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I noticed you like Combinatorics. I feel recent changes to History of combinatorics are pretty ridiculous. I thought you might consider working on that article. Thanks, Mhym ( talk) 06:45, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Why did you delete the changes I made in the article "square packing in a square" ? The previous statement was wrong. Thierry Gensane confirmed me in an email that their program was not able to improve the packing from 1979. I added two links, the second explains in detail that Gensane incorrectly assumed to have slightly improved the packing. I wanted to add a SVG-graficof the packing. But I have to learn this first. Walter Trump ( talk) 19:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent edits to Live Action. Forgive me as this is my first attempt at improving an existing article in my 6 years of editing here. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 22:32, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
See WP:PAYWALL and defer to more experienced editors. I wrote the entire article, your drive-by edit removing access is not helpful in any way. ɱ (talk) 20:15, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
The article looks very good to me, informative and complete. I have a couple of questions/observations:
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I agree that it's a content dispute – though I wonder why then the hat did not also cover the preceding comment by Gwillhickers ("If there were various 'non-white' philosophers who were highly influential during the founding, and we were ignoring them, intentionally or otherwise, you would have something of a case, but there are none...") as well as my direct rebuttal, which by G's own statement establishes that Feoh *does* have a case. IMHO this whole "incident" is a content dispute being lawfared. – .Raven .talk 19:48, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
his 'non-white' issue, which is why he came running to ANI in an attempt to settle 'personal attacks'"
my original response to Freoh, had no basis for being lumped in with Raven's wall of text over content"
I was trying to point out what I saw as an unintentional bias that skewed the page toward white people. It is not that I want to include others "on the basis" that they are non-white; it is that I felt your proposal was (unintentionally) unbalanced.
If there were various "non-white" philosophers who were highly influential during the founding, and we were ignoring them, intentionally or otherwise, you would have something of a case.
I was responding to Freoh's comments about 'non-white' influences" – i.e. engaging in a content dispute.> "
opinionated conjecture" - comments with multiple cites & quotes of sources, but which G claimed not to have read [but renders this conclusion about them anyway], and blasts for their length. How funny. – .Raven .talk 08:46, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Freoh's accusations about
skewing
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bias" – referred to the state of the article. Unless you were its sole author, you have no good reason to take those "accusations" personally... particularly since skewing can be inadvertent and bias can be unconscious. His mention was to explain that his motives were not malicious, but toward the improvement of the encyclopedia. If your discussion was meant to deny that defense, then my rebuttal of your claims (supporting his case) was entirely on-topic. – .Raven .talk 19:46, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
you ran on at length about politicians in the 20th century" – Quoting a Congressional Resolution that "the Congress, on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, acknowledges the contribution made by the Iroquois Confederacy and other Indian Nations to the formation and development of the United States;…" is not "about politicians in the 20th century". – .Raven .talk 19:32, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Congress are politicians" – Focusing only on the finger that points, I see. By that reasoning, any citation of a source to support an article statement is actually only "about" the author of the source, thus off-topic to the article (unless it's a bio of that author). – .Raven .talk 19:55, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
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the Anglo-Saxon months, human trafficking by country, Japanese regnal period, and board game articles come to mind immediatelyIt is very funny to me that I saw this list and I was like "Anglo-Saxon months? Japanese regnal period? what are they talking about?" but then I got to "board game articles" and suddenly understood completely. (I suppose emphasis on "to me" in that sentence.) -- JBL ( talk) 23:04, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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On the Italian moto gp page it says that moto gp was born in 2002 but that's not true! You also wrote it that the first edition was born in 1949, write it also on Italian Wikipedia please, help Wikipedia! Maperes ( talk) 22:08, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi JBL. I'm currently logged out but I thought you would be the one to ask about disambiguating Recursion, according to WP:DAB. 96.227.223.203 ( talk) 09:31, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for this edit summary at AN:I (how often do we get to say that, honestly!) I was very surprised to see the initial close as I very much saw this as "editors disagree" rather than Abuse and definitely didn't think Cullen or Ravenswing were a "tag team" in their responses. So while I'm obviously biased, glad you saw it the same even if we disagree on the block merits. FWIW, I hope they can edit productively down the road. It's also (unfortunately) highlighting the issues that COI editors face, we're not well equipped to handle more complex issues beyond edit requests. Have a good evening and thanks again! Star Mississippi 03:18, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you closed the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User: Richie wright1980 before I had a chance to respond to Richie's last comment. You also summarised the closure as occurring because we 'both agree that this thread has served its purpose' when the exact opposite is true — we are both disappointed by the ANI process and do not think it has served its purpose. If you can't reopen the thread so I can respond it would be good if you could at least change the summary to something more accurate. Cheers, A.D.Hope ( talk) 18:34, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, JBL. Following your edit to Jim Niekamp, you asked for advice in this edit summary about the obit cited on Niekamp's page. First of all, that obit seems pretty useless; all it shows (to me) is a name, DOB, DOD and age. Is there more to it somewhere, maybe behind a paywall or membership boundary or something?
