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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 - Wikipedia with the correct answer. But since the correct answer contradicts a history of the classical answer, my editing violates the Wikipedia:Verifiability#Exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing. How do I address that (if possible0 to correct what's currently in Wikipedia?

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

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+== How many uncited articles are not yet tagged as uncited? ==
-== FYI: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Information fuzzy networks]] ==
+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? [[User:Chidgk1|Chidgk1]] ([[User talk: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.
-FYI:
-*[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Information fuzzy networks]]
+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.
-You're invited to give your opinions.
+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]]. [[User:Snowpeek|Snowpeek]] ([[User talk:Snowpeek|talk]]) 05:22, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
---<span style="font-family:Futura">[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] <sup>([[User talk:A. B.|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/A. B.|contribs]]  •  [[Special:CentralAuth/A._B.|global count]])</sup></span> 14:10, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
+== Probability paradoxes or counter-intuitive problems ==
-==COI edit request at [[Talk:Probability_box#requestedit|Probability box]]==
-A COI editor has made a request for information to be added to the ''Applications'' section of this article. The requesting editor appears to be the author of the reference they are hoping to apply to the requested addition to that section. Unfortunately, [[Space Trajectory Optimization Asteroid Impact Monitoring State Estimation]] is not independently notable (nor for that matter, are many other items in the ''Applications'' section). Thus, I was hoping someone more mathematically inclined could have a look? Thank you very much for any help on this. Regards, [[User:Spintendo|<span style="font-size:85%;color:#f00;border:3px solid red;border-radius:15px;">&nbsp;<b>Spintendo</b>&nbsp;</span>]] 19:59, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
+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#The paradox as stated by Bertrand|Bertrand's box paradox - Wikipedia]] with the correct answer. But since the correct answer contradicts a history of the classical answer, my editing violates the [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing]]. How do I address that (if possible0 to correct what's currently in Wikipedia?
-== Statistics in Serial Killer Nurse cases ==
-The Lucy Letby trial in the UK is about a nurse who kept being present when suspicious events happened on her shifts. Or was she a bothersome person who kept complaining when she saw mistakes being made, and are the events called suspicious because she was present? This is a subject of intense controversy in the UK. There is a Wikipedia article on Lucy Letby, and there has been a lot of activity by editors on the Wikipedia article about myself, because of my own activities in the public arena calling for a retrial and arguing her innocence. On the Lucy Letby talk page I argued that editors should distinguish between "being guilty" and "being found guilty". For that reason, I will also be attacked for writing these remarks here. It will be seen as an attempt to use Wikipedia as a vehicle for campaigning. I have already been labelled by the main stream media in the UK as a nutty conspiracy theorist and some sort of terrorist, attempting to undermine the rule of law. (Deja vu: law professors in the Netherlands wrote the same thing about me during the trial of Lucia de Berk). While the trial was going on, Dutch police came to my house in the Netherlands in the night with a letter from UK police, threatening me with arrest next time I visit the UK. I don't want to enter into any discussion here, because it is clear that I do have multiple conflicts of interest. I'm just hoping that Wikipedia editors from outside the UK with interests in statistics, law, and forensic science, will start following Wikipedia developments concerning statistics and the Lucy Letby trial. [[User:Gill110951|Richard Gill]] ([[User talk:Gill110951|talk]]) 06:04, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
+Thank you for any help. [[User:Kicab|Kicab]] ([[User talk:Kicab|talk]]) 16:04, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
-== Requested move at [[Talk:Relative change and difference#Requested move 24 September 2023]] ==
-[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]] There is a requested move discussion at [[Talk:Relative change and difference#Requested move 24 September 2023]] that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. [[User:ModernDayTrilobite|ModernDayTrilobite]] ([[User talk:ModernDayTrilobite|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/ModernDayTrilobite|contribs]]) 14:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)