Jonathan Engel (researcher)
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Sleep disorder article edit
You may not be aware, but your deletions align with Wikipedia's policy on medical/health literature as described at WP:MEDRS - bascially, only to text and reference reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses of human clinical literature, and do not cite in vitro, animal, or individual clinical trials. In addition, Wikipedia articles are not to include in text the authors' names, journal, year of publication, or detailed descriptions of results, as that information is available in the references. See WP:MEDSAY for a bit more on this. Happy editing. David notMD (talk) 16:34, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. Per my disclosure on my user page, I am somewhat familiar with MEDRS, but likely will not be editing the relevant topics actively. Jonathan Engel (researcher) (talk) 17:48, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
RFCs edit
Related to your research, do you happen to have a list of all RFCs from a given time period? I've been wondering if you might have compiled such a list, as a prerequisite to finding out who closed them. If you do have that list, I'd love to have a copy on wiki. If not – well, maybe we'll figure out how to create one some day. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:06, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- WhatamIdoing I haven't yet, although I've considered it and may well be doing that in the not too distant future. I can keep you posted. Jonathan Engel (researcher) (talk) 14:02, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- There's an RFC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#RfC: Change INFOBOXUSE to recommend the use of infoboxes in which editors have tried to compile a complete list of RFCs on infoboxes, and it's been a real struggle. The central RFC pages and Wikipedia:Feedback request service link to an anchor based on the id number, and Lego removes that anchor when the RFC ends. (Then, of course, many of them get archived to a different page, so most of the original links would stop working anyway.) If you end up making a list, please feel free to post it as a subpage of Wikipedia:Requests for comment. Even having one year's worth of RFCs would be very helpful for editors.
- If you look into automating the assembly of the list, then https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/29/talk-page-permalinks-dont-lose-your-threads/ might be helpful. I have been wondering whether it could be leveraged to find archived links. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:35, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information, I'll dig into this more at some point. Perhaps not for the paper I'm currently working on, but a quantitative analysis of RfCs is definitely something worth doing at some point. Jonathan Engel (researcher) (talk) 13:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- I'd love to know the typical number of participants/basic descriptive statistics, and there could be a neat natural experiment about the Wikipedia:Feedback request service (with implications for push vs pull notifications) because Yapperbot went down for two months recently. I think that the number of respondents to RFCs reduced significantly during that time period as a result. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information, I'll dig into this more at some point. Perhaps not for the paper I'm currently working on, but a quantitative analysis of RfCs is definitely something worth doing at some point. Jonathan Engel (researcher) (talk) 13:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)