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Casliber ( talk · contribs) 05:48, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
The books on Dynamic Programming that I know claim that Bellman used it first. The application for computing minimal distance in a graph is named after Bellman and Ford. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shuroo ( talk • contribs) 10:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
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I added File:Healdsburg Bridge 193708pu.jpg from HABS/HAER to your wonderful article. I then noticed that you'd removed an earlier color pic - looks to be the same bridge to me - but one never knows, do one? Smallbones ( talk) 01:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
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Ci vediamo il 21 aprile. ciao coyote. -- 86.24.46.135 ( talk) 00:06, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
As you no doubt realize, the "citation needed" tag's role is to highlight an unsupported statement that could use a reference. Since you added a reference, the tag achieved its objective. So why did you feel compelled to lecture me in your edit summary? I'm not obligated to fill every reference gap I see in wikipedia. In my opinion, drawing someone's attention to a gap is still performing a service, but it seems like you're accusing me of laziness or incompetence. — Myasuda ( talk) 16:21, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hello David,
I just saw your note at Brad7777's talk page. Perhaps I do not appreciate the seriousness of the issue, but for me:
Best regards, Sasha ( talk) 17:40, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi David. You removed the PROD from Justin Friesen on the basis that there had been a previous AfD. The consensus of that discussion was to delete the article, which was done. The article I PRODded was a new article, not the one which was discussed at AfD. I will bring the article back to AfD, but I do not believe that your rationale for removing the PROD was correct. Pburka ( talk) 22:47, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear David,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 02:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
You usually take a slightly narrower view of science notability than I do, so perhaps you might want to check my reasoning in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amer Iqbal. DGG ( talk ) 20:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sorry, i might be dense, but i don't see how your reference supports the whole statement in that article. The only thing i found in the PDF says that the symbol is not "the character ⌀" and is not "letter "o" with stroke". -- Jokes Free4Me ( talk) 23:45, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, David.
I see that in the Notes section of the Euler's totient function article, you went back to the smaller font. Why was the Notes section in that style in the first place? I don't see the point of having a small font. In fact, I found it more difficult to read. The comment from the editor that made it that way read, "+ref (2 columns) template for Notes section". I never saw two columns – just smaller font. Could you please explain to me what is gained by having the Notes section in that style? — Anita5192 ( talk) 05:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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07:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)Thanks so much for what you're in the process of doing with List of people by Erdős number. It should have been done a long time ago, and you're just the knowledgeable sort of person to do it. Good job. Ntsimp ( talk) 04:39, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hey David, I noticed that you've been keeping an eye on the 3SUM page. I've added two algorithms as examples and changed some (incorrect?) wording that says there's only a single n2 algorithm. I'd appreciate it if you could double-check my work if you have time. Thanks! fintler ( talk) 20:49, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David, I didn't get a very clear sense of your position on the comments on Yau. It seems to me there is an obvious problem with BLP. Again, my quotes were not "scare quotes"; rather, I was literally quoting a comment made another editor. Tkuvho ( talk) 21:13, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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I am going to revert your change to the Severe Tire Damage page in which you added Anna Karlin as a band member. There are multiple problems with this. First, when she was in the band, it was not called "Severe Tire Damage". Second, you cited a web page in which she is only listed as a "friend of the band" and you did not list the other friends. The proper solution (which I will undertake) is to expand the band members section more sensibly. strubin ( talk) 18:42, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David!
The King Crimson album Discipline has had two graphs, inspired by Celtic traditions.
I imagine that e.g. The Mathematical Intelligencer would publish a study of them, or that they might be good examples for conference presentations.
Best regards, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 12:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
You've added a major error to the article. I don't think that any astronomer or physicist worth their salt would have had this issue so t seems to me that you're not qualified or (apparently) able to read the primary sources on this subject.
