User talk:Biosthmors/Archive 6

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New features for course pages

Several noticeable improvements to the EducationProgram extension (in addition to some small bug fixes) will go live on or around 2014-01-23:

Notifications

All participants in a course (students, instructors, volunteers) will receive Notifications whenever their course talk page is edited. Thus, editors can use course talk pages to send messages they want the whole class to be aware of, and the class participants are likely to see them.

Special:Contributions student notice

For users enrolled as students in courses that are active, a notice will appear at the top of Special:Contributions noting which course(s) they are enrolled in. This will make it easy for users who come across the work of student editors to find out that they are part of a course and identify other class participants.

Adding articles

Course instructors and volunteers will be able to assign articles to student editors, instead of all articles needing to be added by the student editors themselves.

Adding students

Instructors and volunteers will be able to add users as students in courses, instead of all student editors needing to enroll for themselves. This makes it easier to maintain complete lists of students, and also makes the extension more suitable for tracking participation in edit-a-thons, workshops and other collaborative projects beyond the Wikipedia Education Program.

If you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know! --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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Seeking advice on possible AfC: Limb evolution

Please see my post here and let me know what you think. Do AfC require some sort of review procedure? I'd hate for them to spend a lot of time writing an article that never gets posted. Also, is it better to contact you here or through email? Biolprof (talk) 04:03, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Commented, and I'd say both are equal. Posting here automatically emails me. Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 22:57, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Deleting comments by others

Please do not simply delete talk page comments by other users, as you did at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. I have instead archived the section to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 123#Red link doesn't turn blue after redirect is created. Thank you. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 22:43, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Redrose64 has since restored the thread to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 123#Red link doesn't turn blue after redirect is created. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 23:32, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Noted, thanks. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 13:54, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Course page accidentally deleted

oops! In trying to edit the title and term for my course page I accidentally deleted it. But when I try to undelete it, I get this error message:

A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

Function: ORMRow::insert Error: 1062 Duplicate entry '313' for key 'PRIMARY' (10.64.32.22)

Can you help? AminMDMA 07:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AminMDMA (talk • contribs)

AminMDMA, I will post at WP:ENB, and someone who knows more about the software than me should help. For what it's worth, I tend to stay out of those course pages when I can. I prefer working on course pages that behave just like a Wikipedia page. I've had another class I've helped (last semester) have their course page accidentally deleted as well. I don't think it was ever recovered. =( Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 13:54, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

WP Neuroscience in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Neuroscience for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 23:35, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, February 2014

We've started working on "editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.

Anyone can edit the main text of course pages

As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.

Simplified course editing interface

We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.

Additional Notifications

Two students participating in the Facebook Open Academy mentorship program are currently working on additional Notifications for course pages. For the first of these, users will be notified whenever someone else adds them to a course.

Once again, if you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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Iran\xE2\x80\x93United States relations listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Iran\xE2\x80\x93United States relations. Since you had some involvement with the Iran\xE2\x80\x93United States relations redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. ThaddeusB (talk) 01:40, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, April 2014

Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:

Default course end date

The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.

Notifications when you get added to a course

Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.

Disabling individual student profiles

The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)

Article edit notifications for students coming soon

A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.

Duplicate courses and API deletion

Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.

If you have feedback about these changes, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let Anna Koval or me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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Invitation join the new Physiology Wikiproject!

Based on the long felt gap for categorization and improvization of WP:MED articles relating to the field of physiology, the new WikiProject Physiology has been created. WikiProject Physiology is still in its infancy and needs your help. On behalf of a group of editors striving to improve the quality of physiology articles here on Wikipedia, I would like to invite you to come on board and participate in the betterment of physiology related articles. Help us to jumpstart this WikiProject.

Feel free to leave us a message at any time on the WikiProkect Physiology talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
You can tag the talk pages of relevant articles with {{WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=}} with your assessment of the article class and importance alongwith. Please note that WP:Physiology, WP:Physio, WP:Phy can be used interchangeably.
You will make a big difference to the quality of information by adding reliable sources. Sourcing physiology articles is essential and makes a big difference to the quality of articles. And, while you're at it, why not use a book to source information, which can source multiple articles at once!
We try and use a standard way of arranging the content in each article. That layout is here. These headings let us have a standard way of presenting the information in anatomical articles, indicate what information may have been forgotten, and save angst when trying to decide how to organise an article. That said, this might not suit every article. If in doubt, be bold!
Why not try and strive to create a good article! Physiology related articles are often small in scope, have available sources, and only a limited amount of research available that is readily presentable!
Your contributions to the WikiProject page, related categories and templates is also welcome.
To invite other editors to this WikiProject, copy and past this template (with the signature):
- {{subst:WP Physiology–invite}} ~~~~
To welcome editors of physiology articles, copy and past this template (with the signature):
- {{subst:WP Physiology–welcome}} ~~~~
You can feel free to contact us on the WikiProkect Physiology talk page if you have any problems, or wish to join us. You can also put your suggestions there and discuss the scope of participation.

