User talk:Benschop

Hoi Nico, welkom bij wikipedia. Zelf werk ik meestal op de Nederlandstalige versie. Sorry dus voor het nederlands hier ;-), in elk geval wens ik je veel plezier hier. Ellywa 23:01, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hallo Nico, ik heb je bericht gezien op meta, maar als je me met "spoed" nodig hebt, dan is het snelste via deze overlegpagina. Chatten doe ik bijna nooit. Heel mooi inderdaad die chinese schildering, er staat volgens mij nog niets over op de Nederlandse wikipedia. Hier misschien wel meer, de Engelse is veel groter natuurlijk. Groeten, Ellywa 08:47, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hoi Nico, een antwoord op je vraag staat voor de overzichtelijkheid hier. Groeten, Ellywa 22:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them:

If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump, or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

Tip: you can sign your name (with timestamp) on Talk pages by using ~~~~. Niteowlneils 04:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

PS In your particular case, you might also want to read Wikipedia:Auto-biography (the same principle applies to one's own works, {which seems to be the case with Digital Network Theory--also books offerred free over the Internet are not generally considered encyclopedic} as well as one's self--anything that appears to be self-promotion is very frowned upon here), and Wikipedia:What is an article. To be specific, Benschop has several problems: It is not in English, so it is not an appropriate article on the English Wikipedia; it appears to be a resume/c.v., which is also not considered encyclopedic; it appears to be your resume, which is not an appopriate contribution as an article--it's fine to have the info on User:Benschop. Also, Wikipedia:Naming conventions might help you avoid making contributions to subjects that actually already are covered. You seem to have a lot of knowledge, and I hope the pages above can help you find ways to contribute in more conventional ways, that don't end up on VfD. Niteowlneils 04:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks Neil, I moved my biography to User:Benschop -
but I haven't found out how to delete the Benschop file, or does this happen automatically after 5 days?
I got some msg from Charles Matthews, who set up a directory of math-subjects in which I can find a place under semigroup with an extra subclass transformation_semigroup : have to find out if he agrees (I guess he's the boss;-) Nico B. 14:54, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

As you've probably noticed, since you acknowledged moving the article content to your user page, it has been deleted without waiting the five days. As you seem to be aware, Charles probably doesn't consider himself the "boss" of anyone or anything on Wikipedia, but it is not uncommon for more experienced Wikipedians to try to mentor relative newcomers, especially if they have shared subject interest/knowledge. Since I didn't make it past high school geometry, that obviously isn't me ;). Anyway, good luck and have fun--we were all new here at one time. Niteowlneils 19:36, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Indeed, I noticed the disappearance of 'Benschop'. That being cleared, on second thought (re your remark on frowns regarding promoting own work: an ecyclopedia should cover existing knowledge - not new work;-) it may be better to just remove all my entries ('digital_network_theory' and 'semigroups') and submit them to Wikibooks, or something similar. Wouldn't that be best?
BTW : How to remove one's own entries? I could not discover a delete button. Nico B. 20:23, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Transformation semigroup[edit]

The reason I moved this one from the "associative algebra" category was that the category was listed at Category:Orphaned categories. There was only the one article in it, and it seemed to be redundant with Category:Algebra, so I just removed it. In general, if a category contains only one article and is not part of some larger categorization scheme, it is just as effective to simply put it in the parent category (and, in this case, it was already in the most logical parent category, Category:Algebra). If you think that the category was in fact needed, the thing to do is to put it inside an existing category so it isn't orphaned (and also to fill it with some more articles—note that articles in a sub-category do not need to go in the parent). [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 15:01, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Search[edit]

I don't know much about how the search works here, so I don't have a good answer for your question. It also seems to be disabled right now, so I'm unable to test it for myself. However, I think that most Wikipedia users discover pages not through the search, but by following links in other articles. Having your article connected to the network and network theory pages would probably help people find it, since those are the pages that will be displayed if "network" or "network theory" are searched for by pressing "Go" instead of "Search." I apologize for not having better advice. Good luck. - MattTM | talk 19:30, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks Matt. Nico B. 09:19, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It's generally not considered appropriate to put links to your user page in articles. -- Infrogmation 21:39, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Deletion in Fermat's Last Theorem[edit]

The reason for removing it is simple: you are trying to promote your own original research by claiming a proof that is by no means accepted. The parenthetical comment alone is questionable as part of Wikipedia content. Wikipedia is not a place for you to promote your work, which seems to be the only point to that link; see Wikipedia Policy on conflict of interest. The same reason that Escultura's comments and publications are removed from the body of the page. Magidin 15:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This conflict-of-interest thing is rediculous: Andrew Wiles' contribution/proof would then be similarly blocked! My paper is accepted and published by the Math dept. of Univ. Bratislava, which by the way has a long tradition of applying semigroups to number theory (re: prof Stefan Schwarz). If that is not acceptable then you insult that department. This residue-and-carry approach does deserve attention by interested readers, and I demand that this link be restored, or I will bring it before a higher authority, inside or - if necessary - outside Wikipedia. Your 'holier than thou' attitude is despicable, as that of a 'self-appointed protector of the faith' (being: there is no better/ shorter/ more-direct FLT proof than Wiles'). It is none of your business to block new insight, certainly not if you want to call yourself a scientist. Frankly, I bet you have not even read the paper... Nico B. 21:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This "conflict-of-interest thing" is the policy of Wikipedia. You are posting a link to your article with the purpose of self-promotion, very similar to your original posting of your resume as a wikipedia page. If you want to discuss the appropriateness of adding a link to the paper (quite possibly without the parenthetical claims), I suggest you should do so in the Talk page of the article in question. And I also direct you to Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Magidin 22:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Dignetbk.pdf listed for deletion[edit]

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Dignetbk.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MER-C 11:35, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]