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If editors disagree on how to express a problem and/or solution in mathematics articles, citations to reliable published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article and directly support the material as presented must be supplied by the editor(s) who wishes to include the material.
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was famous for invariably starting his answer "It all depends on what you mean by ...". On the occasion that the question was "What is the law of averages." Joad replied "The law of averages says that if you spin a coin one hundred times it will come down heads fifty times and tail fifty times."
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It was an interesting case, although I didn't follow the actual cut and thrust, I did review the proposed rulings. The interest came from the fact that ArbCom is generally leery of getting tangled in content issues (quite rightly) they initially allowed themselves to move further into that sphere
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For my own part and on behalf of the committee, I'd like to confirm that Dr Gill did not do anything underhand in respect to using his own material, nor was there anything "wrong" with the material itself - these were not self published blogs, but material accepted by recognised journals. The
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to the widest possible audience. For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience. Every reasonable attempt should be made to ensure that material is presented in the most widely understandable manner possible.
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reminder issued by the committee is just that, a reminder that there is an etiquette in sourcing to one's own work, and the poor environment on the article talkpage had definitely not been conducive to etiquette. --
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submitted several proposed principles in the workshop before submitting a proposed decision for arbitrators to vote on. The case came to a close during the week after a total of 12 arbitrators voted on the proposed
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For some reason lured outside his normal cautious approach, by a subject he was less familiar with than many of the questions he did answer so well, he committed what we would today call an
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impossible to write (most) articles on mathematics, because editors would have been barred from providing simple examples that were not directly from reliable sources
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Suppose there are three editors and one of them is going to be topic banned. I tell you who one of the editors who is not topic banned is.... Um, nevermind. ;-P
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than normal, despite, or perhaps because of, the esoteric nature of the subject. This is a pattern seen widely, for example the well known philosopher Dr
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of articles by engaging in sustained attacks on other editors may be banned from the affected articles, and in extreme cases, may be banned from the site.
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That is another accurate and fair statement by a habitually graceful truth-teller. Elen was the principal author of the adopted statement, I should add.
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This case was opened this week after allegations of tendentious POV-pushing and a content dispute involving the usage of sources in the
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Article talk pages should not be used by editors for proposing unpublished solutions, forwarding original ideas, redefining terms, or
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Novel derivations, applications or conclusions that cannot be supported by sources are likely to constitute
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that both is consistent with the WP rules and allows us to write articles for a general audience.
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Gill referenced his own papers when referring to only others' results (and never his own).
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closed one case during the week, and opened one new case. Three cases are currently open.
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the arbitration committee listened to the mathematicians' concerns and drafted a decision
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New case opens; Monty Hall problem case closes – what does the decision tell us?
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One ArbCom member opposed the statement about Gill; another formally abstained
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This case involves allegations of problematic behavior relating to the
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I have long expressed displeasure with the statement about Gill.
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article. Evidence was submitted on-wiki by 17 editors. Drafters
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Glkanter is banned from editing Knowledge until 25 March 2012.
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What is the effect of the decision and what does it tell us?
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