User talk:Andreas Kaufmann/Archive 2

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Hi, Andreas, please see my message about your edit on Robot on my userpage (I didn't put it elsewhere because it's "chatty"). &mdash; Dan Dank55 (talk) 17:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

CGT and Base
Howdy, I noticed you cleaned up some articles in the CGT and Algorithms categories.

Did you delete the CGT cat from articles because they may have used CGT, but they did not actually discuss CGT? The article Base (group theory) is fairly stubby, but a significant percentage of the article discusses CGT, and actually an incredibly significant amount of research on permutation group bases is done by the computational group theory community. I plan on expanding the article and adding back the category. First, I wanted to check if you had a different understanding of the article or of the category.

I am also curious about removing the Algorithms category, but I think I agree with it. I think that articles in the Algorithms category are usually of interest to computer science people, but computational group theory is often not interesting to computer science people. I want to understand the category better, and so I am curious why you removed the algorithms category. I have no intention of putting the Algorithms category back. JackSchmidt (talk) 20:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I overlooked the following statement in Base (group theory): "...Bases and strong generating sets are concepts of importance in computational group theory" and thought that the article doesn't belong to CGT. Now I reverted my change.


 * I made complete CGT category belong to 'Algorithms' category. Due to this articles from CGT category don't need to have 'Algorithms' category themselfs. Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 21:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Excellent, thanks! Yes, CGT as a subcategory of algorithms seems like a very good idea.  Right now the categories sort of say "Computational group theory is the intersection of algorithms and group theory," and while not strictly true, it is a very good summary.  Thanks for cleaning up categories.  It is hard, and many people do not notice, but it very much improves wikipedia! JackSchmidt (talk) 21:49, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Genetic Algorithms and category Algorithms
Andreas, you removed Genetic Algorithms from the Category algorithms. Sorry, but I reverted; to me it seems obvious. Could you stop by the talk and explain? I would agree that GA doesn't get much attention from theory of complexity, but the technique is definitely an algorithm and has very wide application. Pete St.John (talk) 22:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Dangling else
You changed the category from "Programming language topics" to "Programming language implementation" but I would say the the dangling else is a language design issue and not an implementation issue Iccaldwell (talk) 09:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually this is a problem to be solved during parser or grammatic construction. I changed the category now to 'Parsing'. Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Your change to Differential Execution page
Hi Andreas, I noticed you removed from the Differential_Execution page a reference to the category Programming Language Topics. I'm wondering why. I put in that category link because Differential Execution is an incremental control structure that can in principle be applied to any program in any language, so it has broad applicability. Perhaps there is a better category to put it in? Thanks, MikeDunlavey (talk) 22:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This article has a category "Programming constructs", which is a subcategory of "Programming language topics". This is why the article don't need to have category "Programming language topics". Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 10:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Your change to Anomaly detection page
Anomaly detection is discussed in numerous Computer Science academic papers about intrusion detection. Why did you remove the Computer Science category on this page? --Clangin (talk) 20:15, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * "Computer science" category is too broad, it should mainly contain subcategories and list only very few articles directly, as now, see Category:Computer science. The intrusion detection belongs to Category:Data security, I will add this category to Anomaly detection too. Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 20:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I am following up with this on Talk:Computer science If you want to respond, please respond either there or on my talk page so that I don't have to watch your talk page.  --Clangin (talk) 23:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Merge categories "Variable" and "Variable (computer programming)
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George H.D. Gossip
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Move of disjoint-set data structure
Hi, I noticed you moved disjoint-set data structure recently to disjoint set (data structure). Although I realize this is a conventional naming structure for data structures, it doesn't make any sense in this case, as it's implying that the article describes a "data structure" called "disjoint set", which it doesn't - it describes a data structure designed to represent disjoint sets, which is described by the compound term "disjoint-set data structure." To draw an analogy this is like moving ice cream to ice (cream). I'd like to move it back if you don't object. Dcoetzee 23:42, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hm, a strange terminology. We talk about 'set', 'map' etc. without any problem and mean 'set data type', 'map data type' etc. Can't we say 'disjoint sets' and mean 'desjoint sets abstract data type'? Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 19:37, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The difference is that a disjoint-set data structure is not a representation of a "disjoint set" (which isn't even a meaningful term) but a collection of pairwise disjoint sets. More importantly, this is the term used in the literature and libraries; the use of "disjoint set" by itself to refer to a type of data structure is nonexistent. Dcoetzee 20:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I just undid my move. Thanks for explanations! Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 20:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for your openness to discussion on the matter. :-) Dcoetzee 02:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Information Fuzzy Networks
Hi Andreas,

I noticed that you remove the algorithms category from Information Fuzzy Networks. I think that the category is in place since Information Fuzzy Networks is an algorithm. Can I return the category?

Thank, WhatWasDone (talk) 18:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * This article already has category "Classification algorithms", which is a subcategory of "Algorithms". Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 17:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh. Is it a general rule? Should I always use the most specific category? Thanks, WhatWasDone (talk) 08:37, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. Please see Subcategorization for more details. Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 21:57, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

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Graph algorithms
Hey, I noticed you changed the category of many graph theory articles to graph algorithms. While I agree that graph theory is too general a category for those problems, graph algorithms doesn't seem appropriate for problems like Hamiltonian path problem, Longest path problem, Canadian traveller problem, etc. because they're not algorithms, they're just problems. Ironically, they're also problems for which we don't have efficient algorithms and would like to have one! So I created a new category for such articles, and have populated it with 20+ articles: Category:Computational problems in graph theory. Feel free to add such problems to this category. --Robin (talk) 14:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of category program testing tools for breakpoint
A breakpoint is a program testing tool. If not, what else is it? I suggest you put it back! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.206.134 (talk) 13:35, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Breakpoints are used for program debugging, not testing. Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 11:13, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

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Chess variants subcategories
Hi Andreas, nice to meet you. I'm new to WP, I have ein fragen about Chess variant subcategories, I'm sure you can answer. (Why aren't there subcategories, like, "Hexagonal variants", "3D variants", etc.? I guess I would like to see at least those two.  Plus one more:  "V. R. Parton variants". (He made a lot. For example, a WP subcategory exists: "Gary Gygax games". So why can't there similarily be subcategory "V. R. Parton games"?).  But ich kann auch verstehe, that the number of subcatagories could grow uncontrollably.  [Is this the reason more subcategories have not been already added?  I see there is one: "Capablanca Chess variants".  Is that exception!?  Why?])  Danke, Ihardlythinkso (talk) 12:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia! Adding categories makes sense only if there are many articles for certain topic. The topics you mentioned hardly have 3-4 articles each. So, it seems to be too early to create special categories them. Category 'Capablanca chess variants' was not created by me and actually I think it is rather redundant. By the way, thanks for expanding article on V. R. Parton! Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 20:34, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for your explain. (I was confused.)  p.s. Working on Parton article was fun!  Ihardlythinkso (talk) 09:57, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

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