Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Science/Archive 7

Created article on satirical comedy film - Climate Change Denial Disorder
I've created a new article on the satirical comedy short film Climate Change Denial Disorder.

Help with additional research would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:Climate Change Denial Disorder.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:02, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Slow Science listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Slow Science to be moved to Slow science. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 12:31, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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Minor planet "90377 Sedna" RM discussion
Minor planet 90377 Sedna > Sedna (minor planet) discussion taking place at Talk:90377_Sedna. Please join in if it catches your fancy. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:23, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

"Slow Science"
The naming of Slow Science is under discussion, see Talk:Slow Science -- 70.51.200.135 (talk) 07:15, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

"Chief Scientific Officer"
The usage and primary topic of Chief Scientific Officer is under discussion, see talk: Chief Scientific Officer (England) -- 70.51.200.135 (talk) 05:44, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This is now a merger discussion at Talk:Chief Scientific Officer. RockMagnetist(talk) 17:37, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

AfC help please
Hi. Would appreciate some feedback on this article, Draft:Riemannian Metric and Lie-Bracket Interpretation of the Euler Equation on Geodesics, which is at AfC currently. Am definitely not up to snuff on this subject. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Onel 5969  TT me 15:30, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Connecting interest with a wiki of a similar goal?
Hi all,

We're starting up another wiki that aims to collect summaries of academic research, and I thought members of the science community here might be interested. Is there a way to connect to the community here to at least make everyone aware of the wiki's existence (it would, of course, not compete with wikipedia in any way) in a respectful, non spammy way?

Thanks! 68.119.83.109 (talk) 13:50, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Josh


 * Hey Josh. Noble idea. See WP:NOT. You may have something in mind that is OK, but somebody else's project talk page is not the place to explore that. Please get a user account, take the discussion there, post links to that on select talk pages, but don't do the classic spam-and-run on us. Join us in the long game. Get some edits under your belt so we can see you understand how this works here. Like everywhere you get more done when you build trust and respect first. We've got faith in you. -- Paleorthid (talk) 16:46, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * That's some great counsel, thanks, and I appreciate the wisdom without judgement. :)

68.119.83.109 (talk) 01:40, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Discussion about generally considering articles from predatory publishers unreliable
There is a discussion here if that topic is of interest. It has been going on since Feb 26, but just wanted to make sure folks here are aware of it. Jytdog (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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"Dynamic instability"
has been nominated for deletion at RFD -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 03:27, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

"Postdoctoral researcher"
The name, usage, topic and scope of Postdoctoral researcher is under discussion, see talk:Postdoctoral researcher -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 05:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Scientific notation with Convert
Do you think that template:convert should support an option that forces output to use scientific notation ? I've noticed there no such option at template talk:Convert. -- 70.51.45.100 (talk) 05:33, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Signpost and Wikimedia Blog - Request for interviews
Going forward, each participant receives the interview questions about the project's work, problems and achievements. I may also ask some questions about yourself as an editor and some of your other activities on Wikimedia projects. You are free to share as much or as little detail as you wish. Thank you, -- 3family6 ( Talk to me   &#124;  See what I have done  ) 15:42, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Scientific dissent
Please review and improve my recent article Scientific dissent. IMO it is a rather important subject somehow overlooked in wikipedia. It was tagged as if I am pushing personal opinions into it. I find this accusation rather weird, and the taggers ignore my requests to give any specifics. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:22, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The above article has been nominated for possible deletion. Interested editors are encouraged to join the discussion which can be found at Articles for deletion/Scientific dissent. -Ad Orientem (talk) 23:37, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Helix
I made Bicentennial Lighthouse, a lighthouse article, and described it as helical. Is it? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:25, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Resolved, thanks to the good folks at the science refdesk. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:06, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Is this paper legit
Several IPs have come by and dropped a specific citation across several articles linking to what seems to be a paid article trying to make someone more famous than they are. This is the citation, is it legit?

G. C. Onwubolu and B V Babu,

If not I can remove them or someone else can with a search of "B V Babu". Jerod Lycett (talk) 17:55, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Proposal: Reinstate the "Years in science" WikiProject
The Years in science WikiProject has been marked defunct for 6 years. I think there is benefit in having the project available as a place to discuss future evolution of the "YYYY in science" pages.

If you have thoughts, please join the discussion in the WikiProject Years in science talk page.

