Let me get this straight: Wikipedia is the one place in the world where plagiarism is not only ok, but required! So if I lie, and say that I learned it from Zeus/Apollo/Apocrypha/John Doe, then it's ok? BTW, I did get one snippy remark: "We get a lot of academics here. Alas, some of them are completely ineducable. If you take the time to learn how Wikipedia works, it will be a big help to you." I guess the reason my previous edits to other articles got through is that I didn't explicitly claim anything novel, even though there was some novelty there. I try not to waste my time & my readers' time by repeating stuff other people have already said much better than I could. Perhaps Wikipedia isn't the place for me? At 02:57 PM 6/2/2012, Mike Stay wrote:
Until it's been published in a journal somewhere, you can't. Otherwise it's excluded as "original research".
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Does anyone know how to deal with Wikipedia?
I tried this morning to make a very modest edit to the Circumscribed_circle article, and someone else keeps reverting it back.
All I'm trying to do is to add an external link to my article about computing the circumcenter coordinates using complex numbers:
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/FAQ-circumcircle.txt
My result is a generalization of the classic formula:
R=abc/(4 A), where R is the radius of the circumcircle, a,b,c are the side-lengths, and A is the area.
Now consider R,a,b,c to be "vectors" in the complex plane -- i.e., complex numbers.
Then the previous formula is |R|=|a||b||c|/(4 A)
My formula is:
R = -ia'bc/(4 A)
where i=sqrt(-1), and a' is conjugate(a).
Note that the multiplications in my formula are now _complex_ multiplies.
I think that this is a cool formula, and I believe that Gosper thought so, too.
Can someone here please help me make this change?
Thanks. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com