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title of "Gulf war" article

@ناشناس879 and MrOllie: I suggest that the title of the article named "Gulf War" at the time I'm writing this be changed to "Gulf war" or "Gulf war (1990-91)" or "Persian Gulf war (1990-91)" or "Gulf war (1990-1991)" or "Persian Gulf war (1990-1991)" but NOT with "War" capitalized, per MOS:AT.

I'm posting this comment here, because the new article "Gulf War" did not have a talk page a minute ago when I tried update my previous post there about this question.

What do you think? DavidMCEddy (talk) 13:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

I returned it to the status quo. If you think some other title is better, feel free to start a WP:RM. Talk:Gulf War absolutely does exist, please direct any replies there. MrOllie (talk) 13:37, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

ok I changed the article because the official name of this Gulf is the Persian Gulf. ناشناس879 (talk) 13:37, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia uses common names (see WP:COMMONNAME), not 'official names'. MrOllie (talk) 13:38, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

In some Arab countries it is called the Gulf. Wikipedia doesn't use common names, it uses official names. ناشناس879 (talk) 13:43, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

No, you are incorrect. Read the link I just posted. MrOllie (talk) 13:44, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

That's true, but you should have a source of information about the known name of the bay. ناشناس879 (talk) 13:47, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

The article is about the war, not the gulf. (by the way, 'gulf' and 'bay' are not interchangeable) Please don't move articles again until you have a full understanding of how articles are titled on Wikipedia. You can read about that at Wikipedia:Article titles. MrOllie (talk) 13:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Maybe you don't care about the name, but it's very important for a nation that the original names are lost. Wikipedia is the place of logical and historical articles, and nothing else. ناشناس879 (talk) 13:53, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand what your response has to do with what I just wrote here. MrOllie (talk) 13:56, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

You don't understand anything! ناشناس879 (talk) 13:57, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

I understand Wikipedia's policies on moving articles (at WP:RM) and titles (at Wikipedia:Article titles). Do not move articles out of process and in conflict with policy again. MrOllie (talk) 13:59, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Apache AGE removed from list of notable graph databases

Hello MrOllie, hope you are well. I see that FalkorDB is added to the list of notable graph databases, in Graph database, even though it doesn't have an approved Wikipedia article, nor has an independent source. What is truly necessary to do in order to confirm my addition? Marksoulz (talk) 14:13, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. FalkorDB was added a few days ago and it looks like nobody noticed. I removed it. MrOllie (talk) 14:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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"Screencast" article citation removal

Hi, I was curious why you removed the citation that the term screencast is trademarked. Did that link (https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86474355&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch) not come through correctly? (that uspto.gov site is not great at URLs) The term has been trademarked - next year will make a decade. I could send the PDF of the trademark. Or here is a link to the screen capture of the trademark. https://app.screencast.com/9eegQOsoHFlvS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Digitalmediacreators (talk • contribs)

Trademarks are complicated - they are defined in particular industries rather than for all uses and are often unenforceable for various reasons. For that reason, they should only be written about based on secondary sources, not primary sources such as a trademark office search. - MrOllie (talk) 22:03, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Fortran

Why do you keep removing the reference to the Fortran book? Is it because of your claim that it contains a 'bookstore reference'? If so, please note that:

a) it is not necessary to remove the whole citation;

b) it is, anyway, not a 'bookstore' reference but a direct link to the book on the website of one of the world's leading academic publishers. This is a convenience to any potential reader, who then doesn't need to undertake further searches. Mr.Fortran (talk) 17:54, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

We had the citation without link, and you added the improper link to it multiple times. I also have to ask - are you related to this book or any of its authors in some fashion? MrOllie (talk) 17:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

Did you get my ping? Just checking because I know that the notification system is not 100% reliable. M.Bitton (talk) 17:31, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I saw it. I'm reading and thinking about it, I'll most likely post something later today. MrOllie (talk) 17:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Wait, this wasn't a templated warning from a new user inserting spam links?! I saw you replying to a Month Year section on your talk page and just assumed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:36, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