Metawade (talk) 18:50, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources
See
 * Village pump (proposals)
 * Village pump (proposals)

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:56, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Proposal - etymology
This is my proposal: documenting the etymology of the names of the most famous scientists. Einstein for example probably comes from "ein" (one) and "stein" (rock). Pascal comes from derives from the Latin paschalis or pashalis, which means "relating to Easter", from the Latin term for "Easter", pascha. Faraday probably comes from "far-a-day", and so on. Many such names entered into our vocabulary and we are using them daily, as measuring units. I think it would be very instructive for students to know where such names come from. —  Ark25  (talk) 21:14, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Current AfD
An article has been nominated for deletion which may be of interest to members of this project. The discussion can be found at Articles for deletion/Fulvic acid. -Ad Orientem (talk) 16:55, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Opinions Requested Regarding Possible Fringe Article
A discussion has been opened on the Fringe Theories Noticeboard concerning an article that may be promoting pseudo-scientific claims. Opinions from knowledgeable editors are kindly requested at the discussion. -Ad Orientem (talk) 04:27, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

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Missing topics list
My list of missing topics about science is updated - Skysmith (talk) 18:39, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

RfC on Masturbation
There is currently an RfC on whether or not to include a reference to NoFap in Masturbation. Interested editors can join the discussion here. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:40, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Science promotion
T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 10:29, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Topic at the Village pump
This topic at VPM is relevant to this project, please feel free to participate in the discussion. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry
There is currently and RFC on what do do with the shortcuts used for the chemistry-related projects. Please comment. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:15, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's Role Models editathon on Women's Colleges
''Please forward this invitation to all potentially interested contacts

100s of graphics being made available on Commons from the UNESCO Science Report
Dear all

I'm currently uploading a few 100 graphics from the UNESCO Science Report to Wikimedia Commons here. Please do keep checking back to the category as I continue to upload images over the coming weeks. Here are a small selection, almost all are .svg files to allow best quality, adaptation and translation.

Thanks

--John Cummings (talk) 11:46, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Free resources on scientists
Dear all, The Royal Society has recently decided to provide free access to the archive of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society - readers can now access all content that is over one year old. This may be helpful to those working on wiki-entries for scientists. Zeromonk (talk) 10:31, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

RFC of interest to this project.
See Talk:Chemistry. Please contribute if you have an opinion. Thanks. -- Jayron 32 02:54, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

WP:CHEMISTRY/WP:CHEMICALS shorcut updated
Note that per this RFC, the shortcuts to WP:CHEMISTRY/WP:CHEMICALS have been updated.


 * WP:CHEM now refer to WP:CHEMISTRY
 * WP:CHEMS now refer to WP:CHEMICALS
 * WP:CHM is deprecated

Old discussions have had their shortcuts updated already. If I have made a mistake during an update, feel free to revert. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:57, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

RfC on the WP:ANDOR guideline
Hi, all. Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 22:48, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Citation overkill proposal at WP:Citation overkill talk page
Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Microscopy & learned societies
I'm currently in the process of creating articles for learned societies and other international organisations concerning the field of microscopy and was wondering if there was a task force or even a WikiProject attached to this one which can review and add talk pages to my articles plus aid in copyeditting. Thanks. UaMaol (talk) 02:02, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Help with understanding a U-series dating method
I'm working on ice core, and have found a reference in Landais 2012 (p. 192) to a U-series dating method, cited to Aciego 2010. The latter is an appendix to the proceedings of a conference, without much discussion, but the reference in Landais, which just calls it "a promising study", makes it worth a one-sentence mention. However, I don't understand the method and was hoping someone here could enlighten me -- I don't want to cite something I don't understand. It looks like Aciego et al are discussing U-series decay in dust that falls on the ice core, but what exactly are they measuring, and how does it determine age? Thanks for any help. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * You might have better luck asking this question at Reference desk/Science‎. Looie496 (talk) 14:12, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks; will do. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:16, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

WP:Citation overkill RfC
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 01:28, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC Announce: Wikimedia referrer policy
In February of 2016 the Wikimedia foundation started sending information to all of the websites we link to that allow the owner of the website (or someone who hacks the website, or law enforcement with a search warrant / subpoena) to figure out what Wikipedia page the user was reading when they clicked on the external link.

