User talk:Sormani

Welcome!

Hello, Sormani, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Note

I fixed your article a little. Why didnt you put in the articles you wrote?-- It would have been deletedwithout them. What it needs now is some outside refs besides your cv, or it will be deleted again.DGG 00:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Christina Sormani

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Christina Sormani, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Gleuschk 17:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

Hi, Sormani!

I have nominated the article Christina Sormani for deletion using the WP:AfD process. My reasons are first WP:BIO, and second WP:AUTO. It's nothing personal. The rules are the rules. DavidCBryant 16:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate images uploaded

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Actually, all the images need copyright information. If you made them yourself, you can release them under the GFDL. Otherwise the images will be deleted. Silly rabbit 09:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Style note

Hello and welcome. It is great to see more mathematicians around.

I have a style suggestion. On Wikipedia capitals are used for proper nouns, and only that. So,

==General Audience Description==

should be

==General audience description==

Poincare Conjecture

should be

Poincare conjecture

and so on. I fixed that at Heat equation. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newlines

One more thing, one should not use newlines within paragraphs. The browser automatically wraps the long lines, and newlines if inserted make the text look broken oddly when examining the changes in the history.

These are small things, quality content matters first of course, but I thought I'd let you know. Enjoy! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Linda Keen

Thank you for writing this article. I enjoyed reading it. DavidCBryant 15:40, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Metric geometry

Hey, you gave a general-audience talk that I attended on Perelman's work. Anyway, you link to metric geometry on your user page, but at present this is just a redirect to metric spaces with no real indication of what metric geometry consists in. I thought maybe you could fill us in. Peace. —vivacissamamente 20:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of General-audience description

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article General-audience description, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Does this really need an article? It's a self-explanatory phrase, and I'm not sure it's one with enough standalone widespread use to merit its own article.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

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AfD nomination of Katherine St. John

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Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Abductive (reasoning) 22:48, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Katherine St. John

The article Katherine St. John has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

has a job (would seem), but no references, no assertion of notability

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Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! avs5221^{(talk|contrib)} 15:06, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Oakley77 (talk) 20:15, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that article! It is helpful to me. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 06:58, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your article submission Intrinsic Flat Convergence

Hello Sormani. It has now been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Intrinsic Flat Convergence.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. —Anne Delong (talk) 16:14, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what this is referring to but apparently someone saved this article as they ought to. I have no idea why anyone suggested deleting this - 2016

Dear Sormani:

I received your e-mail, although if you leave a message on my talk page or here I will see it.

This was a long time ago, but I looked to see what had happened.

It seems that in 2012 you created a draft article titled "Intrinsic Flat Convergence", and added three references to your own work and one to an article which doesn't have the phrase "intrinsic flat convergence" in it. You then submitted the article for review, and it was declined because the references didn't show that the term was in general use (or at least among mathematicians in this case). Just as when an author is submitting to other publications, supporting references are supposed to be to the work of other authors, not to the work of the person writing the article. I'm rather surprised that a professor wouldn't know that.

You added a sentence, but no new references, and instead of resubmitting the article you (perhaps accidentally) deleted the code at the top of the page which would have allowed the resubmission.

Since the article wasn't resubmitted, nothing happened, and after a few days I assume you were tired of waiting; you created another article directly in the encyclopedia - but with a different title, "Intrinsic flat distance".

While it's true that my undergraduate degree in mathematics and masters degree in computer applications do not qualify me to judge the validity or importance of the mathematics in the draft, this is one of the reasons for Wikipedia's insistence on references to show notability: If other mathematicians or science writers not closely connected with the developers of a mathematical concept are writing about it and discussing it, it's likely a suitable topic for an article. If they aren't, it's too soon, even if mathematically valid.

Since Wikipedia has a policy that draft articles are removed after six months if nobody is working on them or submitting them, I left a message letting you know how to get your text back if you came back later. I checked first to see if there was an article in the main encyclopedia about "Intrinsic Flat Convergence", but since you had changed the title, I didn't find one. Be clear about this: I was not "threatening" you - just informing you of what was about to happen because of Wikipedia's notability policies, which were developed by discussions among thousands of editors over a period of more than ten years. Some of them are even mathematicians.

The draft, "Intrinsic Flat Conversion", was indeed deleted, but that didn't really matter, since you had created another copy under another title. From what I can see, at the time it was a newly created term, and would not have passed the standards for inclusion. It is of course your prerogative to refuse to edit Wikipedia; however, now that your journal article about it has had 45 citations, if any of them wrote in any depth about the term you might consider improving the existing Wikipedia article by adding citations to them next to the facts in the article that they support.

PS - Playing bluegrass music doesn't make one ignorant of everything else. And far from damaging my reputation, my work in 2013, helping to sort out and deal with the 50,000 abandoned drafts which had accumulated, demonstrated that I had an solid knowledge of Wikipedia policies, and so I became a Wikipedia administrator in 2014.—Anne Delong (talk) 04:52, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]