User talk:Jason22
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[edit] Welcome
Hello, Jason, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contribution to Löwenheim–Skolem theorem. However, I have to admit that after your edit, I found the first sentence rather hard to read because of the parenthetical remarks and subclauses, so I tried to rewrite it. I'd appreciate if you could take another look to make sure I didn't change the meaning (I don't know model theory at all).
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I hope to see you around, and most importantly, that you will enjoy yourself. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 23:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Some standard Wikipedia conventions
Hello. Your edits to nice name prompt some comments.
- You began by writing:
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- A nice name is a set theoretical concept used in forcing to impose an upper bound on the number of subsets in the generic model.
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- This fails to tell the non-mathematician reader that mathematics, rather than chemistry, theology, archeology, grammar, etc., is what this is about. I changed it so that it says "In mathematics, a nice name is...." etc.
- You shouldn't capitalize an initial letter just because it's in a section heading. Thus
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- Formal definition
- is correct, whereas
- Formal Definition is not.
- On Wikipedia, TeX often looks good when "displayed", thus:
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- but often looks bad when inline, thus:
. On my browser, this gets misaligned. Obviously, the A and the e should be at the same level as the preceeding and following text outside the "math" environment, but that's not what happens. (For similar (and maybe other) reasons, one puts final periods and commas INSIDE of "displayed" TeX). Also, at least on the browser I'm using, the characters in TeX are much bigger than the letters outside of TeX, and this can have a comical effect. (In non-TeX math notation, one italicizes variables (but not digits and not parentheses or the like) and puts spacing before and after "=", "+", etc., thus:
- 2 + 3 = 98,
- not
- 2+3=98.
Michael Hardy 01:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
