[open-science] effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia... also see citizendium

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Sep 15 06:33:36 UTC 2013


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca> wrote:

>  For instance, Peter’s pseudonym (Petermr) is maybe less anonymous than
> 92.27.20.106 or, for instance, pseudos like Aencina or Jaamc. However, if I
> were to judge Petermr’s a priori credibility as an author on a certain
> subject, I would find that Peter’s user page (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Petermr) gives us very basic
> information, certainly insufficient to adequately describe Peter’s skills,
> which I’ve had the occasion to observe in this forum and others. As to
> Aencina and Jaamc: the former doesn’t have a user page, while the latter
> can be easily identified at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaamc),
> where there’s a link to his personal website.
>

I have amended my user page (which has not been updated for several years)
with a link to my Wikipedia entry. There was never an intention to be
anonymous - the  abbreviation "petermr" is widely used in many areas and
the top entry on Google for "petermr" brings up my blog where I am adequately
identified.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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