Kletos

Removed PROD on Timsort

Hey, Kletos, I removed your PROD on the Timsort algorithm.

There is verifiable published information about the algorithm in Python in a Nutshell in addition to the primary sources. It's true that you won't find it in an algorithm textbook, but that's because it's too specific. When an algorithm book describes garbage collection, for example, it will describe mark-and-sweep and outline how it works, but it won't go into the details of particular mark-and-sweep garbage collectors. Similarly, algorithm books describe hybrid sorts but not Timsort in particular.

Despite that it's a very specific topic, I also believe it's an important one, given that it's in the standard library of two of the four most popular programming languages! People should be able to consult Wikipedia for an overview of what their computer (or their phone) is doing when it sorts, particularly about high-level things like its worst-case runtime.

You are correct in your criticism that the article could be written better, and should probably go into more detail (although I'm concerned about going into a level of detail that could only be verified by consulting the source code). I think your criticisms more appropriately address the fact that, as a specific implementation, the article might not belong in the infobox about sorting algorithms. Do you agree with my assessment?

rspεεr (talk) 03:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Details of vandalism requested

Dear Kletos, it seems you wrote on my talk page back in September: Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Kletos (talk) 13:38, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Could you describe which edits you are referring to? I have certainly not intentionally vandalised any pages, and if I have mistakenly committed incomplete edits (or anything that may have looked like misplaced sandbox work) then I would like to know where, so that I may try to finish/correct them.

Many thanks, --Ged.R (talk) 12:17, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Update

Looking at your history, it appears that you removed a link to a C implementation of Matrix chain multiplication shortly before adding the vandalism accusation to my talk page; but I didn't add that link, I added a link to a MATLAB implementation, which remains on the present page at the time of writing, so I think you may have got the wrong guy? (assuming that the C implementation link was vandalism; it's not obvious to me that it was...) --Ged.R (talk) 12:37, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes you are right.I am really sorry for my mistake. Kletos (talk) 14:00, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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A cup of coffee for you!

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