Maybe someone should write a typical history of which policies new users tread on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ken_Birman That guy is an expert, because he actually wrote software, and he is a professor at Cornell. [[gossip protocol]] and [[virtual synchrony]] are his pet projects. I found gossip protocol to be something like Artificial Neural Networks in 1990. Everyone was talking about them. Everyone had different ideas on what it means. (Still do). (Artificial Logic Networks) ALN's are a close cousin to ANN's. If you look on the history of his talk page, then you will see that it has shaped up more like a blog, which is at one point I could not find a welcome notice of any kind on his talk page, then there was some critique from KPBotany. Since I could not find a welcome notice, I put one up. That stuff ain't there, so maybe he was following my lead about how to maintain a talk page. I also told him about my {{prod}} for deleting [[gossip protocol]], saying at one point that he had a defender.
I was not happy with what little that defender would learn from [[gossip protocol]], because it seemed to be ultimate -- optimal in one case and understandably short of optimal in practice. So, I went to work, trying to understand the math behind potentials, and lo and behold I found I had already written! evidence of "optimal" (exponential propagation) and "worst case" (everyone talking at once, which yields "in proportion to number of participants"). I needed a monographic example. I think Ken has decided to stay out of [[gossip protocol]], as long as it does not get deleted. I do not think he will decide to write my monographs into what is mostly his work.
Tthe role of experts IN wikipedia is to learn from experts ON wikipedia. {{subst:uw-notcensored1}} Coulda fooled me, and I do not feel like arguing on either side.