Talk:Outline of human intelligence

Annotations and other content to add to this outline?
I don't know who else watches this outline, but I guess I'll find out by asking some questions on this talk page. I've just read the essay WP:OUTLINE, the project main page WP:WPOUTLINE, the project tip page WikiProject_Outline_of_Knowledge/Helpful_tips, and the portal page Portal:Contents/Outlines. Till now, I haven't actively edited any of the outline pages here on Wikipedia. Now that I have become aware of this outline, which links to many articles I watch, I'm wondering what tips any of you have for editing Wikipedia outline pages.

I see in the essay about outlines the statement, "But with the addition of annotations, and by virtue of the hierarchical arrangement of their entries, outlines on Wikipedia go beyond being mere site maps and are evolving into classified glossaries." I also see the statement, "Many outlines provide descriptive annotations in their entries, to assist readers in topic identification and selection, to help them at a glance to understand the terms and choose which one to click on to read more about." That suggests some information I could add to this outline. In particular, I wonder if it would be helpful to add dates of the lives of the scholars and researchers mentioned in that section of the outline, to show readers who is still living. The outlines recommended as good examples, for example the Outline of Japan, provide clues to good practice that would be good to follow here.

Best wishes to all for a happy new year. I'll dig into some edits as I look forward to comments from other editors. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 19:06, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Useful sources for updating this outline and the linked articles
The topic of this outline, human intelligence, is the topic of many articles on Wikipedia, including some articles that are among the most controversial and edit-warred on all of English Wikipedia.





As discussed in the last few months through an RFC on the Race and intelligence article talk page (the talk page of an article linked from this outline), there are a number of current sources available to editors that meet the  Wikipedia guidelines for reliable sources in medicine, which is generally the correct source guideline to apply to articles on human intelligence and IQ testing. (That's because IQ tests are literally used in medical diagnosis, and also used in high-stakes forensic contexts such as finding diminished criminal responsibility in criminal trials, and consequential decisions such as school placement for children.) It's important to note that several of the articles linked to from this outline are under active ArbCom sanctions because of past edit-warring. I hope it will be helpful to mention sources previously agreed to in a nonexhaustive list of good sources for the other article that also fit most articles that have ever been linked to from this outline here, along with a few other sources that come just with my personal recommendation until other editors comment here (as I encourage all of you to do). I have reviewed the editorial guidelines for Wikipedia outline articles and expect to add several of these sources to a Further reading section of this outline.

Sources recommended in the previous RFC useful here too

 * (This authoritative handbook appears to be cited only as a further reading reference, for one specific chapter in this handbook, in the current version of several Wikipedia articles. It deserves dozens of citations to most of its chapters in most Wikipedia articles that fit within the scope of this outline. Moreover, this source does a lot to define the scope of the subject of human intelligence, an important consideration for further editing of this outline.)


 * (This major review article in a flagship publication by the American Psychological Association deserves a lot more citations than the tiny number it now has in articles linked to from this outline. Again, this source reflects a consensus of current researchers on what the scope of the topic is, and thus is especially useful for deciding what to include on the outline and what not to include.)


 * (This is the second edition of an authoritative textbook that is exactly focused on the topic of this outline. Most articles linked to from this outline should be updated with many more citations to this edition, and the outline itself could well use checking with this textbook as a guide to the scope of the study of human intelligence.)


 * (This appears not to be cited at all in the current version of many articles linked to from this outline, which is a serious omission. This book too, as its title suggests, is a useful reality check on what to include and what not to include on the outline.)

Other useful sources of WP:MEDRS quality for updating this outline and linked articles

 * (This comprehensive handbook by multiple authoritative authors is currently mentioned only in the further reading section of a few articles, which is too little use of this high-quality source.)


 * (This book includes a solid general overview of principles of psychological testing, including IQ testing. It is completely neglected in the current version of most articles linked to from this outline. It is also a good reality check on the scope of this outline and outlines on broader topics.)


 * (This source, the second edition of the key volume of a massive, authoritative handbook of psychology, is so recently published that no editor had seen it as of the last time sources were discussed in the RFC at the other article. It is very good. It should also be used as a reality check on this outline and the related articles.)


 * Journal of Intelligence — Open Access Journal is a new, open-access, "peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original empirical and theoretical articles, state-of-the-art articles and critical reviews, case studies, original short notes, commentaries" intended to be "an open access journal that moves forward the study of human intelligence: the basis and development of intelligence, its nature in terms of structure and processes, and its correlates and consequences, also including the measurement and modeling of intelligence." The content of the first issue is posted, and includes interesting review articles, one by Earl Hunt and Susanne M. Jaeggi and one by Wendy Johnson. The editorial board of this new journal should be able to draw in a steady stream of good article submissions. It looks like the journal aims to continue to publish review articles of the kind that would meet Wikipedia guidelines for articles on medical topics, an appropriate source guideline to apply to Wikipedia articles about intelligence.

There are quite a few good sources on the topic of this outline that are recent, comprehensively review the earlier literature (both primary research articles and previous secondary sources), and meet the standards of the WP:MEDRS guidelines and yet are entirely unused in the linked articles. I would be delighted to hear suggestions of other sources. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 19:30, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)