The WMF is not bound by Wikipedia RfCs, but we can use an advisory-only RfC to decide what information, if any, we want to send to websites we link to and then put in a request to the WMF. I have posted such an advisory-only RfC, which may be found here:

Village pump (policy)

Please comment so that we can determine the consensus of the Wikipedia community on this matter. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:45, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC regarding the WP:Lead guideline -- the first sentence
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 04:59, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Category:Constituents of tobacco smoke has been nominated for discussion
Category:Constituents of tobacco smoke, has been nominated for possible deletion, A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bosley John Bosley (talk) 23:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Red links in infoboxes
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 13:19, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

World Science Photo Competition 2017
Hi all! I'd like to inform you that with Ivo K. from Wikimedia Estonia and others we are organizing the 2017 edition of commons:Commons:European Science Photo Competition 2015. This year thanks to ivo effort the competition is going to be international, here is the current webiste. There are good chance it will become something like Wiki Loves Monument or Wiki Loves Earth!

We are currently looking for qualified jurors. So far I have found a Belgian photographer (with good scientific background, not a simple artistic photographer) and a Swiss-Chinese professor of organic chemistry, and I have some options for an Italian astronomer or another professor of material science and analytical chemistry to be "promoted" from their national jury.

Is anyone from the academia with some interest in photography or scientific illustration interested? IMHO the best candidates are P.I. or at least some sort of expert postdocs, or directors of scientific institutions, scientific journalists or managers in the field of education... it would help to show around that we care about the level of the jurors. But again, that's my opinion (I still don't consider myself enough for the international jury for example :D), just show up if you want to join somehow!

Plus, if we find someone that is both an expert scientist and a wikimedian that would be even better.

There are also local committees with special or national prizes, as in 2015. So if you find the money for that, you can arrange them as well. I am organizing the Italian jury for example, but that work takes of course much more time than few afternoons scrolling uploaded files. if you find enough people coming from the same geographical area (USA, Canada, UK...) and a strong support from a reliable institution (your alma mater, the outreach department of your research center...) you can become the core for a national initiative and maybe I can help you to find more local jurors.

But so far, simply another "expert" international juror would be nice. Anyone interested?--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:46, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Also if you have any other idea on how to promote the competition in your own country, like a mailing list or a blog... just contact Ivo. Or join as uploader! The challenge will take place in November.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:01, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Should the WP:TALK guideline discourage interleaving?
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 18:40, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Just out
Scientific information on WP has been reviewed by MIT and found to have a "direct correlation between information made available on Wikipedia and how likely that work is to be referenced in future scientific literature." Links are here and here. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐   ✉  15:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women scientists during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:58, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

IDs for scientific photographers
Hi! Who is interested in wikidata properties, please take a look here. it's a discussion about the quality of the National geographic database of scientific photographers.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:02, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Comment on Proposal for WikiProject STS
Hi WikiProject Science!

I've just proposed WikiProject STS to cover issues in the academic field of Science and Technology Studies, which examines scientific issues from a social sciences/humanities perspective. This would be a sort of sister group to WikiProject History of Science.

I'd appreciate if you took a look at the proposal and commented on it! We'd be a relatively small project, but if we can find 10 or so people who'd be willing to help out, we could get started on organizing the project!

I'm also open to the creation of a task force within this WikiProject, or within WikiProject History of Science or WikiProject Technology if we thought that'd be better given the scope. Again, let me know what you think!

Mathmitch7 (talk) 04:21, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Science images from WSC2017
Hi. We are defining in these days the file management workplan for Wiki Science Competition 2017. We have already more than 1700 files to revise. The workflow is pretty intense but we try to keep it on track, the plan will include also a retropatrolling work on many uploaded files, also by some of the jurors later. if possible, we have decided to delete unsuitable files only at the end of the upload phase.

FYI, this category for quality image is ready and here you can find some informal selection, if you want to candidate something on commons.

In any case, just go on ans take a look if you have time. I am trying to improve all categorizations but I don't have many residual time left. I hope you can find something useful for your articles.

Have a nice wiki!--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Liquid Nitrogen images on commons
Hi! If you have time, we are looking for appropriate feedbacks in this discussion on commons about possible new subcategories for images related to liquid N2.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:08, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Redirecting from former scientific name
Hi there, should we have a redirect template for redirecting from old (former) scientific names? An example of one page that would use that template would be Lymantriinae. I was going to create one, but thought that I better check in here first. Thanks for your time! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 23:40, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Huntsman spider's former scientific name would also be in it. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 00:00, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Science
There is some disagreement with tagging science related articles with the project banner, can any person assist me to clarify how the tag should be used as directed under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Science#How_you_can_help?

