User talk:JackSchmidt

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Stub templates

HI Jack, thanks for your notes. The removal of stub-templates is part of the AWB framework and is based on article length and possibly other factors. Neither of the articles Mother Courage and Feist are stubs, so it seems that AWB is working correctly here. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 09:31 18 February 2008 (GMT).

Orphans

Guess it's kinda vague "few or no" - and there's no real reason that something shouldn't be an {{orphan}} or {{linkless}}. Certainly there's no reason to think that article should expect more links to it. Rich Farmbrough, 17:45 26 February 2008 (GMT).

Sounds fine to me - note that if you use the tag then it will get dated and hopefully dealt with eventually. If you just use the cat, then it will probably get looked at by me manually, and have it converted to a tag (or removed :). Rich Farmbrough, 18:17 26 February 2008 (GMT).

Multiplicative functions

Thanks, Jack, I may look at the examples on Friday. Rich Farmbrough, 02:57 5 March 2008 (GMT).

Endomorphism external links and conflict of interest edits

Thanks for the pointers to the guidelines on external links and conflict of interest. I'm learning quite a bit about becoming a Wikipedia editor and appreciate your help. I've reviewed these two guideline documents and, although the guidelines are clearly stated, there appears to be a fair amount of room for interpretation and case-by-case judgement. In my opinion the edits I made to the Endomorphism page do not violate the external links guidelines. Both the links to my Ph.D. dissertation and the Endo software laboratory download seem to satisfy section 3.1 "What should be linked" and do not satisfy the criteria in section 4 "Links normally to be avoided".

However, the link to my personal website for the on-line version of the Ph.D. dissertation does seem to violate the guidelines on conflict of interest in the external links document:

"You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it"

The download and manual pages links I provided for the Endo software laboratory do not seem to violate either the external links or conflict of interest guidelines as the external links are not to my personal website but to an extensive download area of open source software packages. Further, the endo software and mathrec package is released under an open source license and freely redistributable so I do not profit in any way thereby avoiding the conflict of interest in the "Financial" section. Further, the conflict of interest guidelines state: "Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest. Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is notable and conforms to the content policies"

So, the only real problem I see is the link to my Ph.D. dissertation which happens to reside on my personal website. I could reference the copy archived at the University of California at Santa Cruz library but the on-line version is quite a bit more convenient than physically travelling to Santa Cruz.

I am quite willing to abide by community consensus and standards on these issues. I really don't care if people visit my website, I'd just like to make the research software and dissertation research available to others. So, what would you suggest ? Should I present this discussion on the Endomorphism discussion page or somehow involve others ?

Again, thanks and sorry for the long-winded post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctorfree (talk • contribs) 23:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I moved this thread to Talk:Endomorphism. If you care to respond, please do so there. Ronald Joe Record (talk) 00:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Redlinks in disambig

Jack, Thanks for the note about the redlink. The IP address had made a vandalism entry on a page that I have been working on so I went back through its history and for the first time did a couple of undo edits. As a beginner at Wikipedia its good to hear someone agree with your edits. Captain-tucker (talk) 01:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

naming authority

Hi Jack, in connection with the naming authority issue I told you of I had another idea (I already wrote it at my talk page). If you have a moment I'd be glad to hear your opinion. Thank you, I appreciate your expertise. Jakob.scholbach (talk) 11:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Kurt O. Friedrichs

Jack Schmidt I am writing to you since it seems you are the person who deleted the content I had put on the page for Kurt O. Friedrichs. Indicating there were copyright issues. So not sure you are the right person or even if this is how to contact you. K. O. friedirchs is my father and the content I put on was primarily from two sources - Note my father wrote on his own career (that I have ownership of as his heir) - an article a family friend (now deceased) wrote about my father that I and my father contributed to Part of the copy write issue mentioned was that this same content was found on the website friedrichs.us, but this is my website and I posted this content many years ago. I now wanted in on Wikipedia.

So how can I get this placed on without it being re removed. If you are not the right person can you redirect me. Thanks Martin Friedrichs —Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinfriedrichs (talk • contribs) 00:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Jack Schmidt I am writing to you since it seems you are the person who deleted the content I had put on the page for Kurt O. Friedrichs. Indicating there were copyright issues. So not sure you are the right person or even if this is how to contact you. K. O. friedirchs is my father and the content I put on was primarily from two sources - Note my father wrote on his own career (that I have ownership of as his heir) - an article a family friend (now deceased) wrote about my father that I and my father contributed to Part of the copy write issue mentioned was that this same content was found on the website friedrichs.us, but this is my website and I posted this content many years ago. I now wanted in on Wikipedia.

So how can I get this placed on without it being re removed. If you are not the right person can you redirect me. Thanks Martin Friedrichs —Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinfriedrichs (talk • contribs) 00:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Howdy, the thing you are looking for is WP:IOWN. If you put a note on the http://friedrichs.us/ website saying that you are the copyright holder for that article, and that anyone can copy, edit, publish, and redistribute the article under the terms of the GFDL, then you (or anyone) can put the material on wikipedia. For the material to stay on wikipedia, the copyright owner must agree to allow anyone to copy, edit, publish, and redistribute the article under the terms of the GFDL (but you can send an email to the Wikimedia foundation instead of changing your website).

You may not own the copyright to the article (the friend's heirs might be for instance, but I am no lawyer), so you probably want to read WP:DCP too. JackSchmidt (talk) 00:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)