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Ontologies
Hi. In reply to your wonderings at CFD#Category:SciFoo attendees: Here's a small part of the context, according to my very limited understanding... :) And probably all sorts of other factors! I've managed to avoid learning too much about categories here.
 * 1) Best summed up by the intro at WP:Overcategorization, and the subheadings with 3-examples-each that follow.
 * 2) Our WP:Category system is far from perfect, and that is partially because everyone has a different ideal size and usage for it. Some want only fundamental characteristics, others want every single keyword/tag that could possibly be associated with a topic (a freely added tag-based folksonomy. (Here's a somewhat related blog post I read yesterday, that might work here in a few years?))
 * 3) The more complex it gets, the harder it is to manage. So keeping the system smaller has pragmatic premises.
 * 4) And then the whole thing veers into arguments over ontology, which Italian Wikinews covers nicely in its recent interview with Umberto Eco (search for "onto" in page)
 * 5) Lists really can be better when additional context can be included, like with the List of TED speakers. See what other people have written about that idea, at WP:Categories, lists, and navigation templates.

Sorry for the ramble, but whilst I was contemplating it, I thought I should share. Also, I like your blog :) -- Quiddity (talk) 03:08, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

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April 2011
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Hello, verifiability is on the category page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:EMBO_members see http://www.embo.org/embo-members


 * Each article needs to mention the membership with a reference. Don't just add categories to biographies without corresponding information in the article. Thanks. GcSwRhIc (talk) 20:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to a short survey. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates only 5 minutes. cooldenny (talk) 20:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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OK, I'm adding new entries as e.g. Peer Bork ‎  see [.| source].


 * No, you are not. There is still no mention of EMBO in 'the article. Putting a link in the edit summary is not referencing something. Please see Citing sources. Before adding the category add a sentence to the article stating that the subject is a member of 'Organization X' with a reference. You are adding it to lots of articles so it should be easy for you to copy and paste something that you could tweek each time. Thanks. GcSwRhIc (talk) 23:36, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

so what would you suggest then? I figure that http://www.embo.org is a verifiable and reputable source but they don't give me links to individual member pages. Can't see what else I can do, other than leave the information out altogether.


 * Heres an example of a similar sort of edit the added content is in red. for the Nobel laureates use http://www.embo.org/embo-members/find-a-member/nobel-laureates.html use the general search page for the other members. Use Template:Cite web inside would be best, but if you at least put the link inside ref tags. GcSwRhIc (talk) 23:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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OK, ta, left a comment Duncan.Hull (talk) 13:33, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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Edits to Hidden Markov model
I undid your and  changes because they hide some of the information that the previous, uncompact citations carried. If you feel strongly, please feel free to undo my undo; but if we can somehow have the best of both worlds, that would be best. Thanks! — Q uantling (talk &#124; contribs) 22:59, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Lesk was not Chothia's postdoc
Duncan: AML and CC were collaborators at MRC-LMB. To list AML as CC's student or postdoc would be factually incorrect, imo.

110.32.68.216 (talk) 00:28, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Computational Biology
Hi,

Thanks for signing up to WikiProject_Computational_Biology. There is a growing list of tasks that you can help out with if you have a few free moments. See the discussion page here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computational_Biology. Alexbateman (talk) 09:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Use of the cite template
Hi Duncan,

I noticed that on your recent edit of the UniProt article you changed the full inline citation cite template to the one using just the PMID. That seems like a retrograde step to me, given someone has take the time to put in the full citation. Is there some guidance in Wikipedia as to what is preferred? I find it difficult to find out what the best practice is. Cheers Alexbateman (talk) 16:08, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Alex, I'm never sure what best practice is either. The trouble with full citations is the metadata can be inconsistent (and even wrong), but as you say, they contain more information. On the other hand, the template style citation means that the information can be reused many times (and will at least be consistent too) but the "cite pmid|12345" can be a bit cryptic. I don't mind reverting the edit if you think its better as it was before. Duncan.Hull (talk) 16:26, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Edits to professor Michael Waterman
Hi Duncan,

I am a student works in the same Department with Prof. Waterman. I am sorry for not letting you know about the changes I did yesterday, but all those changes and modifications are requested and verified by Prof. Waterman and I have undone the changes to the previous version. If you find any problems or typos, please feel free to let me know.

