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Hi David, concerning my edit:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noam_Elkies&oldid=1015190057
I saw Noam Elkin's name listed in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_mathematicians and clicked through to his page, only to find nothing was mentioned about him being Jewish or was he categorized as such. I found it odd that his being Jewish was relevant enough to be on the list, but not to be mentioned on his Wikipedia page. So, I added the information and used the citation that was given on the aforementioned list. It appeared to me as though the source was reliable, although I did not fully check it. Here is a primary source http://people.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/mp1.txt that supports my edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.126.167 (talk • contribs) 01:07, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
Did you even read the primary source I linked? "To give a more personal example, and then I'll be done:
When I was a child in Israel, I knew little of Christians
beyond some vague notions -- they believe in Yeshu;
they have a Scripture called a New Covenant; there's a Pope.
I studied music, so I also knew a bit about
Gregorian chant and Masses and church organs.
When I came back here, I experienced some of the wealth of
great art and music that Christian belief has inspired.
But I also learned that Christian belief includes
some notions that are most shocking from a Jewish perspective.
"Yeshu", Jesus, seems to be variously God, the Son of God(!),
one-third of God(!?), or all three at once; he said that no one
-- not just "no Christian", no one at all -- comes unto God
except through Him [John 14:6]. There's more:
this Jesus-God is claimed to be the same Lord Adonai
of the Hebrew scriptures, scriptures whose prophecies
are put forth as predictions of the life of Jesus.
That's even harder for a Jew to stomach.
So, education and diversity made me much better informed."
I am not 'pretending' the source is saying something it doesn't say; you are either acting in bad faith or being purposefully obtuse by suggesting so. In his own words, Elkies gives a "personal example" in which he describes growing up in Israel and learning about Christianity for the first time stating: "I also learned that Christian belief includes some notions that are most shocking from a Jewish perspective" and "That's even harder for a Jew to stomach.". In both cases, it is clear he is contrasting his new knowledge of Christianity with his being Jewish and views from it. Immediately after saying a specific Christian idea was hard for 'a Jew to stomach' he says it "made me much better informed"obviously referring to himself as the aforementioned Jew. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.126.167 (talk) 02:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
David, Thanks for the heads up on ((Infobox mountain pass)). Jrcrin001 (talk) 21:15, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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Rogermx (talk) 21:22, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi David,
I want to discuss my edits on Pythagorean triple which you reverted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pythagorean_triple&oldid=prev&diff=1016618837
My edits were meant to make it easier to read, not harder to read, and also to clean up the formatting. Can you explain exactly why you think it makes it harder to read? In the mean time, I'm going to fix the (hopefully uncontroversial) explanatory and formatting issues.
Also, just as a general matter, I'm sure people would like it a lot more if you edited to improve instead of wholesale reverting a series of edits.
