Talk:Telescoping effect

Feels like yesterday...?
Is this the same thing as when people say "Feels like we just met yesterday," or, conversely, "I feel like I took that test forever ago..."? Thanks,--Uhjoebilly (talk) 05:02, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Telescoping effect outline
We are working on the article on telescoping effect for our cognitive psychology class. Based on the research we have done, this is a preliminary outline of our page:


 * General Definition and Research
 * The Importance of Telescoping Effect
 * The Importance of Telescoping Effect


 * Models of the Telescoping Effect:
 * Date Estimation
 * Date Estimation


 * Modifiers of Effect
 * Developmental
 * Childhood Memories
 * *Aging
 * Smoking and Alcohol
 * Marketing
 * Marketing
 * Marketing
 * Marketing

Reference and textbook sources
 * Minimizing the telescoping effect

Potential Sources

Kcsmit (talk) 15:16, 15 February 2013 (UTC) Brcurtin (talk) 15:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Kcsmit and Brcurtin! I didn't check all of your sources, but those I checked were all WP:primary sources, that is, results of single studies. However, Wikipedia is not an academic paper or essay! Wikipedia articles  should be based on reliable, published secondary sources  (for instance, journal reviews and professional or advanced academic textbooks) and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources (such as undergraduate textbooks). WP:MEDRS describes how to identify reliable sources for medical information, which is a good guideline for many psychology articles as well. So please, reconsider your choice of sources and use secondary sources instead! With friendly regards,   Lova Falk     talk   20:11, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks Lova Fov. We are currently looking for more sources. If you have any recommendations, please let us know. Brcurtin (talk) 22:46, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I couldn't find any - so I guess there's nothing else to do than to use the primary sources. Sometimes in the introduction of a study, there is a summary of results of previous studies and that can be a valuable source of information. With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   19:35, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice. Brcurtin (talk) 01:24, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Some other sources

pages/chapters in books (tertiary):
 * Alcohol:
 * Smoking
 * Smoking
 * Smoking
 * Smoking
 * Smoking
 * Smoking

I couldn't find a meta-analysis, which is disappointing. You could also use pages/chapters from reference books which would be tertiary material. Smallman12q (talk) 19:47, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the sources. We will look at these and continue to look for others. Brcurtin (talk) 21:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Peer reviewers, Kendra and I's last revision was on March 21 at 3:30. Thanks for looking over our page! Brcurtin (talk) 20:50, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Smallman12q, thanks for nominating our article and helping us with our article. We also noticed that you created a link to a blank Ferdi Elsas page on the telescoping page, we were wondering if you were planning to fill that page with more information or if we should remove that link because the page is blank? Thanks, Brcurtin (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2013 (UTC) and Kendra


 * Red links are a good thing since (even if a bit unesthethic) since they may drive an editor with the knowledge to start the article... It is like it is screaming at you "Are you bold enough?": See WP:RED, which in a nutshell says "Red links for subjects that should have articles but do not are not only acceptable, but needed in the articles. They serve as a clear indication of which articles are in need of creation, and encourage it."


 * Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 20:24, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks and thanks for all your other advice. Brcurtin (talk) 21:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK
I've filed a nomination for Did you know at Template:Did you know nominations. Once it goes through, it'll appear on the front page in the "Did You Know" section. You can follow it below. Cheers.Smallman12q (talk) 18:34, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Comments for improvement
Due to the lack of secondary sources in the article (independently of whether they are out there or not) I do not feel that I can talk much about the content itself. However I will try to make some comments on how to improve the article.

As first idea: See WP:lead, where it is explained how the lead of an article should be. In summary: it should summarize the ideas of the article. It should also be short (specially for a short article like this one, and not technical. Right now it does not fulfill any of those characteristics.
 * You could (should) move any content that is not present in the body of the article to existing or new sections: Examples of possible new sections to move content from lead: description, history, famous examples.
 * You could then summarize the article in the lead in a non technical manner including some info from each section.

I paste here some further comments on format that I made at the deep dyslexia article; in which some of your class-mates are working, and that also apply here (Examples are from their article, but as I say, similar mistakes appear also in your article).


 * Capital letters: I do not think that the models are names by themselves. I do not think they merit the use of title case. In text I would change them to lower case (and unbolded as proposed above): e.g. I would change The Morton and Patterson (Dual Route) Model is based upon the to The Morton and Patterson (dual route) model is based upon the. Similarly titles should be changed to sentence case (e.g:Dual Route Model would be Dual route model).


 * I would also increase the number of technical or important (for the article) terms linked from this article.


 * Another recommendation at this moment is that you try to increase the numbers of articles linking to this one (In a sensible way: the idea is not to do inside wiki spamming :-). In which articles would make sense to have an in-text link to this article? In which others makes lots of sense to include this article in the see also section? If you are not sure on how to do it you can say here possible related articles and we can take a look at them and how to do it.

Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 16:09, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

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