Best Regards. XILONG FAN

Scientist biographies
Hey, you've been adding additional citations to existing text as a form of "adding links". If your intention is to add citations, you're not actually adding anything; all the text you're sticking them on to is already cited. If you're adding external links, that's not how we do it. Ironholds (talk) 09:47, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Dear Ironholds, there are two styles of citation here, the original (1) and the one I changed it to (2) which uses a Digital Object Identifier and Template:Cite doi shown below:



The second style is an improvement on the first and adds important information that is missing by linkg directly through to the original source (the abstract of the article), rather than just the journal itself. IMHO this does actually add something Duncan.Hull (talk) 08:30, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi Duncan, I'm spending a bit of time on biographies for scientists in the field of genomics every now and then. I'm going to add them to the lists of Biography/Biologists requests from now on, in case you want to give a look at them: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/Biologists Thanks Avilella (talk) Avilella (talk) 17:43, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello Avilella, thanks I'll take a look Duncan.Hull (talk) 08:24, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, adding the additional citation is fine; however, if you're going to add it, replace the other citation with it. Otherwise you're just muddying the waters. Ironholds (talk) 09:29, 25 July 2011 (UTC)


 * OK, will do Duncan.Hull (talk) 09:31, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Royal Society postnominals to American scientists.
Would you please stop adding FRS or ForRS to the biographies of American scientists such as Barbara McClintock as this is inappropriate. Americans may be entitled to use them but they seldom ever do. McClintock was also entitled to use the postnominals MNAS and FAAAS, but again these are seldom used. Benjamin Franklin used FAPS in hopes I guess of popularizing it, but it is even less popular. It would be better just to add a sentence about their election to the Society in the awards and honors section. Thanks. GcSwRhIc (talk) 14:01, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


 * OK sorry... seen the error of my ways now


 * Thanks, just one of those cultural things. Most American scientists are justifiably proud of their election to the Royal Society or other learned societies. The postnominal thing just runs against the long running American aversion to titles (except of course the legal profession where Hon. for judges and esq. for attorneys is the norm, not in Wikipedia though :-). Read about the never ratified Titles of Nobility Amendment if you're interested. Some crack pots have argued that it actually was ratified and that their convictions should be overturned because the legal parties (judges and attorneys) used titles and thus were not U.S. citizens and could not legally hand down judgements. As I said crackpots. GcSwRhIc (talk) 14:27, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

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 * Hello, I have links in references so that they show up when used outside the author page, e.g. the John Maynard Smith biography was authored by Paul H. Harvey and Brian_Charlesworth. See also Leon Mestel who has authored many biographies of scientists.Duncan.Hull (talk) 16:09, 1 September 2011 (UTC)


 * If these people are already mentioned in these other biographies, wouldn't they already be linked, and thus be a case of overlinking? –  VisionHolder « talk » 02:13, 2 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes I suppose it could, although it depends on how they are cited Duncan.Hull (talk) 07:28, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Tom Cherry
I'm puzzled as to why the page is called Thomas MacFarland Cherry when Tom Cherry is a red link (as is Thomas Cherry). Can you think of any reason not to move it to "Tom Cherry"? (Thanks in advance.) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:09, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, I think that Thomas MacFarland Cherry is best because it is less ambiguous than Tom Cherry and Thomas Cherry - there is bound to be more than one Thomas Cherry in the world. The Tom Cherry and Thomas Cherry could link appropriately, as with John Smith. Duncan.Hull (talk) 13:11, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Interesting. (i.e. Not one of the replies I was expecting.) Nevertheless, many thanks for the reply. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:49, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Chamberlain
Do you have a copy of the obit you could email me? Since I worked on the Chamberlain article a bit, it might be helpful to have. Also, I'm starting to eye my sources in preparation for a bit of work on Rise of Neville Chamberlain which I'd like to be TFA next 28 May (the 75th anniversary of his premiership).--Wehwalt (talk) 18:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, sure, here is a copy Duncan.Hull (talk) 15:32, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Pieter Zeeman
The obituary DOI was incorrect, it had a comma in it, and I couldn't even get the bot to find it with the comma turned into a period. It did find it when I used the old DOI from the previous versions that weren't cite DOI. Please take a look.Naraht (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * thanks for correcting it, that looks fine Duncan.Hull (talk) 10:35, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Affiliation with Sage Bionetworks?
Hello. Do you have any affiliation with Sage? I would love to improve their article but I need help finding a good third-party review of their work. I actually have not contacted their PR department yet, so I am not sure what is available. Do you know them?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   18:10, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, I don't have any affiliation with Sage, just interested in them. The works cited at Sage Bionetworks and Stephen Friend should be a good start though. HTH Duncan.Hull (talk) 10:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Open Access
Hi Duncan, have you seen WP:OPENACCESS? Would be nice to have you join in. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 16:42, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Daniel, looks good and needs some work too, I will take a look Duncan.Hull (talk) 20:49, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * ignore that of course, I removed the tag placed by this beginning new page patroller. In fact, as this is just oner of his many gross errors, I've blocked him from deletion tagging till he has the chance to learn the rules.  DGG ( talk ) 17:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * Hello PeeJay, OK, can you tell me now to contest the move then? I don't see why football players should receive such high prominence in wikipedia, especially ones who have retired? Mendes is not exactly David Beckham is he? Duncan.Hull (talk) 12:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * No, he's not David Beckham, but he's certainly more prominent than any of the other Pedro Mendeses you listed. But that's not for us to decide. We should restore the db-move tag and then you should follow the instructions at WP:RM. – PeeJay 21:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

