User talk:RuiQi

"As of" and sources.

If an article has a sentence that says "As of 2015..." and that cites as its source a publication from 2015, DO NOT change it to say "as of 2024", as you have been repeatedly trying to do at Oppermann's conjecture. When you do that, you are falsifying the source, making it look as if the source predicted the future. To change it to "as of 2024" you must find a source published in 2024 that continues to verify the same claim, and use that source in place of the 2015 one.

More generally, every change you make to Wikipedia should be supported by a published source. If you change what is claimed in an article, verify that the new material is supported by the same source, or add a new source. Do not falsely claim that an old source supports new material when it does not.

—David Eppstein (talk) 05:54, 13 April 2024 (UTC)