Wikipedia talk:Scientific peer review

message: An "active tag" was added to this project. I reverted it. There has been discussion at Wikipedia talk:Peer review#Scientific peer review tagged inactive. I have just responded there as follows:
:OK, I was the editor who reverted this. First, I review scientific review articles only if they are about subjects that,as a scientist, I am familiar with. Unfortunately, no such articles have been put to scientific peer review for some time. I have been maintaining the scientific peer review for a long while, but I have been unable to do so recently due to a wikibreak as I went overseas and then being busy and ill since my return. I have tried to remove all old reviews and to also transclude new requests for review to WP:PR. I reverted the "inactive tag" because I do not think it is appropriate. Yes, this review process has problems and in fact it always has had. The initial discussions discussed such things as an elected board of reviewers and the appointment of other expert reviewers. In the end no agreement was reached, except that we agreed to try a low key version. That is what we have. It does attract some articles for review, but they are often inappropriate for a real review.  You can have requests for review but that does not always attract reviewers, even on WP:PR itself.  I am going to do the following:
#Cleanup the current reviews, archiving old ones and also transcluding new ones to WP:PR.
#Suggest on the WP:SPR page that new requests for review should also be transcluded to WP:PR.
#Set out the difficulties on the talk page of WP:SPR and then ask all the science Wikiprojects to go over there and join the debate. (Note that the list of articles for review at WP:SPR is transcluded into many of the Science WikiProject pages.)
#If this does lead to more good activity, then I will propose that WP:SPR should be deleted.
:However, give me a bit of time to this. I am still busy.
I will be following through on those four points and welcome comment as this proceeds. --Bduke 03:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this inactive?

message: Coincidentally, last weekend I was thinking of starting to help WP with its peer review process in some way. Due to my background, I was looking at these pages again, after "being away" for some time. I had a hard time to figure out, how and where I would be able to help... and this discussion brings that to the forefront, too.
* My impression is, that first we would need a number of volunteers, who take "ownership" (yes, here is the dreaded word) of agreeing on a simple process of handling requests, and then set that up and try it out. I do not see any need for complicated structures, just a list mechanism as in other peer review projects and a set of interested editors to help the people that request a scientific review. As in other areas of WP, the quality and helpfulness of the reviews will be the mark these volunteers will make, and we should not need to restrict this to "experts" or "authorities" in certain areas. This will fall into place by itself. Hope this was not too much rambling ;-) Awolf002 02:32, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments on the future of WP:SPR