User talk:David Eppstein

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Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Peter_Hudecki_(2nd_nomination)

You commented in the last Article for deletion discussion. This article is up for deletion again.

You are welcome to comment about the discussion for deletion. Ikip 04:09, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

JoAnn E. Manson

I revisited the JoAnn E. Manson article, removed improper citations and added new ones using the conventional citation style. I then removed the BLP unsourced and citation style banners from the top of the page since I thought they were no longer relevant. Was I right to remove these banners or should I have first requested permission from an experienced editor? I wasn't sure whom to contact about this. Thanks for your help.MedicineMan555 (talk) 03:38, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Your removal of the tags looks completely reasonable to me. Thanks for the cleanup. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:04, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Context?

I think in this case, the phrase "a branch of mathematics" is not necessary (whereas for "category theory" or "functional analysis", or "topology" it is necessary). The lay reader will realize that "computational number theory" is mathematics, but would probably not figure that out in those other cases. Michael Hardy (talk) 07:05, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD Renato M.E. Sabbatini

I'm asking everyone to take another look at [1] based on recent changes to the article. Upsala (talk) 13:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Oriented matroid article could use expansion

Hello David! You may be interested in helping to expand a relatively new article on Oriented matroids, or you may know of persons with interest. Thanks for your work on WP and IRL. Cheers, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 02:59, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. It will have to wait at least until I return from SODA, though, both because I don't have time to do much while I'm traveling and because all my oriented matroid books are in my office. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:43, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Morton Gurtin

Meets all sorts of WP:PROF criteria I think. I'm not really proficient with academic bios, so would you care to take a look and restore? cheers. –SpacemanSpiff 09:15, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I'll try to find some time later today for it. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done —David Eppstein (talk) 22:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Perfect! Handling these deletions and drive by taggings is getting to be a bit more of a task than I imagined. cheers. –SpacemanSpiff 22:23, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

John Hawks

Hawks is one of the best known bloggers on evolution and a key protagonist in the multiregional evolution debate. I linked 5 or so existing mentions of him in Wikipedia to the bio article, but there were more like 50 mentions of him that I didn't get to. --JWB(talk) 16:41, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

RH/R. H. Bing

Ive changed the name back from RH Bing to R. H. Bing, as that is the form used in his published papers, his collected works, his books, his obituary, and mathscinet. I have found no evidence for the form "RH Bing". r.e.b. (talk) 04:39, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok. The article on him still says that he sometimes used RH but cites no sources for that; should we just remove it? —David Eppstein (talk) 04:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I've removed it until a source turns up. I suspect it might have originated in a misunderstanding of one of the many anecdotes about his name. r.e.b. (talk) 05:01, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD Nomination of Russet Noon (April 18, 2009)

Hello Professor Eppstein, I'm writing to request that you consider restoring the article on Russet Noon, which was deleted back in April of 2009. You might recall that the argument against keeping this article at the time was based on the alleged lack of notoriety of the novel. However, there is a Wikipedia section under author Peter David's main article, which is entitled Potato Moon. As you will notice, this section refers to Russet Noon by name, since Potato Moon is a parody of Russet Noon. Given that Peter David could be considered by many to be a legendary author in the comic book genre, how is it not notorious that he decided to host a red-robin satire on his personal blog about Russet Noon?

Please be kind enough to let me know your thoughts about this appeal.

Ladysybilla (talk) 21:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)