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SOCP Removal of Solvers section

Can I ask why you removed this section on the Second Order Cone Programming page? It seems to be a standard section for similar articles e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming#Solvers_and_scripting_(programming)_languages and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_programming#Solvers_and_scripting_(programming)_languages — Preceding unsigned comment added by WalkingRandomlyC (talk • contribs) 13:31, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Chief Data Officer entry stating "Rv malformatted links

Mr Ollie - thanks for the review - you reverted the changes I made to the Chief Data Officer entry stating "Rv malformatted links to junk sources.

The topics of data strategy and chief digital officer are currently being defined in practice by the organizations that are creating the strategy and the roles. There are no definitive sources for this material.

The five links added are as follows - with my justification for using them:

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/strategic-assets.html - Business Dictionary is a widely used source of definitions, their definition of strategic assets concurs with many prominent business texts

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/make-room-executive-suite-here-comes-cdo-2-0 - the MIT Sloan Business School is one of the foremost institutions in the world, with well researched and widely read articles.

https://www.firstretail.com/the-role-of-the-chief-data-officer-cdo/ - this is my own post, that was created after researching hundreds of job adverts for CDOs

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-does-every-company-need-data-strategy-2019-bernard-marr/ - Bernard Marr is a well respected industry data scientist who has previously held key roles at IBM, teaches at Oxford University and has published a book on Data Strategy

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Data-Strategy - as practitioners are defining and redefining this space, this provides a great sampling of what data strategy is

Please let me know which are the offending links and what would constitute a valid source and how to properly format the link and I will amend. Gammydodger (talk) 22:11, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Dean Kamen Page

Mr Ollie, kindly stop reverting my changes. Your facts are are a bit off base. I would be happy to discuss in person. Deankamendeka (talk) 02:42, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a fan site, changing the article to include promotional language isn't appropriate. - MrOllie (talk) 11:28, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Pastoral Care is not Pastoral Ministry.

Pastoral Care includes non-religious and is scientific. Spirituality in the context of pastoral care refers to the human spirit, which is genetic, measurable and heritable. Pastoral Ministry is specific to religion primarily christianity and is historic. Spirituality in the context of pastoral ministry refers to subjective supernatural experiences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fiaali'i (talk • contribs) 21:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Ok, but none of that is a good reason to surprise readers with a piped link. - MrOllie (talk) 01:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

It was a reference to a book and website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fiaali'i (talk • contribs) 03:20, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Bodystorming with dancers and scientists

Hello, I am not sure why you removed the section on Bodystorming with dancers and scientists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodystorming) and the links to rapid prototyping. This is my first entry on wikipedia so I may have missed something critical and if so would appreciate your guidance. I also would like the entry reinstated as it was strongly cited and is information that needs to be shared as part of cancer research. Thanks for your cooperation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 44arts (talk • contribs)

See WP:FRINGE and WP:UNDUE. You will need much stronger, independent sources if you want to claim that dancing is critical to cancer research. - MrOllie (talk) 11:51, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

I didn't claim in the wiki entry that bodystorming is critical to cancer research but it is being developed with that in mind. I am simply stating that it is a method that exists with several independent magazines and journals stating as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 44arts (talk • contribs) 19:15, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Updating my organization's page

Hi there, I am the marketing and communications manager for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Our page is very outdated and needs to be updated. I've tried twice, but the content has been removed - one time I got a note that said I was doing it for financial reasons and the other reason was that I copied someone else's content. I used content from a .org account: https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/oregon_museum_of_science_industry_omsi_/#.XWPweOhKiUk - which is run by the Oregon Historical Society. And since my organization is an academic science institution, I think that information should be valid to use, especially since I site it in the article. My question is this: how do I go about properly updating OMSI's page on wikipedia? Thanks. 14:47, 26 August 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnfarmer1982 (talk • contribs)

You can't turn a Wikipedia article into a marketing brochure. You're also in violation of Wikipedia's terms of service. You need to read the policies that have already been linked on your user talk page and comply with them. - MrOllie (talk) 15:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

I completely agree with and support what you're saying - and I'm not looking to create a marketing brochure at all - much of the information on our page is outdated or completely incorrect. What I'm asking is, how do I go about updating the information on the page? Do I have to put a COI caveat or something at the beginning of the article? I just want to go through the proper channels. Thanks. Johnfarmer1982 (talk) 15:06, 26 August 2019 (UTC)John

Please read the stuff on your talk page, including the links, it is all spelled out there. - MrOllie (talk) 15:10, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Recent reverts of blogsareforever.com

Hi, I saw a number of articles on my watchlist were being hit by this spammer and that you had reverted. Just thought I'd drop a note that I've reported the link to XLinkBot to autorevert. Since the user that is spamming the link has the same username as the link being spammed, I'll be raising a request on WP:UAA as well. Blackmane (talk) 03:38, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Radiocarbon dating reversion

I appreciate your clearly longstanding work to keep this page quality up. I have a question: You reverted my edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiocarbon_dating&diff=910960402&oldid=910959179 To me it seemed relevant as evidence of the quality of the original work, that it would stand up well this many years later. Was that unclear, or does that fact not seem relevant, or something else? Kcrca (talk) 04:02, 27 August 2019 (UTC)