User talk:Looie496

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Vestibulospinal tract Question

Hi Looie, I see you made a recent adjustment to the vestibulospinal tract article's quality rating. I was wondering if you could give some feedback on the article. I have some time on my hands now and can probably edit the article. Thanks. Lorenzes (talk) 06:28, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Lorenzes -- I adjusted the rating in response to a request at the WikiProject Neuroscience page. The main reason for rating it C rather than B is the low prose quality of the lead. The lead of an article like this should be written so that a reader with limited background can go through it and come away with a basic understanding of the topic. The current version doesn't come close to that -- it is a mixture of important and unimportant things, arranged in a random order, using terminology that many readers won't understand. Most of the rest of the article is much better -- in fact the article could be greatly improved by taking the "Functions" section and pasting it in place of the current lead. There are other more minor issues, but that's by far the largest one. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 14:26, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. Lorenzes (talk) 00:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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Any Thoughts ?

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 July 6#Convergence and Closed Form Expression. — 79.113.213.214 (talk) 00:09, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

No. Looie496 (talk) 03:07, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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Legit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish#Society_for_Brain_Mapping_and_Therapeutics Rick (talk) 20:03, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not seeing any red flags, and their board of directors list contains some very reputable people, but that's not my area and I don't know anything about them. Looie496 (talk) 20:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Looie. Most reputable players won't be attached to some titular style "awards factory", expensive for-profit conference producer, or bogus "Whos Who in ..." directory type of operation, so looks like this one is clear. Rick (talk) 03:03, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

There have been cases where people were quite surprised to learn that they were on the board of directors of some entity, so it doesn't automatically guarantee anything, but I don't see any reason for suspicion here. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 03:06, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

BABAK KATEB Per Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/pub/babak-kateb/6/58A/A21

• Founding Executive Director, IBMISPS
  • defunct? No 2012 tax return, web site now defunct: http://www.ibmisps.org/
• Managing Editor of NeuroImage
  • not according to http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neuroimage/editorial-board/
• Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology, USA
  • "I'm sorry, I can't find a match for Kateb in the Caltech directory. "
• per http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10016.html back in 2004
  • "Babak Kateb, a research fellow in the USC department of neurological surgery and an M.D./Ph.D. candidate"
  • however since then I find no degrees, undergraduate, nor graduate, nor listing in any MD society
• per the 2011 tax return (no 2012 found) Kateb was CEO and worked 25 hours per week on the organization. Was paid 5,000. That's about $4.34 per hour.

Not sure this "charity" would be on the top of the list at Pew Memorial Trust to write out a hefty check to? Rick (talk) 21:49, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

It looks like at the very least he edited a special supplement to NeuroImage containing papers from his meeting -- see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10538119/54/supp/S1. Looie496 (talk) 04:57, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Many times "supplements" are really just paid advertising inserts, disguised to look like actual editorial. However I do see he's listed as an author on some papers which are subsequently cited. (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Babak+Kateb&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=). Rick (talk) 05:29, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

It seems to me that the page is not particularly harmful, but my suggestion to Rick is to take it to WP:AFD if you really feel very strongly about it, and to just let it drop if you don't. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:39, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Is it that bad?

Hey I just got your comment. I think I know what I am talking about.--User:guptakhy