Aceraxx

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Aceraxx. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Elixir (programming language), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 15:47, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks very much for reaching out about COI concerns. I was unaware but delighted to learn of the care that Wikipedia takes to ensure conflicts of interest are disclosed. I don't believe I have any conflicts of interest in relation to the edits I added to the Elixir (programming language) page.

Regarding the changes I made: the development of a type system within a programming language is indeed a significant milestone. Very few programming languages have made such an attempt. While I agree that not every PhD dissertation warrants inclusion in Wikipedia, I would argue that a page dedicated to an encyclopedic history of a technology should include significant milestones that effect how that technology evolves or is applied, particularly in areas where it could point other researchers in the direction of other existing research.

Especially for a programming language that is relatively young and still under development, I believe these edits are helpful for capturing its history over time, very much in the same way that the JavaScript or C Sharp (programming language) pages have extensive histories.

Maybe the right solution here is to simply make it a shorter, more high-level segment? I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on how to make this additional context more useful.

Again I want to reiterate that I am merely a user of Elixir; I have no personal nor professional connections to the work on Elixir's type system nor its authors.Aceraxx (talk) 13:35, 2 April 2024 (UTC)