Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Systems

Proposal: Draft article on The Principle of Collaboration and Cooperation (TPOCo)

I’ve created a sandbox draft for The Principle of Collaboration and Cooperation (TPOCo) an interdisciplinary framework that models cooperation as an energy‑flow cycle occurring across all levels of life (from cells to societies). It offers a clear systems‑science perspective on how coordinated effort and resource sharing produce emergent complexity.

Why this matters for WikiProject Systems

• TPOCo provides a unifying systems model linking biological, social, and ecological cooperation
• It introduces a novel collaboration formula and flowchart useful for systems theory and energy‑flow articles
• It bridges systems thinking with empirical research, enriching Wikipedia’s coverage of complex adaptive systems

I’m seeking feedback on conceptual accuracy, article structure, sourcing quality, and integration with existing systems topics (e.g., systems theory, complexity, energy flow). Please review the draft at User:Darwipli/sandbox - Wikipedia and share your suggestions below. — Darwipli (talk) 12:00, 27 March 2025 (UTC) Darwipli (talk) 04:05, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Help illustrate climate change information on Wikipedia and win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Dear all

I’m very happy to let you know we are running a competition at Wikiproject Climate Change to encourage people to help improve visual information about climate change including the systems that make it happen. The competition is open until the 17th of May for all language versions of Wikipedia. The top three point scorers will each win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.

Please let me know if you have any questions

Thanks :)

John Cummings (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Analogue filter

Analogue filter has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:43, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Béla H. Bánáthy

Béla H. Bánáthy has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Draft article on "Functional Analysis and Allocation" for systems engineering category

Hello,

For the "systems engineering" category I have created an article on Functional Analysis and Allocation. I would appreciate feedback and comments before moving to main article space.

User:Trdta4/Articles/Functional Analysis and Allocation

Thank you in advance, Trdta4 (talk) 07:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Base flow (random dynamical systems)

The article Base flow (random dynamical systems) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Confusing for 16 years. Unreferenced for 15 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. WP:TNT.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 09:48, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Reaching out to WikiProject Systems

I have joined the Systems WikiProject after discovering a number of articles that I have read or am working on editing described in the Talk pages of those articles as being of interest to the Project. Placing articles within the scope of the project is not always clear to me because of very broad scope of this interdisciplinary project. Nevertheless, I come from an interdisciplinary background (complex systems in theoretical biology/telecoms/computer science) and will seek to assess articles that have been placed in this project by other editors when I find them. I note that this project has been described by Wikipedia Admins as "semi-active" so I am reaching out to any other editors who are active within it to find out what is happening. If, after a very long of time, I hear nothing, I will withdraw from the project and mark it as "inactive" on the project page. I hope that this will not be needed. Worramlaup21 (talk) 09:06, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Worramlaup21: As I see it, the scope of systems science (and the WikiProject) definitely encompasses:

Cybernetics, complex systems and research about complexity (especially more abstract forms of complexity), information theory, systems theory (both general and specific, e.g. sociological), theory of models, modeling, model classes and principles (e.g. System Dynamics), agent-based modelling and game theory, operations research, systemic therapy, systems engineering, mathematics (of systems, complex systems, and complexity; not something foundational, like e.g. set theory or analysis; or even differential equations, as dynamical system would be more appropriate here), philosophy (same story as in mathematics).

The following are relevant, insofar as they relate to the more abstract side of a field, where things are conceived of as systems:

Systems biology, ecology (e.g. principles, not concrete biogeography), traffic engineering, economics (e.g. Jevons paradox, see System archetype), data science, psychology, communication, language, design, culture, software engineering, computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics, cognitive science, organization, management. (This is not an exhaustive list.) TucanHolmes (talk) 12:52, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @TucanHolmes many thanks for your clarification. I think I have a lot of overlap with these areas (I didn't mention above my background in multi-agent systems - not the same as agent-based modelling but with a lot of overlap, or in game theory). I am already involved in the Computer Science WikiProject because of my background in that area, and in the Computational Biology taskforce of the Molecular Biology WikiProject because of my background in the more theoretical side of computational biology. Glad to learn that things are happening.Worramlaup21 (talk) 13:56, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

The statement on the project page indicates the wikiproject is associated with articles that fall under System and Systems science. As is the case with many wikiprojects I suspect there are a lot of qualifying articles that are not yet tagged as belonging to this project. WP:CATEGORIES are usually a helpful tool to identify new articles to include. It is not usually controversial to add articles to a project. Articles are often covered by multiple projects.

Please don't mark this wikiproject as inactive.

Welcome and happy editing! ~Kvng (talk) 20:38, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Kvng that's useful. As I continue editing articles I will consider what can be added to the Systems WikiProject. Who can get rid of the is believed to be semi-active tag?Worramlaup21 (talk) 14:31, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Anyone can edit the project page and remove it. ~Kvng (talk) 14:40, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

I have declared the project as active. (Visible in Source, not visible on the page itself.) Worramlaup21 (talk) 14:46, 17 October 2025 (UTC)