Talk:List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors/Archive 1

Archive 1

Daughter of...

Just as Pedro Rodríguez is identified as the son of Pellín Rodríguez, if Miriam Rodón is the daughter of former Chief Justice Mriam Naveira, it should also be noted. Pr4ever (talk) 05:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Duplication

For every similar list in Wikipedia, we just identify the field and the dates, and link to the article. The present page amounts to saying everything twice, & I do not see how that can be defended. But first, let me ask if there are any equivalents, because if so, they'd be better discussed together. DGG ( talk ) 01:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestions

Hi, I tried to add a few sentences in the article's introduction referencing the Ciencia Puerto Rico database (CienciaPR; www.cienciapr.org) as a source of reference for other living Puerto Rican scientists. Although not all members of CienciaPR have the recognition required for this article page, some of them might fit the requirements and hence I thought it might be of interest to the readers of this article.

A kind Wikipedia editor re-edited my entry placing the Ciencia Puerto Rico reference and the link to our Puerto Rican science news story database in the "Further Reading" section. I agree this is an appropriate place for these references. However I also think an explanatory note about why they are suggested for further reading might be appropriate. As I am new at Wiki editing I thought I would first place the suggestion here and see if a more experienced editor agreed and was kind enough to make the change.

The suggested explanations would be something like this:

Further reading

Ciencia Puerto Rico - A website dedicated to the global Puerto Rican scientific community. Contains profiles of thousands of living Puerto Rican scientists News Stories - A collection of news stories related to science in Puerto Rico or by Puerto Rican scientists

Finally, I would like to suggest a collaboration with Ciencia Puerto Rico, for which I am the Executive Director. Every month we profile the work of a prominent or noted Puerto Rican scientist. We also continually celebrate the achievements of the Puerto Rican scientific community through our website, blog, and social media accounts, and we have a lot of connections with Puerto Rican scientists within and outside of PR. We could provide short blurbs about some of the scientists we've highlighted in the past and could continue doing so going forward or we could help curate suggestions to this list. Your list is a wonderful resource but it is slightly skewed towards the aerospace sciences. I think we could help expand the list of noted scientists in other disciplines. Regarding the disciplines you have listed, I also think it might be useful to use a list modelled after the science categories that the NSF uses for its own data and surveys. We use this list ourselves to categorize our scientist members (see here).

Sorry for the long note, apologies if I breached protocol as I am a new user, and thank you very much for this wikipage.

Gguerre (talk) 21:45, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Gguerre, first of all welcome to Wikipedia!

I have edited the article to add the description paragraphs which I somehow overlooked during the previous relocation.

As for your suggestion of collaboration, have you tried tapping on our fellow Wikipedian Tony the Marine (User:Marine_69-71)? Tony is a gold mine on biographies of Puerto Rican scientists and Puerto Ricans in general, and if you can get his attention from his busy schedule, I think you would have moved a big step forward on your goal. As for me, I am a college grad with science degrees and ocassionally do some fine tuning of Puerto Rico science-related article.

Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 22:26, 26 April 2013 (UTC)