Sokwe wrote: ↑March 1st, 2024, 4:59 am
There is an unspoken (?) rule that you don't add your own discoveries to the wiki (except under your user page, for example, User:TheOddball524/my_pattern).
LifeWiki:Notability says:
To prevent overenthusiastic edits and conflicts of interest, a commonly accepted rule is that the discoverer of a pattern, inventor of new terminology, writer of a program, etc., etc., should not be the one to document that pattern, term, or program on the LifeWiki.
I think putting discoveries under the user page is also problematic (especially when there are many edits showing in the log of recent changes).
For comparison, on Wikipedia,
WP:NOTWEBHOST says:
Wikipedians have individual user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to work on the encyclopedia. Limited autobiographical information is allowed, but user pages do not serve as personal webpages, blogs, or repositories for large amounts of material irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia.
I think the same should be true for LifeWiki (i.e. limiting to information that is relevant to work on the encyclopedia about Life/CA).
I agree that a better way to share a new discovery is a post in one of existing forum threads.
127:1
B3/S234c User:Confocal/R (isotropic CA, incomplete)
Unlikely events happen.
My silence does not imply agreement, nor indifference. If I disagreed with something in the past, then please do not construe my silence as something that could change that.