As to the connection with "our" Niekamp, I don't see a big problem. While possible, it'd be pretty strange if there were two guys named James Lawrence Niekamp born on March 11, 1946. Oh, John Smith, sure; Jim Johnson, probably; but James Lawrence Niekamp? Naw. The hockey sites cited, FWIW, seem to all have the same info anyway, although there's no telling where they got their dates. I suppose there could be some WP:CIRCULAR sourcing going on (it is ice hockey, after all).
Having said that, it wouldn't be terrible to have better sources for his off-rink life. Even his career as commentator is fully unsourced (unless it's in a part of the obit that I just can't see).
And finally, hearty thanks for your work cleaning up the ReferenceExpander mess. I did just a few, then got ambitious and started working on 2022 deaths in the United States at the bottom. Yikes! I worked hours on the first half and got only as far as the end of January. I'm still trembling. ;-) — JohnFromPinckney ( talk / edits) 02:17, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
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I probably shouldn't have gotten into this in the first place, so I'll probably be stepping out of it now, but there is a serious case of WP:IDHT on his talk page, and he has archived the discussion on his page. Dialmayo ( talk) ( Contribs) she/her 11:13, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for this note and deletion. I must have been massively brainwashed this morning not to note this obvious fact that floor(x+n) = floor(x)+n, for integer n :) Guswen ( talk) 20:44, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I took some thwacks at improving the article 0, because it turns out to be among the most frequently-visited math pages and it did silly things like drop the term "additive identity" into the second line without a definition. It could use additional thwacks by somebody else for a more varied perspective. XOR'easter ( talk) 18:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hellow JayBeeEll, regarding all your warnings about whitespaces on articles, I'm now in need of any link or source about the proper usage/guidelines/maintenance of whitespaces, so that I'll never ever make any unwanted vandalism in future! Thanking at the end, keep up great works on Mathematics-related articles :) Billjones94 ( talk) 05:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Regarding one of your last edits in the permutation matrices article: I think the way that the introduction is written is somewhat misleading in the current state. While you are right that it is true that a permutation matrix multiplied from the left permutes the rows, i.e., $PM$ and from the left the columns $MP$, for the same permutation matrix $P$, this would lead to inconsistent permutations, because if $P$ multiplied from the right leads to a permutation according to, e.g., $1->2->3->1$, permutations with $P$ from the left lead to $1->3->2->1$. That's why I agree with the previous edit transposing the permutation matrix. I'm quite new here, so I am not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, I just think it would help intuitive understanding of the article. J-s-schmidt1 ( talk) 13:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hmm, the importance of the two choices of sign is that these are the only ways to define an ordering on (or, more generally, to extend an ordering of an ordered base field to the Laurent series field); maybe that could be noted there. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 19:47, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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I noticed you like Combinatorics. I feel recent changes to History of combinatorics are pretty ridiculous. I thought you might consider working on that article. Thanks, Mhym ( talk) 06:45, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Why did you delete the changes I made in the article "square packing in a square" ? The previous statement was wrong. Thierry Gensane confirmed me in an email that their program was not able to improve the packing from 1979. I added two links, the second explains in detail that Gensane incorrectly assumed to have slightly improved the packing. I wanted to add a SVG-graficof the packing. But I have to learn this first. Walter Trump ( talk) 19:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent edits to Live Action. Forgive me as this is my first attempt at improving an existing article in my 6 years of editing here. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 22:32, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
See WP:PAYWALL and defer to more experienced editors. I wrote the entire article, your drive-by edit removing access is not helpful in any way. ɱ (talk) 20:15, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
