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Why did you undo my reply? Alexmov — Preceding undated comment added 21:20, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia allows one to interleave replies. Alexmov (talk) 21:23, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Here is an interleaved response. If one looks at the time stamp (as opposed to the nested structure), it was written after the one below and no one has responded to it. I ought to be allowed to edit it without you or anyone else reverting it. 2603:8001:D300:6C00:CC2F:199B:8F20:6EBB (talk) 21:31, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

When two different users respond, you can interleave responses. The responses are not sequential. I editted a response I had just posted. 2603:8001:D300:6C00:CC2F:199B:8F20:6EBB (talk) 21:28, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes, interleaving responses is allowed. The reasons for my edits are stated in their edit summaries, of course.

When your fellow editors explain Wikipedia tools, policies, and norms to you on talk pages, you ignore the information. It's classic Wikipedia:ICANTHEARYOU. Therefore I no longer consider it a good use of time, to discuss these things with you on talk pages. My current plan is simply to revert any damage that you do to Wikipedia. Mgnbar (talk) 21:36, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. Would you please be kind enough to point me to a webpage that might allow me to delete my account? 2603:8001:D300:6C00:CC2F:199B:8F20:6EBB (talk) 21:38, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Or instructions that might help me delete my account... Many thanks. 2603:8001:D300:6C00:CC2F:199B:8F20:6EBB (talk) 21:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Ups, it looks like I was logged out. Alexmov (talk) 21:40, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

There are a couple of options linked here: Wikipedia:Username_policy#Deleting_and_merging_accounts. But the simplest (and preferred) solution is simply to stop editing — that is, let your account sit idle. Mgnbar (talk) 21:43, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Alexmov (talk) 21:53, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

I normally write all my scientific articles under a male pseudo name. In recent years, I have made the mistake of posting pictures of myself which makes my pseudoname useless. I don't know if it is possible to roll that back, but I would like to start deleting the images I posted of my myself that reveal my gender. Is there a mechanism for Wikipedia image deletion? Alexmov (talk) 21:52, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

I may have to start using another male pseudo name, but I would prefer to avoid it. Many thanks. Alexmov (talk) 21:56, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Your problem is that you are disruptive and don't listen to other people -- that would be equally as problematic if you had a penis or a Y-chromosome. You have not uploaded any images of yourself (or of anything else) on Wikipedia so there is nothing here to delete. --JBL (talk) 21:58, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

(Also "Alex" is most commonly a male name so uh ....) --JBL (talk) 21:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

This message was not addressed to you. Please stop trolling me. Alexmov (talk) 22:06, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes I'm the one doing the trolling, sure. --JBL (talk) 22:08, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Deleting_images. Mgnbar (talk) 22:11, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

How do I find an admin? I am not looking to go through a public process. Are you an admin? Alexmov (talk) 22:46, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

How do I identify an admin? Are you an admin? Alexmov (talk) 22:52, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

No, I am not an admin, but finding one is not part of the process anyway. For help going through the file deletion process, post a new question at Wikipedia:Help desk. Mgnbar (talk) 01:41, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Alexmov (talk) 03:57, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Why did you undo my tensor talk edit?

1. Chatul responded to one of my messages in the middle of my post breaking up my message before the PS. Why don't you revert his post?

2. Why did you not allow me to defend myself? Alexmov (talk) 17:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

My reasons are stated in the edit summaries. You are editing posts after others have responded to them. This has all been explained to you. Mgnbar (talk) 17:09, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipidia like Twitter seems to allow for interleaved non-linear replies. Chatul had entered multiple non-linear replies as well. Why don't you reverse those? He entered a response in the middle of one my posts after JBL already responded. Alexmov (talk) 17:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

If this is a huge problem, why don't you reverse that? Why am I not allowed to respond to it? Alexmov (talk) 17:44, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Are the rules just made for me? Alexmov (talk) 18:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Posting in the middle of someone else's post is frowned upon. I wish that Chatul hadn't done that. I don't know whether it's against the rules.

Have you seen Chatul (A) edit their own posted text, after another editor has already responded to it, or (B) edit someone else's posted text? I haven't. Mgnbar (talk) 04:47, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Here's a general principle, that might help you understand. When you sign your post with four tildes, it gets time-stamped, right? Well, that time stamp should be accurate. If you edit your post above the time stamp, or if you move the time stamp somewhere else, then you've violated the purpose of the time stamp. Mgnbar (talk) 04:56, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

I do not spend time looking for behavioral posting issues, and I assume that Chatul is a reasonable person. However, responding in the middle of my text was glaring, and in my book that is editing someone's text. This is not something that I would worry about too much, but that behavior got a pass while I was getting beat up for editing my own text for readability. I assumed that people editing the Tensor article are reasonable people that are trying to develop a clean document that has a logical consistency, but the interactions regarding the dimension/modes/order/ways edit were unexpected.

