User:StarryGrandma/Useful science

Journals

• Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals)
• For indexing information see MIAR (Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals)

Links

PMID:34702442 ([[PMID:34702442]]) links to the article at PubMed. Is this documented anywhere?

New developments

Comments on when new developments in a topic should be added to the article.

• Talk:Black hole information paradox#Recent developments - publicity generated by university press releases does not make a new finding well-accepted in its field (or young researchers notable in the Wikipedia sense)

Notability

Assessing notability

• Recommendation Guide: "How to Write an Effective Nomination" by the IEEE Fellow Committee, October 2020 - issues are similar to writing a Wikipedia article that shows both the person's professional impact and how they meet WP:NPROF. It notes that finding evidence to support a nomination for engineers in the defense industry or in proprietary fields may not be possible.

My sample comments:

• This is an article about a topic whose only reference is a 2020 preprint. Wikipedia articles are about topics which are already well-known, not a place to put new ideas. Until this is accepted enough to be a)published in a peer review source and b) accepted by other researchers enough to be covered in review articles by authors independent of the originators, we cannot have an article. (February 2022)

• All the references except for the textbook (no page location provided) are primary sources from the group that originated the term or from a 1982 article. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's articles are about topics which are already well-known as shown by secondary sources such as review articles by people independent of the originators. It may be too soon to have an article. (March 2022)

References

• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)

Use of general references defended at GA review

• Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Electricity/1 - by Spinningspark on 16 Feb 2023

References - inline and otherwise

• Phonon polaritons (4 April 2022) - DGG accepted at AfC, then he tagged a section for referencing

Unreferenced material

• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Deletion of uncited articles (5 Jan 2024) - closed 12 Feb 2024 as "no changes to current policy"

Thermodynamics

• Thermodynamics and statistical physics - my comments on Bejan's constructal law, Jan 2018

Writing articles

• User:XOR'easter/So, you've decided to write about physics and/or mathematics on Wikipedia