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[edit] Philosophy of probability

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I realise that you probably are the webmaster of the source. However, I recommend that you allow the article to be deleted because it is also likely to be rejected by Wikipedia because it is a) original research and b) an advert for your book. -- RHaworth 14:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

The material is a brief review of papers published by various authors, inlcuding the cited book. So, it is not an original research.

[edit] your article Probability-based strategy

  • The article does not establish that this term is are used outside of one author's books.
  • Despite claims in the first sentence, there is nothing in this article that appears to relate to game theory problems. Applying the sorts of things described here to to game theory is commonplace in standard game theory anyway.
  • Methods for optimizing under stochastic conditions are commonplace, see Stochastic programming for example.

In summary, this article appears to promote the books by Catalin Barboianu, portraying the author and ideas as novel and important without supplying any evidence in support, and I doubt there is any. Pete.Hurd 02:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
infarom

  • The term is used outside those books (do a google search) with a common meaning, but its complete mathematical theory has been elaborated recently (few years ago); It will appear in other books in the future. If the term is already used in other books, just edit the article with a completion if you found it. I'll be pleased to do that myself when found.
  • Indeed, "appears" to promote those books (as concerns the author, I do not see any "portrait" there), but is not that so. As you said before, thus far it appears to be found just in "one author's books".

[edit] Probability-based strategy AfD

Just a note to let you know that I have nominated the article you have edited, or expressed interest in, for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Probability-based strategy Pete.Hurd 05:26, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links question

Hi. You left a note on my talk page asking about a link I had deleted in an article. You might review Wikipedia: External links for the guidelines, in particular #3 of "Links normally to be avoided". You seem to have dropped links to that site in multiple articles without adding links to any other resources. The Wikipedia isn't really a place for self-promotion.

Also, the easy and traditional way to add a signature to your comments in a discussion is to type 4 of these symbols in a row: ~. Hope that's helpful. Rray 12:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Especially for the article in question, that link is not for self promotion at all. I really think that content is useful and suggestive for the article. Still for that article, I also dropped other links, which you kept, but you deleted just that one you found in other articles. I think is not fair to judge a link in relation to how it is spread on wikipedia, nor to the user who posted it, but just in relation to the article it belongs to.
Anyway, thank for the info. These days I'll complete the article with a new section "Probability calculus in gambling". infarom
You did link to the other pages. I stand corrected. Good luck with your new article. (BTW, another trick that is commonly used on talk pages is to put a colon at the beginning of your reply to indent the reply. Multiple colons indent further, so it makes it easy to track which comments are replies to which other comments. If you click on "Edit" you'll see how I did this here.) Rray 18:13, 12 November 2006 (UTC)