Jellyfish 114
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:30, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
Sorry, but your edits at Stefania Gori are not appropriate
edit- Please check WP:MOS, we do not use capitals in titles
- Terms such as "She has published more than thirty papers" is WP:Peacock, we do not allow this.
- Timelines for positions do not belong.
- A NSF Career Award is money, $, not a true award.
Ldm1954 (talk) 20:08, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Jellyfish 114. As Ldm1954 said, there are problems with your additions to the Stefania Gori article. But even more importantly, by restoring your version of the article without discussion, you're engaging in edit warring.
- Some specifics about things you should avoid
She was inspired to become a physicist after a high school trip to CERN, the European organization for nuclear research
- This kind of information might be included in an article that goes into more depth about her childhood, but when it's the only thing beyond her year and place of birth, it feels unbalanced, like a bit of trivia that doesn't really belong.
As a theoretical physicist, she works to better understand the intersection between particle physics and condensed matter.[1]
- This sort of framing - as an x she does y - is used a lot of profiles, but this isn't the way encyclopedia articles are written. You want more basic facts - that she's a theoretical physicist. Saying her work is "at the intersection of particle physics and condensed matter" is too vague - it doesn't say what she actually works on.
- It's also less specific than what's in the lead. The lead is supposed to be a concise summary; you could expand upon what she works on, but it shouldn't be less informative.
Gori is currently developing new theories about axions and dark matter.[2] She wants to address two major questions within physics: the strong CP problem and the complexity of dark matter.
- "Currently" is always a problematic term to use in an undated article. And saying she's "developing new theories" is also too vague. And you can't really talk about what a person wants to do - an encyclopedia article should focus on what a person has done, not what their plans are.
She has published more than thirty papers on the subject.[2]
- It isn't clear what "the subject" is here, and "more than thirty papers" for a mid-career scientist isn't that remarkable (unlike, say, a grad student or postdoc doing that). Again, the lack of a specific point in time for this is also a problem.
She hypothesizes that dark matter may contain dark photons.[2] She connects ideas from her research to better understand other physics topics like cosmology, astrophysics, and gravitational waves.[1]
- Dark photons are hypothetical particles connected to dark matter. If Gori was the one who came up with the idea, you might mention this (in the past tense). If she didn't, but has a model of dark photons that she came up with, then say that. But if she simply works on a hypothetical particle, then you'd want to phrase this differently.
References
- 1 2 "Stefania Gori: building bridges between fields in particle physics | Perimeter Institute". perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- 1 2 3 Miller, Michael (August 31, 2017), "Shining light on dark matter", UC Magazine, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2026-03-16
- Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:12, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, Ldm1954. Thank you for explaining why you undid the revisions. I am new to Wikipedia and was assigned to write an article about a physicist. However, I think two of us were accidentally assigned to the same person. I undid the edit as everything I included was properly cited, and I was confused as I couldn't find any explanation for the deletion. I will look over the revisions and Wikipedia's policy and update certain word choices to enhance clarity. Jellyfish 114 (talk) 01:23, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Response to request to recreate article
editPer your request on my talk page, I totally understand and I have recreated the article for you in draft space at Draft:Stefania Gori. I hope this helps.--SouthernNights (talk) 12:51, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! Jellyfish 114 (talk) 18:13, 29 April 2026 (UTC)