Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Neuroscience

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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)

Request for Comment on Polyvagal theory Talk page

Hi, I just wanted to let you all know that there’s a Request for Comment taking place here that concerns a discussion that seems relevant to the interests of this particular WikiProject. The topic of the RfC concerns the characterization of polyvagal theory in that article. Thanks for your attention. Ian Oelsner (talk) 00:14, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

RIP Looie496

He was the founder of this WikiProject. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:45, 17 October 2023 (UTC)