User talk:Althai
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[edit] Carl Jockusch
Hello, Althai!
While reviewing new articles about mathematicians, I ran across this one that you wrote. I'm curious if you plan to add anything to it soon. As it stands the article doesn't say much, and it doesn't even assert that CJ is a notable person. I did dig around a little, and found that a couple of his papers have been cited more than 100 times. Anyway, I don't want to hit the article with a "PROD" if you're still planning to work on it. DavidCBryant 20:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- I responded on your talk page so that you'd see the "new message" message; I'm not sure what the proper wiki etiquette is. Althai 23:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for writing back, Althai. I didn't know that he's associated with an important theorem. It's probably best to add a little more to the article to make that clear. I'll take care of it if you don't get to it first.
- I don't think there's a hard and fast rule about Wiki etiquette when it comes to talk pages. I had added your talk page to my "watchlist", so I'd be sure to notice your response whichever way you decided to respond. I think a lot of experienced editors do that as a matter of course. Anyway, it worked out.
- Your logic about not adding a page for CJ unless he is in fact a notable mathematician makes sense. Unfortunately, most editors probably don't know anything at all about the Low Basis Theorem. And unless they look at your edits pretty carefully, they probably won't realize that you're a conscientious guy who wouldn't put an article in Wikipedia for no good reason. So it's probably safest, when writing about a mathematician, to put in at least a couple of sentences describing his contributions. If you can link his bio to an article that cites his result, that's even better.
- Oh – PROD is shorthand for this procedure. People sometimes nominate very short or uninformative articles for deletion from Wikipedia. Frankly, that was my immediate reaction when I saw Carl Jockusch. But then I looked at your contribution history, and realized you're pretty knowledgeable about some advanced math stuff. I also looked CJ up, and found that his papers are cited by quite a few other authors. So I just dropped a note on your talk page, figuring that you had a good reason for writing the article.
- Thank you for all your good efforts! DavidCBryant 00:26, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Request for edit summary
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- Yeah. I always forget though. I'll try and be better about it. Althai 18:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
