User talk:DavidMCEddy/Archive 2

SF meetup tomorrow

Hi! I just wanted to send you a quick reminder that we're having a lunch meetup at the Wikimedia Foundation on Saturday. Thanks for signing up! Just as a reminder you can find the location, time, and more info about the meetup at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco 17. See you tomorrow, Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 00:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Free Culture Wiki page

Hi. I'm part of a group of grad students tasked with the project of writing the page for Free Culture for our class. We see you've been editing that page and just wanted to introduce ourselves so you know who you may be collaborating with. You can see our conversation on the free culture talk page. Chrissy9876 (talk) 20:35, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hi DavidMCEddy, as you know this article has been assigned to us as a class project. We are supposed to write this article and structure it, and we will be evaluated on it. We think it's fantastic that you want to work on this article too, and we invite you to work with us on it by participating in the discussion around editing and posting the material. This is what we will be doing on the talk page, and we would like you to be a part of it so that we're all on the same page. That being said, and our understanding is that Wikipedia discourages block quotes and instead summarizes via cited paraphrases. In addition, we are concerned that the article length is getting too long. Please let us know how you are planning on proceeding--we feel the next step is to edit down the quotes and paraphrase them, and also come up with overall theme headings. Please let us know your thoughts. - KingfisherBlue11 (talk) 17:27, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi David, as we previously mentioned, we have been assigned the Free Culture page as an assignment. We plan to use the book's themes, such as you have already identified; we will cover the Introduction, Piracy, Property, and the Conclusion. Are you interested in taking on the two remaining themes of Puzzles and Balances? Chisholmredproject (talk) 20:19, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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Would you mind creating a user page?

Hi there, would you mind creating a user page so that when I link your name it doesn't look like a redlink (a nonexistent page)? If you don't want to, it's no skin off my teeth, I won't be bothered at all -- it's your choice. :) Banaticus (talk) 01:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC) Thanks, I responded to your comment at User talk:Banaticus#I think I created a User Page. :) Banaticus (talk) 06:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2!

San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! You are invited!

The San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! This event will be specifically geared around encouraging women to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Workshops on copy-editing, article creation, and sourcing will be hosted. Bring a friend! Come one, come all! Sarah (talk) 15:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)· Unsubscribe

San Francisco Wiknic 2012

	San Francisco Wiknic at Golden Gate Park
	You are invited to the second Great American Wikinic taking place in Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, on Saturday, June 23, 2012. We're still looking for input on planning activities, and thematic overtones. List your add yourself to the attendees list, and edit the picnic as you like. —Max Klein {chat} 18:35, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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Protection?

Just saw your message on my wall, this is hardly an argument for protecting the page. Protections are there for vandalism or if an article is really controversial...in Ben Ali's case, simply revert or discuss your reasoning Seektrue (talk) 11:35, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

References

Per WP:MEDRS we use secondary sources typically. And only one term (either management or treatment) is needed as they are the same thing. Welcome to Wikiproject medicine.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (please reply on my talk page) 02:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hay David. I think this is a great idea and am more than happy to help you find the best quality literature. We already have some on the current page. Give me a couple of days. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (please reply on my talk page) 11:49, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

The best way to find references is to use pubmed. Seach for osteoporosis and limit the search to review articles. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (please reply on my talk page) 13:37, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

If you need help getting full access let me know. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (please reply on my talk page) 15:06, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi David. Thank you for taking the trouble to learn the right way to do this. It pays off in the long run. Pubmed displays differently depending on your browser choice and settings, but for me, if I search on "osteoporosis", the result page has a left-side column under the heading "Choose additional filters". One choice is to filter on "Article type". You can simply click on "Review", but a better approach is to click on "more", to get a menu of all article types. There you can select "Review", "Systematic review", and perhaps "Meta-analysis". Except for history sections of articles, you'll usually want to limit results to the past 10 years. For popular subjects such as this one, it should be possible to de-select "Review" and "Meta-analysis" and select the past 5 years while still having a large number of results. Additional keywords of course will help narrow the results to those relevant to specific parts of the article you are working on. The general principle is to select the best sources addressing the relevant part of the topic. LeadSongDog come howl! 19:55, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Doc James & LeadSongDog: With "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=osteoporosis", filtering on "Article Types" seems not to work for me with either Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Firefox: I get 56500 articles seemingly no matter what I select or don't select under "Article Type". Selecting "Publication dates" = 5 years reduces the number to 15507. Also selecting Species: Human reduces it further to 12158. Any suggestions about what to do to get the "Article types" filter to work? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 02:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

You can add additional terms to the query itself, usually based on what part of the article you are working on at the time. I'd consider adding "etiology", "epidemiology", etc, as ways to narrow down the range of results to subtopics, without introducing any risk of selection bias. When sources are abundant it's nice to use freely-available ones, but that does raise the risk of futon bias. It's a bit of a tradeoff against having more editors engaged with access to the source.LeadSongDog come howl! 06:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, LeadSongDog: Thanks. I managed to get "Filters activated: published in the last 5 years, Humans, Systematic Reviews" using the menus on the left side that failed for me last night. This reduced the count to 687.

I could NOT get the search to work with anything like, "(((osteoporosis[Title/Abstract]) AND 5 years[Filter]) AND Systematic Reviews[Filter]) AND Humans[Filter]". However, at least I have one method that works.

Regarding futon bias, is there any suggestion that this is actually biases the content of the information? Or does it merely bias against the commercial publishers who demand that authors assign copyright to them in exchange for their help in distribution? This is very different from publication bias, which has the effect that published p values tend to overstate the statistical significance of a result. This also affects meta-analyses. I once asked Ingram Olkin, one of the leading advocates of meta-analysis, about procedures that might attempt to adjust for publication bias in meta-analyses. He agreed that it might be possible but knew of no research that had been done on that.

Thanks, again. DavidMCEddy (talk) 16:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Try this link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=osteoporosis&filters=Review Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your talk page please reply on mine) 19:02, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Solyndra page

Hi. On the contrary, I was cleaning up some dead links and introduced more credible references regarding the bankruptcy and Romney's visit. I figured someone else may have down played its bankruptcy but not I. Cheers.--Bf2002 (talk) 23:26, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events

Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco

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You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco

October 16 - Ada Lovelace Day Celebration - You are invited!

Come celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco on October 16! This event, hosted by the Ada Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. It'll be a meet up style event, though you are welcome to bring a laptop and edit about women in STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer. The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome! You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 19:53, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Second Constitutional Convention of the United States

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Yes, I tried to change the name of "Second Constitution of the United States" to "Second Constitutional Convention of the United States" by copying 100% of the text then replacing the original by a redirect to the new. Before changing the name, I posted a comment on the Talk page explaining the need for changing the name. One other editor agreed with me. It seemed obvious for reasons stated there, so I tried to proceed. Now I'm in the middle of it. I think I understand what I should have done, but what should be done to fix the current mess? Thanks. DavidMCEddy (talk) 04:38, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi. In order to maintain article history and attribution, name changes should be done through page moves. Next time, please use the dropdown menu next to the Search field (the triangle) and select "Move", instead of starting a new page and copying the text over. I have asked an administrator to delete the new page you have created, so that should be sorted now.

Additionally, for this case, I think the name change should be discussed as it may be controversial. For this kind of name changes, Wikipedia has a process called requested moves. I'll list the page there in just a moment, and if there is consensus for the change, it'll be implemented after the discussion is closed. wctaiwan (talk) 04:57, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland

Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:42, 15 December 2012 (UTC)