User:Rockpocket

Hello, I'm Darren Logan, better known around these parts as Rockpocket. My professional interest is in olfaction, taste, pheromones and how they mediate innate and learned behaviours, metabolism and nutrition. I contribute to articles in this area occasionally (see, for example, Major urinary proteins) but tend to edit across diverse range of subjects that I have a non-professional interest in.

I was editing Wikipedia intensively between December 2005 and July 2008. Due to other demands on my time I contribute less frequently now, but I am still active and can still be reached by email or on my talk page. I believe that academics and other science professionals should embrace Wikipedia and contribute their expertize. With some Wikipedian colleagues I've written a guide, WP:10SIMPLERULES, to get scientific experts editing Wikipedia. Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, was also published in the September 2010 issue of PLoS Computational Biology.

I have an alternate account, Rockpocket too (talk · contribs) that I use for certain purposes.

An incomplete, unordered selection of some of my more significant contributions (Featured article, Good article, selected for DYK, page I created):

Chromatophore • Anti-psychiatry • Operation Backfire (FBI) • Billy McPhail • Coconut (song) • Alan Partridge • Muslims for America • Richard Lerner • Animal testing • The Scripps Research Institute • Armstrong Limit • John McPhail • The People's Petition • Gordon Strachan • Rock pocket mouse • Colin Blakemore • Saxondale • Green Scare • Artur Boruc • Don Moen • Garry Pendrey • Bite Back • WP:RDAC • Nigga • The Riches • Leucism • Robina Qureshi • Reference genome • National Institute for Medical Research • Dirty Filthy Love • Grice (extinct pig) • Meal Monday • Animal Liberation Front • Boyd Group • William Cringan • Uhrencup • Brown Dog affair • Advocates for Animals • Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment • 4933425L06Rik • Taliep Petersen • Pantglas Junior School • Frank McGarvey • Cork hat • Barbatio • Template:WPRDAC • Template:WPRDAC attention • Multiball system • Category:The Scripps Research Institute • La Jolla Shores • BALB/c • Banaphool • Hampden in the sun • WP:JACK • Celtic F.C. season 2007-08 • 4932414N04Rik • K-Ville (TV series) • Major urinary proteins • Kellogg School of Science and Technology • Mouse Genetics Project • Willie McStay (1890-1974) • Minnie D. Craig • Revolutionary Cells (RCALB) • Leszek Borysiewicz‎ • Lucky Dube‎ • Neal D. Barnard • Keith Mann • Phil O'Donnell (footballer) • Lex Gold • Ichthyophobia • Lytta magister • Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Malacothrix glabrata • Laboratory animal allergy • Simon Ferry • Beatrice Mintz • International Mammalian Genome Society • Non allelic homologous recombination • SHIRPA • 2p15-16.1 microdeletion syndrome • WP:10SIMPLERULES • International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium • 3110001I22Rik • Michael Stratton

Projects I am currently working on:

MGP

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MOS & Policy : 3RR ~ AGF ~ CITE ~ CITET ~ CIV ~ CON ~ DP ~ DR ~ EQ ~ Fallacies ~ NOR ~ NOT ~ NPA ~ NPOV ~ POINT ~ RS ~ TOPIC ~ V ~ WEASEL