Talk:Michael Christopher Wendl

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Persistence[edit]

There is a new complaint by editor 76.176.203.8, so I'm replying with my 3rd (and hopefully final) attempt this month at a good article. Using Template:According to whom, editor 76.176.203.8 is now trying a different approach, committing a fallacy something to the effect of "a person cannot be called X unless someone else first says that person is X". It is like saying someone cannot be called a songwriter until someone else recognizes that person as a songwriter, nevermind that the first person has written songs. I don't know if anyone ever called Wendl a mathematician, but in going through those papers (now in somewhat more detail), it is clear that Wendl has "done math" in several different areas. I've added a lot of text to expound on this activity (covering problems and matching problems in probability and applied problems in differential equations) and some more text on biostatistics. I hope this detailed and well-sourced information puts the matter to rest and that vandals will not delete this information. 65.254.109.42 (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And yet "mathematician" was deleted again, after all the material I added. The edits seem to be coming from UCSD and I suspect that all the different accounts (summarized below) are the same person. I will ask that someone higher-up look into this problem and put a protection lock to prevent this vandalism. 65.254.109.42 (talk) 00:46, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is Starting to Look Like Vandalism[edit]

The comments from just a few days ago (below) did not discourage another editor, 76.176.203.8, from deleting almost the exact same parts (the math-related parts) of this article. This seems even more suspicious because the editing history (like Clntkee's) is again very similar to Prajaman's. Of the 507 articles Prajaman has edited and the 222 articles that 76.176.203.8 has edited, a remarkable 77 of these are in common. Considering that there are more than 5.5 million Wikipedia articles, the random chance of such overlap is astronomically low. These 2 editor accounts are either 2 people with freakishly similar interests, or they are the same person. To add to what was said below, I started checking research publications in reverse chronological order, and it seems that the department of mathematics is listed as an affiliation of Wendl's at least as far back as 2013 (that is, as of the the 25'th paper ago) and he is listed in the Mathgenealogy database. I restored the deleted content and I think that further deletions like this should probably be treated as vandalism. 65.254.109.42 (talk) 23:36, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

History of This Article[edit]

Like the article on Dr. Ramesh Agarwal, this article on one of his students, Michael Wendl, seems to have been systematically edited-down over about the last year by "Prajaman" and also by a short-lived editor "Clntkee", who has a very similar editing history. Wendl is in the department of mathematics at Washington University (listed affiliation on his papers), so I added back that he is a mathematician. It looks like many of his papers are in mathematics applied to biology (for instance papers in J. Math. Biol., J. Comp. Biol., J. Appl. Math.), so maybe that explains the confusion. Also added a pic from the Commons and restored some content from earlier versions. There are plenty of references, so tag was removed. 128.252.25.42 (talk) 00:24, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting Reason of Prajaman's Edit[edit]

Prajaman made this edit based on saying "Removed contents which has no solid evidence(for example, the general solution of Taylor-Couette problem was not solved first by Wendl, it is known to anybody who is working in fluid dynamics". I do not think this is true because of the saying in the Bordag, Chkhetiani, Frohner, and Myrnyy 2005 paper in the Journal of Fluids and Structures (which was deleted by the same edit) that "It is also a bit astonishing that the exact analytical solution for the azimuthal component of the Taylor–Couette flow profile with boundary conditions on cylinder caps was obtained just recently in the work of Wendl (1999). His results expose the strong influence of caps on flow profiles". 128.252.173.100 (talk) 04:08, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]