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Richard Friend's thesis_url
Hi, I notice you reverted my edit on the Richard Friend article. While EThOS is often a useful service for finding copies of theses, Friend's page states "This thesis is not available via the EThOS service. Please contact the current institution's library directly if you wish to view the thesis." Perhaps this link would be better as a reference, rather than a thesis_url? Gareth Jones (talk) 11:08, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * yes, sure, as long as there is some URL to trace it


 * Great, I'll do that. Gareth Jones (talk) 12:50, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

thesis_url
Hello. I fail to see why the addition of a generic link to a limited-access site (www.theses.com) is helpful:, ,. It seems like spamming to me. Could you elaborate on that? --Omnipaedista (talk) 04:18, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello Omnipaedista, the reason for adding the link to theses.com on Paul Davies, M. J. Seaton and Edwin Southern was WP:CITE. Normally I would use a URL which linked to the actual content, but in all these cases, AFAIK the title of their PhD theses was not available anywhere else. So IMHO, it's not "spamming" but citing sources as per WP:CITE. If you can find a better source to verify these people's thesis_url and thesis_title, then please go ahead and use it  Duncan.Hull (talk) 09:50, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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Did you read that article? Reference 4 is "Tim Thompson; Sue Black (14 November 2006). Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction. Taylor & Francis. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-0-8493-3954-7. Retrieved 18 October 2012", so it seemed perfectly relevant. The source I added also mentions Black by name as original Secretary and founding member. No tats on my knuckles, honest guv'. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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Wanna work together on improving Dave's article? U+003F? 11:32, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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I see that you reverted my change to the hatnote on this article. The reason for the piping of the link through the (disambiguation) redirect is so that those of us at WP:DPL who fix ambiguous links (and the bots that create lists for us) will know that it is an intentional link to a disambiguation page. This is also spelled out at WP:INTDABLINK. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 19:58, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
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Secondly, and more importantly, I would like to understand why you moved the section on the vineyard and winery to "Personal life". The vineyard and winery are businesses in the fullest sense of the word. His appointment to the  board of the federal government's Australian Wine Research Institute reinforces that this is not just some personal hobby. If you have a reason for moving it to "Personal life", please let me know what it is; otherwise it seems to belong under Career. --Gronk Oz (talk) 05:38, 27 July 2015 (UTC)


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Hello, just been looking at this article and saw the list of faculty. Are we sure hosting this on Wikipedia is a good idea? I feel this will just get dated and still be there in 2025 confusing people unless someone commits to updating it regularly as people come and go. For the same reason, Wikipedia doesn't tend to host long lists of things subject to change like branches of McDonald's. (There's some policy on this but I can't find it.) I just feel the right place to find a reliable faculty list is the Sanger's own webpage and it might make sense to cut the list on Wikipedia back to faculty who have their own Wikipedia pages. (Have also raised this point on the article talk page.) Blythwood (talk) 00:07, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
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 * right, I didn't realise that, there is nothing to actually indicate that Template:Infobox person/Wikidata it could do with a BIG RED WARNING like at Template:Cite doi to make it clear it has been deprecated. Seems a shame as there aren't any good alternatives to duplicating data in wikidata and infoboxes (yet) Duncan.Hull (talk) 23:05, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
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Biography of Joseph Reagle
Duncan, thanks to your edits of my biography. If you didn't know, I provide a page of biographical factoids that can be used to improve the page---though I abstain from doing this myself for obvious reasons. -Reagle (talk) 14:32, 23 August 2016 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks for the info Duncan.Hull (talk) 08:10, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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Edit summaries
I have noticed that most of your edit summaries today have been "(added Template:FRS 1993)", but several of these edits have made more substantial changes. This applies to your recent edit to Colin Patterson (biologist). This article has a history of contentious edits relating to creationism, and I initially suspected that someone was trying to smuggle in something under the cover of a bland edit summary. On closer inspection you have not done this. I have made a partial revert for the reasons given in my edit summary. Please try to make your edit summaries more informative. Thanks, Verbcatcher (talk) 05:13, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * hello I made around 30 edits that were broadly similar because they all added the Template:FRS 1993, so it was easier and quicker to use the drop down menu in the edit summary box, rather than describe every edit individually. Personally, I never trust edit summaries for the reasons you outline above, the most authoritative record of edits is usually the "diff" e.g. this one Duncan.Hull (talk) 09:48, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

