User talk:Jtwdog

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Welcome to the PlanetMath Exchange project

Hi Jtwdog. Welcome to Wikipedia and welcome to the PlanetMath Exchange project. Thanks for your contributions to the Nonassociative rings and algebras list. I have a couple of questions and a couple of requests. The questions concern your edits to the entries for "nilradical" and "radical", You added the status of "NC" (needs copying) to both. We have used this status to mean that there should be new articles created on Wikipedia containing the content from the PM articles. Is that what you meant? If you think that the PM content should be merged into existing WP articles then that status would be indicated by "NM" (for needs merging). By the way the convention has been that we enclose the status entries with a pair of three single quotes, like this: '''NC''', which causes the status to be rendered in bold. Also you can (and should ;-) sign and time stamp your entries by entering a sequence of four tildes like so: ~~~~. The convention has been that we do this on a separate, twice indented line following the entry. (You can indent a new line by entering a colon ":" as the first character on a line — you can use two colons "::" to double indent, etc.) You can also add any other explanatory comments you like. Take at look at some of the other lists for examples. Any way welcome again. and again thanks for your contributions. This is a big project and we can use all the help we can get ;-) Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and I will be happy to try and answer them. You can reply either here or on my talk page, I will see both. Paul August ☎ 20:00, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I think that "radical" and "nilradical" should be merged into the wikipedia article for "solvable Lie algebra." Unfortunately, this article doesn't exist. I just wanted to make clear that though there are WP articles with these names, those are for associative algebras, and that the concepts for Lie algebras would probably fit better elsewhere, in my opinion. I 've explained this in a comment on the page. Anyways, thanks for your comments. I think I've fixed most of the things I did now. I'm a pretty new wikipedian (at least as far as editting goes) so I appreciate the advice. Jtwdog 21:03, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. Don't worry about newbeness. Glad to have been a help, and glad to have the help ;-) Paul August ☎ 22:25, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Remark

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions to math articles, in particular to the PlanetMath exchange project. One remark. It is good if you put an edit summary when you contribute. This is one of those small things which make life easier here (think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 22:54, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's just me being lazy. I'll stick a little note on the talk page for the PlanetMath project. Jtwdog 22:59, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, that's probably unnecessary clutter. Anyways, I covered the whole non-associative algebras section before moving on to work on a few more before I had to do something more productive. Hopefully that will show up on the stats page before too long. Jtwdog 23:07, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I was not clear enough. You don't need to put edit summaries when you contribute to WP:PMEX. However, you should put edit summaries when you contribute to articles. That one of the Wikipedia guidelines.

About the stats. You need to ask Rich Farmbrough to update the stats. He's in charge. :) Oleg Alexandrov 23:53, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

USCA

Welcome to Wikipedia, Jtwdog, and thanks for your recent work on the USCA-related articles. You may have noticed that I have made some stylistic changes to some of your articles to make them more consistent with the established Wikipedia style. I hope you don't mind. Let me know if you have any questions or if you need any stylistic or technical advice for future USCA-related changes. Mike Dillon 02:42, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the assistance. I did notice (I figured out how to watch pages), and agree they were mostly changes for the better. Jtwdog 03:09, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Casa-Z-Jtwdog, I didn't contribute the kitten story, or the bonfire story. However, I did revert them, and signed them in an attempt to respond to the "verifiability" concerns that were raised. I would agree that maybe neither stories belong on the Casa-Z page, maybe a short history about CZ, ie, what happened in the 60', 70', 80',90'.... What about content(NPOV) regarding Co-Op rivalry, or other general information about CZ, i.e. the relatively high occupancy over the last few years? Little *tid-bits* of info like this can better define what kind of place CZ is. Why not incl info on the managerial structure, workshift obligation, (these things vary from coop-to-coop)?
- The manner in which the Casa-Z site was just reverted, incl. the removal of the flag(by ex-clones no less), with very little discussion just didn't seem to fit a NPOV edit.
- -Joachimp 01:15, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

With respect to the flag: you didn't put in any context. Has that flag actually flown over Casa Zimbabwe? Is it in any sense official? There's nothing about it in the article or the caption, so to someone (like me) who doesn't know, it just looks like you put there to be funny. This is what I mean about looking like you're vandalizing the article, even if you aren't.

As to other content, obviously it would nice to have some more of it. And it may well be that Calton's edits cut out too much, but it's up to people who want that content in the article to write it up in a way that meets the standards of WP. There's nothing wrong with writing about drug use, or rivalries with other coops, or the Jolly Roger. Some content about workshifts (for the whole USCA too) or having a history of CZ (or any other coops) would be great. But they've gotten to be written about the facts (and they should sound like they're written about the facts). Jtwdog 02:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Flag has been flown over of CZ for quite a while(that picture was taken at CZ), except for times when the flag has been stolen, by Cloyne... So, for the flag, what exact kind of wording/context should the flag have? Though I don't know of an explicit council recognition of the flag, it has been the de-facto banner that has flown here, at least for the years that I've been at CZ.Joachimp 21:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hilbert-Weyl theorem?

Hi Jtwdog. here for the PM entry for "Hilbert-Weyl theorem", you added a status of A, but don't list a WP article. Did you find this content somewhere?. Paul August ☎ 18:07, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

By the way I notice you have been busy ;-) thanks. Paul August ☎ 18:08, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's in representations of Lie groups. I've already changed the page. Jtwdog 18:11, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks. So I assume you will have filled in the entire table in couple of days right? Paul August ☎ 18:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Right...sounds likely ;) Actually the non-associative algebras was easy because I had written a bunch of those articles, and thus knew their content (not to mention that that's what I study). Jtwdog 18:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Could you get in touch by email?

Could you email me via my user page here? Something to discuss with you offline. By the way, thanks for all the good work on the PlanetMath exchange. Charles Matthews 08:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kronecker symbol

Hi. Thank you for copying this article from PlanetMath. And one remark. The problem with copying from planetmath is that their links don't map well to our links. So when you copy things, I would like to ask you to spend some effort making sure the relevant links are there. In that way the article is easier to read. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CfD

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