I provided references for my proposed changes which were met with an appeal to tradition fallacy (ie this is the way this article has been for 19 years), ad hominem attacks or long discussion on tangential topics intended to exhaust me. It is incumbent upon the person defending the status quo to provide references first. When I directly asked for references, I was met with silence.

Repeated insults on talk pages, and competence called into question in the summary of an edit (Undid revision 1131982027 by Alexmov (talk) rv incompetence) is a lot. This is a prime example of why women do not edit Wikipedia. Alexmov (talk) 11:04, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Here is a list of a few active Wikipedia administrators who I was able to determine identify as female or some version of nonbinary with a modest amount of effort. Feel free to ask any of them for their input. (Hopefully it goes without saying that if you reach out to a large number of them simultaneously it will be viewed as spamming, so please don't do that.)

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Alison, AmandaNP, Bishonen, BorgQueen, CaptainEek, Deb, Diannaa, EvergreenFir, Femke, GorillaWarfare, Isabelle Belato, Joyous!, KrakatoaKatie, Megalibrarygirl, MelanieN, Rosiestep The complete list of active administrators is Wikipedia:List_of_administrators/Active, and the partial list above is not comprehensive in any way.

--JBL (talk) 17:58, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Please find someone else to troll. Alternatively, contact these admins and perhaps they can explain why your behavior continues to be problematic. Your "advice" is shifting responsibility for your bad behavior onto me. Alexmov (talk) 13:12, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Alexmov, there's a lot to unpack in your post, but there doesn't seem to be any point, as I've already explained here. Mgnbar (talk) 19:57, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Factual accuracy of your recent edit to Tensor

Hi. I saw your recent edit to Tensor. I am not sure that the factual accuracy of your sentence is correct. 96.227.223.203 (talk) 12:37, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

That surprises me, because (A) it builds off your recent edit, and (B) it merely summarizes one of the treatments given in the Definition section. What is your objection? (And if you want to have a discussion about this specific article, then it would be better done at Talk:Tensor.) Mgnbar (talk) 12:46, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

I made a mistake in my original edit. I should have created a new paragraph, which I have now rectified. BTW the (1, 1) notation you added may very well be correct, but I have not reinstated it due to my shaky familiarity with the subject, and for that I do not want to be responsible for adding something of which I have not the knowledge. :) 96.227.223.203 (talk) 12:52, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

It's a tensor of type (p, q), where p = 1 and q = 1. This is all explained in the article.

Tensors are "generalized matrices" only insofar as their coordinates form arrays. This is the relationship between the sentence that you added and my revision of it. So I do not view the current version as a rectification.

In general, it's good to do Wikipedia:Be bold, but it's best to be bold after familiarizing oneself with the content already in the article. Regards, Mgnbar (talk) 21:43, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

By the way, it's possible that you are interested in Tensor (machine learning). You might also want to read the talk pages of these two articles, to see how much argumentation has gone into figuring out their relationship. Mgnbar (talk) 12:50, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Edit revert

Hi, I noticed that you reverted my edit on Andaman Islands. While the change to the infobox name was accidental, was there any issue with the image being changed to my Commons upload? Given that I probably should have included an edit summary. ~ ՏԹՄՐ (✉ • ✎) 10:18, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Yes, an edit summary would have helped me understand your motivation. And yes, we all make typing errors. :)

Regarding the figure: Partly I reverted because it seemed that similar articles, such as Nicobar Islands, had standardized on a map style. But now I see that there is no standardization. In my opinion, your new map is not better or worse than the current one. So I don't plan to revert you again. But you might consider engaging with Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps, where people discuss this sort of thing. Mgnbar (talk) 17:15, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Colorblindness edit

I am new to editing on Wikipedia. Sorry if I am not doing something correctly. I have a rare genetic vision condition called BCM (1 in 100,000 people have it). It is so rare that I did not get a diagnosis until I was 57 years old. Very few eye doctors have any experience with it which means they misdiagnose it. My edit is trying to help other people that do not know what they have to find out. BCM was already discussed in the colorblind article but is hard to find and has some inaccuracies. I wanted to add a sentence to the beginning paragraph to help others like myself figure out what they have as easy as possible without having to wade through the rest of the article. For someone who knows they are colorblind and that there vision is generally bad but don't know what their conditions is, and neither does their eye doctor, one of the first things they would do is go to Wikipedia and look up colorblindness. However, the bulk of the article is talking about typical color blindness issues and is not easy to go through and figure out that they have BCM. The sentence I added is no different than the previous sentence which points out that Achromatopsia (another rare eye disease) is the complete absence of color vision and lists the added symptoms. I just tried to add the same kind of sentence for BCM to help people like me figure out what they have. Dean402 (talk) 01:45, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Dean402. Because this conversation is specifically about the article Color blindness, we should hold this conversation at Talk:Color blindness, so that everyone interested can join in. In a few minutes, I will start a new section there. Mgnbar (talk) 01:55, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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