And as a penalty for bending the rules here, I'm not going to tell you what the problem is, you'll have to work it out for yourself. Of course you could just leave it, but then what would be point of having the article? There are reasons for the policies of Wikipedia, and this is as good an example as any I've seen.- Sheer Incompetence ( talk) Now with added dubiosity! 03:43, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David,
I would say he is quite notable, see the first item here, and this. More formally, he is a member of the French academy, and received quite a few different prizes.
Best, Sasha ( talk) 19:23, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David,
following another redlink in the Erdos list, I have started writing a stub about Freiman, User:Sodin/Gregory Freiman. For now it's in my user space, since I have not found good references (for the mathematical part; there are plenty of references for his dissident activity). I think a good review should exist somewhere, but for now I have only found unpublished notes by Ben Green.
Best, Sasha ( talk) 18:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
David,
I noticed that you have reverted my change to Dynamic Programming twice. While I agree that the reason that I gave for the change, in the one line edit summary, was inadequate, I did give a more detailed explanation in the page's Talk section.
Saying that a number is "exponentially large" tells us nothing about the number.
Saying that it is reasonable to call a number "exponentially large," because the number is "exponential in the size of the input" is equally nonsensical, because a number is neither a function nor a mapping of any kind. Is this conflation of concepts standard practice in Computer Science these days?
In the Talk page, I conceded that my change is minor, but logic and maths are founded on an endless list of minor and arguably trivial distinctions. See Is the Null Graph a Pointless Concept?.
I have made very few edits to Wikipedia, so I may have violated the community's mores. That said, I have to put my foot in the water some time. StandardPerson ( talk) 05:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
StandardPerson ( talk) 06:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi David,
I just read the change you made to the beginning of Dynamic Programming and I certainly find it an improvement! I'm glad the result is something that (I hope) we're both happy with.
I would like to expand the current, extremely brief articles about the Lax_equivalence_theorem and Numerically_stable#Stability_in_numerical_differential_equations, but I suspect I should read the Wikipedia guidelines before weighing in, as I've just done.
Could you point me towards some guidelines about Wikipedia etiquette and the intended audience of Wikipedia articles? (Some articles are extremely specialised, while the articles that I mentioned previously are aimed at a broader, Encyclopaedia Britannica level audience.) Is there a general FAQ or discussion area, that you could point me towards? (After reading the Talk_page_guidelines I think this post is badly out of place, but I can't find somewhere better.)
Sincerely, S. StandardPerson ( talk) 02:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your significant efforts in creating the new articles Mike Steel (mathematician), Alfred van der Poorten and Gesellschaft für Informatik, and for improving the encyclopedia! Northamerica1000 (talk) 12:38, 10 March 2012 (UTC) |
Hi David,
I have just noticed Mathai Varghese on the Erdos list, and I have a question. Apparently, Mathai is his last name, and Varghese — his first name (though the authors of the article refer to him familiarly as "Varghese"). What is the policy regarding this, are the articles named according to Western order (first name then last name), or according to the order common in the native language of the subject matter?
