Talk:Michael Friendly

Worksection removed

Due to possible violation of copyright, see WP:Copyvio, I have removed the worksection of this article for now. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 09:20, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I did not know that my former worksection had been removed -- I haven't checked this for years. Is it possible for me to see what was there before and what might have triggered a "possible copyright violation" MichaelFriendly (talk) 20:58, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: add Milestones project to Work and External links

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I am the subject of this article. In accordance with WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY and WP:COI, I am not editing the article directly and am submitting this request for an independent editor to review.

(Separately, for transparency: I am also the spouse of Martha Friendly, subject of a draft article currently in preparation — disclosed in full on my user page.)

Requested addition 1 — Work section

Please add the following sentence to the end of the paragraph describing my shift toward the history of statistics and data visualization:

Friendly maintains ''Milestones in the History of Data Visualization and Thematic Cartography'', an online, continually updated catalog and timeline documenting significant developments in statistical graphics, thematic cartography, and data visualization from antiquity to the present.<ref>{{cite web |last=Friendly |first=Michael |title=Milestones in the History of Data Visualization and Thematic Cartography |url=http://www.datavis.ca/milestones/ |website=datavis.ca |access-date=2026-07-06}}</ref>

Requested addition 2 — External links section

Please add the following bullet to the External links list:

* [http://www.datavis.ca/milestones/ Milestones in the History of Data Visualization and Thematic Cartography]

Reason

The article covers my research trajectory toward history of statistics/data visualization but doesn't currently mention this ongoing, actively maintained public resource documenting that work.

Thanks for reviewing. MichaelFriendly (talk) 10:16, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Not done: your request appears to have been generated by a large language model. Day Creature (talk) 18:13, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

NOT SO. I wrote the text to be added. I don't know the protocol for suggesting an edit to a page about myself, so, from an abundance of caution, I did ask a LLM to help me format it into something that meets Wikipedia standards, and especially the difficulty of formatting for WikiMedia. MichaelFriendly (talk) 20:55, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Just to be clear: What I'm proposing/requesting is a simple addition to my work section, after the sentence about my shift to history of dataviz. Something like:

Friendly maintains Milestones in the History of Data Visualization and Thematic Cartography, an online catalog and timeline documenting developments in statistical graphics, thematic cartography, and data visualization.

And the external link:

• [http://www.datavis.ca/milestones/ Milestones in the History of Data

Visualization and Thematic Cartography] MichaelFriendly (talk) 09:57, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Regardless of whether you originally composed some of the text, AI-generated talk page posts and edit requests are not allowed per WP:AITALK. You are welcome to create a new edit request without the use of any AI assistance, but if you want the article to mention this online catalog, you'll need to find an independent reliable source that discusses it. Day Creature (talk) 18:30, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

OK, your point is well taken. Let me try again.

The text I would like added remains the same:

Friendly maintains Milestones in the History of Data Visualization and Thematic Cartography, an online catalog and timeline documenting developments in statistical graphics, thematic cartography, and data visualization.

With the same external link to the site:

History of Data Visualization and Thematic Cartography

Here are two sources to cite for this-- an independent interview and a book chapter I wrote about the process of developing this. I'm not well-versed in Wikimedia formatting. I hope I got this right

Bátorfy, Attila (2025-12-04). "Not just pretty pictures: interview with Michael Friendly". Attila Bátorfy's Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities. Substack. Retrieved 2026-07-08.

Friendly, Michael (2005). "Milestones in the History of Data Visualization: A Case Study in Statistical Historiography". In Weihs, C.; Gaul, W. (eds.). Classification: The Ubiquitous Challenge (PDF). New York: Springer. pp. 34–52. MichaelFriendly (talk) 11:01, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

The {{request edit}} template is for requesting changes to semi-protected pages. For conflict of interest requests, please use {{Edit COI}} instead.. I've updated the tempalte for you. meamemg (talk) 13:55, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

I thought that, because I was suggesting an edit to an article about myself, I was required to do so as an Edit Request. If this is not the case, can I just edit the page myself? I'm trying to do the right thing here. MichaelFriendly (talk) 08:25, 9 July 2026 (UTC)