User talk:Gabiteodoru
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Nomination of Anti-Monopoly for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Anti-Monopoly is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-Monopoly until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
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I am letting contributing editors know that I have proposed the above page for deletion Tetron76 (talk) 20:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
TODO
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Barnstar
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Thank you for joining and contributing the British Library editathon, you definitely earned this barnstar! Further teamwork on the articles created and any issues will be running at WP:GLAM/BL (so keep it on your watchlist) there are some photos from the event at Commons:Category:Editathon,_British_Library and your comments are welcome at feedback. Future events are listed at the UK Chapter wiki at wmuk:Events so you may want to keep the link in your bookmarks to see if there is anything else coming up you might enjoy. Perhaps you would like to come along to one of our regional social wiki-meets where keen Wikipedians debate all things wiki-related? We are growing the GLAM network which helps e-volunteers of all types engage with their most loved cultural institutions and you can always drop me a note or email if you would like to know more about how you could help with our work. Cheers Fæ (talk) 23:22, 5 June 2011 (UTC) |
Did You Know - Gondal
[edit]I've nominated Gondal to appear as a Did You Know item. If you have any thoughts or better ideas for the hook (the line intended to appear on the main page), following the link. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 18:01, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
British Library follow-up
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Thank you for participating in the English and Drama Editathon at the British Library on June 4. I hope you enjoyed the day and got something useful out of it.
If you are new to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, I hope you had any questions or problems answered and maybe found being a contributor as addictive as many of the regulars do. If you've got any questions or need help, please feel free to ask any of us on our talk page or by e-mail (Fæ, Tom Morris, Sadads, James F., RHaworth, The Land, AdamBMorgan), ask on the British Library collaboration page or through the Wikipedia Help Desk.
If you are interested in working on Wikipedia, you might want to consider joining one of the WikiProjects. These are places where team work between editors interested in a particular topic can be coordinated. Some suggestions for WikiProjects that may be of interest to you as a participant in the event on Saturday include Literature, Poetry or Science Fiction. A full list of literature and language related WikiProjects can be found here, and a list of all WikiProjects is here. The WikiProjects often have things that need doing, and if you need help you can often ask in their talk page.
But there are other places you can get involved. If you are interested on working on images, such as improving image descriptions, categorisation or uploading new media, consider getting involved in Wikimedia Commons. Wikisource also needs people willing to help make available original source material, and Wikiquote is trying to compile a directory of quotes which you may be able to contribute to.
If you want to continue some of the work we got started on Saturday, here are a few potential things to help with:
- Following on from work on Ella D'Arcy on Saturday, work has started to make all of The Yellow Book available on Wikisource. If you go to the page on Wikisource and pick a volume then click on 'scan index' you can start helping to proofread pages from the journal - simply click on the page you want to work on, and go through to check that the text on the left reflects the text on the right. If you need any help with getting started, please ask User:Tom Morris.
- If you created any new articles at the event, you might want to submit them to Did you know?.
- If you are able to translate into other languages, why not pick one of the articles we worked on, translate it and post it on another language version of Wikipedia: there are now versions in hundreds of languages. On Wikimedia Commons, it is also possible to provide multilingual descriptions of images and categories: this enables editors on the other language versions to better find images and media files they can use in their project.
- If you need images from the British Library to illustrate articles, please add them to the image requests page. If you would like a British LIbrary curator to help collaborate on an article, please add it to the collaborations page.
- You might also be interested in attending GLAMcamp London.
- To explore more articles related to the British Library, visit Portal:British Library.
Whatever you do, please tell us about the positive and negative experiences you have. On behalf of the organisers of the event, thanks again.
—Tom Morris (talk) 11:22, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Gondal (fictional country)
[edit] | On 14 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gondal (fictional country), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Emily and Anne Brontë's Gondal was an early form of science fiction? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 18:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject Romania
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heretical Bayesian?
[edit]Hi Gabiteodoru,
I had a look at your user page, to see if you're in the UK, before responding to your posting on the Help desk. I'm left wondering what a heretical Bayseian is. When I left college in 1975 I was trained as a frequentist, with the aim of being wrong 5% of the time. When I returned to academia in 1981, I had somehow become a Bayesian. My colleagues tolerated my heretical beliefs, but would ask me "please show me the frequentist way to analyse my results, that's what I need to get my paper published". When I worked in biotech around 2000, almost all my colleagues understood and preferred Bayesian methods. Are there places where it's still regarded as a heresy? Maproom (talk) 06:39, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hey! Hah I wrote that soooo long ago I forgot why I said heretical. 25 year old me must have had a good reason, I'm sure :P Though I have to say I have become less Bayesian since; it happened when I tried to explain Bayesianism to a math friend, and my ultimate point of criticism is: why do we even care about beliefs? If you work in anything but science (which can seem weird after spending some time outside it), you start caring only about the bottom line and business goals and metrics that impact the real world; so then why not just optimize those wrt the parameters? Beliefs are just an antiquated artifact produced by evolution that is not mathematically necessary. Gabi Teodoru (talk) 09:12, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
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