The Ivory Tower

9:11 AM

@ff524 Please take a look at the attempts of two suggested edits about tag wiki.

@scaaahu what was your particular concern about those edits?

@ff524 I wasn't too sure about the purpose of the tag. Do we need it? Just want a mod to look at it, on the safe side.

@scaaahu in its current form, it seems very vague and not useful. Perhaps a "arxiv-endorsement" tag would be useful instead - we do get more than a handful of questions about those.

@ff524 I was thinking of arxiv tag should be enough for it.

@scaaahu there are 9 questions about the arxiv endorsement process. Maybe worth having a separate tag, maybe not.

9:26 AM

@ff524 That's exactly why I want a mod to make a decision. Now you know it. I'll leave it to you. Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving.

Undergrad-Education Questions on Math Educators

@scaaahu I'll remove it for now and suggest that the user propose it on meta and seek community feedback. Thanks

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12:16 PM

Q: Entetaining/fun books about mathematics for (basically) liberal arts students

I’m looking for books of a general interest in maths, like a maths novel, a fun book about maths, a humorous introduction to higher concepts, something outside of tests, something they can read on their free time and appreciate the beauty of mathematics. Let me add more details. I’m working as a...

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StrongBad

2:33 PM

@scaaahu you have more than earned the privileges you have. You do so much of the gross work keeping the site clean. I find your judgement about the wishes of the community spot on.

2:51 PM

@StrongBad Thanks. May I take this as a compliment?

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StrongBad

4:58 PM

@scaaahu yes, most definitely. I am sorry if there was any ambiguity

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7:54 PM

I'm thinking that among the Community Promotion Ads we could put stuff like: "Talk to your advisor!" or "Europe is not a country!"...

8:53 PM

@MassimoOrtolano Problem is that those who need to see it, probably won’t.

Also, why the “Europe is not a country”?

@Wrzlprmft Alas, you're probably right. As for "Europe is not a country", it's because we frequently receive questions that make wide inquiries about Europe as though it were a uniform region.

@MassimoOrtolano Well, we even more frequently get questions that act as if the entire world were a uniform region …

@Wrzlprmft Which makes me think that a lot of people never set foot outside their city :-(

@MassimoOrtolano At least regarding academia, it’s somewhat understandable. You usually do not have much opportunity to learn much about how it works even in your own country before you enter a university or similar in the first place.

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