Wikipedia talk:Pages needing attention/Mathematics

message: We should not be creating a separate structure for article comments in this WikiProject.  The talk pages of those articles are intended to take comments about what is wrong with those articles.  Duplicating that function here is needless and leads to those in and not in the WikiProject having separate focuses for no reason.  It also clouds up the list here. — 131.230.133.185 5 July 2005 18:28 (UTC)
:Yup.  I agree.  But there's a lot of folks that seem to like doing stuff like this.  --C S 20:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Your question is irrelevant to the point raised by the anon.  The anon is not saying it's bad to bring some articles to a group's notice.  S/he appears to be saying that duplication of the "talk page" is "needless".  This leads to a communication problem where people are at cross purposes.  I think that's a good point: many of these comments should be posted to the talk page of the relevant articles.  Sometimes it's done.  Many times it is not.  If it's a good comment or suggestion, why should not editors editing the relevant article see it on the talk page?  The last point made by the anon is that it "clouds up the list here".  I don't really see it being that messy.  But I think the basic idea behind his/her comments is valid.  Discussion should be encouraged to take place on the relevant talk page.  --C S 04:22, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Clarification is perhaps needed on my "lots of folks" comment above.  I think one reason people like to put there comments here instead of on talk pages is the closer sense of community that is generated.  That's all and good, but we should all remember that we are part of a broader Wikipedia community, which includes even anons and random people that occasionally edit Wikipedia.  Having discussions in a less accessible part of Wikipedia means that things are less open to those not in this subcommunity.  --C S 04:26, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments about this page 

message: Currently, there are two ways to flag a math article as needing improvement. One, is to list it on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics, this page. Second, is by putting various templates in the article or its talk page , , , ,  (any others?)
I wrote a tool to read in all the articles which have one of the above templates either in the article itself or on its talk page, and which extracts the mathematics and mathematician articles from there. Many (most) of those are not listed on this page. 
The big question is, should the math articles having those templates be listed here? If yes, how? My suggestion would be to add a new section to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics which will be writable by a bot. The bot is not too smart, so editors may need to move entries from there up in the "Mathematics", "Statistics", "Mathematicians" sections above, add meaningful comments if necessary, and use their judgments as to when those articles should be removed from this page. 
I estimate that in addition to around 30 articles now listed here, there are around 100 more having those templates. So, my question, is it all worth it, and will people not be flooded by a bunch of new articles in need of work? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea to me. I would just do the bot section like you suggest. We should also have subheadings corresponding to the various templates. -- Fropuff 06:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think using subheaders would complicate matters, as this page is sourced into a bigger page, see Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematical and Natural Sciences. I would think of just adding a note next to each article listed saying where it was discovered. Would look a bit nicer on the page I would think. How about that? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Still, knowing what kind of attention is required would be useful. I like the subheadings idea, but maybe a different organization would be better. I don't care much about the parent page as I only ever look at this one. -- Fropuff 17:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I will give it a try. Maybe today. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listing the pages needing attention 

message: 216.167.143.131 03:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment about divisibility argument 

message: I noticed that the article about the greatest common divisor of two polynomials needed expert attention.  I am no math expert but I'm expert enough on that.  So, I fixed some stuff and it's mostly fine.  It needs to be cleaned up but I don't think it necessarily needs much attention from an math expert, though maybe a little.  Say I do a bit more work and think it no longer needs attention from an expert, should I just remove the tag in the article?  And, if I do, will it be removed from this page as well?
StatisticsMan 06:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you should remove the tag if you think all issues are resolved. And yes, it will be then automatically be removed from this page (after a couple of days). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 09:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So, Jay Gatsby reverted the article back to a previous form, one which is objectively inferior.  It has typos and errors and the wrong definition.  Can someone please change it back to how it was last night after I finished working on it?  He did not even put something on the talk page mentioning why he did so.  This is dumb.  Why should I make an article better if someone is just going to change it back to a crappy version.  StatisticsMan 19:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted Greatest_common_divisor_of_two_polynomials back to your version, StatisticsMan.  It is definitely an improvement.  I don't know what Mr. Gatsby was thinking; he clearly should have explained himself in the edit summary and/or talk page.  Cheers, Doctormatt 20:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On the same page but a slightly different subject, I would ask your opinion.  It is more of a Wikipedia question than a math one.  I am thinking about cleaning up that article some.  Would you think one example each of the three methods for finding the GCD of two polynomials is good?  Would two be better?  I don't know Wikipedia that well, but, it seems to me, as I have talked about in the discussion page on that article, giving the method will be good for many people and giving one example will help those who have troulbe understanding.  Maybe two examples will help some people but it will also clutter up the page so one is probably a good happy medium.  Do you agree or disagree or have any comments?  Thanks.  Also, thanks for reverting the page back! StatisticsMan 08:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, as far as the examples go, I am pretty familiar with the <math.> tag and formatting in Wikis.  I see it is not used on this page a whole lot for examples.  Is this standard or should it be changed to include this stuff?  And, what about those boxes around the examples?  Is that standard?  I'd say the boxes seem alright.  Using the <math.> tag seems like it would be better.  The way it looks now is sort of sloppy. StatisticsMan 09:03, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topics needing expert attention 

message: Hardly. If I can understand half of it, considering what a remarkably stupid fellow I am, it's not technical. Link On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. (Not sure where this comment should be... there doesn't seem to be any other similar discussions.) Leon math (talk) 00:37, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  OEIS article too technical? 

message: I am teaching a class in LaTeX at the University of Texas. A large part of LaTeX is typesetting equations. Rather than give the students arbitrary equations to write, I would like to have them post example problems on Wikipedia. My class is largely juniors majoring in physics, any most have a good math background. Acceptable levels of problems include lagrangians and square wells. I would be asking them to use questions they have already encountered in their classes with solutions verified by a professor. Do you have any suggestions for pages which would benefit from this? I'll be giving the assignment in late February. Willbeason (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pages Needing Examples? 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians. I am in the process of creating an article about the 4D shape, the “cubinder”. It was previously red linked on other articles, and I was surprised to see it was not already an item listed for creation by Wiki Projects Mathematics, as the duocylinder and spheriender are already articles. I require help to improve the draft, as I require more formulae, sources, and additional information to create this article. You can access this page at  User:Darnburn98/Cubinder, please come on over and help improve this article to get into the main space! Darnburn98 (talk) 22:36, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft:Cubinder , Needs improvement with formulae, sources and additional information. (Unlisted)