Hi, David Eppstein -- I considered asking at the NPROF talk, but felt it was a more minor-scope question than appropriate for a whole guideline's talk page, and I know you're very experienced with NPROF. I've written a couple articles on people affiliated with academia, but on GNG grounds rather than NPROF ones, so I'm not fluent in it the way I am in some other XNGs.
I'm wondering if User:Vaticidalprophet/Paul Needham (librarian) and the sources in it demonstrate a sufficient claim for NPROF. I'm working on User:Vaticidalprophet/Dark Archives and tried to ILL-link Needham's Wikidata item, at which point I discovered Paul Needham on enwiki goes to an entirely different subject. Given this Needham is a Guggenheim fellow he should pass by the letter of NPROF, but I wonder if this is always the case at AfD -- when writing Liu Yu (political scientist) a couple years ago I discovered Yu Liu (professor), a Guggenheim fellow whose AfD closed no-consensus with some uncertainty as to whether it was really a pass. Liu is an unusual case, though, given the rest of his career is relatively undistinguished. As for the rest of NPROF, I'm unsure how best to apply it to academic librarians rather than tenured professors, who are usually the subject of discussion.
I figured that if "Guggenheim fellow = pass" then my best bet was probably to whip up a quick draft for him and sidestep the "wrong Needham" issue entirely, so I've made a proof of concept. Obviously it'll be less of a microstub in mainspace, but I also don't want to commit to a meaningful investment in an article before it's clear if he really does pass, so I'm popping in to ask if there's anything here you see as a clear yes or no. This is the current main source for the article, and if there's anything in it that seems like a clear pass as well as or instead of the Guggenheim thing, that'd also be good to know.
Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all you do on the project. Vaticidalprophet 14:22, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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@David Eppstein Re wikipedia page for Bonnie_Dorr, all changes that were written 2 months ago underwent a very thorough, independent (almost 2 month long) verification process, undertaken by a mentor @David notMD and another independent reviewer @Lightoil. The result of that assessment was the following statement: "An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes." After putting in a significant time investment over the last 2 months, and finally getting approval, and now finally implementing those changes, a half day later they are now reverted back. Note that there are several inaccuracies in the original page, e.g., Bonnie_Dorr is not THE only former ACL president, Bonnie_Dorr no longer works at IHMC, and several other items. The additions to original material are factual, and backed up with references (correcting several references by the original authors of her entry). Those changes were very carefully itemized on the Bonnie_Dorr talk page, and all were verified over an extended period. So would you please provide more information as to why all those changes have now been reverted? Nlpsocialcyber (talk) 02:45, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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Note: just in case you're interested. Hildeoc (talk) 22:43, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey David. I made an edit to the Aarti Gupta (computer scientist) regarding her nationality (which as correctly pointed) I presumed from her birth in India. I found her in Category:Indian women computer scientists but realized that the article no where mentions her as Indian, hence the edit I made. Would that be Wikipedia-cally okay if were to add '...is an India-born computer scientist...'? Adamsamuelwilson (talk) 07:51, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello a colleague suggested I ask you here about a wikipedia page and its publishability with a researcher who's H-index is 15 in the field of infectious diseases and microbiology. Draft:Garrett A. Perchetti 2603:7000:5400:29:3C1D:6104:B5FC:A5B0 (talk) 05:04, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2-satisfiability&oldid=1165135152
Regarding that edit, the current wording implies that if P=NP then there is a polynomial solution for #2SAT, that's not necessarily true though. Whecmp (talk) 16:09, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
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David, I just blocked Señor Jakob as a sock. He has at least two good article nominations. I wanted to remove them, but I believe such noms are fairly structured, and I don't think removing the entries from Wikipedia:Good article nominations removes the entire framework for that nom, e.g., the note on the Talk page of the nominated article - and I'm not sure if there's anything else. Can you help me? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:18, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Spheres in solid geometry consists entirely of material that you (10 years ago) merged into an article (from previous pages sphere–sphere intersection and plane–sphere intersection) where they were substantially off topic and out of scope. I think that was a mistake, but the mess you left has been sitting there as an unchanging eyesore for 10 years by now, so clearly there's no urgent need for a "speedy deletion" of this content.
I temporarily moved this material to a more appropriate location, Spheres in solid geometry, because I didn't want to just delete it outright, since at some point other Wikipedians thought it was important and put effort into writing it.
I agree the current material there isn't especially useful or well contextualized, but (a) this material is not in scope at sphere (too down in the weeds), and (b) there is plenty of other material that could be added to a "spheres in solid geometry" topic, most of which would also not be in scope at sphere.
I would appreciate it if you would try starting discussions instead of just rushing around instantly smashing everything down all the time. –jacobolus (t) 22:30, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey David, again.
Need your help in creating and finalizing the article of Craig S. Kaplan. This year, Kaplan along with 3 other mathematicians, found aperiodic monotiles - the Hat tile and related the Spectre tile - solutions to the Einstein problem.
I have worked on this draft and have included the above research. Requesting your advice on what else shall be included (or not be included)? Adamsamuelwilson (talk) 09:29, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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I hate to see two longtime editors edit warring so please, continue with the talk page discussions on Point location. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 22:07, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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I will add a source for my edit about super distinct partitions. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/288395/how-to-make-a-function-that-returns-all-super-distinct-partitions WalkingRadiance (talk) 20:12, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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I have withdrawn the AfD, pursuant to your improvements. BD2412 T 02:59, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
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I dont think this professor should do any kind of edits longer, before he understands wikipedia rules. All information has to be sourced, and information that is unsourced is a problem for everyone. There is a lot of complaints about LIS explanation, that is bad and misleading, and encourage to cheating without any explanation; an explenation that would not hold up in any university. This kind of behaviour just increases a suspision on how he does research and how he even function has a professor.
