User talk:Zhigangsuo

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Another copyright violation[edit]

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Regarding Genealogy of Mechanicians Project[edit]

Hi Zhigangsuo. You may have noticed that I nominated your Genealogy of Mechanicians Project article for deletion. The Wikipedia namespace is not the proper place for a project such as yours. Instead, it belongs on Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy of Mechanicians, which I've migrated all of your work to. The page is in a standard format right now, but you can format it how you like. Please read Wikipedia:WikiProject for information on projects on Wikipedia. The project is welcome here, it's just that there are some established guidelines we'd like you to follow. You may also want to take a look at Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions, leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! ~MDD 46 96 21:07, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! One other thing -- please don't blank pages, as you did to Zhigang Suo. The article looked fine to me, but if you still want to delete it, you can request it be deleted by adding {{db|REASON TO DELETE}} at the top of the article. However, you may only do this when you are the only contributor to an article. If you would like to delete article which you are not the only editor, you must list it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion.

The articles on the mechanicians are fine in the main namespace, as they are biographical articles on people. The project, which you created to organize creation of those articles, should be at its current WikiProject location.

I know there's a lot to read, but since you are creating biographical articles, I think you should also take a look at Wikipedia:Notability (people). There are guidelines for the inclusion of articles on people, and articles that do not satisfy them will be deleted. Good luck! ~MDD 46 96 21:24, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I don't agree with Mdd4696 about making a WikiProject for this. If I've understood it correctly, it's far too specialized a task, and not sufficiently related to building an encyclopedia, to make a WikiProject for it. Accordingly I have nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy of Mechanicians for deletion. WikiProjects are designed to coordinate the activities of a large number of editors, and have very significant overhead. If you want to find help tracing these genealogies, the thing to do would be to ask for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mechanics (already a marginal WikiProject), not make a whole new one for this specific undertaking. --Trovatore 08:25, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- I've moved the Project to User:Zhigangsuo/Genealogy of Mechanicians. Best regards, Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 00:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award[edit]

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Self citation[edit]

Hello! I've reverted your additions to Convex hull, since, first of all, tweets are not considered to be reliable sources on Wikipedia, and, second, it looks especially questionable to cite a claim to one of your own tweets. If you can provide a published source with independent editorial oversight that supports that new content (applying the idea of a convex hull to thermodynamic phase spaces), then it would definitely belong in and improve the article, and can be restored. Meanwhile, please consider the guidelines at WP:SELFCITE and keep in mind that Wikipedia is not here to increase traffic to your Twitter account. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 18:35, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the instruction. The connection between thermodynamics and convex hull has not been identified in the literature. The example is an excellent illustration of both thermodynamics and convex hull. I am happy to remove the citation to my tweet, and replace it with the 1873 paper by Gibbs.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EoKZ9mE3SHUJhQo9RlSFfQUDX__gcfVK/view

He had the ideas, but did not have today's vocabulary.

Please kindly let me know. Zhigangsuo (talk) 20:33, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please let me know if you have seen my reply? Zhigangsuo (talk) 04:05, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, again! The connection between thermodynamic phase spaces and convex hulls seems like a very interesting idea, but, if, as you say, the connection "has not been identified" in the published literature, then I'm afraid it doesn't belong in a Wikipedia article until that identification is made in publication. If this is just a clever idea that you personally have had, then that would be pretty much the definition of what we call original research, which is not acceptable under our content policies. Rather, our policy of verifiability requires that all claims be supported by citations to reliable published sources. Go get a paper on these ideas published in a peer-reviewed journal, and then it can be included here. Good luck! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:34, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have cited Gibbs (1873). Other Wikipedia Editors can verify my additions by reading his paper. He showed that

(1) A mixture is a convex combination of homogeneous states.

(2) The upper boundary of the convex hull corresponds to all equilibrium states.

He had different names for "convex combination" and "convex hull", but identified both objects with no ambiguity. Their significance to thermodynamics was also well identified.

In the existing Wikipedia article on convex hull, quite a few historical works without using the current names have been identified.

Why not identify the work of Gibbs? Zhigangsuo (talk) 15:11, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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