User talk:Intforce

Hamburg

Explanation for your Hamburg change please. Everything you like, you leave as it is, and what you don't like, you delete. You deleted Bauer Media Group but Gruner + Jahr is still there. You deleted Heinrich Hertz, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, but Helmut Schmidt is still there. I wonder who is more famous. You deleted the Vltava info, although it was just a note not occupying space, and you deleted also the Stern info but Spiegel is still there. And you did all this, without explanation. And at Erfurt, note that it is completely uncommon to mention all the distances to different German cities. Justification for all this please Tibesti1 (talk) 00:28, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I restored an earlier revision (see WP:STABLE) because your changes are problematic from multiple viewpoints.

• Major grammatical errors and MOS violations.
• Removal of {{Lang}} templates. They are there for a reason.
• Factual errors. Stating that the Elbe river is actually the Vltava river is simply wrong. And also has no place in the lead.
• Trivial additions not relevant to what a lead is supposed to do: summarize the most important contents of the article.

Quite frankly, you have to be very careful when editing the lead of a major article. If you disagree with my assessment, please discuss it on the article's talk page, per WP:BRD. intforce (talk) 07:27, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

First of all, let me tell you, the manner in which you go around here deleting things is not very pleasing. Treating my edits as if they were vandalism, although none of them has the slightest touch of that.

Secondly, a closer look at what you exactly do shows, that you can't have read carefully through all my edits before reverting them, but that you just randomly and broadly reverted all my edits from one day. Otherwise it is not explainable, that the Spiegel is now again called a newspaper in the lead, and not a magazine. You tell me to be careful when editing a lead of an article, when it is in fact the case that i'm the one who reads through it carefully and tries to improve it, and you are the one reverting it to a state full of mistakes.

Now that i told you the first mistake you made reappear again, it goes on. To begin with Frankfurt (Oder), your reverts are highly problematic.

• First of all, you deleted the second spelling variant as well as the local dialect variant from the infobox, although a look at other cities' articles shows, that it is in fact common practice to mention the alternative names in the infobox. For sure, you will be able to cite the Wikipedia rules that allow you to delete the alternative names from the infobox.
• Secondly, you deleted the info, that there also appears a gallic rooster in the coat of arms of Słubice and not just of Frankfurt. Now while one can do that, one doesn't have to do that. Maybe you can explain why it's better not to mention this.
• Thirdly, the name section of Frankfurt seems to be much too short to be justified. If there is not enough material for a name section, the alternative names are normally mentioned right at the beginning of the article.
• Fourthly, there is now again that sentence "The large lake Helenesee lies within Frankfurt's city limits." in the article. This sentence reads like a non-sentence, as if there is missing something.

Concerning Hamburg, my first question would be, if the lead is supposed to summarize the most important things as you wrote, why is it that Olaf Scholz being chancellor since December 2021 is in the lead of Hamburg. Do you really think that something like that would be in the lead of Britannica? It is obvious, the most famous sons of Hamburg are Brahms, Mendelssohn and Hertz, and you deleted all of them, while Merkel, Schmidt and Scholz are still there. But you will surely have a good explanation for that, too.Tibesti1 (talk) 12:16, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

@Tibesti1: You are treating this like a personal issue, when it's not. I have no intention nor desire to be hostile to you. All of us are volunteers, and I have no personal stake other than wanting to see each article improved. We do have policies and guidelines to follow here, but that is not the point. Wikipedia is built on consensus, and if someone disagrees with your changes, you discuss the topic on the talk page, so other editors can may in.

When you make a massive edit that improves some aspects while introducing a number of gross errors, you can not reasonably expect other editors to manually undo every error while keeping your improvements in. In that case, a reversion to an earlier revision is not an endorsement of the prior revision, as you imply, but simply a recognition of the fact that the newer revision has made the article worse from an objective viewpoint. To avoid this, make small, individual changes over time, and use the edit summary where you explain your reasoning behind the change, giving other editors the chance to review each change individually. intforce (talk) 12:36, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Your Frankfurt (Oder) change. Are you telling me that i may not revert your last change there, but discuss each of the four points on the talk page, or change it back again in four different steps? Tibesti1 (talk) 12:51, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I am not convinced that the Marchian name is notably to warrant such a prominent inclusion in the lead and infobox. Adding a footnote is perhaps more suitable. intforce (talk) 08:21, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

And what are the criteria for including Low German names of cities in the Low German language area? As we can see at Turin, there the infobox also shows the name in Piedmontese. Tibesti1 (talk) 10:31, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Inclusion is decided on a case-to-case basis. Feel free to discuss it on the talk page if you disagree. intforce (talk) 10:02, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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Quantum computing lead

Hi! I see that you reverted my changes to the lead of the quantum computing article without providing an explanation. I think that it is always a good idea to explain your reasons for preferring the older version when reverting changes to an article. I had made the change to help make the lead more concise, and to mention the hype around quantum technology, as I had previously discussed with Igor Markov in the article talk page. Could you please explain your rationale at Talk:Quantum computing so that we can reach a reasonable consensus?  — Freoh 12:20, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi Freoh, thank you very much for your contributions to Wikipedia. I agree that the lead should highlight the practical limitations more. Nevertheless, I believe the earlier version had certain merits that deserve consideration, mainly in terms of flow and coherence, offering a clearer explanation of the relationship between classical and quantum computers, and introducing quantum supremacy in a more natural way. I also think that the phrasing "hype around the discipline" is potentially unencyclopedic. Additionally, I'm not too sure why you removed the final sentence that introduced quantum complexity theory, which was certainly useful. However, I value your thoughtful edits and encourage you to continue refining the article. intforce (talk) 14:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Intforce, I can agree that "hype around the discipline" doesn't seem encyclopedic, but it is semantically appropriate given the circumstances. Would you be comfortable with "unusually high expectations for" or "irrational exuberance related to" "the discipline" or some other appropriately elevated substitute? Igor Markov 23:47, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Is there a universal scientific consensus declaring quantum computing to be overhyped? If not, I propose rephrasing "generated hype around the discipline" to something like "generated notable interest in the discipline" or "drawn considerable discourse in the discipline" to comply with WP:NPOV. intforce (talk) 09:48, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

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My contribution of 'In fiction and popular culture' as in numerous other similar items.

