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Your username doesn't bother me, but you might want to consider changing it per WP:DISRUPTNAME. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 23:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- What's wrong with it? Just a case of Scunthorpe problem, or something else? Lowercaserho (talk) 04:50, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
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Please don't put these kinds of articles anywhere on Wikipedia. See Beall's List. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:36, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for letting me know; it wasn't a problem I was previously aware of. Is there any discussion or documentation anywhere regarding best practice, and how to recognise and avoid this sort of thing? Lowercaserho (talk) 18:29, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oof, that's hard. First of all, many of us academics also aren't always aware of it. I became aware of this one because of some spam that I got--if you look at that journal's website you'll see a professor named, a professor who has nothing to do with the journal and died last year. You will find, if you Google around, a weebly page that says she has nothing to do with that journal. Look at that website: for such journals (run out of Bangladesh, frequently), the websites are really all the same. It's like separating fake news from real news, in a way--study the website, look for editorial boards, and look at their submission guidelines: they indicate pay for play, usually. Plus, frequently one outfit publishes a whole bunch of journals, with similar names, and that's often a warning sign. Now, the Beall's list article is very helpful, and it contains a link to an archived version of the list. In case of doubt, Randykitty is an expert, and there's a few other editors/admins who know.
What I do is every time I get one of these spam messages I look for citations in Wikipedia, and then remove them. In this case I got five hits. Sometimes I get zero or one, sometimes I have a few dozen. So it's for real, and it poisons a bunch of things--Wikipedia, tenure files, resumes, bank accounts. It's not a victimless crime... Thanks, and I appreciate that you take it seriously. Drmies (talk) 00:15, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for the thought-out reply. In hindsight, it's unsurprising that there isn't any silver bullet for this sort of thing. I guess that the most important part is just being aware of the problem and knowing to be vigilant. Of course, that hardly guarantees that there won't be mistakes, but it should mean I will make them with much lower frequency. I am neither the best nor most prolific editor on Wikipedia, but I do try to always do right by the project and the encyclopedia, so I greatly appreciate you taking the time and effort to help educate me here. (Also: sorry for the slowness of reply here; ill health kept me away from Wikipedia for a few days.) Lowercaserho (talk) 09:48, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oof, that's hard. First of all, many of us academics also aren't always aware of it. I became aware of this one because of some spam that I got--if you look at that journal's website you'll see a professor named, a professor who has nothing to do with the journal and died last year. You will find, if you Google around, a weebly page that says she has nothing to do with that journal. Look at that website: for such journals (run out of Bangladesh, frequently), the websites are really all the same. It's like separating fake news from real news, in a way--study the website, look for editorial boards, and look at their submission guidelines: they indicate pay for play, usually. Plus, frequently one outfit publishes a whole bunch of journals, with similar names, and that's often a warning sign. Now, the Beall's list article is very helpful, and it contains a link to an archived version of the list. In case of doubt, Randykitty is an expert, and there's a few other editors/admins who know.
Could you reword on sums of cubes?
Mathematical coincidence as it stands is a rhetorical article, without a measurement standard. There isn't much in the literature on mathematical coincidences (not a subject area per se), and this simple one you reverted today -- if it is one -- people may or may not know/recognize if they've found their way to this particular article. It's very short and simple to state but doesn't appear and is debatable. The rest of the article has material that doesn't appear in the literature under the topic of mathematical coincidences. Is this one, or a Strong law of small numbers example?50.199.82.19 (talk) 17:16, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Truthfully, the mathematical coincidence article is a bit of a mess, for precisely the reason that you've identified, that there isn't a whole lot of literature on the subject. In it's current form, it looks more like a list of mathematical coincidences than anything else. The problem is that there are potentially an infinite number of coincidences and we obviously can't list them all. My own personal opinion is that we should only be listing things if they have their own article and/or can be reliably souced in accordance with Wikipedia's policies on verifiability and reliable sources. So, my problem with your edit was with the lack of a reliable source, as well as the tone problem that I put in the edit summary. (Unfortunately, the limited space of edit summaries does not allow for detailed reasoning.)
- If you have a good source that we can use that discusses the sum of cubes, then I will happily help with rewording to see it included in the article. If you don't, then I'm afraid that I believe it is best not included. Just because the article is currently a mess is not a reason to add more content to it that is out of line with Wikipedia's style and policies; that just increases the workload when someone finally gets around to significantly improving the article.
- Hopefully, that's enough to explain my thought processes in this case. If you disagree with me, then I encourage you to discuss the matter further on the article's talk page. I am only one editor, and my opinions are certainly not infalible. I hope that you agree with me, after hearing more of my reasoning, but if you don't then the article's talk page is the best palce to seek consensus. Lowercaserho (talk) 02:42, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi @Lowercaserho: I love the table consolidation you did with Critical Role (campaign two) notes & guests; it looks way better. I find that kind of work super tedious to do. If you have time, would you be able to do a similar consolidation for Critical Role (campaign one)? If not, no worries. Thanks! Sariel Xilo (talk) 18:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Sariel Xilo, and thanks. At the time, I thought I'd do it for campaign 2 and then leave it for a little while to make sure it wasn't reverted and then do the same for campaign 1. And then I promptly failed to get around to it afterwards. Thanks for the rmeinder to move it up my priority list. No promises, but I should be able to get it done at some point within the next few days, real life permitting. Lowercaserho (talk) 19:01, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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