January 2023 edit
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Promise theory, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 12:47, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Melcous, thanks for the welcome greeting (surprising since I've been editing hundreds of articles on Wikipedia over the years). I've worked meticulously on this rewrite and believe it to be well within Wikipedia standards. Of course it can be improved (can't they all?), I would expect you to be more specific about what you find lacking in the Promise Theory article. Thank you. Hazitt (talk) 13:17, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding. If you have edited hundreds of articles, have you been using multiple accounts? Certainly this account has only edited a handful of articles, and recently all those are connected to Mark Burgess (computer scientist). Do you have a connection with him? In terms of the issues, I will comment on the talk page, but adding entire sections without any references where you summarise a theory is original research which is not acceptable here, nor is including external links in the body of the article. Melcous (talk) 21:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Melcous. No, I have not been using multiple accounts. However, I have changed alias several times because 'writers' have guessed my identity and starting sending abusive emails. Further, I'm sure you are aware that Wikipedia is multilingual. Most of my edits have been in the Norwegian wiki.
- No, I have no connection with Burgess except I contacted him when diving into the area of promise theory and semantic spacetime recently. They are important concepts/technologies that deserve decent coverage on Wikipedia. They are also complicated theoretical subjects which are hard to present in an accessible form, something I'm sure you can appreciate. I believe both articles now do a decent job at that.
- As to original research, it is unclear which article you're referring to. Guessing it's the Promise Theory article, the summary is based on the book which essentially defines the theory, referenced initially. It doesn't make sense to repeat references to the book in every paragraph - that's noise to the reader. I've had many discussions with reviewers about the subject over the years, and at the end of the day this is a subjective issue. I've deleted more references than I've added after such discussions.
- I'm looking forward to your comments on the talk pages for there articles, and suggest you reinstate the new Promise Theory article so we have a common ground of the discussion. Unsuprisingly given the complicity of the subject, I spent a lot of effort on this one in particular, and I believe it's well worthy its place on Wikipedia. As to external links, I'll look into that. Hazitt (talk) 10:35, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding. If you have edited hundreds of articles, have you been using multiple accounts? Certainly this account has only edited a handful of articles, and recently all those are connected to Mark Burgess (computer scientist). Do you have a connection with him? In terms of the issues, I will comment on the talk page, but adding entire sections without any references where you summarise a theory is original research which is not acceptable here, nor is including external links in the body of the article. Melcous (talk) 21:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)