Talk:Stephen Wolfram

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Hello. I have just tagged this article undisclosed paid, because it was very heavily edited by a (highly likely paid) sockfarm that is focused almost exclusively on promoting Stephen Wolfram and his work. Please see this COIN thread (perma) and the related SPI for more information. The article will need a thorough review before the tag is removed. Thanks and best, Blablubbs | talk 15:12, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sounds plausible, the current text doesn't reflect the uniformly negative reception of Wolfram Physics and A New Kind of Science among the secondary WP:RS. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 04:46, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Edits requiring particular scrutiny, per the master list: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 17:35, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Evaluating: Whew! XOR&#39;easter (talk) 21:20, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) Nationality in infobox edit, looks OK
 * 2) Updated access-date in web reference, looks OK
 * 3) Moved text; text was bad, but moving it not a problem
 * 4) "British" to "British-American"
 * 5) Added 2 references, 1 primary
 * 6) Emphasis on "inaugural Fellow" might be puffery
 * 7) Spammy and trivial, only primary and self-published sources
 * 8) copy edit to the previous addition
 * 9) much new text, very spammy, advertorial in tone
 * 10) changed link target
 * 11) puffing up "influences" list in infobox (what are those even good for anyway?), removed initially struggled in school
 * 12) changed link target
 * 13) unsourced change of doctoral advisor
 * 14) another sock adding a source for the previous
 * 15) source for the puffery in "influences" list from edit 11
 * 16) minor tweak in citation metadata
 * 17) upgrading his grandmother from "speaker" to "expert"
 * 18) removal of test edit (thanks)
 * 19) adding empty marketing language
 * 20) hyping the "Wolfram Axiom", blatantly ignoring everyone else's contributions (see Minimal axioms for Boolean algebra)
 * 21) moved some text, hyped his SoundCloud
 * 22) unsourced BLP information about his son, early life and education material rearranged
 * 23) the dreaded "In popular culture" heading
 * 24) trivia
 * 25) addition of self-published source
 * 26) linkfarming
 * 27) more linkfarming
 * 28) added an image from Wolfram's website; claims to be CC, but the original website doesn't say so
 * 29) added his age-7 report card, same copyright concern as previous
 * 30) added paragraph about testifying before a Senate subcommittee; without a secondary source, seems WP:UNDUE
 * 31) added picture from the Senate subcommittee event; image again lifted from Wolfram's website, where no photo credit is given

Political views
In an interview with Lex Fridman, in the part 2:45:25 of the video, Wolfram mentioned the danger of giving one AI to decide on everything about society and than in 2:48:42 he said that a "market system based on choice is more liberating than a totalitarian system".

Of course its not a direct indication that he particularly supports free market economy or more specifically free market capitalism, but its possible to state that he supports a market-based system over a centralised system because of the choices it generates under "Political views" title.

--Comrade-yutyo (talk) 08:17, 11 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't think "centralised" and "totalitarian" are anywhere near synonyms. We shouldn't interpret primary sources like this. Guettarda (talk) 15:20, 11 January 2022 (UTC)


 * If his political views are not clear in sources, then it shouldn't be included. The context in which the comments were made is also in a hypothetical scenario and not a crisp articulation of his political views. Montesquieu1789 (talk) 00:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Source for first published writing at 15
As loathe as I am to lend credibility to someone sockfarming WP, a possible source for the citation needed around his first publishing at 15 would be a link to the actual paper he published that includes the date and the name of the journal: https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/34/2020/07/hadronic-electrons.pdf 172.92.181.142 (talk) 13:48, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Or perhaps, same paper, but from somewhere that isn't his own website: https://www.publish.csiro.au/ph/pdf/PH750479 172.92.181.142 (talk) 13:51, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Change scientific career fields
Change “computing” to “Computer Science” in the scientific career fields. 79.169.33.125 (talk) 21:45, 1 November 2023 (UTC)


 * This is a mistake. His computing is not computer science. I suggest a change here. Soupnero (talk) Soupnero (talk) 14:44, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Ruthless undermining and bad habits of stealthy recording business partners
Mathematica's Wolfram sued, accused of secretly recording calls

"SWolfram has been sued by a former CEO of one of his companies who alleges he promised a stake in the firm and then reneged."

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20141104/NEWS04/141109944/mathematica-s-wolfram-sued-for-allegedly-reneging-on-partnership-promise

He plays many of his business partners and associates against one another. Soupnero (talk) 14:52, 6 May 2024 (UTC)