User talk:TheHorse'sMouth

Welcome!

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Math pages

I'm curious about the math pages you are posting in rapid succession. Where did the content come from? Vslashg 03:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I too am curious, TheHorse'sMouth. I hope it isn't copied from The Art of Problem Solving, Volume II... is it? Melchoir 05:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No definately not, I don't copy stuff but I did take problems from AoPS (and cited them) if that's not ok tell me. Thanks. TheHorse'sMouth 01:39, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no problem then! I just found it incredible that you could write so quickly, that's all. Don't let me discourage you! Melchoir 01:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for edit summary

Thank you for your contributions. And I have a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries more often when you contribute. An edit summary helps others understand what you changed when checking the watchlist or the recent changes, and often times complements studying the diff. Think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. I hope you don't mind. :) Cheers – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:35, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Style tips

Thank you for the new math articles. I moved them to lower-case version, so Evaluating Sums became Evaluating sums. That's the house style in here. Capitals are also discouraged within the text, I plan to edit your articles a bit for that too.

Also note that articles need to be categorized, say [[Category:Calculus]] for calculus articles. In that way people will easier find them. Hope you like it here. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And more

By the way, your articles don't look very encyclopedic, rather, like some pages from a textbook. I would suggest you get more comfortable with existing encyclopedia style, and when writing things, try to integrate with existing articles. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:46, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Style

I had written all of my articles offline a while ago, i'm just getting to putting them online. Is there anything particularily wrong that you see with my articles, everybody seems to find them not encyclopedic, but i;m sure that there is something wrong, i got alot of sighs TheHorse'sMouth 01:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, looking at Evaluating sums, phrases like "let's try a different method" and "left as an exercise to the reader" exemplify the kind of writing you'd find in a textbook. Generally you should avoid the first person; I know science and math writing often uses "we", but it's discouraged here. As Oleg suggests, it may be better for you to gain more experience editing existing articles. Melchoir 02:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wrote a few articles

ok, that wasn't the best heading but it does not matter anyway. What exactly was it about my articles that seemed non-encyclopedic, can I not explain stuff out or what? TheHorse'sMouth 01:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your work is appreciated, of course. It is just, an article like Finding the centroid appears to be a page from at textbook. I don't quite know how to say it. You focus too much on derivations of things, rather than on stating what the facts are. See for example the centroid article, for an encyclopedic style. One should write first the formulas, maybe derive one or two of them, that's how I would myself approach things. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaning out the additional logarithm topics

Hello! I noticed you were a contributor to the Additional logarithm topics article and I've posted on the talk page a suggestion that I believe would help clean up the encyclopedia. Would you mind checking it out and adding your comments or suggestions on the talk page? Thanks. Ed H | talk 02:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]