User talk:Clark Kimberling
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Hello, Clark Kimberling, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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And don't forget, the edit summary is your friend. :) – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Links to your work
Hi. I removed many of the links and references to your work you put in articles (I left some of them though). While I think you mean well, to an external observer your edits look like self-promotion, and that is discouraged on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Self-promotion. I would suggest you stop doing that.
While obviously you know many things about elementary geometry, etc., I would suggest that if you want to add references you cite more primary sources. I do not mean to say that your own work is less relevant, but citing your own work introduces an appearance of bias. If somebody else thinks your work is really good, they will refer to it anyway.
You can reply here, under this comment. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- I replied again. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Oleg - thanks for the help. I reinstated some New Harmony external links - I hope not too many, but if you need to delete one, please choose "Richard Owen". I also added some references. As you know, New Harmony is a very famous town, and there are hundreds of good references; I think the ones I added are among the very best. (Some of the references already there aren't very good and are hard to find.)
Can the the name of the Wiki page, "Euler's line", be changed to "Euler line?" Here are some reasons:
The classic books by Altshiller-Court, Johnson, Casey, and Coxeter all use "Euler line", not "Euler's line." The same is true for MathWorld. Google gets 25,900 hits for "Euler line" and only 941 for "Euler's line." At the Wikipedia page for Schiffler point, the reference is to "the Euler lines" rather than "the Euler's lines." (Note that Wiki has "Schiffler point" not "Schiffler's point".Clark Kimberling 15:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Another reason: there are many more Google hits to "the euler line" than to "euler's line", even with the extra word in the exact phrase search. I went ahead and moved it. —David Eppstein 19:03, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] hymn tune
Why not merge the above article with Hymn, as they are about the same subject? You can redirect your article title to 'Hymn' once you have had the pages merged. (aeropagitica) 23:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Why the <expletive deleted> did you put " marks round the title? -- RHaworth 08:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Style notes
Hi, it's me again. I have a few suggestions. One is that one should use an edit summary when one contributes, and second, that variables should be made italic in math notation. So instead of
- AB
one should use either
- ''AB'' (generates italic text)
or
- <math>AB</math> (generates math italic).
Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I replied about primes on my talk page. Note that when you write a post you need to use four tildas at the end (like this: ~~~~) to get a signature. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More style notes
Hi Clark. A few more notes (sorry if this bother you, I thought you'd learn these things anyway, and the earlier the better).
The formula
ap(p + q cos C)(p + r cos B) : bq(q + r cos A)(q + p cos C) : cr(r + p cos B)(r + q cos A).
should have only the variables in italic, and not the parentheses, the plus sign, or the "cos" thing, so it should be written
ap(p + q cos C)(p + r cos B) : bq(q + r cos A)(q + p cos C) : cr(r + p cos B)(r + q cos A)
Source code:
''ap''(''p'' + ''q'' cos ''C'')(''p'' + ''r'' cos ''B'') : ''bq''(''q'' + ''r'' cos ''A'')(''q'' + ''p'' cos ''C'') : cr(''r'' + ''p'' cos B)(''r'' + ''q'' cos ''A'').
Also note that it should be indented, move a bit to the right, using the colon (:), too look like this:
- ap(p + q cos C)(p + r cos B) : bq(q + r cos A)(q + p cos C) : cr(r + p cos B)(r + q cos A).
Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
