User talk:Gareth Leng

Please join us for Biology Week!

Hello, I am giving you this personal invitation to join us this week for Biology Week! Please join us on the wiki and add or edit biology articles. Also, please let your friends and colleagues who are biologists, biology students, or naturalists, know about Biology Week and ask them to join us, too. Any way you can help make it an event would be most welcome. Think of it as a Biology Workgroup open house. Let's see if we can kick up activity a notch! Thanks in advance! --Larry Sanger 12:24, 22 September 2008 (CDT)

The first Biology Week took place here from Sep 22-28, 2008.

(Just showing you what I'm putting on all editor pages. And isn't it time to archive your user talk page?  ;-) --Larry Sanger 12:24, 22 September 2008 (CDT)

About the Sex Article

Thanks for your comments about my questions concerning the sex article. I'd like to see the same list of topics covered rigorously and well. At one point in my career, I studied reproductive behavior in rodents (rats, gerbils) but some 30 years ago my interests moved to human sexuality. My main interest is the ethological and ethnographic analysis of human courtship behavior, based on participant-observer ethnographic observations in a variety of settings. From your comments and the kind of work your group publishes, your interests are physiological and neuroendocrinological -- areas I genuinely wish we understood better in human beings. But from what I've seen, we're a long way behind the kind of understanding we have of rats (for example).

On that note, do you have a copy of your Jacques Benoit article you could email to me? (perpcorn@dca.net) Thanks!

I'm trying to get a feel for Citizendium and its inhabitants. Very friendly, I'd say! The sexuality articles are certainly one place to start thinking about what kinds of article might be most helpful. So many thanks for your welcome!

Timothy Perper 12:19, 25 September 2008 (CDT)

Just don't extend observations about the ethical behavior of rat courtship to lawyers. There are some things a rat will not do. Howard C. Berkowitz 12:58, 25 September 2008 (CDT)

MRI

Gareth, I see that you are moderately positive about the article of Roy et al. in Materials Research Innovations (MRI). Do you know the purpose of this journal? It is the following:

Because of its super peer review procedures, the journal is especially suited for the publication of results which are so new, so unexpected, that they are likely to be rejected by tradition-bound journals. Presumptive authors are invited to submit papers covering non-traditional topics at the frontier of science and technology and their management.

(From here)

The journal has flagship article a paper by Roy et al. on the burning of salt water by application of a polarised radiofrequency beam at 13.56 MHz (photons corresponding to this frequency have a VERY low energy, it is completely unclear how these photons could ever break a chemical bond, they could not even excite a rotation of water).

Further, did you notice sentences in the Roy et al. article on the structure of water such as:

The most direct evidence, using infra-red spectroscopy (by E.G. Brame, an authority in that field) for the change of the structure of water by the “subtle energy” of healers hands in the U.S., has been presented by Schwartz et al. and Tiller.

There is more like this in this paper (for instance it is claimed that a weak static magnetic field can change the pH of water by one unit). --Paul Wormer 12:21, 25 September 2008 (CDT)

I am sorry, I thought that you wrote the comment on the page Homeopathy/Bibliography. I looked closer and saw that it was not you.

--Paul Wormer 03:01, 28 September 2008 (CDT)

Definition

Gareth, Remember to add this to the top of definition pages: <noinclude>{{subpages}}</noinclude> Chris Day 03:58, 1 October 2008 (CDT)

The Allan Ramsay article you started and developed

Gareth, if you ever decide to start an article on Allan Ramsay's father, "Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd.",, I recommended Google Books's free downloadable pdf, "The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy, By Allan Ramsay, William Tennant, Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Contributor Randall Thompson, Published by W. Gowans, 1852, Original from the New York Public Library, Digitized Nov 27, 2006, 105 pages", at: http://books.google.com/books?id=5VYgAAAAMAAJ.

If nothing else, a delightful read. --Anthony.Sebastian 03:53, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Homeopathy

Gareth,

Chris and Howard have deleted some things from the Homeopathic article, I hope you can undo/revert it. I don't want to do it myself because of the arguments that will follow.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Ramanand Jhingade 06:58, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

For background, Ramanand is referring to the following edits I made to a section that is now titled "Prevalence of homeopathy". The relevant talk page comments are at Prevalence, popularity, etc. on the homeopathy talk page. Chris Day 05:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Homeopathy is not considered Indian in India. I hope you can do something about that sentence in the article which says it is considered an Indian 'National system of medicine' (it can be Alternative system of medicine).—Ramanand Jhingade 09:20, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Alternative Medicine (theories)

Hullo Gareth. We've been working on the page Alternative Medicine (theories) since your last visit, and I'd be interested to hear if you have any views on it now! Martin Cohen 18:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Healing arts workgroup

Hi Gareth! Just wanted to make sure you had the Healing Arts workgroup on your watchlist. D. Matt Innis 17:15, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

rugby

Brings back fond memories. I was at the Murryfield game (England vs Scotland) when the grand slam was on the line. David Sole was the captain. Do you remember he walked the team onto the field rather than running. It was a titanic battle with Scotland taking the slam :( But even as an Englishman it was so memorable. Those were the days when we all huddled on the terraces sharing nips of whisky and we all used to line up out side Aitkin and Niven for our tickets at 4AM in the morning. I guess now you can't even get tickets without very good connections. Chris Day 19:02, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

You owe someone for that Christmas present. I must admit, having grown up with JPR Williams and Gareth Edwards, it's great to see Wales back. Chris Day 02:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Dolly the Sheep

