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[edit] Welcome to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Month!
This page is designed to help choose a Mathematics Collaboration of the Month. This is a specific mathematics-related topic which either has no article, a basic stub page, or needs major revision. The aim is to have a featured-standard article by the end of the month, from widespread cooperative editing.
The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every month, the article with the highest number of votes will promoted, as long as it has at least four votes.
 Please help to improve this article towards featured article standard. Last month's collaboration was Set |
[edit] Group (mathematics) (possibly merged with group theory)
Certainly a top-importance topic - this could (or should) be a showpiece for the beauty of mathematics! Currently, a layman reading this article will probably not read more than its first sentence. (There is an article on group theory, the necessity of a distinction between the articles is unclear (to me, right now)). It is probably hardly exaggerated to call the article a lists of examples and spiritless proofs (of easy/trivial facts). It would profit very much by a complete overhaul making it less dry and more compelling.
- Nominate. Jakob.scholbach 22:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- Is there an "introduction to group theory" or similar basic accessible page? This whole area looks like it could use a serious overhaul to me. Leland McInnes 15:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Support. Iotha 18:46, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. Of absolutely fundamental importance. Either greatly improve or merge with group theory—PaulTanenbaum 01:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- Indeed, they should be merged and made more readable and useful. Any idea about how to organise the work? (Leland, there is an Elementary group theory, but it is just a third redundant article...) --Goochelaar 16:25, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- Goodleh 03:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- Needs to be made more user-friendly, I agree. If one has to define 3 terms in the first sentence, it's not reader-friendly. Ultimablah 18:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Participants
- Please put your username here if you wish to participate and be contacted when the Math CotM changes.
- You do not need to be a participant to nominate articles or vote. Any registered user can vote.
- Meekohi
- Sr13 (T|C)
- Hippasus the Younger
- Hirak 99
- James S.
- User:Cronholm144
- Leland McInnes
- Messagetolove
- JaimeLesMaths (talk!edits)
- Simxp
- User:DonkeyKong64 (Not very active, but would like to help on occasion)
- Eric Herboso
- User:Geometry guy
- Tompw (talk) (review)
- Iotha
- Ultimablah (New to this, inexperienced, willing to learn from this)
- SpeedOfDarkness
- User:Keegandoig (Recent Math graduate and love groups and algebra)
- User:Petman3000
- Timothy Rias
- Ajk91
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[edit] Userboxes
Participants may wish to add a userbox to their user page using {{User MathematicsCOTM}}.
[edit] Templates involved in MATHCOTM
- {{MathCOTM}}: to be put onto the talk page of articles up for nomination.
- {{Current-Math-COTM}}: to be put onto the currently collaborating article's talk page.
- {{CurrentMathCOTM}}: displays the current collaboration.
- {{CurrentMathCOTM/Title}}: holds the name of the current collaboration of this month.
- {{CurrentMathCOTM/Previous}}: holds the name of the previous collaboration of this month.
[edit] Selecting the next Collaboration of the Month
[edit] Nominations
- How to nominate an article
- New nominations may be added by any registered user at any time at the end of this page. Please use the template at the bottom of this page.
- If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{MathCOTM}} to the top of its talk page.
- Considerations for nominations
- Please only nominate articles which fit one or more of the following guidelines:
- The article does not currently exist.
- The article is 2 paragraphs or less.
- The article is 1000 characters or less.
- The article is in poor condition, and likely needs to be rewritten or extensively revised.
- For non-stubs, submitting the article to pages needing attention, cleanup, peer review, or requests for expansion may be more appropriate.
- Consider whether the wider community easily contribute to the article or only a small number of people will know about.
- Giving reasons as to why an article should become the COTM may assist others in casting their vote. If you have a to-do list feel free to include it.
- Please only nominate articles which fit one or more of the following guidelines:
[edit] Voting
- Only registered users should vote.
- Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like.
- To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections and insert a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
- Feel free to make any additional comments with your vote.
- Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see approval voting).
- Voting for an article should express a willingness to contribute to improving the article if it is selected.
- It is helpful if nominators initiate the voting by adding their vote to the nominated article.
[edit] Candidates
- Add new nominations to the bottom of the page.
- Candidates are not usually promoted until they have received more than three votes.
- If the current collaboration is no longer active, or has been running longer than a month, then the first candidate to receive more than three votes will generally be promoted.
[edit] Plate trick
See rough stub at User:C S/todo/draft9. This should be a really cool article to work on. There's a lot of potential for fun, including photos of famous mathematicians we can get to do the plate trick for us. ^_^ --C S (Talk) 00:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Recommend inclusion into extant article orientation entanglement. Although I must say that I never found the plate trick to be an especially convincing illustration. Silly rabbit 13:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Shape
This article is in poor shape! There are generally two mathematical uses of the term, a geometric shape: triangle, square, ... and a a discription of the shape of an object. Its a vital article, however I think that status refers to the former meaning whilst the article describes the latter.
- Salix alba (talk) 10:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
- --pbroks13talk? 02:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Duality (mathematics)
This is more of a disambiguation list at the moment, but I think that the topic holds out a promise for one of the core encyclopaedic articles.
- Nominate. Arcfrk 04:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, this is one of the most beautiful concepts in mathematics. It deserves a real article.—PaulTanenbaum 01:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Algebraic number theory
One of only three top-priority stub-class math articles (it currently consists of one paragraph). Algebraic number theory has a rich and important history that is not discussed, and which many users could contribute to.
- Nominate. RobHar 20:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- Jakob.scholbach 10:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
- Nominate. Damien Karras (talk) 14:00, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Link (knot theory)
Although link's are central to knot theory, they are hardly discussed in the knot theory article and there's hardly any content on its own page.
[edit] Topological space
Or maybe even Topology. The improvements made to the Group Theory and related articles were of great help to me and I would like to see the same made to this important area of mathematics. Damien Karras (talk) 14:00, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
