Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Neuroscience

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:23, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Piaget's theory of cognitive development#Postulated physical mechanisms underlying schemes, schemas, and stages

A request for review: Could some editors who are knowledgeable about neuroscience please take a close, hard look at the section Piaget's theory of cognitive development § Postulated physical mechanisms underlying schemes, schemas, and stages? The same editor who was edit warring over this section two years ago is back (e.g., Special:Diff/1018291061, 17 April 2021).

Here is what the section looked like two years ago before the editor in question started editing it: Special:Permalink/1013759982 § Postulated physical mechanisms underlying schemas and stages. Thanks! Cross-posted to WT:MED. Biogeographist (talk) 21:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Electroencephalography, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 June 2023 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

A tool to monitor and improve images in this Wikiproject

Hi there! I am not part of this Wikiproject, but I am a Wikigraphist. I am interested in improving Wikipedia’s visual content and I built a tool that could help detect visual gaps in Wikiprojects.

I called it Visual Content Assessment Tool, or simply VCAT.

A working version of VCAT with data for Wikiproject Neuroscience already extracted by me on 26/07/2023 can be found at VCAT-dashboard. You can always extract fresh data for any Wikiproject using the extraction tool, a command line tool I created for this purpose.

Some of the actions you can do with this tool are:

• Monitoring the visual content coverage in a Wikiproject
• Detecting articles needing images (eg. articles without images)
• Detecting low resolution images to improve (eg. raster diagrams to be vectorized)

Then you can ask for image creation or vectorization on the Graphics Lab.

What do you think? Could it be a useful tool? MingoBerlingo (talk)

Neuropixels

Would someone mind taking a look at Neuropixels? The article seems to be primarily about a type of probe but perhaps that's what a neuropixel is. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:03, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for posting about this. I took a quick look and put it on my watchlist. This appears to be a particular brand name of a kind of electrode/probe, that is designed to measure from many neurons simultaneously. The problem I think I may be seeing is that there are many kinds of these electrodes/probes being used, and this appears to be just one brand name for one manufacturer's version of it. I would need to give it more time than I have today, but I think there may be a problem with notability here. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:52, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Tryptofish for taking a look at this. FWIW, I never heard of a neuropixel before and only came across the article via WP:MCQ#File:Neuropixels Probe Allen Institute.png. I have heard of neuron before and thought a neuropixel might something like that. I guess if the article is about a particular product, then WP:NPRODUCT would be applicable; similarly, if about a particular company, then WP:NORG would be applicable. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:46, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it's definitely a piece of hardware, not a biological structure like a nerve cell. Going from that link you gave, I found the company website here: [1]. We have a page on these types of probes, in general, at microelectrode array. I agree that NPRODUCT and NORG are the applicable guidelines here. The question is whether there is enough independent coverage of this particular product to justify a standalone page, or whether it should just be merged. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:56, 29 July 2023 (UTC)