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I suggest that we have someone from the FEM community that is not on the MFEM team edit the article in order to resolve the COI problem. Funktektronic (talk) 04:40, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean by "FEM community"? I do not develop MFEM code, however, I participate in discussion with MFEM developers (and developers of few other opensource FEM codes) how we can make it more accessible to less experienced researchers and engineers. Due to internal complexity of any production ready FEM software for me it is obvious that only product team can only provide a good review of this type of software.Kostyfisik (talk) 07:52, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That is fundamentally at odds with Wikipedia's model, which requires that articles be neutrally written and based primarily on independent sources. - MrOllie (talk) 11:39, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
We know about users out there that only passingly interact with the MFEM team (have sent us a thank you note on github for instance), but have sufficient knowledge to write an article as good as what we have here currently. That would be like the user of any software package writing an article about it. Perhaps we could ask one of the users to jump in a write something. Would that be sufficiently neutral? Funktektronic (talk) 00:36, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That sort of thing isn't forbidden, but it is frowned upon. See related topics at WP:MEAT and WP:CANVASS. In my opinion the important thing is that the sources be independent. - MrOllie (talk) 03:28, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A reader of this page is likely to want to know what MFEM can be used for, and in particular if it is applicable to problems they may care about. While far from exhaustive, this list gives at least some idea of the breadth of applications covered by the software.
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If the specific references are objectionable they could be replaced with other ones from the publication list above that independent from the MFEM team and LLNL.
Some of the readers of this page are likely users of or experts in finite element methods. For such readers, the above list is a meaningful summary of a relatively complex piece of software in terms that make mathematical and practical sense. Readers can use this list, for example, to determine if MFEM is the right tool for their project or to compare it with other tools they are considering.
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If the references are objectionable, they can be removed. The wording of each bullet can probably be improved, for example it could be clarified that "Highly scalable" means scalable to hundreds of thousands of MPI tasks, and "Accurate visualization" means visualization that correctly represents high-order meshes and fields (as opposed to discretizing them).
^Anderson, Robert W.; Dobrev, Veselin A.; Kolev, Tzanio V.; Rieben, Robert N. (2018). "High-Order Multi-Material ALE Hydrodynamics". SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 40 (1): B32–B58. doi:10.1137/17M1116453.
^White, D. A.; Stowell, M. L.; Tortorelli, D. A. (2018). "Topological optimization of structures using Fourier representations". Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 58 (3): 1205–1220. doi:10.1007/s00158-018-1962-y.
^Holec, M.; Limpouch, J.; Liska, R.; Weber, S. (10 April 2017). "High‐order discontinuous Galerkin nonlocal transport and energy equations scheme for radiation hydrodynamics". Numerical Methods in Fluids. 83 (10): 779–797. Bibcode:2017IJNMF..83..779H. doi:10.1002/fld.4288.