User talk:JoeU2004

Help me!

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

Please forgive me if the following is inappropriate in some way. Very experienced; but first time user __here__.

I am really struggling with the talkpage interface. I want to make a comment about the wikipage for Weighted Median. But I do see how, mechanically.

It is more of an alert to incorrect/incomplete information than an intent to initiate a discussion. I don't know how to create such a comment and to be sure that an authoritative editor sees it.

The wikipage is already classified as "stub class", which I understand to mean "very bad quality". But more than "little meaningful" content, "insufficiently" developed, it seems to be factual in error.

IMHO, either the misleading wikipage should be removed, or at least it should be flagged as incorrect.

Honestly, I do not know the mathematical definition of weighted median; I cannot find it elsewhere. But I do know that the example does not work. And I can demonstrate by example that the statement about when median and weighted median are the same is incorrect.

JoeU2004 (talk) 22:33, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Joe, welcome to Wikipedia! I would start with posting on the talk page and see if anyone responds. People keep articles that they are interested in on their watchlists. You can also head over to the WikiProject Statistics portal. There's a nice resources section, and if you don't get a response within a couple days at the article's talk page, you can try posting on the portal talk page. With talk pages, you create a New Section, then enter a subject and a message. You're initiating a discussion, either way, but you aren't required to participate any more than you want to. I hope this helps. If you need more help, respond to this by typing below my message here, and add two colons at the beginning of the line so it will indent your next response properly (it's how we format conversation threads). Chrisw80 (talk) 23:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update: A couple of templates you may want for future reference, [[1]] and [[2]] are used in situations like this, but do require that an explanation be given on the talk page as well. Chrisw80 (talk) 23:18, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, JoeU2004! Thank you for your contributions. I am Chrisw80 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Chrisw80 (talk) 23:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]