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Your GA nomination of Trial of Thomas Paine

The article Trial of Thomas Paine you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Trial of Thomas Paine for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Wizardman -- Wizardman (talk) 16:41, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trial of Thomas Paine

The article Trial of Thomas Paine you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Trial of Thomas Paine for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Wizardman -- Wizardman (talk) 17:01, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

• I'm glad that I keep your talk page watch-listed. This article is a very nice piece of work that I never would have known existed otherwise. Well done, sir. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:09, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

  Thank you! :). Ironholds (talk) 17:26, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

December 2014: Added an additional educational reference for learning R data mining techniques.

I am sorry that you feel that way. I have no intention of improving search engine rankings. I think adding that link is very relevant and will help new R users find their way around R quickly. I dont feel think is spamming. If you change your mind, let me know. Otherwise I have no problem not adding that piece of information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Selva.prabhakaran (talk • contribs) 14:41, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

@Selva.prabhakaran: I didn't bring up search engine rankings, you did :). Yes, you would think the link is relevant, because you wrote the site it links to: this is why it is advised that people do not link to things they are associated with (similarly, I avoid using my journal articles as citations). Ironholds (talk) 14:47, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

If you are well versed in R programming, I will consider the debate on relevancy of the site. I will then value your opinion more. If there was a wiki policy to not add references to one's site, I apologise and I will respect it. You did mention search engine rankings on my usertalk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.23.217.109 (talk) 17:41, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

If...I am well-versed in R programming? This is the bit of the discussion where my reserves of good faith evaporate, so, you know. Warning in advance. Generally-speaking "I won't listen to you unless you prove you're qualified" is a poor way of engaging in discussions on Misplaced Pages.

Anyway. I wasn't aware we were seeing who could pee the furthest. But hey, since you're asking, here's my basis for thinking I might know a tiny bit about R:

1. The URL encoder/decoder/parser? I wrote it.
2. Session reconstruction algorithm? I wrote it.
3. MediaWiki API client library? I wrote it.
4. IP geolocation library? I wrote it.
5. Cryptographic hashing library? I wrote it.
6. The standard Advanced R Programming book? Okay I didn't write that one, I just edited it.

The vast majority of my career as a researcher and programmer has been spent in R, the only exceptions being writing Java or C++ that interfaces with R. I eat, sleep and breathe R. I do traffic analysis for a top-5 web property - the one we're sitting on, incidentally - in R. I occasionally debug R scripts in my sleep and wake up to scribble the solution down. At some point, that last one will stop being spooky.

So, now that we've established I might occasionally know what I'm talking about, in relation to programming in R: I've never heard of your site, and neither has anyone else. Even if Misplaced Pages was fine with the person adding the link, the site is not prominent enough within the subject area to be listed: we have a limited amount of space for external links and that should be spent on high-prominence, high-value external links, not a site that has existed for less than six months. As it happens, we do have a policy on adding external links that you're associated with, and it's not to.

By the way, while I'm here; your advice on for-loops and the apply family is inaccurate. for-loops are primarily slow due to a failure to instantiate a sufficiently-sized output object prior to the run, and/or the tendency of people to operate over non-primitives such as data.frames, which have copy-on-modify semantics and so are slow in any iterative scenario. And if you're going to point people to *apply as an answer for scenarios involving data.frames, you probably want to point them to Hadley's dplyr library as well to cover situations where they want data.frames as an output. Ironholds (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Hmm, should we send Elsa over to help with that burn? :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:37, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Mikhail Agafonov

Hi. I have just written an article but was informed that I copy pasted the whole content from another site. Can you help me with close paraphrasing thing? I substituted the tag with {{Under construction}} so that no one will delete it in a week. Many thanks in advance.--Mishae (talk) 07:13, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Autopatrol right removed

Hi. This is a courtesy message to inform you that the autopatrolled right you accorded to this user has been removed. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:09, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Seems reasonable; thanks for letting me know. Ironholds (talk) 12:45, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, since you went by my article I will then need to ask either of your help here, since I don't want my rights as an autopatrolled to be removed either. On December 18 a bot have notified me of copy vio which I must contest was a close paraphrasing. The article is called Mikhail Agafonov and I need your in restructuring of the article so that it will appear good in accordance to our5 policies. Can you be so kind and help me out? Thanks.--Mishae (talk) 21:14, 20 December 2014 (UTC)