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Welcome

Hi Tim, I see we have more in common than just BG (Blake's 7 :-). You're doing a great job on the Twin Studies and BG articles. For the latter, however, keep in mind that a large part of BG is, in fact, concerned with animal behavior, not exclusively human behavior. Many methods (such as twin designs) are only used in the subset of BG research dealing with humans. So you should edit the BG article in a little more general way :-) Also, you should mark edits only as "minor" if they are really minor. Adding a new section and adding one or two paragraphs as you did in the BG article does not really fall into that class. Just to avoid you getting problems with other Wikipedians!

Cheers, Wim

--Crusio 22:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tim, have a look at this page: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Peter_Schonemann and the related Talk page.

Cheers, Wim

--Crusio 10:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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Nick Martin

You have said: QIMR is now home to one of the largest twin studies in the world.
Either it is the largest, or it isn't. "one of the largest" doesn't make grammatic sense.
Perhaps "one of the larger", or "one of the x largest"? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:07, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Ditto for "Martin is one of the most cited medical scientists in the Southern Hemisphere." Regards, Alcmaeonid (talk) 13:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

done for larger/largest, I changed "one of the most cited" to amongst the most cited

Yes, I like the "amongst the most"; good choice of words. Pdfpdf (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

(If I were to be unnecessarily pedantic, I would say that grammatically there's no difference. However, for some reason "amongst" doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as "one of the" does; I guess I'm being somewhat inconsistent!! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC))

History comments

I notice you made an edit to Intelligence Quotient which removed a citation of Diaz-Asper CM, Schretlen DJ, Pearlson GD on a study of the predictive power of IQ for job performance. However there was no text associated with the edit in the history. This means people have to guess why you removed the bit from the article and I for one have no idea why. Dmcq (talk) 15:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi - I was experimenting with the new (too me) wikEd - the summary field did not show (Safari 4.01)... Rather than lose the edit, I submitted without a summary. I have documented the rationale now. Apologies for the carelessness on my part. Tim bates (talk) 16:41, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I've just moved to wikiEd myself using firefox and the summary box is moved over to the right and a bit scrunched up. I particularly like if you click on the delta symbol below a diff it does a better diff which is useful when people have been moving sections around rather than straightforwardly editing them. Dmcq (talk) 18:05, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

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Civilized mathematical notation

24 (2*(8024-8012) under 2 (3-1) degrees of freedom

24 = 2·(8024 − 8012)) under 2 = 3 − 1 degrees of freedom

24 = 2×(8024 − 8012)) under 2 = 3 − 1 degrees of freedom

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Experimental Aging Research (Journal)

Please add inline citations to your articles. Ironholds (talk) 22:35, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

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Recent edits on Twin study

Hi, Tim, I see you've just done several edits to the Twin study article, which has been on my watchlist since soon after I began to edit Wikipedia actively in May 2010. It appears from your user page that you have a much deeper occupational acquaintance with the professional literature on the subject than I have. I am interested in twin studies in large part because I am acquainted with (and, in one case, related to) researchers who work with the Minnesota Twin Study data sets. I meet some of those researchers in their weekly behaviorial genetics "journal club" during each North American school year. I appreciate you keeping an eye on the article and would welcome your comments and suggestions for the source list on genetics I keep in user space for all wikipedians to use. Feel free also to make suggestions to me as I edit articles on your watchlist. My acquaintance with the psychology literature is more from the IQ testing end (via the literature on gifted education) than from the behavior genetics end, but I like to learn through Wikipedia editing, as you do too. See you on the articles. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 14:52, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

The Onedin Line

Hi Tim, thanks for your good wishes, I started watching the re runs of the Onedin Line during a break in employment ('involuntary separation' i.e redundancy) and got hooked again. In trying to find out more about it I stumbled across the Wikipedia entry and as they say ' the rest is history'. I just hope I continue to have the time and enthusiasm to finish what has become something of a 'magnum opus'. All the best, Andrew. Bodazapher (talk) 16:44, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

By-election candidates

Hi Tim

The question of how to order election candidates before the results have been announced was discussed at WT:UK Politics in the run-up to the 2010 general election: see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom/Archive_2#Articles_on_Prospective_Parliamentary_Candidates_for_Election_2010. The consensus there was to use alphabetical order by surname. This is of course how the candidates appear on the ballot paper.

