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curprev 15:5215:52, 29 July 2023 Obtuse Wombat talk contribs 17,247 bytes 0 Use "also" instead of "even" because the latter suggests a loosening of requirements (not a tightening as is happening here). undo
curprev 15:4915:49, 29 July 2023 Obtuse Wombat talk contribs 17,247 bytes 0 Reword to avoid the use of ≥ in the text (which was confusing because ≤ is used in the actual definition). undo

curprev 16:2416:24, 21 July 2023 Jochen Burghardt talk contribs 17,247 bytes +286 →Contrast to maximal elements and local/absolute maximums: suggest to keep picture of nontrivial maximal elements undo
curprev 15:1315:13, 21 July 2023 Obtuse Wombat talk contribs 16,961 bytes +101 Undid revision 1166397634 by Jochen Burghardt (talk) to restore revision 1166365683 and then fix incorrect statement. undo
curprev 08:1208:12, 21 July 2023 Jochen Burghardt talk contribs 16,860 bytes −247 Undid revision 1166365683 by Obtuse Wombat (talk): there is no total order in this example undo Tag: Undo
curprev 02:3402:34, 21 July 2023 Obtuse Wombat talk contribs 17,107 bytes +247 Replace graphic illustrating maximal and minimal elements with similar graphic illustrating greatest and least element. undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 17:0317:03, 1 August 2021 Jochen Burghardt talk contribs 16,849 bytes −24 →top: rm leftover from prev. short descr.; suggest to use singular undo

curprev 21:1321:13, 31 July 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 16,873 bytes −96 Changing short description from "An element of a preordered set that is ≥ (respectively, ≤) to all other elements (in contrast, it is maximal if it is the only element ≥ to itself)" to "Element ≥ (or ≤) all other elements" (Shortdesc helper) undo

curprev 23:5623:56, 16 April 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 15,343 bytes +3,009 Added information about incomparability and its role in distinguishing between greatest elements and maximal elements. Also added an example that clearly demonstrates this difference. undo

curprev 21:3421:34, 10 April 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 12,334 bytes −7 Fix undo
curprev 21:3021:30, 10 April 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 12,341 bytes +128 Reworded undo
curprev 21:2621:26, 10 April 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 12,213 bytes +78 Reworded to remove uses of words like "one", "we", "note", etc. per Wikipedia guidelines. undo

curprev 21:3421:34, 2 February 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 12,088 bytes −108 Changed expressions into LaTeX so that the same math formatting is used throughout the article. undo

curprev 23:0023:00, 22 January 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 12,080 bytes +439 Separated subsection into two subsections (because the information that had been present about upper bounded and maximal elements was actually independent) and reworded undo
curprev 22:2922:29, 22 January 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 11,641 bytes +448 Clarification undo
curprev 22:2222:22, 22 January 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 11,193 bytes +193 Fix and added info undo
curprev 21:4221:42, 22 January 2021 Mgkrupa talk contribs 11,000 bytes +326 Reworded and clarified undo

curprev 11:5311:53, 3 September 2020 Arjayay talk contribs m 10,737 bytes −4 Duplicate word removed undo
curprev 03:4903:49, 3 September 2020 Mgkrupa talk contribs 10,741 bytes +6,266 Major update. Reorganized, reworded, clarified, and added info taken from the article Maximal and minimal elements. undo