Hello,

I contributed this section of 'in fiction and popular culture' in the same style as in other items such as 'heidelberg university' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_University), yale university (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University), harvard university (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University), University of Oxford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford), University of Cambridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge). Why can't university of Göttingen have such an item? I hope we'll put the section I contributed back to where they were. Thank you. GCGOC (talk) 13:31, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Inclusion is considered on individual merit, not precedent. None of the two entries you added are sufficiently relevant to the university itself that it warrants inclusion. The song does not even mention the university. The film contains only a trivial mention. intforce (talk) 14:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Different views about university rankings

Hello,

Again, I don't know where you're from, but I believe this must be a place for free speech and not censorship. Who says those rankings are the golden and objective criteria that one must buy?! These rankings are all products developed by commercial companies for business purposes. I added those words without censoring the original ones, so why censor my ideas? Do you recognize the 'marketplace of ideas' - a fundamental principle of free speech? GCGOC (talk) 13:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

It does not matter what you or others consider "free speech". Wikipedia operates on a neutral point of view with due and balanced weights given to opinions and a strict exclusion of original research. If you want to add something, ensure its verifiability. intforce (talk) 14:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

OK - thanks: 'verifiability', 'merit' and 'not precedent'. Well said! I just found the following footnote to the Wikipedia ranking:

"Experiments show that the Wikipedia university rankings provide a certain overlap compared with the existing world university rankings. Besides, Wikipedia university rankings attach more importance to the overall economic and cultural contributions of universities and make up for some of the deficiencies of ranking index system." - Mining the World University Rankings from Wikipedia, 2020, available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9142517/metrics#metrics.

The edits I made previously to the paragraph about ranking were not just my own comments. Instead, the vast differences in the results of the rankings along with this new footnote (which I didn't add last time) well document my previous edits:

"In 2015, the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities listed the University of Göttingen as the 23rd among the world's top universities and the 3rd best in Germany (with footnote). However, The University of Göttingen's rankings vary significantly across different business-oriented global university rankings, reflecting a wide range of evaluation criteria for and perspectives on its academic and research performance."

What I added was completely verifiable, and actually reflected the problem with the rankings of the university of Göttingen (probably with other universities as well) - esp. with the help of this new footnote as verifiable support. I do strongly think this edit should be added, even though this ranking is not mentioned in the text of rankings in most other universities. However, what others did or didn't do should not serve as the precedent for edits, as you mentioned. GCGOC (talk) 18:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

In other words, I wanted to provide this source along with the outcome of the Wikipedia ranking as EVIDENCE that "the rankings vary considerably". This is neutral - I'm not saying which one should prevail, but just pointed this out, rather than let one voice dominate and suppress a different voice, no matter whether anyone thinks this is correct. GCGOC (talk) 19:01, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Verifiability does not guarantee inclusion. There are dozens of university rankings. Do you wish to include every single one of them? It is common practice to stick to the most commonly known by their prominence in reliable sources. Cherry-picking the most favorable rankings for a university is violating NPOV. intforce (talk) 19:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Detail About National Pingtung University

Hello, I'm Shuting23521. I noticed that you removed the version I edited in "National Pingtung University". I have a few points I'd like to clarify. In the first paragraph I am sure those all base on the official website of the organization. I am not sure why it is unreliable. I hope you can cheak that again. Also, I know it was very different from the original version but the original version was describing NPUST instead of the NPTU in this directory. Even the original version was not based on any evidence. For the reasons mentioned above, I took the opportunity to modify the "Academics" section and listed the departments and research units. This was because the page lacked content, and I hoped that by providing this information, readers would be able to gain a detailed understanding of the university. These contents are still based on the official website.

I may have been negligent in the history section because I only mentioned the citation[1] within the paragraph (which is from the NPTU official website, describing a brief history), without explicitly stating in the title of the table that my reference was from the official website. This was my oversight.

I hope don't remove all of it.

first paragraph:

NPTU offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs across 7 colleges: Management, Computer Science, Education, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Science, International, and Mt. Dawu.[2] Notably, the College of Education and the College of Management stand out as prominent academic institutions within NPTU. In the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, NPTU was globally ranked 801-1000.[3]

Academics:

NPTU has 7 colleges: Computer Science, Education, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Management, Science, International, and Mt. Dawu. Also, NPTU has the Center of Teacher Education.[4]

College of Computer Science

• Department of Computer and Communication (B.Eng.)
• Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (B.Eng.; M.S.) .......

Shuting23521 (talk) 11:05, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

@Shuting23521: Please feel free to add information that observes the reliable source and neutral point of view policies. Language such as "give Pingtung a bright future" is PR language and unsuitable for an encyclopaedia. intforce (talk) 11:13, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the reminder. I will review the content again and make appropriate adjustments in the future. Shuting23521 (talk) 11:50, 10 March 2024 (UTC)