Once the results are available, the convention of reliable sources is to sort the results in descending order by number of votes. Naturally, this cannot be done until the results are known.

So I have reverted your change, and restored alphabetical order to the candidates list in Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament constituency).

If you would like to reopen the earlier discussion, it would be best to do so at WT:UK Politics, to keep the discussion centralised. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:22, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

SJR rankings

Hi Tim, I saw that you added SJR rankings to the BG article. I have some mixed feelings about that. First of all, the SJR is little known and I haven't yet seen it used by anybody else (except ScImago). I'm not sure whether the SJR is related (or even identical) to the Eigenfactor and Article Influence scores that are now included in the Journal Citation Reports (the values are different, so I guess not). Being in the JCR improves the likelihood that these latter indexes will get better known (although I have doubts, given how entrenched the IF is). Should these rankings now also be included in journal articles? Second, however, by only presenting the SJR for the category in which the journal is ranked highest, the edit can be seen as promotional (in "Genetics", for example, BG ranks 84th). I routinely add rankings in different categories for the IF to journal articles, but up till now I have not done this for the SJR and for the moment I am not convinced that it is worth while (and think of all the updating that would need to be done each year...) Let me know what you think about this. --Crusio (talk) 16:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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Gwet, K. L numerous referencing of his book

Hello Tim,

I just went through the latest edits of Gwet to find cases were he has over-referenced his book (a few examples: [1], [2], [3], and so on).

I am writing to you since Gwet seems like a serious statistician doing great work. But I can't seem to be sure which of his edits are to keep and which are to remove (for example, this one looks fine to me). Maybe you could direct him to the proper wiki-rules on how to cite his work here? I suspect it would allow him to contribute a lot instead of spamming at times. Talgalili (talk) 12:27, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Talgalili, I concur. A lot of those pages had what ere essentially link adverts (not just Gwet), but several are fine. I think it's about right now. He seems to have so far only contributed links to his books and web site to date. Will make contact.

Denis Dutton edits

Hey - interesting stuff there. You should reference it before someone deletes it. Kansaikiwi (talk) 08:35, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

advice concerning the word "vandalism"

Hi Tim. In wikispeak, vandalism consists of edits that are deliberately intended to damage an article. Using the word to refer to anything else, including deliberate disregard of consensus, is an error, and usually ends up making it more difficult to resolve an issue. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 14:12, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

thanks for the advice: You are right and I was in a hurry and in error. cheers, Tim bates (talk) 14:39, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Too many capital letters

Hello.

Please note that Wikipedia article headings are not supposed to have so many capital letters as in this edit (I've fixed them in this edit). See WP:MOS. Michael Hardy (talk) 00:35, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Grit and perserverance

Hi Tim, I think your recent edits to the grit (personality trait) article have been quite good. I noticed though that you wrote: "Grit is argued to be trait to perseverance." I'm not really clear what is meant by "trait to" and wondered if you would reword it to make your meaning more explicit. Thanks for your input. --Smcg8374 (talk) 04:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Psychology cats

Tim, I'm going through a bunch of psychology journal cats that you recently created. Can you tell me what the difference is between "cognitive science journals" and "cognitive psychology journals"? Shouldn't the latter just be part of the former? Thanks. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 17:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi G, "cognitive science" and "cognitive psychology" should overlap completely. However most CP journals use students as subjects (or neuropsych patients) and reaction time as a dependent variable. Most CS papers will involve brain scans, and similar measures. I'd not lose any sleep if the two categories were merged, but also see them as a helpful chunk of hierarchy. probably depends on how deep your folders are your hard drive: Go ahead and merge them: the fields should merge anyhow. Tim bates (talk) 13:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