It was hard to avoid a chuckle when reminded of Dolly. I don't know if you subscribe to the ProMED mailing list, but that's normally a very serious emerging diseases information service. When Dolly was announced, a normally very staid, very respected epidemiologist posted, "No good will come of Scotsmen doing strange things with sheep." Howard C. Berkowitz 14:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Definitions

Hi Gareth, thanks for filling in some empty definitions. However, please take a closer look at the formatting standards, so as to allow definitions a uniform appearance when displayed on related pages. Cheers, Daniel Mietchen 17:05, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Gareth! I must also add that I enjoyed your article on Douglas. I watched a documentary the other night on the history of scotland on BB2. Scottish history has always attracted me (Admittedly, since watching Braveheart as a young man :-)) and just thought I'd mention to you to keep up the good work. Denis Cavanagh 18:28, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

re homeopathy

Gareth:

See: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Homeopathy/Draft#External_comment_on_Homeopathy --Anthony.Sebastian 18:44, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Evidence based medicine

Hey Gareth, I've put a note on Robert's talk page so I can get him to add his name to the metadata page. I could do it for him, but considering the number of articles he has started, I think he'll want to know how to do it... hang in there and I'll try get it locked up. Hehe. D. Matt Innis 01:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Done! Congrats again! D. Matt Innis 02:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Core list

Bear in mind when the list was first made we excluded the articles that were more than a stub. Consequently you will see some very obvious ones absent from the list. It all depends what we want this list to represent. The ones we think need to be approved as soon as possible (then we should exclude those already approved), the ones we think are the most important (all regardless of status) or the ones we think we need (red links). I can see advantages to all three lists.

Since making the lists I have been moving more toward a model of connectivity and thus trying to develop more Related Articles pages as a way to identify the articles we need. Obviously these are two different models. The latter is like crystal growth, the former is trying to maximise coverage. Of course the ideal situation is to create a Related Articles subpage for every article on the core list and combine both strategies. Unfortunately it's a slog and not exactly the fun way to do it. Chris Day 20:35, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Blank "cascade theory" article

Now that "cascade theory" is blank, should it get the "speedydelete" template? Bruce M.Tindall 00:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I'll have to work out how to do that.... :-) Gareth Leng 09:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Origin

I recently moved "On the Origin of Species" to "The Origin of Species", however, i now think this is the wrong move. In retrospect i think it should be either at Origin of Species or at the original "On the Origin of Species". Any thoughts on this? Chris Day 18:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Medical error

Hi, You removed all the external links with the comment "subpage", but don't seem to have created one. Fred Bauder 22:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

?? I moved them into the external links article subpage - did I miss something??Gareth Leng 23:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

More likely I did. I'm seldom here and probably don't realize there is such a subpage. Fred Bauder 01:16, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Restart of proposal system

Hello. Due to a lack of activity and attention on my part, the Proposal System has ground to a halt and discussion on all proposals has stopped. I decided to clean out the system by marking all proposals as inactive and removing their drivers. This also happened to your proposal "Involving authors in approvals". I would be delighted if you decide that you want to take the proposal up again. You can do this by updating the proposal record, which can now be found at CZ:Proposals/Driverless. Please do not hesitate to ask if anything is unclear. Yours, Jitse Niesen 22:37, 23 February 2009 (UTC) (Proposals Manager)

Herbal medicine

Hi Gareth. I pulled your name off the Healing Arts Workgroup page since you seem to be the most active (as well as Matt). I've just started an article on Anise and have plans to continue more articles on herbs. Personally, I am more interested in the culinary side of things. However, my question to you, as an editor is, do these articles belong in the Healing Arts workgroup? What about Health Sciences? I currently have it listed as Biology/Food/Agriculture, but I'm thinkign Agriculture might not be that important for these articles. Let me know what you think. --Todd Coles 15:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I already have it under Food Science, I'm more questioning that since many herbs have purported medicinal qualities and are considered an alternative form of medication, whether you feel it is appropriate that it be included in Health Sciences/Healing Arts as well. Clearly the Food Science workgroup will have no real expertise over that aspect. --Todd Coles 17:36, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

There has, incidentally, been some suggestion to have a group simply as Food, and bringing Agriculture under it -- might be a few topics that are Engineering that deal with production techniques.

While I haven't worked on it recently, see phytotherapy. Howard C. Berkowitz 20:05, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Orchid proofreading

Gareth, I think orchid is ready for you. Please feel free to correct anything you think is repeated or senseless and ask about things impossible to understand. You may change the text style as you wish so it will be nicer to read, with less repeated words and different order of the sentences. It's kind of hard to write an article this size... after a while I didn't know anymore if I said some things and maybe repeated them ahead. Furthermore there are always some things missing but we do not want a book size article. Maybe Chris can help us with some tech English words. I may look for them here but possibly he will know them by heart. Tomorrow, Saturday, I will be out all day but probably Sunday will be back here all day. Oh, I was not able of getting rid of the WP notice at the end. Do you know how to do it? Comments and remarks are welcome. Thank you. Dalton Holland Baptista 03:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for spending that many hours on orchids. It's been a quite good English class for me too. Prepositions always are a mystery, hehe. BTW I saw you work with Neuroendocrinology, coincidentally all my fathers closest friends are either neurologists or neurosurgions. Most are retired now but for decades they were professors at Escola Paulista de Medicina, in São Paulo. Dalton Holland Baptista 14:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Recovered Memory

Gareth, I wanted to let you know I re-worked some of the sources on the page in a way hopefully acceptable to you. If not, please feel free to write me at home page to discuss.Neil Brick 03:59, 25 March 2009 (UTC)