Talk:Marriage theorem

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Is S allowed to be infinite? If so, this should probably be mentioned, and the link to cardinal number provided. AxelBoldt 21:01 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)

Saying S is "(not necessarily countable)" implies that it may or may not be infinite (since all finite sets are countable). But I don't see any reason to include a link to cardinal number. According to the text, S may have cardinality of any cardinal number (including finite ones). It may also be of size of any ordinal. Should we include references to ordinal numbers too? S is just a set. To say that should be enough--we shouldn't have to say what properties the set could have. Rob 20:09, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

It appears that the paragraph

This can also be applied to the problem of Assignment: Given a set of n employees, fill out a list of the jobs each of them would be able to preform. Then, we can give each person a job suited to their abilities if, and only if, for every value of k (1...n), the union of any k of the lists contains at least k jobs.

is copied almost directly from the bottom of page 10 of the first reference. Ah -- by looking at the history it appears that Robert Borgersen has lifted the quoted paragraph from his own work. Is this ok, copyright-wise? Sam nead 19:49, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I can't see any problem with me using my own work as a reference. :) But maybe in the future, people will look and see that it was 'copied' from my work, and not notice that I wrote it. Feel free to reword it...or not...whatever. :) Rob 20:09, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not the place to post original research. If you read a proof that Hall's theorem easily implies Menger's theorem then you should cite that proof. Don't cite your own work posted on the web. If you are the first person to prove that Hall's theorem implies Menger's theorem, then that is cool. Go publish in a combinatorics journal. Then cite the journal. Don't cite your own work posted on the web.

I should add that I feel that self-plagiarism is bad form in Wikipedia and very bad form in academia. Don't do it. yours, Sam nead 04:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I can definately see how referencing yourself can be bad form, but what I've posted was nothing like original research. The paper I did was like a survey of these 7 theorems in combinatorics, and I reference at the end the papers/books I used. For me to copy and paste text that I wrote in a survey to another survey on the same topic (wikipedia can be looked at as a survey), whats wrong with it? Would you still consider it bad form? Maybe should I change it to an 'External Link' rather than a 'Reference'? Like saying 'Here is some info on this topic...here is a link with more info on this topic'. How's that sound? Or maybe I should copy and paste the references as well? Rob 23:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)