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=== Page tidy up needed.===
This page is quite long and rambling and seems to have some content that could go to other pages such as the section on Euclid's algorithm and the conversation between Turing etc. This is a gateway concept to many related issues and it would be good if it was easier for the general reader to navigate. I can get started on some of this. [[User:AmandaSLawrence|Amanda Lawrence]] 01:16, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
== Article reorganization? ==
Looking through the article and thinking about ways to improve it to get back to featured/GA status.
Many of the specific passages that were mentioned in the previous GA review seem to have been addressed, but the biggest thing that currently stands out to me is that the article needs major reorganization: the current list of 18 sections is just difficult to navigate, some of them very long and others extremely short. I think the strongest sections of the article are the history sections, as well as the Examples section.
Here's a suggested structure:
1. Definition
(includes current informal definition & formalization -- though I think much of this material should be moved to the history section)
2. Examples
3. History
4. Design and Implementation
(includes current secs. expressing algorithms, Design, Implementation, Computer Algorithms)
5. Analysis (needs better name) -- basically what is done with algorithms after they are designed/implemented
(includes current Algorithmic Analysis, Legal issues)
Note: it does make sense to include legal issues as part of the discussion, particularly because this can be combined with fairness & privacy concerns surrounding algorithms and ideally a discussion of that, which is definitely one area of algorithmic analysis.
6. Classification
(includes current section + Continuous algorithms)
A couple of these changes are obvious fixes, particularly merging in some of the super short sections.
Thoughts on the broader organizational structure here? [[User:Caleb Stanford|Caleb Stanford]] ([[User talk:Caleb Stanford|talk]]) 22:41, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
== Computer algorithms ==
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