The article looks very good to me, informative and complete. I have a couple of questions/observations:
Iry-Hor ( talk) 09:44, 5 June 2023 (UTC) More comments to come. Iry-Hor ( talk) 09:44, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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@ Iry-Hor: I realize I have not quite addressed every point you've raised so far, but I was curious about your big-picture view: is this a credible candidate for FA, either as-is or with a bit more polish? I've never participated in FAR/FAC at all, so I don't have any sense of where the line is separating "yes worth nominating"/"no a waste of time", or how the article is situated relative to it (even setting aside the math-is-scary issue). -- JBL ( talk) 20:53, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
I agree that it's a content dispute – though I wonder why then the hat did not also cover the preceding comment by Gwillhickers ("If there were various 'non-white' philosophers who were highly influential during the founding, and we were ignoring them, intentionally or otherwise, you would have something of a case, but there are none...") as well as my direct rebuttal, which by G's own statement establishes that Feoh *does* have a case. IMHO this whole "incident" is a content dispute being lawfared. – .Raven .talk 19:48, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
his 'non-white' issue, which is why he came running to ANI in an attempt to settle 'personal attacks'"
my original response to Freoh, had no basis for being lumped in with Raven's wall of text over content"
I was trying to point out what I saw as an unintentional bias that skewed the page toward white people. It is not that I want to include others "on the basis" that they are non-white; it is that I felt your proposal was (unintentionally) unbalanced.
If there were various "non-white" philosophers who were highly influential during the founding, and we were ignoring them, intentionally or otherwise, you would have something of a case.
I was responding to Freoh's comments about 'non-white' influences" – i.e. engaging in a content dispute.> "
opinionated conjecture" - comments with multiple cites & quotes of sources, but which G claimed not to have read [but renders this conclusion about them anyway], and blasts for their length. How funny. – .Raven .talk 08:46, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Freoh's accusations about
skewing
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you ran on at length about politicians in the 20th century" – Quoting a Congressional Resolution that "the Congress, on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, acknowledges the contribution made by the Iroquois Confederacy and other Indian Nations to the formation and development of the United States;…" is not "about politicians in the 20th century". – .Raven .talk 19:32, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Congress are politicians" – Focusing only on the finger that points, I see. By that reasoning, any citation of a source to support an article statement is actually only "about" the author of the source, thus off-topic to the article (unless it's a bio of that author). – .Raven .talk 19:55, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
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the Anglo-Saxon months, human trafficking by country, Japanese regnal period, and board game articles come to mind immediatelyIt is very funny to me that I saw this list and I was like "Anglo-Saxon months? Japanese regnal period? what are they talking about?" but then I got to "board game articles" and suddenly understood completely. (I suppose emphasis on "to me" in that sentence.) -- JBL ( talk) 23:04, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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On the Italian moto gp page it says that moto gp was born in 2002 but that's not true! You also wrote it that the first edition was born in 1949, write it also on Italian Wikipedia please, help Wikipedia! Maperes ( talk) 22:08, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi JBL. I'm currently logged out but I thought you would be the one to ask about disambiguating Recursion, according to WP:DAB. 96.227.223.203 ( talk) 09:31, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for this edit summary at AN:I (how often do we get to say that, honestly!) I was very surprised to see the initial close as I very much saw this as "editors disagree" rather than Abuse and definitely didn't think Cullen or Ravenswing were a "tag team" in their responses. So while I'm obviously biased, glad you saw it the same even if we disagree on the block merits. FWIW, I hope they can edit productively down the road. It's also (unfortunately) highlighting