User talk:Jonmsmith/T-integration

Lack of Notability
It appears that algorithm described in this article is not notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia.


 * According the Web of Science database, none of the cited articles on this subject have ever been referenced by any author other than J. M. Smith. (I also looked at the articles cited in the Mathworld article: no hits.  Note that the Mathworld article is co-authored by Smith.)
 * Mathworld cites one article by a different author, Fowler, on "A New Method of Simulation" from the journal Simulation in 1976. This article does not exist; however, another article in Simulation of the same title by Fowler was written in 1965 (10.1177/003754976500400531), but the abstract does not seem to indicate that the article proposes a general integration method (nor does it even use the terms "integration" or "quadrature"). I take it that this article was inspiration for Smith, but the notion of a general "T-integration" scheme seems solely used by Smith.
 * Another article cited in the Mathworld article, "Fast T-integration" by J. M. Smith, is in a journal J. Mech. Eng. Sys. that appears not to exist (or is very obscure!).
 * All mentions of this algorithm that I can find online are written by the author (J. M. Smith), or are copies of this article. (The Mathworld article is also listed as being by Smith.) I can find no mentions of this method in standard literature-search engines like Inspec.
 * The Wikipedia article appears to have been primarily written by the algorithm author (User:Jonmsmith). This seems to be a conflict of interest.

While Mr. Smith certainly seems very enthusiastic about this algorithm, it appears that he has not yet convinced the wider numerics community of its value compared to other quadrature schemes, despite over 30 years of concerted efforts. Until and unless this happens, the topic seems unsuitable for Wikipedia according to our guidelines. Wikipedia is not the forum for Mr. Smith to promote his work.

— Steven G. Johnson (talk) 04:35, 17 February 2011 (UTC)