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Don't do it. ArionStar (talk) 00:16, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's for personal reasons, don't worry, I'll be back. I was meaning to start it a couple days ago but I got sidetracked by some ITN stuff, as you saw. I appreciate your passion for me not leaving though, lol.

I'm going to put it back now though, so please don't remove it until I am back, as I will actually stop checking this page as of tomorrow. Flip^andFlopped ツ 03:39, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me what's happening, send me an e-mail (allanquiuqui@icloud.com) if I can help you. ArionStar (talk) 16:58, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 29 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Terry Manning, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 18:02, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Abel prize 2025 discussion has been closed. You claimed that your couple years of university math means you at least are in a position to appreciate a brief accessible jargon-free summary of what Kashiwara did that was so magnificent, and the WP math experts are simply failing to meet WP policies and guidelines, apparently because we're too lazy to speak to someone at your level.

No, we are not. It is, as I said very very accurately and which you are blindly asserting isn't true, absolutely not possible. I repeat: 99.9% of all advanced PhD-level mathematics and beyond is completely inaccessible to someone who hasn't put in the immense time and effort to reach those heights. The best that can be done will simply be mathematical baby talk that the ignorant might think means something, but which is just a collection of metaphoric gibberish.

Eight years ago there was a Quanta magazine article [1] on the resolution of the "p=t" question. John Baez [2] and Timothy Gowers [3] blogged their extreme dissatisfaction with the article. The main body of the article was generic mush and oversimplified historical background, but zero attempts to actually say anything actually informative. The article came with a side box that pretended to try to say something actually informative about "p=t", but it was just empty silliness, of the sort you are asking WP mathematics articles to aspire to. Baez summarized his reaction, saying it read like the Onion version. 128.91.40.237 (talk) 15:47, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I never, ever called anyone lazy, nor did I make any of the claims you attribute to me. I just said that I think the article should be better-referenced and improved for readability in order for it to meet the policy criteria for a featured spot on the Main Page.

I can accept your point that those improvements might not be possible. I'm not a maths expert, I wouldn't know. Maybe there is nothing more to be said.

My point remains though, that if as you say it's truly not possible for this type of advanced PhD-level mathematics to be explained in a way that the average reader can understand it, then it is truly silly to invite hundreds or thousands of non-mathematicians to read an article, from Wikipedia's main page, that they will have no hope in hell of understanding.

The point of ITN is to direct readers to articles which are well-cited and are accessible to those who will be redirected to them from the main page. To me, it sounds like you are agreeing that it should not be featured on ITN because those we'd be inviting to read the article will find it "completely inaccessible". I agree, so it seems like the right outcome was reached for now. All the best, Flip^andFlopped ツ 16:48, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I took no stand for or against the nomination. I just find non-mathematicians talking about how mathematics should be written up to be extremely irksome. ("mathsplaining" as I called it.) Many of the WP policies and guidelines actually cannot be met when it comes to advanced mathematics. Sometimes a mathematics related article gets posted to ITN, sometimes not.

My attitude is to just have everybody ignore the issue, and that usually is what happens. This nomination, for some reason, brought out the calls to "fix" the article. To me, that's just a childish "gotcha" reaction, aka wikilawyering. Except no one is intending to be a clever dick, they just don't know and can't begin to imagine how impossible their requests are.

"Laziness" is implicit when you state that your approval is waiting on editors in the know to replace the jargon with something accessible to the common reader, as if we could but just can't be arsed, let the peons eat cake or something. We don't because we can't. 128.91.40.237 (talk) 18:02, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At the very least the article can be improved by referencing to citations or footnotes for all of the claims which it makes - it currently does not, as per the many CN tags.

If or when more sources are added, perhaps your point will be proven that the article can't also be further improved for readability or accessibility. That's all I really have to say, or can say, on the matter. Best of luck in your future contributions to maths articles. Flip^andFlopped ツ 18:23, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 April 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Dick Carlson, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 21:05, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 April 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Heloísa Teixeira, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 21:27, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 April 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Young Scooter, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:03, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 April 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Wes Watkins, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:03, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

R u ok? ArionStar (talk) 21:07, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, all good, no worries. I was attending to family matters for about a week and may need to take another break soon, but I am back for the next few days. Thanks for thinking of me, Arionstar. Flip^andFlopped ツ 21:15, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mental health is a world question. ArionStar (talk) 22:42, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 30 April 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jiggly Caliente, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 15:04, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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SL93 (talk) 00:02, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Look, our hooks are cohabitating! From enemies to lovers… ꧁Zanahary꧂ 00:44, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
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Thank you! And thank you for your contributions to that AfD nomination. Best, Flip^andFlopped ㋡ 02:56, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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