Talk:Donald G. Saari

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A fact from Donald G. Saari appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 May 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that mathematician Donald G. Saari advocates deciding elections by the Borda count instead of plurality voting, because it leads less often to paradoxical outcomes?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Donald G. Saari.

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Removed edit

I removed this edit. It was hard to follow for someone who is uninitiated, somewhat off topic, and might be original research. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 19:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it again. I originally started to put it here but this time the material had gone through a copy and paste from the edit history and was very malformatted as a result. I think anyone who wishes can just look at the edit history. —David Eppstein 02:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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"This was later proven by Julian Palmore", says the article, but that is completely false. "There have been many attempts to solve this problem. Some of them even led to the publication of incorrect proofs, such as those in [ J. I. Palmore]." [link] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.146.61.168 (talk) 02:32, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. Do you know whether there is a peer-reviewed version of that report? —David Eppstein (talk) 04:42, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a note by the same people which makes the same claim and was published in the Transactions of the AMS: [1]. XOR'easter (talk) 20:30, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]