User talk:Lucidation

September 2012

Motion Planning course report reference removal

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Motion planning, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Silvrous ^Talk 19:38, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Lucidation, please elucidate. - Your repeated deletion of a section within Motion planning doesn't appear to have any good reason behind it. Please explain further. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Silvrous & Andy for letting me know I didn't write a reason, that was my mistake. I am a writer of the paper that is about to be submitted to ICRA, this reference is to an old course report that could be considered at best a first draft to the paper we are now attempting to submit. My professors & us writers wish to remove the reference since it can't be considered a reliable source (yet! :) ).

• The site it's on is here: http://rip11.wdfiles.com/local--files/simultaneous-planning-localization-and-mapping-for-unmanned/RIP_Planning_with_Uncertainty_for_Autonomous_UAV%250A.pdf

This appears to be a 2011 course site, http://rip11.wikidot.com/

with a contributor's workspace and abstract here, http://rip11.wikidot.com/simultaneous-planning-localization-and-mapping-for-unmanned

The site it is linking to is one used by the course in which I wrote the paper for, it is a coursework final report and hence a first draft of the actual paper being submitted. I understand that the draft is out there, however you are correct as this is a pre-print paper it would not be considered a reliable source. Until the paper has been published my professors and us writers would like to have references to incomplete material removed. This is no knock on public availability of information, but the paper is being referred incorrectly as a reliable source and I am trying to rectify that. Lucidation (talk) 21:57, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In good faith for questioning authenticity of myself as a writer, I added an edit to rip11 wiki project summary ('This is a course project & report for Georgia Tech course Robotics Intelligence & Planning 2011; the paper is an academic final report.'), considering I wrote that page also. I hope this helps prove I'm not trying to cause problems here! Fair enough? Lucidation (talk) 22:01, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no problem whatsoever, posting copyrighted work without the authors' permission is forbidden on Wikipedia, and I'm sorry it got posted without your permission in the first place. You are welcome to contribute to the wiki if you desire, there is much that can be done to improve Computer Science articles. If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask on my talk page. Silvrous ^Talk 08:19, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]