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Benford's Law
[edit]Greetings, welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for improving Wikipedia.
I partially reverted your recent edits to Benford's Law. I removed "such as those that occurred in Florida's 2000 elections" for lack of a reliable source. Editors from both the left and the right have tried to use this article to make cases of election fraud. When an edit is likely to be contentious like this one, you need a reliable source that explicitly states the fact that you want to add.
You changed
Benford's law has also been applied for forensic auditing and fraud detection on data from the 2003 California gubernatorial election, the 2000 and 2004 United States presidential elections, and the 2009 German federal election; the Benford's Law Test was found to be "worth taking seriously as a statistical test for fraud," although "is not sensitive to distortions we know significantly affected many votes."[further explanation needed]
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Benford's law has also been applied for forensic auditing and fraud detection on data from the 2003 California gubernatorial election, the 2000 and 2004 United States presidential elections, and the 2009 German federal election. The Benford's Law Test was found to be "worth taking seriously as a statistical test for fraud," although "the test is not sensitive to distortions we know significantly affected many votes.", as occurred in Florida 2000 elections.
Using the summary slightly improved phrasing, changed quotation for readability and to remove "explain" tag, which I then did.
There are a couple of minor newbie mistakes, which we expect. Don't let me pointing them out discourage you.
- The way you inserted the new fact made it appear to be supported by one of the references. Was that what you intended? If so, did you verify it in the reference? I apologize if in fact that is what you intended and you did check the reference.
- Your edit summary, while being true, is slightly misleading. The most significant part of your edit is that you added a new fact. A summary such as added an example would have been better.
- Your example did not provide the requested explanation. The request was What were the results? Was fraud detected? I have to admit, that request wasn't entirely clear, but I read it as asking what were the results of the Benford analysis in cases where it was insensitive to known distortions.
These are newbie mistakes, and we expect them. Don't let it get you down. Please keep editing. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Cheers, Constant314 (talk) 21:29, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for clearly trying to ensure political neutrality. - This was supported by the reference immediately following it - That's fair I hadn't thought about that so Im going to try to improve that. - The case where it was insensitive to known distortions was the Florida 2000 elections (according to the source cited). If I were to add this again would it perhaps be better to simply include that as an extension in the quoted material, which can be easily done, because of the position of those claims within the source test. Thanks, Emily.Owl (talk) 12:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC) Great. Again, my apologies. Adding as part of the quoted material is probably a good idea. I realize that you were responding to a request for an explanation. I question the value to the article to list cases where a Benford analysis does not apply. I am sure that there are thousands. Also, I question the value of adding an example without explaining why it is an example. But that is an issue for another time. Constant314 (talk) 13:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)May 2025
[edit]Good evening. You sent me a message saying that my to Doctor Who missing episodes was unconstructive/unhelpful. You reversed it. Please may I have an explanation? In the original, error in the credit sequence of Doctor Who was highlighted using italics for the miscredited actors entire name. In my version, I removed italics and underlined only the erroneous part of the credit instead. In my opinion, this highlights the issue more effectively than placing the entire word in italics. While you are free to disagree, I feel you go too far in suggesting that I am somehow being wilfully unconstructive. 5.80.60.33 (talk) 20:23, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for reaching out, having gone back and taken a more detailed look I still believe that it would be more suited to have the whole name italicised. This is as I believe that it gives a more coherent appearance, as compared to a singular italic letter, and when read the error should still be clear. If you still think it would be better suited to have only one letter italiscised you might do well raising it directly on the talk page. However, retrospectively I agree that the warning I placed was too far and I apologise for this. I have now gone back to your talk page and simply deleted that section. Thanks, Emily.Owl (talk) 20:37, 10 May 2025 (UTC) You cannot retract a warning. It is part of the record even if you delete it. However, you can comment on your warning that you now acknowledge that the warning was an error. You are correct that italics are the preferred method for highlighting. It is in the MOS. Constant314 (talk) 22:22, 10 May 2025 (UTC)A recent revert
[edit]Your revert here is essentially good, the reverted edit absolutely added a contentious label to the subject that was unencyclopedic; however, your revert also re-introduced language which was even more contentious than what was removed. Just wanted to advise you to double check content per MOS:LABEL before a revert. Thank you. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 22:40, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback, will keep that (MOS:LABEL) in mind for the future. Thanks, Emily.Owl (talk) 22:43, 10 May 2025 (UTC)A kitten for you!
[edit]thanks for my first ever thanks
also I yoinked your templates for my own profile ^w^
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Re matt Bowden
[edit]Oh, I thought I had mentioned it, sorry. I believed the information was far too detailed for something that isn't significant. I'm taking it upon myself to redo thos whole page as he's clearly done this himself. He's responsible for a few homeless deaths in nz, there's articles I'm collecting that show this. I'll have a much more in depth look at these processes before doing so, sorry for the inconvenience. Iseesoiseeso (talk) 13:33, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
Congratulations on reaching extended confirmed status.
[edit]This is the first milestone. It is based on being here a certain minimum time and making a certain minimum of edits. Some article won't let beginners edit. Constant314 (talk) 16:33, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the congratulation. Emily.Owl ( she/her • talk) 16:37, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Adoption
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[edit]why did u remove the line from our page im sure you dont even know what we were talking about, its an Eazy E unreleased album and it was going to be the first full length solo double album in the Gangsta Rap/Horrorcore genre he didnt release it and Pac took that spot with All Eyez On Me please stop editing our stuff we worked hard to make this Flesh1999 (talk) 20:08, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
I removed the line as it seemed an extraordinary claim, seeing as it would be rather significant to be the first of a kind, which was not adequately sourced (see WP:V and WP:RS). On a second note, while I do appreciate your contributions, it is not your page. Almost anyone is free to edit and contribute to wikipedia in a constructive way, but this also means that you can’t claim “ownership” or control over an article or part of an article (see WP:OWN). Also the ability for almost anyone to edit wikipedia means that you don’t need to be an expert in a subject to edit the article about it, hence why we have things such as a verifiability policy. Thanks, Emily.Owl ( she/her • talk) 07:01, 1 August 2025 (UTC) its not extraordinary it was literally true, it was going to be the first double album in the genere but he scrapped it Flesh1999 (talk) 12:58, 1 August 2025 (UTC) It may well be true, but that isn’t why I removed it. I removed the content because I doubted its accuracy and it was not sourced (and I wasn’t able to find a source for it). Because of this, and WP:BURDEN it requires appropriate sources/references/citations to be added to the inline text of the article (before restoring it to the article). Emily.Owl ( she/her • talk) 14:39, 1 August 2025 (UTC)ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message
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