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User:AItman

Hi, Altman! I hope you're having a good evening (or day, depending on where you're located - lol). I noticed in the user creation log that the account with username "AItman" was created, and that you used this account to sign its user page signifying that it's your account. If this is a doppelgänger account, you should instead add "#REDIRECT [[User:Altman]]" to User:AItman, and add "#REDIRECT [[User talk:Altman]]" User talk:AItman. This way, if people misspell it, it'll just redirect them to the correct page and they won't have to click or do anything. Just figured I'd let you know :-). Cheers -- ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:43, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, it looks like you inserted the doppelgänger template on both pages. That works, too :-). Cheers :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:46, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

– Aloha Oshwah — I've done both now; mahalo for the tip! – Altman (talk) 06:30, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You bet! Glad I could be of help :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 07:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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OpenEdition Request

Altman, I'm curious why you are requesting account access to OpenEdition. It's a social sciences database, whereas the other accounts you've requested and your focus area on Wiki seem to be in the realm of STEM. I've put your application under review and will wait to hear back from you. Cheers, Finktron (talk) 10:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

– Hi Finktron, Certainly: understood, and thanks for reaching out to me. I've been on international travels as of late, and I seem to have gotten the name confused with (what I thought was) another STEM source—my intended action. Please disregard the OpenEdition component of my request for access and resubmit. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. Carpe futurum, – Altman (talk) 13:59, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! I only handle OpenEdition for the time being but other coordinators should be at work reviewing user access for the other services you've requested. Thanks and Best Regards, Finktron (talk) 15:13, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

QUIST or QuIST?

Just out of curiousity, when you created QuEST the U was not capitalized but at QUIST it was. Was there any particular reason for that? It seems like the official DARPA sources format it with the lower-case U. RA0808 ^talk _contribs 17:36, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@RA0808: — Thanks for the catch. I was just coming back to update that myself when I saw that you'd already gone ahead and done so. I started out writing the QUIST article, then moving on to QuEST, Quiness, QuBo and QuASAR.

In both government and academic circles, it was common to see both variants in use, with QUIST (all caps) being slightly more prevalent from 2001 – 2005. By the time QuEST came around (2008 – 2012), the lowercase got to see more common use.

When written as a standalone term, QuIST was more common, but when written as a full program, e.g. DARPA QUIST, the all-caps variant saw more use.

But taking a glance at the official DARPA website for the QUBE (Quantum Effects in Biological Environments) program, both the page url and paragraph heading use all capitals (QUBE). Yet towards the bottom of the abstract, it's abruptly switched over to QuBE.

Or take a look at QUASAR (Quantum Assisted Sensing and Readout). In this instance, the page url uses the lowercase variant, the paragraph heading is all caps (QUASAR), and towards the bottom then switches again to lowercase (QuASAR).

Quiness dispells with convention altogether, with no way to merge Macroscopic Quantum Communications into an acronym.

Perhaps it's Title or heading = ALL CAPS ; in-sentence usage = Mixed Lowercase? Then I'd have to change QuEST, QuaSAR and QuBo ...

If the agency can't decide on a fixed format for its own website, and everyday government and academic use (scientific papers, reports, presentations) demonstrates roughly an even-handed distribution of the alternatives, it's hard to say one or the other is solely correct.

But Wikipedia is case-sensitive, so the distinction matters. I was planning to go by the strictest possible interpretation, using the formal moniker as defined in the white paper (Broad Agency Announcement). It's more likely to use the lowercase mixed example. On the other hand, most people conducting a search or stumbling across the terms won't have the level of familiarity to know which specific letters to capitalize, so redirects ~~are in order~~ are set. – 20:46, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

One more option: the distinction between QUIST as a standalone entry, listing it under DARPA_QUIST or as DARPA QUIST Program. Again, I've seen links from the DARPA #Active_projects section that use all three variants.

I'm entirely open to any suggestions. – a l t m a n^📞– 19:20, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Quiness

I've restored the page. I appeared to have deleted the page in error, as I did not intend to remove that page. My apologies for that! RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:57, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I see what I did. Criminy. Again, my deepest apologies. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@RickinBaltimore: Thank you. Given the national security context of the program and the impact of its predecessor, the ARPANET (which is why we're here today), I was at a loss as to how it could possibly be seen as nonviable. Much appreciated! – Altman^📞– 16:09, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That will teach me to go back a screen at the wrong time. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:37, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Totally understandable. Thanks for your assessment and tag removal—see you on the quantum internet. :) – Altman^📞– 17:10, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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—Anomalocaris (talk) 21:12, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomalocaris: — Thank you! – Altman^📞– 01:51, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for updating your signature! —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for sockpuppetry

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Proposed deletion of Quiness

The article Quiness has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I'm unable to find sources which indicate that this is any different from any of the other thousands of research programs conducted. Given COI issues, it is likely riddled with WP:OR as well.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. SmartSE (talk) 20:33, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Quiness for deletion

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