable source 2021 article by Denise Millstine, MD, Mayo Clinic. :The article is included in Merck Manual article “Overview of Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine” provides validation of its reliability. The Merck Manuals are available Online.

"Complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine are terms often used interchangeably, but their meanings are different.

• Complementary medicine refers to non-mainstream practices used together with conventional medicine.
• Alternative medicine refers to non-mainstream practices used instead of conventional medicine.
• Integrative medicine is health care that uses all appropriate therapeutic approaches—conventional and non-mainstream—within a framework that focuses on health, the therapeutic relationship, and the whole person."
  

Examples at two preeminent Medical Schools:

Harvard University Medical School The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

UCSF Medical School Integrative Women’s Health

Hopefully we can all make Wikipedia a neutral information resource which is up to date in its referencing.
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You reverted my minor edit on the topic ayurveda, i would like to know how my edit was termed 'not constructive' and a mistake or a test. i fully wished to make that edit and wish to clarify with you on what way was it wrong. the previous version generalized the whole of ayurveda as being purely pseudoscientific, that most of ayurvedic medicines used lead, mercury, arsenic, etc, which in fact is false as only some of said medicines have been found to contain them and not most. Many doctors and scientists have clarified that most of these ayurvedic medicines were infact effective even if by just a little. I merely corrected it by deletion and addition of necessary corrections and that too a minor edit. Also to be noted that the previous/current form of the page misleads readers into thinking of ayurveda as a whole as if its just a total joke. This can be harmful in its own way.

I would like for you to reconsider and factually re check the reversion of my edit. Thank you and have a nice day! General Phoenix (talk) 12:43, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @General Phoenix. As I stated in the edit summary you are using WP:WEASEL words against our WP:PAGs. We follow what WP:RSs states about the subject. You need to add good sources to support your claims before change the entry. Look at Talk:Ayurveda and its archives to understand how we deal with it. Ixocactus (talk) 18:01, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

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