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I had a math professor who would occasionally correct an equation in the Wikipedia article about some theorem he invented, but someone would always change it ba
by sheepshear 3y ago
I had a math professor who would occasionally correct an equation in the Wikipedia article about some theorem he invented, but someone would always change it back. He eventually gave up.
- SoftTalker 3y agoWikipedia doesn't accept primary sources. You could be the inventor of a thing, but you'd be unqualified to write a wikipedia entry about it. You'd have to get someone else to write about it, get that published, and then cite that in wikipedia.
- fsckboy 3y ago>Wikipedia doesn't accept primary sources wikipedia accepts published papers from journals as references, despite that those are primary sources. (I thought they originally didn't, but they do now) How would this guy's theorems be on wikipedia if he hadn't published them? Wikipedia is leery of people editing "their own page" in the sense of conflict of interest, but cleary if you are correcting a published theorem, that is entirely within bounds. You could say on the Talk page "I published this theorem, wikipedia has it wrong."
- sheepshear 3y agoThere was plenty written about it. Whoever wrote the article was confidently incorrect about how they interpreted what was written.
- mhh__ 3y agoThere is a talk page where you're supposed to hash this kind of thing out. What was the equation?
- sheepshear 3y agoHe used the talk page. I have it in my notes in a box in storage. I'll dig it up probably in the next 10-20 years, if you can wait.