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Erdős number in introduction

Do others agree with me that having someone's Erdős number in the introduction is awkward? __meco (talk) 08:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Maybe it should go in the bio section, with the names of those whose co-authorship earns him the number. On it's own it reads a bit like his shoe size, at least to someone unfamiliar with the term. Kevin (talk) 10:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Why is his blog permitted as external link, but not his tweets?

I don't see the difference. Perhaps there is some Misplaced Pages policy on this.

Calamitybrook (talk)

(put above comment in proper order)

Update needed to External links

The external links need to be updated. Here is a suggested replacement:

• Hewitt's homepage.
• h at DBLP Bibliography Server
• List of publications from Hewitt's web page.
• Hewitt's blog.
• Hewitt's tweets
• Wittgenstein versus Gödel on the Foundations of Logic Stanford hour-long video with slides here on April 23, 2010 with participants including Solomon Feferman, Jeremy Forth, Grigori Mints, and Charles Petrie.
• How to Program the Many Cores for Inconsistency Robustness Stanford hour-long video with slides here on January 12, 2011 with participants including Dennis Allison, Douglas Crockford, and Andy Freeman.

171.66.86.58 (talk) 20:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Above suggestion looks okay to me, but there may be a few editors who seek to keep article (and even this talk page) in an unchanged condition. I suppose that's their "consensus."

In fairness, a number of other editors have disagreed, and there are a practically infinite number of people who don't particularly care.

Calamitybrook (talk) 21:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

The important issue is having a good encyclopedia article. 171.66.86.58 (talk) 21:29, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey, I'm with you. But considering that I stumbled on this article through a press listing of the "Dumbest disputes on Misplaced Pages" or something like that.... your goal may be difficult to achieve.

Also, consider that the few eagle-editors involved here don't seem to cotton much to unregistered editors like yourself.

Calamitybrook (talk) 21:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

• Start-Class biography articles
• Start-Class biography (science and academia) articles
• Unknown-importance biography (science and academia) articles
• Science and academia work group articles
• Science and academia work group articles needing infoboxes
• Misplaced Pages requested photographs of scientists and academics
• Biography articles without infoboxes
• Misplaced Pages requested photographs of people
• WikiProject Biography articles