New Page: Jeff Forshaw
Hello, thanks for noticing the page, you seem to have a lot of experience with biographies of scientists, are you able to add it to WikiProject Physics and rate it for scale and importance? I don't think I can do this as I wrote it. Thanks Mramoeba (talk) 12:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Well i'm not sure you can either now, but thanks for the edits! Mramoeba (talk) 14:20, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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Jean-Claude Pecker
Hello Duncan, thanks for looking over the Forshaw page from time to time. Maybe you would like to take a look at Jean-Claude Pecker page that I have rewritten, as you seem to have a good eye for this kind of bio! No worries if you don't, I just thought of you. Thanks. Mramoeba (talk) 15:07, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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Copyright problem on [[Simon Tavaré]
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U.K. system
§ Hi,

Since you are from the U.K., I've couple of questions for you. Back in 2016, Jennifer Doudna of Berkeley was elected foreign member of the Royal Society. Back then, I knew nothing about the Royal Society. How prestigious is that recognition? I've also discovered that Oxford University and Cambridge University in the U.K. have colleges. Are they autonomous? David J. Thouless went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Should the page mention that he went to Cambridge University? People outside the U.K. may not know that Trinity Hall is a college of Cambridge University. Ber31 (talk) 06:47, 1 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello, the award is outlined here Fellow of the Royal Society (it is a prestigious award) and the colleges are federal, see Colleges of the University of Cambridge. AFAIK, the colleges don't award degrees, but the University does so I've changed the alma_mater property of David Thouless accordingly.

Moving pages
Hi Duncan.Hull! I see that you have moved many pages citing disambiguation. Could you explain you reasoning behind this? For example, you moved Jennifer Thomas (physicist) to Jennifer Anne Thomas. A quick google shows nothing relevant for her full name but does for the previous disambiguation. She is not known by her full name and therefore it is inaccurate to have that as the article name as per WP:COMMONNAME. She is, on the other hand, known as the physicist called Jennifer Thomas. Thanks, Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 12:08, 10 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello Thanks for reminding me about WP:COMMONNAMES, I've not read that for a while.


 * Like Martin Fowler I think that naming things is hard. Personally, I find parentheses in article titles lead to unsatisfactory names - especially for biographies of scientists. What goes in the parentheses is arbitrary and editors often have conflicting opinions, for example should the Ellen Williams article be called:


 * Ellen D. Williams (chemist)
 * Ellen D. Williams (scientist)
 * Ellen D. Williams (physicist) etc


 * Which is better and why? It isn't always clear. If we knew Ellen's middle name, we could just use that instead. The full name her parents gave her, seems better than any parenthetical word(s) editors can think of (IMHO).


 * In the case of Jenny Thomas, you are probably right that people are unlikely to search for "Jennifer Anne Thomas". However search engines don't care too much what wikipedia editors call biography pages, so the searches below show Jennifer Anne Thomas prominently in the results


 * https://www.google.com/search?q=Jennifer+Thomas
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=Jenny+Thomas+Physics
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=Jennifer+Thomas+Physics


 * None of the examples given in WP:COMMONNAMES (Bill Clinton, Bono, Cat Stevens, François Mitterrand, John F. Kennedy, Lady Gaga, Liberace, Mahatma Gandhi and Marie Curie) use parentheses in their article titles. Perhaps this is because parentheses are (according to WP:NATURALDIS)  a technique to be used "when none of the other solutions lead to an optimal article title". So the approach of using the full name Jennifer Anne Thomas is precise (as per WP:PRECISION) and an attempt at natural disambiguation "...using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title..." of Jenny Thomas without using parentheses.


 * I hope that explains my reasoning (in a nutshell). Naming things is hard and I've tended to opt for precision although Google doesn't care too much what we end up agreeing on. Duncan.Hull (talk) 22:52, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
Hello,

I notice that you recently made edits to the Wikipedia page for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books and wanted to get in touch. I work on the PR for the Nine Dots Prize, a UK-based social sciences prize that seeks to reward original thinking in response to contemporary societal issues. The Prize launched last year and announced its first winner, James Williams, on 31st May 2017. You can read more about the Prize and James on the Prize's website: http://ninedotsprize.org

The Prize is incredibly generous (the winner receives a book deal with Cambridge University Press and US$100,000) but it does not yet have its own wikipedia page. I was wondering if you might be interested in creating one?

Do let me know if this is something you might like to do and if there is any way I can help.

Best wishes, Bookworm0956 (talk) 15:03, 21 August 2017 (UTC)