Talk:MFEM

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I suggest that we have someone from the FEM community that is not on the MFEM team edit the article in order to resolve the COI problem. Funktektronic (talk) 04:40, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by "FEM community"? I do not develop MFEM code, however, I participate in discussion with MFEM developers (and developers of few other opensource FEM codes) how we can make it more accessible to less experienced researchers and engineers. Due to internal complexity of any production ready FEM software for me it is obvious that only product team can only provide a good review of this type of software.Kostyfisik (talk) 07:52, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is fundamentally at odds with Wikipedia's model, which requires that articles be neutrally written and based primarily on independent sources. - MrOllie (talk) 11:39, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We know about users out there that only passingly interact with the MFEM team (have sent us a thank you note on github for instance), but have sufficient knowledge to write an article as good as what we have here currently. That would be like the user of any software package writing an article about it. Perhaps we could ask one of the users to jump in a write something. Would that be sufficiently neutral? Funktektronic (talk) 00:36, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That sort of thing isn't forbidden, but it is frowned upon. See related topics at WP:MEAT and WP:CANVASS. In my opinion the important thing is that the sources be independent. - MrOllie (talk) 03:28, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]