Please stop this kind of misuse David! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:2020:8301:BAC1:F828:77CB:A5E3:E455 (talk) 10:43, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
No reason to be completely obnoxious about other's edits. I understand perfectly fine, but sometimes information is drowned out. And it is wrong either way. The tesseract in Interstellar is as hypercube, with time as an extra spatial dimension, as explained in this article: Interstellar Science I assume Jean-Pierre Luminet (director of research at the CNRS Astrophysics Laboratory in Marseille and the Paris Observatory) knows what he is talking about. Hipporoo (talk) 22:58, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
I mean the one in this AfD that was restored by another editor. I am honestly not sure what happened. I edited the (single) section, which means it was not possible that I was editing from an old version, as those don't have edit section links. I didn't get any edit conflict warning even though I have those turned on and normally do. I'm confounded. Anyways, it's all fixed up thanks to other editors, but I wanted to apologize. —siroχo 18:52, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
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Both are experts in their field, and both were also cited by the press when talking about the Hoover meteorite claims. I don't see how the article is improved by removing their experiences with the journal, or their documentation of the journal's inanity ("Official Statement The Journal of Cosmology"). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:09, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
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Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out, you did 2 reverts within 24 hours of @User:Sg-epk-jtk93.x29.jp's edits. It's perilously close to 3RR. Just think about cooling it and working out your disagreements on the talk page. Mathnerd314159 (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Are you still a professor/mathematics expert? If so, may I email you on a personal matter related to a math question that I lack the knowledge/skills to figure out? You may find it to be of very unique interest. You might even call it "one for the books" so to speak. Lol. Thanks. Huggums537 (talk) 17:29, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
If you're going to revert my edit on Morley's trisector theorem and insult me while you do it, the least you could do is notify me. Your assertion that I "have been told over and over already" is completely worthless when you have failed to mention me or edit my talk page at any time. The only reason I now know that your account exists at all is because my internet cut out and the page refreshed.
In addition, my edit was fully within Wikipedia's guidelines. </math> is not "real math"; when used inline, the font sizes never align and external punctuation does not wrap, as often occurs on mobile (from where I browse wikipedia most frequently). When used inline, {math} may not stand out as much but it does not break the flow of a sentence like </math> does. You also deleted genuinely good reformatting of the trilinear coordinates which is encouraged by the MOS; please do not steamroll the work of others so flippantly. The vast majority of editors on this site want to make it better, myself included, and I'm sure you want to as well. But that is not an excuse to abuse your power to shut down any convention you dislike (and be unnecessarily rude about it in the process, as the Tesseract discussion above proves you have a habit of doing).
I'm going to add my reformatting of the trilinear coordinates back, because those didn't seem to be an issue for you and I don't want an edit war. Please be more respectful towards your fellow contributors in the future. Thank you. OlliverWithDoubleL (talk) 20:14, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi David, i saw your contributions to several related articles, thus i am contacting you. I am asking for your as an expert in science/math wiki.en for your opinion in a notability question of this mathmatician. I didnt create the page, but wanted to contribute given the large impact -- but the discussion is dis-encouraging so i was hoping for an expert opinion on this matter. Would you please help and let us know what you think about the notability criteria in this case? Thank you a lot, -- Mario23 (talk) 09:58, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you removed the url to my ncubes project under External Links in the Hypercube page, this revision. I was wondering what are the conditions for having it listed there since I think it is a useful tool for the visualization of the subject at hand, just as the other tools listed there. Ndavd (talk) 20:56, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you've deleted two sections at the talk there. There were no threats in the second one (Ivan Katchanovski: Quotes by 40 scholars...) and there was some valuable information there. I'd like to restore it, please let me know if it violates our policies. Alaexis¿question? 07:26, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
The article indian mathematics was constantly vandalised by users by adding false information. User narayan ventakeshwar iyenger and Arjun Kumar Singh is constantly adding that unsourced reference that you have removed.It is doubt that they were of the same user. Leveinhockerkerala (talk) 10:43, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
@David Eppstein. According to WP:CALC, routine calculations such as adding numbers, converting units, or calculating a person's age are almost permissible, and thus are not defined as original research. However, what about the substitution of a variable into a formula or an equation algebraically? I'll give you an example of this,
Would not it count as part of WP:CALC? I have no clue again about this guideline. Any explanation would be appreciated. Thank you. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 09:43, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
There is lot of problems in madhava of sangamagrama article.In the section of Kerala mathematics and astronomy it is mentioned something of integration and says that the area under the curve is integral and Kerala school had lead the foundation of integral calculus but the reference are either junk nor it supports it Leveinhockerkerala (talk) 07:47, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
For avoidance of doubt, the same IP range recently edited Talk:Stevo Todorčević: [7]. I put something in the VB SPI but it usually takes forever :(. --JBL (talk) 18:41, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi David, Thanks for getting in touch regarding my changes to Cara Aitchison's page. I want to update the page as it is out of date and a little inaccurate. I didn't, however, add the links as I went - will revisit and ensure they are added as I go. If your deletion of my changes could be reversed, I'll get the source links added in. Alex 2A00:23C4:AEA0:5D01:D844:6A17:4B84:51EE (talk) 15:21, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
"By the symmetry of antiparallelograms, each of the two line segments from an endpoint of the fixed edge to the crossing point is congruent to a reflected line segment from the crossing point to the moving short segment, from which it follows that the two segments from the fixed edge have the same total length as a single long edge."
If that, to you, is a fine example of good prose, you'll forgive me if I don't take your criticisms seriously. Primergrey (talk) 05:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
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