Thanks, Sasha ( talk) 05:14, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! Would you perhaps be able to help out Hal Gabow with the request he left at Talk:Cheriyan–Mehlhorn/Gabow algorithm and User talk:Ruud Koot#Strongly Connected Components Algorithm? Regards, — Ruud 00:36, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi David! I'd greatly appreciate your opinion on whether a certain statement in Expander graph constitutes Wikipedia:Original_research. If you can share some time, please respond in the corresponding section on the talk page: Talk:Expander_graph#.22Original_research.22_template. Thanks a lot! ylloh ( talk) 02:22, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
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Casliber ( talk · contribs) 05:48, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
The books on Dynamic Programming that I know claim that Bellman used it first. The application for computing minimal distance in a graph is named after Bellman and Ford. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shuroo ( talk • contribs) 10:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
I've posted a request at ANI to have those talk pages semi'd for awhile. You may do the honors yourself if you wish. The backstory on that IP-hopper is that he fancies this particular woman to be his girlfriend. He's using the real-life name of someone on Facebook. Or something like that. Anyway, it's all a BLP-violation, which I would think would override the usual concerns about blocking access to talk pages. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:15, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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I added File:Healdsburg Bridge 193708pu.jpg from HABS/HAER to your wonderful article. I then noticed that you'd removed an earlier color pic - looks to be the same bridge to me - but one never knows, do one? Smallbones ( talk) 01:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
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Would you be interested in voicing your opinion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Qi (programming language) (2nd nomination)? Cheers, — Ruud 19:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Ci vediamo il 21 aprile. ciao coyote. -- 86.24.46.135 ( talk) 00:06, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
As you no doubt realize, the "citation needed" tag's role is to highlight an unsupported statement that could use a reference. Since you added a reference, the tag achieved its objective. So why did you feel compelled to lecture me in your edit summary? I'm not obligated to fill every reference gap I see in wikipedia. In my opinion, drawing someone's attention to a gap is still performing a service, but it seems like you're accusing me of laziness or incompetence. — Myasuda ( talk) 16:21, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hello David,
I just saw your note at Brad7777's talk page. Perhaps I do not appreciate the seriousness of the issue, but for me:
Best regards, Sasha ( talk) 17:40, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi David. You removed the PROD from Justin Friesen on the basis that there had been a previous AfD. The consensus of that discussion was to delete the article, which was done. The article I PRODded was a new article, not the one which was discussed at AfD. I will bring the article back to AfD, but I do not believe that your rationale for removing the PROD was correct. Pburka ( talk) 22:47, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear David,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 02:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
You usually take a slightly narrower view of science notability than I do, so perhaps you might want to check my reasoning in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amer Iqbal. DGG ( talk ) 20:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sorry, i might be dense, but i don't see how your reference supports the whole statement in that article. The only thing i found in the PDF says that the symbol is not "the character ⌀" and is not "letter "o" with stroke". -- Jokes Free4Me ( talk) 23:45, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, David.
I see that in the Notes section of the Euler's totient function article, you went back to the smaller font. Why was the Notes section in that style in the first place? I don't see the point of having a small font. In fact, I found it more difficult to read. The comment from the editor that made it that way read, "+ref (2 columns) template for Notes section". I never saw two columns – just smaller font. Could you please explain to me what is gained by having the Notes section in that style? — Anita5192 ( talk) 05:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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07:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)Thanks so much for what you're in the process of doing with List of people by Erdős number. It should have been done a long time ago, and you're just the knowledgeable sort of person to do it. Good job. Ntsimp ( talk) 04:39, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hey David, I noticed that you've been keeping an eye on the 3SUM page. I've added two algorithms as examples and changed some (incorrect?) wording that says there's only a single n2 algorithm. I'd appreciate it if you could double-check my work if you have time. Thanks! fintler ( talk) 20:49, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey, David. You should stop pushing your anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian agendas through Wikipedia. Your pro-Putin and pro-Russian bias is obvious, but Wikipedia is NOT a place to promote your subversive ideas. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia policies and please consider contributing to Wikipedia constructively. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.173.102 ( talk) 19:37, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi David, I didn't get a very clear sense of your position on the comments on Yau. It seems to me there is an obvious problem with BLP. Again, my quotes were not "scare quotes"; rather, I was literally quoting a comment made another editor. Tkuvho ( talk) 21:13, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
You have been referred to in a thread at Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#Third party needed to verify possible editing dispute war. Spinning Spark 09:15, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
I am going to revert your change to the Severe Tire Damage page in which you added Anna Karlin as a band member. There are multiple problems with this. First, when she was in the band, it was not called "Severe Tire Damage". Second, you cited a web page in which she is only listed as a "friend of the band" and you did not list the other friends. The proper solution (which I will undertake) is to expand the band members section more sensibly. strubin ( talk) 18:42, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David!
