User talk:Annie.barber
Bohemian rhapsody
[edit]If you want to edit out all of those ridiculous postmodern interpretations from the Bohemian Rhapsody page, i'll back you in the discussion page. I'd do it myself but i'm on a cell phone and real edits are for all purposes impossible. NeverWorker (talk) 03:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Annie -- I very strongly recommend that you immediately discuss your problem with your professor. I expect that you'll get a sympathetic response, since there is really nothing you could have done to anticipate the problem. (I'm not involved with either group, but I've edited a lot of Wikipedia articles and taught neuroscience classes at a different university.) Regards, Looie496 (talk) 16:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
My professor already acknowledged that there was some overlap with our projects and theirs. He has been very understanding but he doesn't expect us to not do anything to improve Wikipedia and get a good grade for it. The group from BC did an okay job on the article, but unfortunately there are a lot of problems. The organization is jumpy, a lot of things are split into different sections that are better suited being placed together, several important facts are outright missing, the headings are overly wordy or don't provide the correct description of the content, and being familiar with their main sources I've found several instances of what may be plagiarism that although were inadvertent, still need to be accurately assessed (mainly me becoming more familiar with what is and isn't according to Wikipedia's guidelines). I also do have a lot of unique sources that really explain the process that a fossil cranium goes through for study in the field of paleoneurology (The Human Fossil Record - Brain Endocasts - The Paleoneurological Evidence by Holloway, Broadfield, and Yuan, for example, is to me pretty much a hand book of how to conduct paleoneurological research). I've also spoken with an expert in the field to find out what she believes should be included, how it should be arranged, the importance of addressing the fact that there are no clear cut conclusions from any fossil skull, the need to address the fact that paleoneurology isn't limited to just human and human-like fossils, and a lot of insight into things that just aren't published in papers. Basically, working on this article at this point won't be a challenge and in the end it will be better. Annie.barber (talk) 17:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Annie,
Thanks for reaching out to me and my group. I personally think it'd be awesome to get some help on the article. Sorry no one's been responding. I'm reading the paragraph before, and I'll go check the Talk page right now. Do you have any suggestions on how to better organize our information? I'll look over everything tonight! I know there's a lot of work to be done.
Okadala (talk) 02:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)