User:NeilOnWiki

Wikipedia editing still feels fairly new to me. I started Wiki life on Erlang (unit), which remains on my increasingly fantastical to-do-more list. My name really is Neil and I like to have a reminder of where I am.

Sadly, I've no access to a decent library, so any interventions are likely to be focused on:

• structure;
• inconsistencies;
• ambiguous or unclear wording;
• swooping into the occasional talk page.

My main specialism is mathematics. It'd be great to make maths and some other technical topics more accessible.

If you'd like to know more about what's currently caught my editing eye, I'm using my default sandbox as a draft area for small-ish contributions to specific articles — and this page to remind me of various useful links (originally on my Talk page).

Neil 31 Jul 2021

Glancing

Not watching, but glancing at sporadically: ∅.

NeilOnWiki (talk) 18:02, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikiing

Quick links

• Help:Cheatsheet on markup.
• Help:Displaying a formula.
• Template:Math, for inline formulas.
• WP:ACCDD, Accessibility dos and don'ts

Slow links

• Key:
  • WP:BOLD, WP:BRD, about boldness.
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Wikipedia:No original research
  • Wikipedia:User pages
• Maths:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics.
  • MOS:MATHS, for article style.
  • Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science) — see Talk 16 Dec 20 on 'Lecture Notes'
  • Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable
  • Wikipedia:Reliable source examples
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Proofs
• Detail:
  • Help:Archiving a talk page
  • Help:Notifications
  • Wikipedia:Basic copyediting
  • Wikipedia:Content forking
  • Wikipedia:Indentation, esp. in discussions
  • Wikipedia:Publicising discussions
• Culture:
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
  • WP:NOTDEM, not a democracy
• Other
  • Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library

Note to any visitors: feel free to suggest any other resources. The slow ones are the more wordy ones.

NeilOnWiki (talk) 17:07, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Structure of maths articles

Possible structure (see MOS:MATHS) - from simple to more technical, to inform rather than instruct:

• Lead - preferably accessible:
  • description;
  • context: eg. origins, application;
  • main points in article;
• Body (in sections):
  • motivation;
  • formal definition;
  • examples; perhaps non-examples;
  • applications;
  • history;
• Addenda (in sections):
  • generalisations;
  • See also...;
  • References.

NeilOnWiki (talk) 09:31, 7 November 2020 (UTC)