Hoping for your cooperation! Diptanshu^Talk 12:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chantel Jeffries

The article Chantel Jeffries has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No non-trivial third party coverage to support notability whatsoever. Being seen with a celebrity does not confer WP:BIO notability. Will be sent to AfD if disputed

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Survey for editors who mentor newcomer

Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,

I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV

Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah

Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Hello Biosthmors! It has been a long time since I have seen you around. I remember a discussion several months ago where you were talking about creating a newsletter. Well, I can somewhat proudly say that we've finally got around to doing it. The newsletter is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Newsletter. I'd highly value your input into the newsletter, its delivery format, organisation and appearance (not currently that good-looking!). You've always been pleasant and collegiate in discussions, collaborative in your editing style, and have a history of making good suggestions as to how to improve things. I know you've expressed an interest in this sort of thing before, and I'd value your input and contributions. If you're interested, the most suitable place would be here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Newsletter. Kindly, --LT910001 (talk) 01:43, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hi Biosthmors, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! — xaosflux ^Talk 16:32, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

July 6 Atlanta Wiki-Picnic

You might be interested in signing up for this: Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 8.--Pharos (talk) 04:01, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Fraudulent Russian politician

Please take a look at the profile of Mikhail Batin. This is blatant self promotion by a Russian politician-wannabe, who spends most of his time in bars and night clubs and who’s only claim to fame is a blog with fairly radical calls for violence. Including violence in Ukraine. Both the Russian and English versions of the Wiki articles were written by the hired staff within his “foundation”. OlgaMartyniuk editor, who originally wrote the Russian version of the biography is officially employed at his “foundation”. He claims to be the director of the regenerative medicine laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology without having a graduate degree. This is a disgrace for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Viktor Petrik, another disgrace to Russian science, at least knows what he is talking about when giving interviews. He does not speak English and is an anti-Semite. Wikipedia is better than that. 80.82.68.78 (talk) 03:58, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello! I am a professor at Ohio State, which does not yet have a presence on the Special: Institutions page. I wish to use Wikipedia this autumn for an evolution class and am having trouble getting started. I have my own sandbox (Antlady), and have taken the training, and used the Course Wizard. The training indicates that after using Course Wizard there is a way to add my institution. HOWEVER, when I got to the end, it dumped me into the Education noticeboard, which does not seem to have a way out.

I do not know how to get my institution listed, which is the first step. Can you help, please?!

Joan Herbers Ohio State University aka Antlady Antlady (talk) 14:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

My apologies, my request was appended to your entry on the Russian issue. I hope you can still help me, as I am really struggling. Joan Herbers Antlady (talk) 14:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Following Wikipedia Core Principles

Jmh649, aka James Heilman, MD, has edited this “biographical page”, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tobinick), more than 20 times, since 2:55, 17 September 2014. His most recent edit, as of this writing, is 5:45, 18 September 2014. That is more than 20 edits in approximately 27 hours.

Jmh649 edits with a negative tone (see 5:45, 18 September 2014). He removes arguments, rather than fairly explaining both sides. He uses improper sources. He has not participated on the Talk page. He has taken an informed, well-researched biography, and reduced it to a critical, negative, one-sided, poorly sourced diatribe.

Biographies of Living Persons “must be written with the greatest care and attention to verifiability, neutrality, and avoidance of original research.” (WP:BLP) They “must not take sides, but should explain the sides, fairly and without bias. This applies to both what you say and how you say it.” (WP:NPOV) Contentious material about living persons…that is unsourced or poorly sourced…should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.” (WP:BLP)

“Questionable sources are those that…have an apparent conflict of interest…Avoid self-published sources….” (WP:V)

Edward Tobinick and Steven Novella are opposing litigants in a current lawsuit. It is taking sides (a violation of NPOV) to use Novella’s self-published blog, specifically a webpage that directly attacks Tobinick (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/enbrel-for-stroke-and-alzheimers/ ), as a source in the biographical page, as Jmh649 does. Jmh649 also uses a defamatory CaseWatch page targeted at Tobinick as a source in the biographical page; it, too, is a one-sided, defamatory self-published blog, with which Novella is affiliated.

Further, the biographical page, as constructed by Jmp649, has had placed into it yet another source, an article in The Oklahoman (http://newsok.com/oklahoma-doctors-question-a-california-physicians-treatment-for-strokes/article/3576689 ) that also falsely targets Tobinick. This source is also defamatory and contains false and/or misleading statements of fact and/or opinion. It is also outdated, dating from 2011 and omits material facts; for example, it does not take mention nor take into account four randomized, double-blind clinical trials of etanercept, one for Alzheimer’s, three for neurological spine pain, that showed statistically significant clinical results in subjects who received etanercept vs. controls, all of which were completed after this source was published and have been detailed in my previous post on this Talk page. Jmh649 reverted (removed) the page edited by me that excluded this defamatory, outdated, and improper source. His improper reversion was clearly in violation of WP:BLP (Contentious material about living persons…that is unsourced or poorly sourced…should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.” (WP:BLP))

Positive articles about the subject of the biographical page (Tobinick) from leading news sources such as the BBC, or the International Business Times, have been removed by Jmh649 from the biographical page. Likewise, he has removed nearly all of the more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles that were formerly mentioned, and all reports of favorable placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials from the biographical page. What is left is negative opinion, poorly sourced on self-published blogs, and outdated, defamatory news items.

What is Jmp649’s justification for removing all of Dr. Tobinick’s professional affiliations, medical board specialty certifications, and relevant professional medical presentations from his biographical page? What is Jmp649’s justification for highlighting in the biographical page the webpage of another physician (Novella) who is the subject of a lawsuit by Dr. Tobinick specifically alleging the inclusion of false and defamatory statements of fact on the very webpages that Jmp649 highlights and hyperlinks to on his altered version of the biographical page?

The biographical page, as it stands in its current revision, is not an objective article, and the biographical page as revised by Jmp649 flagrantly violates Wikipedia guidelines for composing the biography of a living person. As a veteran Wikipedia administrator, Jmh649 should know better; this is intentional and reckless behavior. This is not compatible with core Wikipedia policies, including WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, etc. For these reasons Jmh649 should refrain from any further participation on this page, and I plan to revert all of his edits and restore the version that was in place prior to his participation. Additionally Jmp649 should be blocked from further reverts, edits, etc. by the WP:3RR rule. Rjwrjw100 (talk) 21:00, 18 September 2014 (UTC)