Talk:Theta model/Archive 1

List of edits needed

• Too many parenthetical phrases in the first sentence
• Says the theta model "blows up" near the bifurcation when the state variables actually remain bounded. Probably confused by the period blowing up. Some minor errors, e.g. in general a function does not have a closed form for its integral, much less for the PRC of the theta model.
• Some key details missing, e.g. QIF model definition lacks description of reset.
• Could use more links to other wikipedia articles.
• Most links are to other wikipedia articles and the remaining 2 are to scholarpedia. Need links to more authoritative sources.

--BBAmp (talk) 01:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

• In the subsection "Characteristics of the model, Phase Response Curve", it is mentioned the "appendix of Ermentrout 1996" that is not only unreferenced but not included in the references list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgiugliano (talk • contribs) 08:53, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, the reference is available now.BBAmp (talk) 16:29, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Article Rating

Someone rated this C-class, so by the quality scale guide, "The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material." Please let me know what is irrelevant or missing so I can fix the issue. BBAmp (talk) 11:25, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

You can see who assessed the article by looking at the History of this talk page (it was Tryptofish). I myself would probably have assessed the article as B class, but I can see the justification for C. The main reasons are (a) the citations are formatted in a nonstandard way that makes it harder than necessary to look them up or to find the articles online; (b) more importantly, the whole article, even the lead, is so technical that only somebody deeply versed in mathematical modeling would get anything at all out of it. I think it would be possible for the lead to describe the model in a way that would convey the basic concept to non-mathematicians, by saying that the theta model idealizes a neuron as always firing in an oscillatory pattern, and has only one state variable, theta, which represents the phase of the oscillation. But one way or another this is a valuable addition to Wikipedia, and I hope you don't get the idea that Tryptofish or I think otherwise. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 17:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for this valuable feedback. I'm actually not sure how I can make the lead more accessible to people outside this field, so any help with that aspect is greatly appreciated. The remainder of the article was written for mathematicians and mathematical biologists, but I realize that I lack an ability to write technically without alienating a more general audience. I would love to learn how not to do this (since most of my foreseeable future will involve interacting with people without a strong mathematical background), so please, by all means edit the article or point out which sections/paragraphs/sentences need improvement. As for the references, I will fix this once finals are over. Kind regards, BBAmp (talk) 23:04, 15 December 2011 (UTC)