Ejembi12 (talk) 08:58, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * In general, WikiProject Science banner is used to tag article on very broad scientific topics, especially those that don't fit neatly into other WikiProjects. It's actually a slightly redundant system now that there are more specific WikiProjects. For example, Research and Scientific method are in-scope, but more specific topics like Melting point should be under WP:CHEM and WP:PHYS), and Protein should be under WP:MCB and WP:GEN. The same issues come up with WP:Biology versus WP:MCB. In general, more specific is better, otherwise WP:SCI would be tagged on a million pages. Hope that helps! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 00:06, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Mass-templating as belonging to a Science Series
I am convinced that the extent of inserting in all the articles listed at LearnMore's contributions exceeds rational bounds. Since I suggest some mass measures, perhaps of reverting, I filed this thread at WP:AN/I, but maybe this board is more useless than its fame claims.

Maybe, this project is interested in taking care about the use of this template, bearing its name, and that I assume to have been construed on 07.01.2018, and mass-proliferated from 08. to 09.01.2018, "establishing" a broad user basis.

Making the template content appear at the bottom of a page, in collapsed form, would make it very much more digestible, imho. Purgy (talk) 07:16, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Scholars and academics categories
What is the difference between Category:Scholars and academics by discipline and Category:Scholars and academics by subject? Neither of the two categories has an explanation on the category page, and based on the current content I don't see by what criteria the two categories are divided. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:04, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Further discussion about this, see Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_February_13. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:11, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Seeking feedback on a guide for students who edit articles in science communication
Hello! The Wiki Education Foundation is developing a guide to help students write about all topics related to science communication. The handout is meant to supplement other resources that they consult, such as an interactive training and basic editing brochures. We’d love to get some community feedback on the draft here: User:Cassidy (Wiki Ed)/Science communication. Ideally, we’ll send this to the printer mid-March, so feedback by March 9, 2018 would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! —Cassidy (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:48, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Whether to cite new research papers in a Wikipedia article
There is a debate here Talk:Aharonov–Bohm effect, a topic in physics, about the criteria for including new research papers on the topic in the Wikipedia article. The issue affects a much wider area than physics. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:06, 4 March 2018 (UTC).

Is Draft:Missing Link (Human Evolution) a viable topic?
Hello, I volunteer at Articles for Creation and Draft:Missing Link (Human Evolution) popped up in the queue. Missing Link is currently a disambiguation page with a couple sentences at the top about this "pop science" theory.

It's an AFC Draft, so if anyone has any input you can post it directly on the top of the Draft, not its talk page. Two reviewers are a little baffled as to what to do with it, so if any of you sciency types can way in there on the Draft it would be helpful. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:50, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Article: historical sciences
this article has recently been created from a redirect. I reviewed it. It’s sourced but I’m not sure if the title term is being used in the most common way or if the article covers all use sources of the term. I would like someone academically involved in this project to take a look and further review the article. Thank you. Edaham (talk) 01:24, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Village Pump proposal to delete all Portals
Editors at this project might be interested in the discussion concerning the proposed deletion of all Portals across Wikipedia. See Village_pump_(proposals).Bermicourt (talk) 08:51, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Longitudinal study
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Longitudinal study &mdash;has been proposed for merging with Long-term experiment. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 01:23, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:54, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Could someone look at this edit on Sinodonty and Sundadonty
Found this removal and wondered if it was valid? [] TantraYum (talk) 03:24, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

HELP WANTED
For a number of years we have been experiencing a steady decline in the number of administrators as a result of attrition and a declining number of editors willing to consider adminship. Things have reached a point where we are starting to experience chronic backlogs in important areas of the project including noticeboards, requests for closure, SPI, CSD & etc. If you are an experienced editor with around two years (or more) of tenure, 10k edits give or take and no record of seriously disruptive behavior, please consider if you might be willing to help out the community by becoming an administrator. The community can only function as well as we all are willing to participate. If you are interested start by reading WP:MOP and WP:RFAADVICE. Then go to WP:ORCP and open a discussion. Over the next few days experienced editors will take a look at your record and let you know what they think your chances are of passing RfA (the three most terrifying letters on Wikipedia) as well as provide you with feedback on areas that might be of concern and how to prepare yourself. Lastly you can find a list of experienced editors who may be willing to nominate you here. Thank you and happy editing... [Note:This page may not be on my watchlist so if you want to reply to me, please either ping me or drop me a line on my talk page.] -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:44, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

