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Not to be persnickety, but would be good to get a statement of who the photographer was (who snapped it?) If it is a stock Penn State image, may not be released. If Ocneanu snapped it, then a simple email release would be good (sometimes people need it explained that they are not just "letting it be used on Wikipedia", but releasing to general usage.
There is also the whole panorama issue (I hate that)...but might affect the pic. I would support a fair use exemption though (I am bullish on those). Pic is needed to illustrate the article, very much.
TCO ( talk) 15:28, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
The average person (heck even smart chemists and biologists) can't follow higher math articles (and there is probably no hope they ever will). But this article is actually one with some human interest. Yeah, you need to cover some of the superhard geometry, but as of now, you're actually missing important parts of the story (the materials of construction, fabrication, the 9-11 connection) that are not just vital parts of the topic but also would totally resonate with readers.
Also, there is some remaining confusion of the article topic. Let's keep it centered on the sculpture, explaining a little about the polyhedron (or shape, whateva) but in a manner to SUPPORT. Some of the hard math can (and should for multiple reasons) move down.
New structure will be something like:
Really...your model should be much more like the Penn State reference, NOT the typical Wiki higher math article.
TCO ( talk) 15:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I think I know how to do this in a manner which gives the "art appreciator" or even just science person who is not a mathematician a feel for 95% of the important stuff here. (and the math majors have blue links to our articles that are pure math topics).
TCO ( talk) 22:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Should we make Octacube a dab page instead of a redirect?-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 04:42, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
OK. TCO ( talk) 16:28, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
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The links to Penn State no longer work. Perhaps via the wayback machine they can be retrieved. Whoever produced the content for the article has managed to create things out of thin air (given the current lack of sources). Mathsci ( talk) 20:27, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
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Not to be persnickety, but would be good to get a statement of who the photographer was (who snapped it?) If it is a stock Penn State image, may not be released. If Ocneanu snapped it, then a simple email release would be good (sometimes people need it explained that they are not just "letting it be used on Wikipedia", but releasing to general usage.
There is also the whole panorama issue (I hate that)...but might affect the pic. I would support a fair use exemption though (I am bullish on those). Pic is needed to illustrate the article, very much.
TCO ( talk) 15:28, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
The average person (heck even smart chemists and biologists) can't follow higher math articles (and there is probably no hope they ever will). But this article is actually one with some human interest. Yeah, you need to cover some of the superhard geometry, but as of now, you're actually missing important parts of the story (the materials of construction, fabrication, the 9-11 connection) that are not just vital parts of the topic but also would totally resonate with readers.
Also, there is some remaining confusion of the article topic. Let's keep it centered on the sculpture, explaining a little about the polyhedron (or shape, whateva) but in a manner to SUPPORT. Some of the hard math can (and should for multiple reasons) move down.
New structure will be something like:
Really...your model should be much more like the Penn State reference, NOT the typical Wiki higher math article.
TCO ( talk) 15:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I think I know how to do this in a manner which gives the "art appreciator" or even just science person who is not a mathematician a feel for 95% of the important stuff here. (and the math majors have blue links to our articles that are pure math topics).
TCO ( talk) 22:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Should we make Octacube a dab page instead of a redirect?-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 04:42, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
OK. TCO ( talk) 16:28, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
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The links to Penn State no longer work. Perhaps via the wayback machine they can be retrieved. Whoever produced the content for the article has managed to create things out of thin air (given the current lack of sources). Mathsci ( talk) 20:27, 11 October 2020 (UTC)