User talk:MarkFrautschi

Mark A. Frautschi, Ph.D. Physics
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contact diode effect
Hi MarkFrautschi. I've moved your article Contact diode effect back into draft space (at Draft:Contact diode effect). I have done so because the article needs a bit of cleanup before it's ready for article space. I can help you achieve that if you're interested. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 18:03, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Pichpich. Thank you for your kind offer to fix the problems I left in my stub article at Draft:Contact diode effect. How do we proceed? MarkFrautschi (talk) 03:07, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Contact diode effect


Hello, MarkFrautschi. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Contact diode effect".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 09:55, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Dear Cassiopeia,

Thank you for your kind follow-up.

I tried to follow-up myself after my article was deleted. As a newcomer, I rapidly got lost in the weeds of what Wikipedia policies (or policy) I violated when I created it. Perhaps because it remained the only policy I had some awareness of, it occurred to me that I may have attempted to place too much original material into the article, and that is not the mission of Wikipedia or any encyclopedia. But this is only my guess, and obviously it is a biased one. In the original article I believe I found two references to real-world instances involving recording engineer Doug Sax of The Mastering Lab in the 1970's, as well as references to the underlying physics, but, that may not have been enough. My hope was that by writing the article as a stub, other people with more diverse expertise would expand it. The stub would serve as a nucleation center. That's a chicken and egg problem. And chicken and egg problems may not be what Wikipedia was created to solve. And that is a good thing if I understand that properly. I considered the possibility of writing a review article myself, however that presents the twin challenges of growing my understanding from stub-length to article-length and finding a place for it. While I think solving the lack of source material on The Contact Diode Effect is worth the effort of my first foray into Wikipedia I can honestly say that I do not want to spend the effort I imagine a stand-alone article would require. And, from Hofstadter's Law, it always takes longer that you think. So, after I failed to engage the person who deleted the stub, I did nothing.

If you have suggestions for how I might proceed, I would welcome them.

Sincerely,

Mark Frautschi

New message from CASSIOPEIA
 CASSIOPEIA(talk) 00:52, 15 June 2019 (UTC)