A good resource: The Philosophy of Science - An Encyclopedia
I just came across this book: The Philosophy of Science - An Encyclopedia - S. Sarkar, et. al., (Routledge, 2006) BBS The book can be a good resource and I would insist you all to go through it (if it is in the zone of your interest). Much of the information can be added to Wikipedia (written in your own words), in case the information is not already there. Diptanshu &#128172; 05:57, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Move request: Steady State theory → Steady State model
I tagged the article Steady State theory for a potential move to "Steady State model" as it failed as an accepted theory. Your comments there are welcome. Cheers, Rowan Forest (talk) 14:17, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

HTML entities and Unicode characters
FYI, I'm proposing a stronger style convention for special characters which are often seen in science-related articles. The idea is to use Unicode characters like ÷ instead of HTML entities like &amp;divide;, except in cases where characters can be confusing or there's an existing guideline to do something else (like with fractions and superscripts). If you'd like to read and/or comment, the latest version is at. Thanks! -- Beland (talk) 06:50, 10 August 2018 (UTC)


 * For heaven's sake, please, prevent any activists from adding more tabulated bureaucracy to the already enriched WP:MOS (e.g.: idiosyncratic "spacing of dashes"!). All the already stated precautions do apply fully to the draft, imho. Let's not have more of "I am an expert in the guidelines, which you constantly disrupt." and "I don't care a sh*t about you toiling to restore meaning, which is against (my) guidelines."


 * Why is it necessary to have so much canvassed into one go? Replacing hex-codes is a fine thing to do. I do not feel sufficiently prepared to comment directly on the MOS-TP. I intended this to be on the math-project site, putting a copy there.07:36, 10 August 2018 (UTC) Purgy (talk) 07:31, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

American College of Pediatricians
Are the views of this group on certain LGBT topics to be considered on the fringe of professional organizations? Please contribute your opinion at this discussion at the Fringe theories noticeboard. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for comment on Sci-Hub
There is a request for comment on the Sci-Hub article:

Which of the following should be the opening paragraph of the Sci-Hub article?

Option 1 (from revision 864273518):

Option 2 (from revision 864287916):

Option 3 (current version):

As "sci-hub.tw" is on the Wikipedia spam blacklist, I've removed the URL from the citation in Option 1. You can see the original citation in revision 864273518.

If you are interested, please participate at Talk:Sci-Hub. Thanks. —  Newslinger  talk   00:20, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Featured quality source review RFC
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:39, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Scientists in Red
I have been working on creating "scientists in red", creating links to non-existent articles which I think should be created. I think this needs to made more visible, acquiring the same visibility as the "Women in Red". On occasion, I find that some zealous editor deletes my red contributions when a (very little) research on his/her part would reveal that, indeed, the person is a notable scientist. It would be great to get a scientists in red movement going: it might discourage such mindless edits and get a few more scientists up on the board. MargaretRDonald (talk) 22:22, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

neil degrasse tyson
There is an ongoing discussion that may be of interest to the members of this board at [] ResultingConstant (talk) 18:08, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Political science for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Political science is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Political science until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 06:46, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

A possible Science/STEM User Group
There's a discussion about a possible User Group for STEM over at Meta:Talk:STEM_Wiki_User_Group. The idea would be to help coordinate, collaborate and network cross-subject, cross-wiki and cross-language to share experience and resources that may be valuable to the relevant wikiprojects. Current discussion includes preferred scope and structure. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 02:55, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

A proposal for WikiJournals to become a new sister project
Over the last few years, the WikiJournal User Group has been building and testing a set of peer reviewed academic journals on a mediawiki platform. The main types of articles are:


 * Existing Wikipedia articles submitted for external review and feedback (example)
 * From-scratch articles that, after review, are imported to Wikipedia (example)
 * Original research articles that are not imported to Wikipedia (example)

Proposal: WikiJournals as a new sister project

From a Wikipedian point of view, this is a complementary system to Featured article review, but bridging the gap with external experts, implementing established scholarly practices, and generating citable, doi-linked publications.