the issues that COI editors face, we're not well equipped to handle more complex issues beyond edit requests. Have a good evening and thanks again! Star Mississippi 03:18, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you closed the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User: Richie wright1980 before I had a chance to respond to Richie's last comment. You also summarised the closure as occurring because we 'both agree that this thread has served its purpose' when the exact opposite is true — we are both disappointed by the ANI process and do not think it has served its purpose. If you can't reopen the thread so I can respond it would be good if you could at least change the summary to something more accurate. Cheers, A.D.Hope ( talk) 18:34, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, JBL. Following your edit to Jim Niekamp, you asked for advice in this edit summary about the obit cited on Niekamp's page. First of all, that obit seems pretty useless; all it shows (to me) is a name, DOB, DOD and age. Is there more to it somewhere, maybe behind a paywall or membership boundary or something?
As to the connection with "our" Niekamp, I don't see a big problem. While possible, it'd be pretty strange if there were two guys named James Lawrence Niekamp born on March 11, 1946. Oh, John Smith, sure; Jim Johnson, probably; but James Lawrence Niekamp? Naw. The hockey sites cited, FWIW, seem to all have the same info anyway, although there's no telling where they got their dates. I suppose there could be some WP:CIRCULAR sourcing going on (it is ice hockey, after all).
Having said that, it wouldn't be terrible to have better sources for his off-rink life. Even his career as commentator is fully unsourced (unless it's in a part of the obit that I just can't see).
And finally, hearty thanks for your work cleaning up the ReferenceExpander mess. I did just a few, then got ambitious and started working on 2022 deaths in the United States at the bottom. Yikes! I worked hours on the first half and got only as far as the end of January. I'm still trembling. ;-) — JohnFromPinckney ( talk / edits) 02:17, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
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I probably shouldn't have gotten into this in the first place, so I'll probably be stepping out of it now, but there is a serious case of WP:IDHT on his talk page, and he has archived the discussion on his page. Dialmayo ( talk) ( Contribs) she/her 11:13, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for this note and deletion. I must have been massively brainwashed this morning not to note this obvious fact that floor(x+n) = floor(x)+n, for integer n :) Guswen ( talk) 20:44, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I took some thwacks at improving the article 0, because it turns out to be among the most frequently-visited math pages and it did silly things like drop the term "additive identity" into the second line without a definition. It could use additional thwacks by somebody else for a more varied perspective. XOR'easter ( talk) 18:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hellow JayBeeEll, regarding all your warnings about whitespaces on articles, I'm now in need of any link or source about the proper usage/guidelines/maintenance of whitespaces, so that I'll never ever make any unwanted vandalism in future! Thanking at the end, keep up great works on Mathematics-related articles :) Billjones94 ( talk) 05:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Regarding one of your last edits in the permutation matrices article: I think the way that the introduction is written is somewhat misleading in the current state. While you are right that it is true that a permutation matrix multiplied from the left permutes the rows, i.e., $PM$ and from the left the columns $MP$, for the same permutation matrix $P$, this would lead to inconsistent permutations, because if $P$ multiplied from the right leads to a permutation according to, e.g., $1->2->3->1$, permutations with $P$ from the left lead to $1->3->2->1$. That's why I agree with the previous edit transposing the permutation matrix. I'm quite new here, so I am not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, I just think it would help intuitive understanding of the article. J-s-schmidt1 ( talk) 13:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hmm, the importance of the two choices of sign is that these are the only ways to define an ordering on (or, more generally, to extend an ordering of an ordered base field to the Laurent series field); maybe that could be noted there. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 19:47, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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