Cheers, --LK (talk) 06:49, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Not really appreciating your disparaging my motives there. And yes, I was reverted, so I started a RfC. I do not see how that is improper at all. And of course, the editor who reverted me jumped on the statement you made disparaging my motives. Would really appreciate it if you would amend your comment to be more in-line with "Assume good faith". LK (talk) 03:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your input, Professor Eppstein. I wasn't a fan of the forced-simplicity definition from Trudeau's introductory book either. In hindsight, given its highly-nonstandard nature, omitting this alternate definition is best for the article's continuity. I made a small edit, replacing "The dual graph has an edge whenever two faces of G are separated from each other by an edge" with "The dual graph has an edge for each pair of faces in G that are separated from each other by an edge." This edit makes it clear to the novice that the dual might contain parallel edges (as does the quality figure at the page's top right). What are your thoughts? -LG — Preceding unsigned comment added by LDGraham (talk • contribs) 14:41, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
David, This is Shirley Luckhart at Univ Idaho. I would like to request again (as I did on Twitter) to have this page on me that I did not contribute to and that is full of errors deleted as soon as possible. I do not want to contribute to or edit this page and I don't want this misinformation circulating on the internet about me at all. Shirley Luckhart PhD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1998Virginia (talk • contribs) 20:43, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi User:David Eppstein. I would like to add a photo to the page of Sonja Petrović. Illinois Institute of Technology paid a photographer to take the photo and believes they own the copyright. I'm not so sure. Who needs to upload the photo?Mvitulli (talk) 20:21, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Dr. Mahbubul Alam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahbubul-alam/). I am the nephew of Dr. A. A. Mamun. I would like to downgrade the semi-protected for Dr. A. A. Mamun's page. He gave me the permission to edit his wikipedia page. The current page is full of wrong information. As he is one of the top 2% scientist in the whole world, it is very important that the information on his page are correct and current. Therefore, timely edits are necessary for his page. Please see these links for his current affiliations and research credentials:
Personal information: https://www.juniv.edu/teachers/mamun_phys Research profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uOLQ_SkAAAAJ&hl=en
I would really appreciate if you could remove his page from semi-protected so that it can be edited by me or his students as needed. Please let me know if you need anything from my side.
Best, Mahbubul Alam, PhD
Hi, Thanks for your response. I understand that I have a conflict of interest. But some of the information in the website are incorrect and some are missing. Is it possible to make someone who is not a relative of Dr. A. A. Mamun as the responsible person for the page? Also, please let me know how we can keep his wikipedia page updated and error free.
Thanks, Mahbubul Alam, PhD
— Preceding unsigned comment added by M Alam PhD (talk • contribs) 20:43, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:02, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was any way you should show me the revision you deleted from that article. This revision was made by a student in my class as part of an assignment, and without seeing the revision, it is impossible for me to assess the effort the student put into it.
Thanks you for your consideration. SurlyNotFurious
On 20 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Theresa M. Korn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Theresa M. Korn turned down a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to become the institute's first female engineer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Theresa M. Korn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Theresa M. Korn), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
A civil edit summary from you would make a lovely change tbh... GiantSnowman 17:05, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
On 25 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Keller's conjecture, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a mathematical conjecture about tiling space by cubes was transformed into a problem in graph theory that became a benchmark for clique-finding algorithms? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Keller's conjecture. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Keller's conjecture), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:01, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
He didn't ask but NPP would benefit if User:Levivich had autopatrol. EEng 07:28, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi! You reverted my change about the definition of a trapezoidal number. As it stands now, it disagrees with the definition of a trapezoidal number in perfect number, and it also disagrees with the source that I gave, that specifically defines non-trapezoidal numbers as those that "cannot be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive whole numbers greater than one". And even if your (unsourced) definition was right, naming that section "trapezoidal numbers" would be pointless and misleading if it was just a synonym for "polite numbers", because the section specifically talks about those numbers in which the only polite representation is triangular. --Ngfsmg (talk) 23:04, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello. You recently reverted an edit on the 'History' section of Formal language, with the message:
"Web sites based on Joseph are not really good enough for this sort of claim. Cite real and peer-reviewed scholarship, please."
Could I ask exactly which claim you were referring to (it was a fairly long edit), and what 'Web sites based on Joseph' are?
Many thanks, Anshul Cole Jakaro (talk) 18:24, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Why do you put misinformation in Derangement? 2A01:119F:31B:5D00:710C:F9E1:C187:D792 (talk) 17:51, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
under penalty of perjurybit is a good gag, it almost makes your incompetence entertaining. --JBL (talk) 18:08, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I agree with JBL, but you should perhaps be warned that invoking legality is likely to get yourself blocked. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
An RfC at Talk:Race and intelligence revisits the question, considered last year at WP:FTN, of whether or not the theory that a genetic link exists between race and intelligence is a fringe theory. This RfC supercedes the recent RfC on this topic at WP:RSN that was closed as improperly formulated.
