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How many uncited articles are not yet tagged as uncited?

I am not competent to estimate this myself but I assume you guys are if I can find info such as the number tagged each month. If this is the wrong place to ask for a statistical estimate where should I ask please? Chidgk1 (talk) 17:43, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Which countries/territories should be included

List of countries and dependencies by population - (This article is listed as Mid-importance on the Statistics WikiProject.)

A difference of opinion has arisen on which countries/territories should be ranked on this article. Specifically, whether all countries/territories should be ranked, or only UN member states.

The section is titled "Sovereign states and dependencies by population". From this title, it's unclear whether disputed states / territories (e.g. Taiwan, Kosovo, Palestine) should be included.

The previous version of this article excluded disputed territories in the ranking, but also excluded dependencies (despite the section title). Presumably this decision was made by a previous editor, because dependencies are not UN members, and only UN members were ranked in the previous article version.

Column 1 of the table retains the UN member-only ranking, which was the only ranking shown in the previous version of this article.

My recent edit added column 2 to the table, which ranks all countries/dependencies.

I opted to keep both columns rather than replace, to take a more conservative/inclusive approach. Discussion has been on whether to have only 1 ranking column, and if so, which to rank. One editor reverted the article to UN members-only ranking without discussion, but I have restored both columns and requested further discussion on the talk page.

Would appreciate more input from others as this seems quite an important topic. Please see "Ranking" on the talk page: Talk:List of countries and dependencies by population. Snowpeek (talk) 05:22, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Probability paradoxes or counter-intuitive problems

I published an article in Chance ( https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/N2ZHDVNZTCGQBQWTN5ZQ/full?target=10.1080/09332480.2024.2415844) citing flawed reasoning in these types of problems: they ask for the probability of an outome of an event that has occurred but answer with the probability of that outcome before the event has occurred. I edited Bertrand's box paradox - Misplaced Pages with the correct answer. But since the correct answer contradicts a history of the classical answer, my editing violates the Misplaced Pages:Verifiability#Exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing. How do I address that (if possible0 to correct what's currently in Misplaced Pages?

Thank you for any help. Kicab (talk) 16:04, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

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