The King Crimson album Discipline has had two graphs, inspired by Celtic traditions.
I imagine that e.g. The Mathematical Intelligencer would publish a study of them, or that they might be good examples for conference presentations.
Best regards, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 12:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
You've added a major error to the article. I don't think that any astronomer or physicist worth their salt would have had this issue so t seems to me that you're not qualified or (apparently) able to read the primary sources on this subject.
And as a penalty for bending the rules here, I'm not going to tell you what the problem is, you'll have to work it out for yourself. Of course you could just leave it, but then what would be point of having the article? There are reasons for the policies of Wikipedia, and this is as good an example as any I've seen.- Sheer Incompetence ( talk) Now with added dubiosity! 03:43, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Please do not
attack other editors, as you did at
Talk:Golden ratio. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please
stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Please refrain from referring to your fellow wikipedians as "ignoramuses". Thank you.
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Hi David,
I would say he is quite notable, see the first item here, and this. More formally, he is a member of the French academy, and received quite a few different prizes.
Best, Sasha ( talk) 19:23, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David,
following another redlink in the Erdos list, I have started writing a stub about Freiman, User:Sodin/Gregory Freiman. For now it's in my user space, since I have not found good references (for the mathematical part; there are plenty of references for his dissident activity). I think a good review should exist somewhere, but for now I have only found unpublished notes by Ben Green.
Best, Sasha ( talk) 18:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
David,
I noticed that you have reverted my change to Dynamic Programming twice. While I agree that the reason that I gave for the change, in the one line edit summary, was inadequate, I did give a more detailed explanation in the page's Talk section.
Saying that a number is "exponentially large" tells us nothing about the number.
Saying that it is reasonable to call a number "exponentially large," because the number is "exponential in the size of the input" is equally nonsensical, because a number is neither a function nor a mapping of any kind. Is this conflation of concepts standard practice in Computer Science these days?
In the Talk page, I conceded that my change is minor, but logic and maths are founded on an endless list of minor and arguably trivial distinctions. See Is the Null Graph a Pointless Concept?.
I have made very few edits to Wikipedia, so I may have violated the community's mores. That said, I have to put my foot in the water some time. StandardPerson ( talk) 05:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
StandardPerson ( talk) 06:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi David,
I just read the change you made to the beginning of Dynamic Programming and I certainly find it an improvement! I'm glad the result is something that (I hope) we're both happy with.
I would like to expand the current, extremely brief articles about the Lax_equivalence_theorem and Numerically_stable#Stability_in_numerical_differential_equations, but I suspect I should read the Wikipedia guidelines before weighing in, as I've just done.
Could you point me towards some guidelines about Wikipedia etiquette and the intended audience of Wikipedia articles? (Some articles are extremely specialised, while the articles that I mentioned previously are aimed at a broader, Encyclopaedia Britannica level audience.) Is there a general FAQ or discussion area, that you could point me towards? (After reading the Talk_page_guidelines I think this post is badly out of place, but I can't find somewhere better.)
Sincerely, S. StandardPerson ( talk) 02:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi David,
I have just noticed Mathai Varghese on the Erdos list, and I have a question. Apparently, Mathai is his last name, and Varghese — his first name (though the authors of the article refer to him familiarly as "Varghese"). What is the policy regarding this, are the articles named according to Western order (first name then last name), or according to the order common in the native language of the subject matter?
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Hi! Would you perhaps be able to help out Hal Gabow with the request he left at Talk:Cheriyan–Mehlhorn/Gabow algorithm and User talk:Ruud Koot#Strongly Connected Components Algorithm? Regards, — Ruud 00:36, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi David! I'd greatly appreciate your opinion on whether a certain statement in Expander graph constitutes Wikipedia:Original_research. If you can share some time, please respond in the corresponding section on the talk page: Talk:Expander_graph#.22Original_research.22_template. Thanks a lot! ylloh ( talk) 02:22, 28 March 2012 (UTC)