Topics Not on Wikipedia: Special Relativity, General Relativity, etc.

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The discussion revolves around topics related to special and general relativity that the original poster (OP) believes are not adequately covered on Wikipedia. Participants explore the OP's claims and express varying opinions on the appropriateness of the forum for this inquiry.

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  • The OP lists several topics, including the principles of special and general relativity, constrained systems, and Dirac observables, which they believe are not present on Wikipedia.
  • One participant questions the OP's assertion, noting that a Google search for the principles of special and general relativity returns Wikipedia articles as the top results.
  • Another participant suggests that the OP should be asking about article creation on Wikipedia's own forums or help pages rather than on this forum.
  • The OP acknowledges that the first two principles are combined into one entry on Wikipedia, which may have led to their confusion.
  • One participant provides a link to Wikipedia's "Articles for creation" page as a resource for the OP.
  • Another participant reiterates that posting on this forum is unlikely to help the OP with their goal of creating new articles on Wikipedia.

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Participants generally disagree on the effectiveness of discussing Wikipedia article creation on this forum, with some asserting that it is not the right venue for such inquiries. The OP's claims about the absence of certain topics on Wikipedia are contested by at least one participant.

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The discussion reflects a lack of consensus on the presence of specific topics on Wikipedia and the appropriate channels for addressing article creation. There are also indications of confusion regarding the existing entries on Wikipedia.

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Here are a few topics not present in Wikipedia:

the principle of special relativity

the principle of general relativity

constrained systems

Dirac observables

Thiemann's Master constraint

Thomas Thiemann

Group averaging

Refined algebraic quantizationYou can probably think of more. I'm not very good with wiki and still not sure how to start new entries. If someone could explain how you do it or set up these entries for me that would be great! Thanks julian (computer div).
 
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julian said:
Here are a few topics not present in Wikipedia:

the principle of special relativity

the principle of general relativity

I'm at a loss as to why you would say these are not on Wikipedia since a Google search for either one brings up the Wikipedia article as first on the list.
 
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Why are you posting this on this forum and not on some wikipedia forum/talkpage?? If you don't know how to make new articles, then you should ask wikipedia. I'm not sure what we can do about it...
 
OK the first two are combined into one entry - that's why I didn't notice.

Why posting here? I've been through the help pages on wiki and still don't know how to do it. Maybe I should try talk pages in wiki then.
 
And no, I've been on the forum for a while. My motivation isn't to find out how gullible people are. Did you do a google search on the rest??
 
To the OP, what micromass said is correct - posting here won't help. The best you can do is appeal to the wiki discussion / talk pages regarding creation of articles.
 
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