User talk:Gareth Leng

Could you please add [[Category:CZ Live]] to any pages you edit (or have edited) that you wish to keep as live Citizendium pages as opposed to pages that were simply tests? I've tagged the few I've edited, but you've done the most editing to date. This way we can work out which pages we intend to keep on Citizendium, and which pages were merely pages that were edited for testing purposes? From the looks of it, you aim to keep all of those changes (and I'm impressed by the quality of some of the improvements), but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks :-) --ZachPruckowski 13:14, 27 October 2006 (CDT)

Hi Gareth, from a fellow editor interested in overlapping subjects

I was thrilled to see that you did some editing on Biology. I'm doing my best to add articles to the Live list, and do not do so without making contributions - but all of the articles need so much work. I have been contacted by some editors who have implied to me that it is expected that we have our own turf, imply I should stay away from articles they are writing or planning to write, and I am not comfortable with that. I love the interactions between interested and knowlegeable people on a wiki. So, please- if you see my name all over the history of an article, it's a particular invitation to join in (not of course, that you actually need one.) Nancy Sculerati MD 13:48, 2 November 2006 (CST)

reply from my talk page

Gareth, I'm a novice at the wiki format. I'm answering you here because I think this is the way to do it - if not, please instruct me. I'm happy to go over the article and play with the language until it sounds right to my ear. But that's how I do it, if I have to justify every word as opposed to its near synonym, or worry that if I change the language so that it all subjectively flows to my ear I must have objective evidence to support each change, I get stuck. I just write in an intuitive way and I get into it where I lose track of everything else but just the writing. Given this situation, how can I help the article? I ask that question sincerely. Nancy.

Thank you, Gareth.I'm going to take a break and then go back to Biology. I'm going to forget everything bu the writing when I do, and I don't promise it will be a better article - but I will try to make it the best Bio article I've read. Nancy Sculerati MD 11:12, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Gareth, I've done some preliminar work on Biology. I added some comments about the text and needed images right in the body of the text. Perhaps you would be kind enough to look at that, and change anything you like. Probably moving those comments would avoid offense, since they really belong in Discussion, but they seemed to make the point best in a draft form of the article. Will work more tonight and hope to finish tonight or tomorrow. Nancy Sculerati MD 14:39, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Slow progress in biology, but progress. Could you kindly read biology talk page (discussion) and respond? Thanks, Nancy

So good to see you hard at work

Well Hello! Now I see where you have been;) I did get to stop by the chiropractic article and looks like you did a fine job cleaning up. The WP version has changed a lot since this version as well, so I might be able to give some input there as well. I haven't figured out where I fit in here yet, but will keep reading. I've started at the author level so I can at least see whether this is something I can help with. So far it looks like everybody works well together. I'm not sure I'm qualified to work with this fine group of scholars, but look forward to throwing my hat into the ring. --D. Matt Innis 21:44, 27 November 2006 (CST)

Sea Urchin

Gareth, this picture of the sea urchin. I'm not sure about the copyright status on it. I did find this permissions section on their site, and have sent an email. I'll wait till I hear back. --D. Matt Innis 13:04, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Also, is the mitochondria picture okay now, or do we want it smaller? --D. Matt Innis 13:17, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Health Sciences Workgroup (Top)

Gareth, As I see, you are an editor of Health Sciences. I am only informing I tagged medicine's articles as Health Sciences Workgroup (Top). Cheers --Versuri 06:42, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Nancy gone?

These two edits ([1], [2]) make me wonder if she has left. She gutted her style from the article as well as her comments from the talk page. The one thing that I noted was adding prehistory into the firt section after the intro. This was something we had discussed and she did not like it at all. But also gone is religion and parkas in cold rooms, things I think she would have been reluctant to take out. Any idea what's up? Chris Day (Talk) 11:55, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Great to see you involved!

Great to see you involved Gareth! ScottYoung 19:29, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Gareth, I revised the article here and identically on Wikipedia. I suggest that I have left in the proper amount and type of detail. I'm seeing this as a prototype for the many hundreds ahead. What might do well in addition is titles of a few of the best representative articles--and if you pick open access ones, the links. I'd like your comments. DavidGoodman 21:54, 7 December 2006 (CST)

1. The practice in WP is that thumbnails of the cover are fair use, & I think the same would apply here.
2. we can add their status re Open access, but we would have to check every 6 months.
3. I'd suggest eliminating the "indexed in:" from all of them--concentration on that seems a little old-fashioned. Obviously all biomed journals are in PubMed, & chem in CAS, etc.
4. I'd suggest eliminating an historical list of all the editors,except the first and any famous ones thereafter.
5. I'd similarly suggest not including all the current editorial board.
6. WP doesn't do this but we can find the most cited articles with WebofScience, which won't be available to all our readers. Everything we do here in bio is likely to be a precedent. There's only 1 editor in the Media group so far, and only 3 in library science, so I am not sure how much help we'll get. I'm going to cc. this part to the relevant groups, and see what the other sciences people want to do. DavidGoodman 15:39, 10 December 2006 (CST)

Barbara McCLintock

This is the closest that I found to the 19XX sentence in Biology article. Scientist Barbara McClintock discovered the first TE's in maize in 1948, work that led to her winning the Nobel Prize in 1983 [3]. --D. Matt Innis 23:10, 9 December 2006 (CST)

Biology article approval

Gareth,could ypu please look at the biology talk page and make your comments. Thanks. Nancy Sculerati MD 13:22, 12 December 2006 (CST)

I'd like to do some major re-wording of the Chiropractic article now. warning about edit conflict! :) Nancy Sculerati MD 10:35, 14 December 2006 (CST)

Chiropractic

I see you are doing Chiropractic edits. As an aside, my cast is off and my follow-up head CT (with and withou contrast, the neuroradiologist was a doll and he gave me the grand tour of the final images) is perfect! Anyway, please split off a history article and later today, when the UK is fast asleep, I'll play with the text. Nancy Sculerati MD