That's great. Thanks for doing that. M.Bitton (talk) 17:38, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Statement about an unspecified "predatory publisher"

Hello, I would like to politely ask you to clarify me what specific "publisher" you were referring to when you stated "depends on sourcing from predatory publisher" as the comment to justify the removal of the constructive proof of the existence of (Euclidean) knight's tours on k-dimensional 2x2x...x2 grids for each k >= 6 (19:39, 17 April 2024‎, "Knight's tour" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour). I am asking for this clarification since the only referred sources were the FIDE (International Chess Federation) website, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics (an academic peer-reviewed journal, listed on Web of Science), and a short note providing a valid closed Euclidean knight's tour on the 2x2x2x2x2x2 chessboard. Anyway, we could state the complete result by just linking the arXiv version of the aforementioned published article, which covers also the only remaining case (i.e., k = 6) allowing us to state the general result as a necessary and sufficient condition on k... Is it worth restoring the subsection if edited as above? Can a published paper (with constructive proof of a stated original result) on NNTDM or its arXiv version be considered a non-predatory source at the end (since they are a 100% free-of-charge open-access academic resource/repository)? Thanks in advance for your time, Marcokrt (talk) 01:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

nntdm.net - they're a predatory publisher. Plenty of predatory journals have gotten listed on Web of Science, that means nothing. Also, you should have a read of WP:COI and WP:REFSPAM - you should not be filling Wikipedia with citations to yourself - that is a blatant violation of Wikipedia's rules against conflict of interest. Using an arxiv version (itself an unreliable self publishing venue) would not be better. MrOllie (talk) 01:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Nope, I have not read that a proper source couldn't have been added in order to fill a knowledge gap on a stated problem, my bad. Now, could you please provide me a proper source about your claim about the assumption that NNTDM is a predtory publisher (I am asking this because I really need to know this since I sent them my best research papers).

Furthermore, I asked if also arXiv can be considered a predatory publisher (given the fact that the same results are also there). Anyway, I will not edit anything in order to be sure to avoid any conflict (I am an Independent Researched doing research for free, spending my time only for the sake of solving open problems in NT and CO).

Thanks again for your valuable info. Marcokrt (talk) 02:03, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry you got taken in by a bad journal, but I do not plan to debate the issue here with you on my talk page. Arxiv is not 'predatory', but they are still unusable for Wikipedia since they allow anyone to publish anything with no quality controls. They are occasionally used as a convenience link when a paper has also been published through a reputable publisher. The bigger issue is that you should not be adding citations to yourself or writing about your own work here. MrOllie (talk) 02:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I see and that's not a problem for me, I am only a bit sad because of those information cannot be shared with the readers interested in knowing it (they are still proven and online with a DOI and I am happy anyway).

Now, I consider arXiv as a valid source since I often have seen it listed as a reference here (also on the same pages) and unfortunately, I do have not enough knowledge and experience here to make valuable edits to others' results on technical topics here, so I cannot help more on this side.

My only (big) concern at the moment is that I need to know why NNTDM is considered a predatory journal and a claim needs a proper source (IMHO)... I spent many years on those results and I didn't find any evidence to confirm your statement, moreover I haven't every paid anything to publish there and, on average, I received also (for free) very good reviews after 1 year from sending the manuscripts.

I hope you can understand the feeling from somebody who made all of this just to solve open problems and share knowledge.

Regards Marcokrt (talk) 02:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Citespam at HAVCR2 and other related articles

Hi MrOllie, would you be so kind to have a look at the contributions of the following users: Ezzeddini (talk · contribs) and Pasteur immunology (talk · contribs). As far as I can tell this looks like a typical case of citespam, but since this is far from my professional sector, a more expert evaluation seems appropriate. Thanks a lot in advance, DoebLoggs (talk) 10:03, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Clearly refspam. I'd actually independently reverted a number of edits from Ezzeddini before you posted here. MrOllie (talk) 12:07, 7 May 2024 (UTC)