Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Neuroscience

A tool to monitor and improve images in this Wikiproject

Hi there! I am not part of this Wikiproject, but I am a Wikigraphist. I am interested in improving Wikipedia’s visual content and I built a tool that could help detect visual gaps in Wikiprojects.

I called it Visual Content Assessment Tool, or simply VCAT.

A working version of VCAT with data for Wikiproject Neuroscience already extracted by me on 26/07/2023 can be found at VCAT-dashboard. You can always extract fresh data for any Wikiproject using the extraction tool, a command line tool I created for this purpose.

Some of the actions you can do with this tool are:

• Monitoring the visual content coverage in a Wikiproject
• Detecting articles needing images (eg. articles without images)
• Detecting low resolution images to improve (eg. raster diagrams to be vectorized)

Then you can ask for image creation or vectorization on the Graphics Lab.

What do you think? Could it be a useful tool? MingoBerlingo (talk)

Nicolelis Lab Series

The Miguel Nicolelis Lab published, for free, two volumes of their neuroscience work. I saw that some of them are under a Wikisource friendly CC license, but I'm not sure if it applies to all of them:

• 20 Years of Brain-Machine Interface. Vol. 1. p. 452.
• 20 Years of Brain-Machine Interface Research. Vol. 2. p. 436.

Thanks, Erick Soares3 (talk) 23:11, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

New article: Walk Again Project. Erick Soares3 (talk) 17:21, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Interest in weighing in on Polyvagal theory?

I’m posting here because I think this topic could be interesting to members of this WikiProject. Currently there’s a discussion at Talk:Polyvagal theory #Discussion: representation of one author’s viewpoint regarding the undue weight given to a critical minority opinion. Ian Oelsner (talk) 22:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Long-term potentiation

Long-term potentiation has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:38, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Request to merge Frisson into Goose bumps

I have noticed that these two articles talk about the same thing. I have created a proposal on Goose bumps's talk page to discuss a merger. 80.0.166.171 (talk) 01:08, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Neuromorphic engineering#Requested move 24 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Neuromorphic engineering#Requested move 24 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:51, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Please check your priority ratings

An editor first labeled Legality of cannabis as top-importance for this group, and after I removed the rating, has changed it to high-importance. Please decide for yourselves how you'd like to have it assessed.

I've seen a couple of editors "upgrade" their favorite subjects, perhaps in the mistaken belief that this will result in more editors working on the articles. I specifically suggest taking a look at what's in Category:Top-importance neuroscience articles (CLARITY? Hebbian theory? Tractography?) and Category:High-importance neuroscience articles to see whether it reflects your group's goals and preferences. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:43, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I changed it down to low for neuro. I don't mind leaving it at high for pharmacology. As for checking the other ratings, I'll leave that to other editors. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:42, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

WPMED set a standard years ago of 100 top-priority and 1,000 high-priority articles. The high-priority group has crept up a bit over the years. I glanced through about half the list, fixed some obvious errors, and posted a list of some others for discussion. I'll probably to the same for the rest of the list later. I thought it might be easier if one person organized it. If everyone has a look at "some", there's a risk that we'll all carefully review the articles at the start of the alphabet and nobody will look at the ones towards the end. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:45, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Potentially innacurate/outdated sentence in Childhood Dementia

I raised some concerns over a sentence in Childhood dementia saying: "Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses, a group of lysosomal storage disorders, are thought to be its most common subtype."

Is anyone interested in joining the discussion?

My hope is that we can reach a consensus on whether the sentence is accurate or not. And if not, then what the best course of action is.

Thank you. Irina Rainbow (talk) 20:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Brain

Brain has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:21, 5 October 2024 (UTC)