• OK, I'll make a "soft redirect" from "cognitive psychology journals" to "cognitive science journals". A bot should then move the articles within a week or so. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 14:59, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

"Generalist psychology journals": I can't say I like the "generalist", but why not just keep these articles in the topcat "Psychology journals"? That's what we do with "generalist" biology journals and such... --Guillaume2303 (talk) 17:21, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

This is definately worth keeping unless you dump everything that is currently left at the top level into "miscellaneous" - which is basically where many of them belong: minor, often self-edited "journals". Plus some categories that need to be created.

So I could file the top level under gender studies etc, then you we can let the big generalist generals float at the top? How does that sound? Tim bates (talk) 13:36, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

• Not sure I understand exactly what you mean, but basically, what I propose is to have all "generalist" journals directly in the top cat "psychology journals". All others go to appropriate subcats. Any minor "self-edited" journals should be proposed for deletion if they don't meet WP:NJournals. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 14:59, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

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Twin model graphs

Hi, I was looking at the twin models you had created here. It seems to me that the path coefficients are incorrect. They are equal to the ACE variance components when they should be equal to the square roots of the ACE variance components. For example, in the standardized graph, the model-predicted MZ twin correlation is 0.84*1*0.84+0.04*1*0.04=0.7072, when the actual MZ correlation in Silventoinen et al. is 0.89. Using the correct path coefficients, the model-predicted correlation is sqrt(0.84)*1*sqrt(0.84)+sqrt(0.04)*1*sqrt(0.04)=0.88. Do you agree, and if so, could you redo the models with the correct coefficients?--Victor Chmara (talk) 14:59, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

• Hi: Caption should have read variance components. Fixed now - thanks!. Tim bates (talk) 12:41, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Paul Costa Jr. Any chance you could improve the in-line referencing please?Zigzig20s (talk) 15:24, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

August 2017

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reverted your deletion once which is not a war. And already engaged on talk page Tim bates (talk) 15:01, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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thanks: Should have added a COI warning to the edit at least, and I agree in general. Added here as the article uses a meta-analysis and quotes to make a point which is moderated somewhat by the followup paper. No financial, socik-pupet, or advocacy COI. Happy as usual to let the wisdom of other editors sort it out Tim bates (talk) 17:13, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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I had a quick look: Not sure what the problem is: there's a paraphrase of the abstract, and a block quote, marked as such, which is well within fair use. Am I missing something?

Rushed edits?

Hi Tim, thanks for your wide-ranging contributions.

Without diminishing your efforts in any way, it seems a significant proportion of your recent edits have introduced errors into articles (e.g. eliminated punctuation, incorrect conjugation, five errors in one edit). As you can surely appreciate, it takes other editors much longer to fix these than it would take to prevent them in the first place.

Are you perhaps editing under time pressure? If you have a little extra time, you might consider using the "Show changes" function to let you check over your work before publishing an edit. This has saved me from publishing errors many times. --pmj (talk) 04:05, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

   Thanks for the kind reminder Pmj! Spend a bunch of my time fixing the same, so it's an easy message to hear: cheers, t  Tim bates (talk) 21:12, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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Your edits made from mobile app seem to default to "minor edit" though not actually fitting that description as used in Wikipedia. Sooner or later someone will revert an edit they don't like for not really being a minor edit and thus requiring an edit summary. Your app may be retaining this as a default setting from one long ago edit where you ticked the "minor" box deliberately. I don't remember how I arrived at your edit history but thought I should tell you. 73.89.25.252 (talk) 02:40, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

thanks! Was using the beta app. Switched to normal app and this seems to be resolved. Tim bates (talk) 10:52, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

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Golden Bay Air are holding some seats for us until 21 November

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

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