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Are we happy to host this page generalisation as an adjunction? It looks to me like at best it could be on a personal web.
Mmm, yeah – and the author doesn’t seem to have engaged with the community enough to warrant a personal web.
That may be true, but I’ve seen his name crop up now and then, for example in connection with web-based demonstrations of categorical concepts for beginning students, and in this Baez G+ post. He seems to have serious intentions at least.
Maybe we could inquire what his goals are in putting this material on the nLab?
I found my way back to this page, intrigued by the title, and forgot that I’d complained about it two months ago. It really shouldn’t be endorsed by us, as it is at the moment. What are the options to retire it quietly?
It struck me in China just how hard it must be for people to find out what’s worth learning as they reach out through the great firewall for material. It’s hard enough for people with no web restrictions working in their own language. During our conversation with Chip back here, we touched on what (we hope) is the beneficent role of the nLab, and how it can help in a country such as Turkey, where Wikipedia is blocked. It is incumbent upon us to ensure that any page on the nLab is something we’d endorse as useful information on a topic.
Regarding accessibility, someone asked me for a book review I’d written a few months ago, and equipped with name of journal it appeared in, name of author, title of book, and my own name, neither I nor this other person could steer Baidu to find it. Back in the UK, one millisecond of Google search and up it comes as first two hits.
What are the options to retire it quietly?
I think it would be polite to send an email to the author, explaining that the page will be deleted at such a time, and explaining the reasons for this, assuming that it is possible to find an email address for them. If not, we could just delete it, but we should probably archive the content in case the author wishes to retrieve it; or leave a note at the page indicating that it will soon be deleted, if the nginx logs indicate that it is regularly checked.
The author has created a couple of other pages as well, see here. Maybe those should be removed as well?
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