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Is it really necessary to have both this category ("Randomness", first edited on Jan. 8, 2005) and
Category:Random numbers (June 2, 2004)? Conceptually, they certainly have a lot in common, which would seem to guarantee endless categorization problems going forward. Even now, "Randomness" is a subcategory of
Category:Probability and statistics and "Random numbers" is a subcategory of
Category:Cryptography,
Category:Probability and statistics, andCategory:Randomness, and both categories contain the articles
Randomness and
Random number. Ugh. I would prefer to just have this category and have it contain all the stuff relevant to both concepts. -
dcljr 06:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
It is not clear to me what this category is for and in what way it differs from the Probability and Statistics category. On the other hand, the Random Numbers category serves a clear purpose: it contains articles on the generation of (pseudo)random numbers. Thus, my first reaction is to delete this category. --
Jitse Niesen 12:39, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I decided to move all of Cateogy:Random numbers to this category instead, as randomness is not just about random number generation. A subcategory for random number generation could be created, though. But now at least we don't have concurrent overlapping categories, it's more a question of subcategories.
Flammifer13:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)reply
This category is within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
statistics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.StatisticsWikipedia:WikiProject StatisticsTemplate:WikiProject StatisticsStatistics articles
This category does not require a rating on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale.
Is it really necessary to have both this category ("Randomness", first edited on Jan. 8, 2005) and
Category:Random numbers (June 2, 2004)? Conceptually, they certainly have a lot in common, which would seem to guarantee endless categorization problems going forward. Even now, "Randomness" is a subcategory of
Category:Probability and statistics and "Random numbers" is a subcategory of
Category:Cryptography,
Category:Probability and statistics, andCategory:Randomness, and both categories contain the articles
Randomness and
Random number. Ugh. I would prefer to just have this category and have it contain all the stuff relevant to both concepts. -
dcljr 06:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
It is not clear to me what this category is for and in what way it differs from the Probability and Statistics category. On the other hand, the Random Numbers category serves a clear purpose: it contains articles on the generation of (pseudo)random numbers. Thus, my first reaction is to delete this category. --
Jitse Niesen 12:39, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I decided to move all of Cateogy:Random numbers to this category instead, as randomness is not just about random number generation. A subcategory for random number generation could be created, though. But now at least we don't have concurrent overlapping categories, it's more a question of subcategories.
Flammifer13:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)reply