Please take a look and support/oppose/comment! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 11:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Category:Scientific societies has been nominated for discussion
Category:Scientific societies has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Oculi (talk) 12:45, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Technical standards
A new WikiProject has been proposed where your knowledge and competence could be very useful. You are invited to join the discussion about this proposal: WikiProject Council/Proposals/Technical standards. Thanks. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 01:11, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

The status of WP:SCIRS
Hello,

I was wondering why WP:SCIRS has never been elevated to the status of a content guidelines like WP:MEDRS has been? It seems that the suggestions in SCIRS are all perfectly reasonable and would prevent a lot of bad content from being added. I am thinking specificly of its limitations on human genetics sources: Wikipedia is currently plagued by horrible genetics section on human populations in numerous articles due to ignoring WP:SCIRS's requirement that only review articles be used. Different genetics studies often contradict each other and can be abused for various nationalist/other POV agendas. This is a particular problem for Central/East Asian articles, where various Pan-Turkic, Pan-Iranian, etc. editors war over which group various ancient peoples belonged to and add one-sided genetics sources to bolster their cases. There is currently a debate in which SCIRS is at the center at Talk:Uyghurs, for instance.

Anyway, WP:SCIRS seems like it should be a content guideline. How would we go about making it one? Or is there some problem with it I'm unaware of?--Ermenrich (talk) 14:17, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of interest at Reliable Sources Noticeboard
The following discussion is of interest to members at Reliable sources/Noticeboard--Ermenrich (talk) 13:43, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Philosophy of science for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Philosophy of science is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Philosophy of science until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 21:47, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Seeking a Wikipedian in Residence (U.S.)
Annual Reviews, an independent, nonprofit scholarly research publisher, seeks an enthusiastic Wikipedian-in-Residence (WIR).

The aim of this role is to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of the sciences by citing expert articles from Annual Reviews’ journals. The WIR will engage with Wikipedia editors across life, biomedical, physical, and social science articles and WikiProjects to help ensure responsible and valuable expansion of content.

This is a temporary position for 10 hours/week, paid at $30/hour USD, and is anticipated to last for up to 1 year. This position can only be based remotely from the following states: CA, OR, OH, NV, NC, WA, WI, CO, MA, PA, NY, HI, or MT.

PLEASE APPLY! https://annualreviewsnews.org/2020/02/25/seeking-a-wikipedian-in-residence/

Cheers, Jake Ocaasit &#124; c 18:12, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Angela Zhang (scientist)
Can anyone take a look at this article and determine if she is sufficiently notable? Thanks, MVP-nostalgia (talk) 15:53, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

WP:Articles for Creation has a new sort tool, you can see all pending science-related drafts here: AfC sorting/STEM
Just in case there are folks here who might be interested in reviewing drafts awaiting article status that are particular to WikiProject Science. If you'd like to sign up to review/approve/decline new Drafts, instructions are here. AFC Reviewers get to use really cool automated tools that make reviewing really quick and easy, and I've really enjoyed volunteering there, and I'm really digging the AFC Sorting tool so instead of having to comb through lots of articles, I can zip right to topics I'm interested in. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:50, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Article Superstition in Judaism has been nominated for deletion
Hello,

Since some editors are contesting existence of articles associating religions and religious communities to superstitions, One of the article which concerns this project/topic has been nominated for deletion. You can support or contest the deletion at Articles for deletion/Superstition in Judaism by putting forward your opinion.

Thanks and regards Bookku (talk) 08:36, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

FAR of Earth
I have nominated Earth for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 18:04, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Proposal for new WikiProject
A proposal has been made to form a WikiProject for forensic science. Please add your name to the list if you wish to contribute to this endeavour. TimothyPilgrim (talk) 17:23, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

We propose to develop a page for the Global Newborn Society. Please add your name to the list if you wish to contribute to this endeavour. User:Jhuma1971 — Preceding undated comment added 03:21, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Sandbox organiser
Hi all

I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.

Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.

John Cummings (talk) 11:03, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on reliability of MDPI journals
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of MDPI journals. If you are interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   13:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Mary Ann Mansigh
del discussion Female programme writer, co-creator of moldyn method. Please we all need to come out for this one, especially if you're in the computational community in phy sci. will post on sub-wp's fora as well. Stay strong. Ema--or (talk) 17:34, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Sorries for my non-NPOV canvas! Ema--or (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, just an issue to discuss. Just wanted to name an issue, which I asked for consultation on, but was not able to get any thing on before the end of discussion. There is the issue of my inconsistencies on Mansigh btw main space and other-space, particularly afd- and Wp project-space, although it is particularly a matter for subjective interpretation. I’d like to end by once again apologising for any trouble and thanking anyone who offered any opinion or contribution to the chat, as well as for the space and audience in a place such as this. Bye, until next time. Ema--or (talk) 18:30, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on reliability of McGill University's Office for Science and Society
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of McGill University's Office for Science and Society in the context of an article about JP Sears. If you are interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   08:09, 21 February 2021 (UTC)