Your participation is welcome. Thank you. NightHeron (talk) 20:52, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
If you have a moment and are so inclined, X is back as Special:Contributions/36.235.152.111 and Special:Contributions/2402:7500:46B:8AE3:25D0:E1EA:BF4E:DE91. --JBL (talk) 14:29, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Dr Eppstein, I wonder if I could bother you for your opinion on Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Mathematics#Orientation_of_confusion_matrix. Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 15:20, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
On 7 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruth Stokes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Ruth Stokes defended her dissertation on the theory of linear programming in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruth Stokes. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ruth Stokes), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
DanCherek (talk) 01:39, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
On 8 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dot planimeter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one can accurately estimate the area of irregular objects such as plant leaves using only a transparent sheet printed with a grid of dots? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dot planimeter. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dot planimeter), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
Why you reverted my latest edit:
But anyway, as usual: why removing the whole edit, instead of just removing the <ref ... ref>s in question?
RavBol (talk) 22:03, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
RavBol (talk) 13:36, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
RavBol (talk) 13:59, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
RavBol (talk) 23:50, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
My many little phrasing/specification changes are not useless to averagely gifted at mathematics readers... On the condition, which i must write in my Edit summary, that i remove my 4 citations, can i undo your reversion? Please, don't make me type everything else, again...
RavBol (talk) 15:37, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
Saying nothing is agreeing...
RavBol (talk) 08:22, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
On 10 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Josephine M. Mitchell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when mathematician Josephine M. Mitchell married another University of Illinois faculty member, the university revoked her tenured position so her husband could keep his untenured one? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Josephine M. Mitchell. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Josephine M. Mitchell), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi @David Eppstein: How goes it? What is you view on this lassie? It states in the article, that she is a full professor at the EFPL, but this reference, in an academic news release, No 2 in the list, states that when she was recruited she is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Extreme Environments. I think it is very possible a very early career move and she is currently not notable. It is far too early. scope_creepTalk 12:21, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi here. You reverted my last edit. But if you need a proof, it's here and is trivial. What kind of paper do you want? Whether one need to prove in a paper that "2×2=2+2"? --Tamtam90 (talk) 19:43, 13 May 2021 (UTC) Other sections of the sequence page contain more details (in particular, Example and Formula). --Tamtam90 (talk) 20:38, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi David, I wanted to thank you for your formatting work on the groups article! I take back my idea that having Latex all over the place makes the reading flow much worse -- in fact I quite like the look now. Keep it up! Jakob.scholbach (talk) 19:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
This article is full of wrong information about me. If you don't allow me to edit it, I request you to remove it immediately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidongzhang (talk • contribs) 17:08, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
It does not matter, I request you to remove my page. I don't want you to randomly generate my page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidongzhang (talk • contribs) 20:15, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Please verify the word 'wajor' in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aidong Zhang - shouldn't it read 'major'? --CiaPan (talk) 20:38, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
This is for David Eppstein. If you want me to stop editing my page, you got to remove the page because I don't want people to see the wrong information about me. It is irresponsible for Wekipedia to randomly generate people's articles without their approval. Aidong Zhang
Hi, I work for Sally C Morton of ASU Knowledge Enterprise. We are editing her page and have not completed it. I received a message that you removed the content due to citations. We are not done editing the page and several hours of content where removed by you. How can we have that info placed back into Sally's Wiki?
We appreciate your help.
Mario Diaz ASU Knowledge Enterprise — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.228.200.68 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I know you probably have a lot on your plate already as an admin, but you are the editor who I consider my go-to editor on Academic articles. Rather than me sending those types of articles to AfD, would you mind me pinging you to have a look prior to me doing that? I am loathe to increase your workload, but I'm not sure how much it would, since you tend to !vote on almost all the AfD's I submit regarding Academics. Thanks for your thoughts. Onel5969 TT me 01:20, 27 May 2021 (UTC)