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FAR for Alfred Russel Wallace

I have nominated Alfred Russel Wallace for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 20:50, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Alfred Russel Wallace

There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Alfred Russel Wallace/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:52, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Talk Page Discussion Notification

There is a discussion at Talk:Madhava of Sangamagrama that this Project may be interested in. --20:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC) ARoseWolf 20:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Help with updating article

I proposed a few updates to the article about neurologist Leslie B. Vosshall here: Talk:Leslie B. Vosshall#Proposals October 2022. I have a conflict of interest as a paid consultant but believe these changes are obvious improvements to address sourcing issues pointed out in a maintenance tag. A review by a project member would be very much appreciated. Thanks.W12SW77 (talk) 21:37, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Same notice forum-shopped to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Molecular Biology, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women scientists, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:45, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested changes have been made. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:02, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits to Dorothy Hodgkin

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Dorothy Hodgkin#Wiki Education assignment: General Chemistry I. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:17, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Small factual updates for Dr. David Agus

Hi, I'm here from the Ellison Institute to ask for help from Wikipedia editors to make some factual updates to the Dr. David Agus Wikipedia article. Dr. Agus is a professor of medicine and engineering at USC, and known for his work developing new cancer treatments. Since I have a financial conflict of interest I made an edit request and am not editing the page. I'm looking for editors to review my request and this WikiProject was linked on the article Talk page. I have three small updates: fixing the name of the Ellison Institute to remove USC, as that is no longer part of the organization's name; adding a mention of Dr. Agus and the Ellison Institute's work as part of the Global Health Security Consortium; adding Dr. Agus' TV show, "The Check Up". The request I've posted includes references and before and suggested text to assist with these edits.

Thank you, Anna from Ellison Institute (talk) 18:18, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Joseph DeRisi Early life and education draft

Hello! I'm looking to make updates to biochemist and UCSF professor Joseph DeRisi's Wikipedia page. I've composed a brief Early life and education section for the page, which covers aspects of Mr. DeRisi's pre-professional life: his place of birth, where he was educated, work he did before completing his Ph.D., etc. Some of these details are missing from the current version of the page, and some aren't backed up with credible sourcing. My section draft seeks to remedy those issues. I placed an edit request on Mr. DeRisi's Talk page, and you can view my draft by following this link.

To be completely transparent: I'm a COI editor working on behalf of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to propose improvements to Mr. DeRisi's page. You can view my full COI disclosure on my user page. My COI is the reason I've come to this WikiProject, rather than editing the DeRisi page myself. If any editors here could review my request/draft, I would appreciate it immensely. I'm happy to field any questions or feedback you may have. Thanks! Patricia at GMMB (talk) 21:59, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Polyvagal theory

There is an ongoing discussion about the Criticism section of Polyvagal Theory. The discussion is here: Talk:Polyvagal theory#Criticism of the criticism. This discussion needs editors who can take the time to read the approximately 10 academic journal articles that have been cited. The issue is whether 95% of the section represents original research on violation of WP:NOR or not. Reading academic articles to confirm the absence of criticism about a topic is a bit challenging, admittedly, which is why I think members of this project might be well-equipped for the task. Ian Oelsner (talk) 22:45, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein 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. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Akhil Maheshwari

I'm not sure whether this is the correct task force for an article Akhil Maheshwari, but perhaps some other could take a look at the article an assess it. There seems to have been some heavy COI editing of the article and some parts might need to copyediting and revising per WP:NPOV and WP:NOTPROMOTION. The comments posted on the article's talk page also seem to be clear cases of WP:ADVOCACY (see also Talk:Global Newborn Society). While I'm assuming Maheshwari meets WP:BIO, lots of the article seems related to WP:MEDRS types of stuff that might need some checking by some users more experienced in articles about medical practioners/researchers to make sure it's acceptable for Wikipedia's purposes. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:11, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Glynn Lunney for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Desertarun (talk) 18:13, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Ian Gibbons (biochemist)

Ian Gibbons (biochemist) -- was the Chief Scientist of Theranos, who took his own life amid controversy over the company's technology. Recently expanded article and nominated for Good Article consideration. Thank you, Princessa Unicorn (talk) 03:07, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Publication section best practices

I've looked at a number of biographies of active academics and can't really figure out what the best practices are for listing publications. Some articles are comprehensive in listing all books AND articles. Others just list books. Others still list "selected" publications that include a mixture of books and articles. I accept that there might not even be a preference for one over the other, though I really do like the cleaner "look" of including just books if any exist and then putting a link to Google Scholar in the external links. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on the matter, as I want to try to go on a bit of a cleanup and expansion spree over in WP:GATECH pretty soon, and with that comes a desire for some uniformity. LaMenta3 (talk) 02:30, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

• I routinely remove exhaustive publication lists. Listing books is fine and we should list at most 3-5 articles selected following an objective criterium (usually # of citations according to WoS or GScholar, but sometimes a paper has been the subject of significant coverage in the lay press). Separate bibliography articles for academics have consistently been deleted at AfD. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 08:54, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

I agree with above advice. Excessive lists are to be discouraged. Xxanthippe (talk) 10:02, 16 April 2023 (UTC).