User talk:Pdecalculus

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Nengo
In response to your diff here, two small steps have been taken. It is possible that the notability of this subject may be challenged? --Enkyo2 (talk) 01:58, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) The Nengo redirect page has been converted into a disambiguation page; and
 * 2) A stub article about a Neural Engineering Object has been drafted.

-- Thanks Enkyo, have some experts in the nengo community adding many notability elements. Pdecalculus (talk) 17:12, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

No Paid Edits Per New Terms added in 2014
This will disclose that I am a retired math professor, roboticist and computational music teacher, and edit Wikipedia for the sake of users, and am not paid for my work. I am wealthy and a large donor to Wiki and other educational nonprofits. I have no bias in my edits, and most are scientific and technical, and you don't make much money promoting Euler or Katherine Freese.

This note is to meet the new editing requirements implemented as terms in 2014 that paid editing be stopped or at least disclosed. I'm guessing this practice is likely more prevalent in PR agencies writing about companies or business issues than science, but I suppose Universities hire PR firms too! Bravo to Wikimedia for attempting to stay unbiased. I guess, if you believe recent reports, I'm sadly also one of the few female editors, even though as a professional programmer I'm still just learning wiki markup, policies and practices. Being female makes me less comfortable with a heavy rule-driven culture, which of course Emile Durkheim called "the principle cause for suicide." (Kidding!).

I do love that the Wiki lawyers advised that you should edit Wiki "for fun." Now what's the legal term for that? Some of the pit bull admins, I have to say, don't seem to be having a lot of fun here. OK, I have too thin of skin for this culture, but with a library of over 100,000 technical texts can't resist contributing, at least cites. ;=)Pdecalculus (talk) 13:51, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Root extraction
Hi, Root extraction still needs a major cleanup, there's a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Disambiguation where I suggest you may want to go in one of two directions, which I will leave for you. Until then, the cleanup tag should stay as about 90% is deletable as a dab page. Widefox ; talk 13:12, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Noticed someone changed it from a dab to an article, which agrees with and fixes your concerns, but also raises many new issues! Maybe this is a subtle deletion strategy that I'm dumb to: change the nature, then, when it doesn't fit the new nature, delete! I'm really starting to understand the competitive male culture here. Pdecalculus (talk) 17:30, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

February 2015
Thank you for your edit to the disambiguation page Root extraction. However, please note that disambiguation pages are not articles; rather, they are meant to help readers find a specific article quickly and easily. From the disambiguation dos and don'ts, you should: Here's some links so you know about the format... Widefox ; talk 13:13, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Be familiar with the guidelines and style
 * Only list articles that readers might reasonably be looking for
 * Use short sentence fragment descriptions, with no punctuation at the end
 * Use exactly one navigable link ("blue link") in each entry
 * Only add a " red link " if used in an article, and include the "blue link" to that article
 * Do not pipe links (unless style requires it) – keep the full title of the article visible
 * Do not insert external links or references
 * Thanks so much for your help on this. I started it as a disambig page, then it was edited to become an article as folks didn't think it should be a disambig, so now it is a broad "disambig/article" without a central theme as an article. It is admittedly a very vast topic, which makes it tough to decide which meaning should be the "primary" article so all others can move to a new disambig. I suppose the taking of polynomial roots would do, unless you're a dentist or tree remover!! Pdecalculus (talk) 19:41, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Sadness at project removal
I found the request for the retirement places article on an open article request project, then took several weeks to create the article. Not knowing the "voting procedure" I then watched helplessly as the article was deleted. It had risen to prominence on Google, and numerous US cities were backlinking to it, enhancing wiki and adding to knowledge. This is not a big deal, but was curious that it was requested as an article, and when I did it, was then 86ed! I'll know a "little" better next time that finding a request on a project page is no guarantee that the article will be worth working on.

Scholarship post
I read on a project page that Wiki is encouraging scholars to post credentials to help with article and citation requests. Bachelors: University of Michigan, Masters (Math/quant analysis/stats): U Wisconsin, PhD U Wisc, Scripps, Carnegie Mellon. Areas: Engineering, Software Development, Math, Big Data/Audio and Video/visualization data, RNA folding, Domain specific language development, Robotics, STEM teaching. Languages: C, C#, Lisp, Java, Python, IDA Pro, Linux, many circuit level/hex projects. I'm not sure if this should also go on project pages, but am putting it on talk in case anyone needs help, especially with citations. The foundation I now volunteer for has over a million volumes and I have over 100K also, so am happy to help with inlines right to the relevant page number. Pdecalculus (talk) 16:00, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 6
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 * NOTE: This disambig is the only article covering stride since the topic itself needs an article and the disambig intro covers the most common meaning.Pdecalculus (talk) 16:36, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Douglas Kutach


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ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Welcome Pdecalculus!

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