User talk:Dave Braunschweig/2023

Page move of Leutha's efforts
Dave: No harm was done but you completely misunderstood my page moves. I was not policing Leutha's userspace. The pages were originally in namespace, with names of the form Leutha/x, where x was one of about four pages. Since there were several pages, and since I wanted to minimize my impact on User:Leutha space, I created the mainpage Leutha and moved Leutha and all its subpages to pages of the form User:Leutha/page/x. I would never mess with Leutha's userspace! In fact, I was very hesitant to mess with Leutha/x in mainspace. Leutha has certainly made enough contributions to Wikiversity to deserve a Leutha page in mainspace.

I briefly pondered proposing that all established users be allowed their own mainspace pages, e.g., Guy vandegrift for me and Dave Braunschweig for you. But I realized that would invite abuse, like for example, by some goofball who takes the name User:The truth about who killed JFK. My belief that user:Leutha deserves a Leutha mainspace page is why I was so delicate in my message to him.

As I told Leutha, I'm just trying to keep everybody happy, and somebody else put the speedy delete on the Leutha/x pages. Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 22:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)


 * @Guy vandegrift: Sorry. I saw them having been moved from Leutha/ and didn't recognize that it wasn't User:Leutha/. I think user space is the right place for these files. If Leutha wants to organize subpages from there, that's up to him. I appreciate the clarification! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:46, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem! I don't know how many times I created Guy vandegrift/x only to later realize it wasn't in userspace.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 00:58, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks Dave. I would expect a mainspace called Leutha to be part of a resource to do with William Blake but the only resource on WU I could find is Lectures/Literary_criticism/Thomas_Gray/Elegy%27s_influence!Leutha (discuss • contribs) 22:58, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

User:NajiOS, User:Fvkvon, User:Didodadodadidododa, etc
FYI: Based on behavior, I'm fairly certain that this group of accounts is controlled by a single user who has previously been blocked on Commons for similar behavior (cf. c:Category:Sockpuppets_of_Go!animatefan42168. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 20:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @Omphalographer Agreed. I just didn't know the linked accounts. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:23, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * They're back: - Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 19:22, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * And again: - Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 21:21, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Sigh. - Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 19:14, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Unused redirects
Hi! Should unused redirects like "Draft:Docker" and "Draft:Cloud Computing Infrastructure" be deleted? (If I link to them they will no longer be unused so you have to copy paste. Sorry.) --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 21:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I added a list to sandbox (old version) of redirects I think are orphan. I saw User:MathXplore delete some today. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 14:31, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, orphaned redirects should be deleted. Let me see if MaintenceBot still works. Once upon a time I had code to automate this effort. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:59, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * But there's more to it than just seeing if there are any links to the redirect. You also need to check page views to see if the redirect is actively used from the outside or through Search for some reason. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:06, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I deleted any redirects to Draft: space. Working on redirects in general will take more time. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:31, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Yes I agree that redirects in main namespace could be useful even if there is no links to them. But I read somewhere that search does not find pages in Draft namespace so thats why I was wondering if they were useful :-) --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 19:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Measure Theory
Howdy Mr. Braunschweig! You seem in charge around here and I wanted to just touch base. I've started to build out a course on Measure Theory in earnest, here: []. There are a couple of ways in which the way that I am authoring it is quirky, but I really really believe in doing it this way. I hope it is not objectionable -- I promise that it is in technical agreement with the standard presentation, just said with occasionally tongue-in-cheek language and structured in a slightly unusual structure.

Also I'm sure there may be ways in which the code formatting is incorrect, and that is just ignorance on my part wherever it occurs. I am hoping that, after I build out enough of this to show to people, I might recruit a friend or two to help co-author it and clean up my mistaken formatting.

But if this style of authorship is not appropriate here, please let me know and I (or you) can take it down. Addemf (discuss • contribs) 01:08, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * @Addemf: Welcome to Wikiversity! There really isn't any individual in charge here. Everything is based on community support, or at least community acceptance. I took a quick look at Measure Theory. It looks fine. You'll find many different "teaching" styles here, depending on the primary author and the intended audience. If you want to see what's popular in general, take a look at Statistics. Practical, hands-on, "learning by doing" tends to draw the most interest.
 * From a design point of view, I recommend spending a lot of time, relatively speaking, on your first learning module. Once you have that the way you want it, the rest are much easier to put together. I'd also recommend not doing too much in terms of code formatting. People are interested in the content. Creative formatting slows you down without adding educational value.
 * Be sure to reference all sources used. It makes it much easier to ensure there are no copyright violations and everything is used fairly and according to its license. Let us know whenever you have any questions. Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:14, 27 December 2023 (UTC)