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Yes Coolout Conjecture is also affected by the same issue under discussion. In all these cases, infoboxes are confusing and misleading. ("Pattern type: Problem" -- what that is supposed to mean? If anything, the pattern is (part of) a solution to a certain problem, but not the problem itself. "Symme...

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They're about specific statements on the article associated with the talk page that need to be clarified or checked for accuracy.

At least second linked message is apparently misplaced (I did not find any mentions of tHighLife in the current revision of OCA:HighLife).

Certain questions/messages that were left on the wiki, look like basic questions to me. I think such questions should go on the forums instead, to let more people participate in discussions / increase likelihood of getting meaningful answers. Two most recent examples of such messages are https://con...

[...] Controversial decisions need baby steps. Controversial issues need discussion regarding what exactly needs to be done, until there is some observable agreement on what exactly can and should be done. The edits that were already made are already problematic (see preceding posts). Making more o...

I would definitely prefer to wait for more discussion, and wait for more observable evidence of people agreeing on what exactly needs to be done, before doing any further batches of edits on these issues. Regarding two recent edits: https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Unique_father_problem&curi...

[...] and i bet most of the members of our Community are completely and totally un-aware of it... Right, most people here are unaware of it. (And in general most people are unaware of CGoL / CA.) However, the aim of "increasing awareness" implies helping people to understand things (deeper than jus...

Large-scale changes definitely need observable consensus.

If someone is planning to edit "a few dozen [...] pages" at once, then it is no longer "experimental edits".

dvgrn wrote: ↑

Today, 7:20 am

[...] experimental edits [...]
[...] a few dozen still-life pages -- [...]

The RLE in your preceding post here uses significant components / parts that were created by people other than you. It would be really nice if those sources were mentioned and linked, and if large patterns that are trivial combinations of already known components weren't posted explicitly (when it i...

[...] PLEASE! HEXAGONAL ISOTROPIC NOTATION SUPPORTION! [...] Writing ALL CAPS forum posts is unnecessary. (Although I agree that it would be nice to see the existing rulestring notation for two-state isotropic cellular automata with honeycomb neighbourhood supported in a future release of Golly. As...

There are some forum threads containing multiple medium-to-large RLEs, with few or no added meaningful explanations or descriptions or comments regarding what those RLEs are about and why those RLEs were posted. Some of those threads are mostly "incremental", in that many RLEs are minor modification...

must be worth a molecule or two x = 1027, y = 748, rule = PrintLife2 This could potentially be "worth a molecule or two", if only there were mentions and hyperlinks to original sources where all that stuff was first posted. It is unfortunate that links, explanations, credits are often completely mi...

[...] acount [...] synthesises [...] glider's [...] acess [...] discoverys FWIW That looks offtopic in the thread "Ads for patterns in Life", due to being more like a parody of certain sort of scam/fraud where someone pretends to be from a website where you are active (as opposed to merely doing so...

[...] x = 7, y = 7, rule = B23678/S3478:T7,7 4b3o$4ob2o$ob5o$bob2obo$2bobobo$bo$o2b4o! #C [[ THEME MCell GRID ]] Lifespan = 3278 ticks, settles into a p7 oscillator in the 9-by-9 torus x = 9, y = 9, rule = B23678/S3478:T9,9 3b4obo$2bo2b4o$3ob5o$bo3b4o$bobobob2o$ob2obob2o$b3obo$b5o2bo$b6o! #C [[ THE...

Two p30 oscillators interact symmetrically, becoming a p49 oscillator: x = 12, y = 18, rule = B3-ceqr4aikqtw5-ceqr6ce/S2ce3-ceqr4acikqtw5-cqr6cei7e8 bo$3o$b2o13$9b2o$9b3o$10bo! #C [[ ZOOM 8 THEME MCell GRID ]] I'm currently running apgsearch on this ruleset , it looks interesting. There might be a g...

[...] A window in git opened and closed nothing else happened Looks like essentially the same point was already answered, in a recent discussion about another CLI software tool: it doesn't open upon me pressing the open button I can see it flash before it closes qfind needs to be invoked from the c...

p1124 mod281 agar, also can be viewed as a p1124 oscillator in the 12-by-12 torus: x = 60, y = 60, rule = B356/S23:T60,60 7$6b2o10b2o10b2o10b2o10b2o$6bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo$6b2obo8b2obo8b2ob o8b2obo8b2obo$6b3o9b3o9b3o9b3o9b3o9$6b2o10b2o10b2o10b2o10b2o$6bobo9bob o9bobo9bobo9bobo$6b2obo8b2obo8b2obo8...

Like this? @RULE k-ant I don't know enough about your idea with those rules to be able to tell whether it works as intended . But otherwise yes, it should look like that. If you need some more interesting symmetries, you will likely need to give a set of generators for the permutation group. After ...

[...] Most people aren't computer nerds, using apgcodes in articles will only lift the threshold for people to read through an article. [...] I don't know whether you are planning to actively participate in setting up / maintaining a local community of people interested in CGoL/CA. In that case, I ...

How to make a ruletable with larger neighborhood? I think you can do that with lifelib/apgsearch: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=181581#p181581 https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=66826#p66826 However, such ruletables will not work in Golly/LifeViewer. Additionally, there a...

These posts seem to be SPAM [...] Thanks for explaining this rule! Thank you for compiling them! Yes, both quoted posts are SPAM. Without any obvious immediate benefit to whoever did this; probably useless, because it happened in the Sandbox out of all places; for all we know, maybe this is just so...

[...] Why? [...] Because this exact question is currently under discussion. The question of which wording should be used in "LCM oscillators" sections, and whether or not there should be some further changes across the wiki, etc. There is already an active discussion, and it's counterproductive to ...

[...] We already have Catagolue links for every object in LifeWiki articles. The orientation represented by the apgcode of an object [...] I strongly disagree. Following "apgcode orientations" feels like a particularly bad idea. These orientations look arbitrary from the viewpoint of a human reader...

Is Fx158 still the only elementary conduit where the Herschel evolves from something incompatible with the transparent block reaction? I think it's helpful to explicitly clarify "the only known ..." whenever that is the intended meaning. I'm pretty sure that Fx158 is not the only elementary conduit...

In addition to what is stated directly in Golly recommendations, I think it is better to make sure that the @RULE name ends with either a letter or a digit, and also to avoid the following substrings consisting of >=2 consecutive hyphens/underscores. (Probably these are already implied, since the re...

I think further changes ( such as edits https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=156009&oldid=152450 , https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Charity%27s_p16&curid=25537&diff=156012&oldid=155973 , https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=86P118&curid=30853&diff=156026&oldid=153740 by User:Galoomba)...