@momcat2024 Thanks for pointing this out! About the replacement image you included, we recently moved to non-copyright images. You’ll see that, below the first synapse image, we include the photo credit. With this said, we stay away from using images that are CC-NC, or non-commercial. We can use open-source or open access sites like WikiMedia Commons, OpenStax, Cureus, Hindawi, PLOS, Frontiers. Where did you find the image you included?
I found the image for electrical synapse on research gate. Here is the link:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Representation-of-an-electrical-synapse-91_fig2_289479733
@Ahmed7 On the link, I see “Content may be subject to copyright.” Just wanted to confirm if ResearchGate is out of bounds for what we can pull images from?
Also @Ahmed7 , I wanted to ask if you still want me to include rationales for my support if I merge changes; when I discard, I include my rationale in the box that pops up before discarding
For any super obvious changes (clear errors, spelling mistake, formatting issues, QIDs that are clear cut etc.) there is no need
For any content changes, changing things inside clozes, big changes, etc. ideally have a rationale
ResearchGate is a “google” for research so it not’s reliable to check copyright status
To check, go to the DOI and click on it (or search the article title online)
This is a thesis so must likely we cannot use it, I tried searching the paper and the website and there is no clear mention of the usage rights (red flag which means most likely we cannot use it)
Since this is a clear-cut error, I’d think it’d be best to have an image to replace this with so I looked into one. Is Khan Academy fair game? I found the below image from this article on Khan: The synapse (article) | Human biology | Khan Academy
Most likely not
Sometimes they do allow CC licenses, but they state the CC license is a CC-NC license, which is non-commerical. We cannot use that unfortunately
The next best image I found is off Wikimedia Commons. It is an illustration for an electrical synapse with the gap junction shown, but it’s not labeled
Cool, I’ll add it in & merge