User talk:D. Matt Innis/Archive 8

The many forms that life takes on Earth

I like it, but there's something wrong. What is it? --D. Matt Innis 16:18, 1 December 2006 (CST)

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Excuse me for butting in, but don't we want some more along the lines of this? The advantage I see here is that which ever pictures are chosen the originals can be easily found. In the future it might allow for interactive features, such as sound, since each picture cell is independent. Chris Day (Talk) 17:34, 1 December 2006 (CST)

No need for apologies Chris, I really appreciate your input. I think the one I made was definitely too "tight" (for lack of a better word). But I'm thinking the other is too "loose". There must be a just right. I'm not sure I'm following the "ease of finding pictures", though, could you explain. I'm sure this is not the last time I'll be faced with this and need to have a good grasp on the "rules". I would assume CZ is going to set up a Citizendium Commons where we can save this and add whatever we want (music, etc.) as well. Am I missing something? --D. Matt Innis 17:48, 1 December 2006 (CST)

If you click on the each photo it takes you too the original. I agree it is probably too loose but I think overlaps are impossible when transcluding the originals? Chris Day (Talk) 20:53, 1 December 2006 (CST)

I see what you mean, that could be a real advantage to click on each and have it play a sound, etc. I like it! Do you know how to do that? --D. Matt Innis 21:23, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Number two

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Biology studies the variety of life

Hey Chris, I just noticed this was yours! I didn't realize you were already working on this. It looks like you have this one under control really well, so I'll move on to other stuff. I hope you don't mind if I keep an eye on how you do it, I need to learn as much as I can before things get wild. --D. Matt Innis 19:49, 3 December 2006 (CST)

I just added two more photo's. We are lacking a picture of bacteria. i am thinking a hot spring might be a good one for that. I'll probably be messing around a bit more. Any other must have pictures you have seen? Chris Day (Talk) 23:42, 3 December 2006 (CST)

I like it!! It seems like I saw a bacteria somewhere, don't know about the hot spring, but I'll go back through and see where it was then you can decide if it's what you're looking for. I think you've got everything else covered, I would love to seeif you can add some other media to it like you were saying. I haven't seen anything like that, have you? --D. Matt Innis 07:33, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Did you know this is what e.coli looked like? It is neat, too bad its not in color or it would really be good. I think we can use anything we find at the CDC, as its government isn't it? --D. Matt Innis 08:03, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Just updated further. I think there are probably too many pictures now. I have hotsprings for bacteria right now, since that has some info on the environment too. The root of the tree of life is currently populated by thermophillic bacteria, so a hot spring is probably quite appropriate. Chris Day (Talk) 01:43, 5 December 2006 (CST)

Hope you're cooking up some new images for chiropractic, it would be nice to get that approved early tooGareth Leng 17:18, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Matt, there are several very recent (2006) big randomized clinical studies on chiropractic that I'd like to e-mail you. We should have a little journal club between us, I think - because at least a couple of these need to be mentioned in the article. I can't post them here without copyright infringement. My e-mail is doctorsculerati@mac.com If you e-mail me your e-mail, I'll send you these, one by one. Nancy Sculerati MD 21:36, 9 December 2006 (CST)

Sounds good! I'll shoot you a message right over. --D. Matt Innis 22:27, 9 December 2006 (CST)

Thanks so much for the user page picture Matt, and your kind comment! Nancy Sculerati MD 19:32, 11 December 2006 (CST)

DC article

Matt, please look at the talk page. I just don't know what to do about the length except to break it up into 2 articles. Nancy Sculerati MD

Please look again at DC talk page Matt, we have a problem. I'd like to work it out. Nancy Sculerati MD

Matt, I am going through the article now, As I think we have come to the finish line, I'd like to ask a favor. Please read it carefully and make a note of anything that strikes you as wrong or "funny" ON THE TALK PAGE of the article. Just copy and paste from the atricle and move it over, and we can discuss it and hammer out resolutions. Nancy Sculerati MD

I think I'm done. Nancy Sculerati MD

references

I have to take a break for real life commitments. Chris Day (Talk) 14:06, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Matt, I have to bow out for a while. I'll look in a few days. We had a good article that just needed copyediting. This is too frustrating for me at the moment. I'm feeling that I need a break until there is a clear approval process, otherwise we are just spinning our wheels. Nancy Sculerati MD

Some general comments

I wouldn't say we are spinning wheels. The references really were all over the place, too much so for an approved article. It will not take long to sort out such problems. I think we do need to consider quality issues as well content issues. If it gets approved in a state of lower quality then there is a good chance we all move on to other articles and when CZ goes public those aprroved articles will be the first that critics look at. It needs to be publication quality and that means references pictures need to be in order too. I think Larry's comments were very important too, not defining terms up front is a problem.

May be i have a different idea to what an approved article should look like? Is there any thread on the forums to that has discussed this issue? Chris Day (Talk) 16:23, 20 December 2006 (CST)

I think it is all important. I am sure that Nancy is concerned about the words, nothing that you have changed. You are absolutely right about getting it to look right.. Nancy puts her heart into the words. It's hard to watch your well thought out sentences/paragraphs get wiped out. Sometimes it is downright painful. --Matt Innis (Talk) 16:36, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Finch

Did you get permission from Daniel D. Baleckaitis to use this photo? -- Melanie St Clair 10:55, 22 December 2006 (CST)

Approval Process

The approval process has to be done by a constable. Talk to Ruth Ifcher or User:Sarah Tuttle. They seem relatively active (or at least look at the wiki rather often. Bernard Haisch and Fred Salsbury are personnel administrators, so they have the technical ability to complete the approval process if you can't get a hold of any constables. The remaining process is straightforward, but several parts of it need a "sysop" (what WP calls Administrators) to do, so you need to lasso one of them. Let me know how it goes.--ZachPruckowski 11:05, 28 December 2006 (CST)

Happy to help in any way that I can. That's what I'm here for. --ZachPruckowski 23:55, 29 December 2006 (CST)

Metabolism

Matt, could you help us out on metabolism? Remember that great weight lifter picture you had for chiropractic? We could use it in that article for anabolism. If you'd be so kind as to upload it to the article, I 'll play with the caption. thanks, Nancy Sculerati MD 08:07, 30 December 2006 (CST)