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Mathematicians

This is one of the reasons that the term "priority" is better than "importance", which sounds much more judgmental. I don't have any sound way of determining priority for mathematician biographies, since I have only had to rate a handful of them at most. But my general opinion would be to look at the awards the person has received. So a Fields medalist is probably going to be a high-priority article, and someone who is well known in his or her area but not well-known among mathematicians in general would be low priority.

On the other hand, I try not to worry too much about making perfect assessments. The overall idea is that other people can correct the ratings, os that over time the settle into the correct values. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:51, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Project Recognized Content & A-Class Articles

You had asked about adding support for A-Class articles in my bot. It was a popular request and I finally implemented it as I was able to allocate some time. I added a new content type parameter that allows you to specify a category for A-Class articles. See the template for how to use. If there are any questions or issues with the results, let me know. -- JLaTondre (talk) 00:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ratemath and empty talk pages

The problem with ratemath and empty talk pages has been fixed, thanks to help from AzaToth. This was what caused it – you can see why I was confused about what was wrong with my code. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice, thanks. Works fine now. --Robin (talk) 21:39, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additional; WoRC Request

I've received an additional request for the WoRC bot task. I'd like to get some additional input before implementing. If you wish, please comment at this discussion. -- JLaTondre (talk) 22:22, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Basic concepts of quantum mechanics (again!) ==
-It doesn't look like this discussion is going any further!  Perhaps it's time to try something else.  Would you object if I started by proposing a merger between the basic concepts article and the intro article?  (This shouldn't stop you using text from the basic concepts article to improve the timeline / history articles if you still want to do this.)  [[User:Djr32|Djr32]] ([[User talk:Djr32|talk]]) 21:14, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
-:Yeah, that's fine. There should only be one intro. I'm not sure how you will appease the people who want math in the intro and those who don't. --[[User:RobinK|Robin]] ([[User talk:RobinK#top|talk]]) 21:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
-::Wow, that was quick!  Hopefully we can reach a sensible compromise - but there's a reason I only said I'd propose the merger...  [[User:Djr32|Djr32]] ([[User talk:Djr32|talk]]) 21:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
-== collaboration? ==
-Improving the article [[extremal graph theory]] sounds good to me. I'll start working on it a bit. Best, [[User:ExtremalGraphTheory|ExtremalGraphTheory]] ([[User talk:ExtremalGraphTheory|talk]]) 19:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
-Actually, we should probably figure out right from the start what we mean by "extremal graph theory". The term is slightly vague, and in its most include interpretation, is much to large for one article. I would prefer being on the restrictive side of the definition. [[User:ExtremalGraphTheory|ExtremalGraphTheory]] ([[User talk:ExtremalGraphTheory|talk]]) 20:02, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
-:Sounds good, let us start the discussion on the talk page of the article, so that other interested editors may also join in. --[[User:RobinK|Robin]] ([[User talk:RobinK#top|talk]]) 20:07, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
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