Difference between revisions of "User talk:MCrawford"

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When you say that a book is Douglas Adam's only non-fiction work, you need to check around. I think you miss the salmon of doubt. --PenguinIntegral 21:33, 21 June 2006 (EDT)

I agree that the titles in my small "rational approximation" series are far from perfection, so feel free to change them. On the other hand, the proof of the non-Liouvillian charachter of $\pi$ , say, is sufficiently long and complicated to deserve its own article. My plan was to give the proofs for $\pi$ , $e$ and $\ln 2$ . To combine them all in one article would be a disaster: it'll be just too long to be readable. Anyway, if you can come up with a better structure and article titles for this small series, I'll be only happy. By the way, should I post my replies here or in my own User Talk section? This time I did both.--Fedja 13:00, 26 June 2006 (EDT)

EDIT: I was trying to create a template, and had a question, but I figured it out. Sorry! --Sean 23:19, 26 June 2006 (EDT)

Using the "+" button

When leaving messages on other people's user talk pages, it is generally advised to use the "+" button unless you're replying on the same topic. This creates a nice table of contents, and makes everything nice and neat, and you can see the different conversations rather than it all be jumbled together ;) Ignite168 23:45, 30 June 2006 (EDT)

Heh. :) --MCrawford 23:47, 30 June 2006 (EDT)

Protected pages?

Can I ask why some pages are protected? Ones such as Art of Problem Solving, Art of Problem Solving Foundation, etc? Usually articles are only protected during an edit war or they may be protected for 15 minutes or so during a heavy attack of vandalism but there is probably zero vandalism on AoPSWiki and it seems you were the only contributor to Art of Problem Solving. I'm sure many other editors can make contributions too and Wikipedia doesn't have the article Wikipedia protected. (although it is semi-protected and even semi-protections are used as a preemptive counter as vandalism) I was wanting to expand the forum section a bit but I found I couldn't to my dismay. Would you reconsider protecting it? Ignite168 17:26, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

I want to organize the information under those pages personally. Also, I don't even want to leave open the possibility of vandalism.--MCrawford 17:30, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

2006 AMC 12A Problems 1-9

Ugh, while moving problem pages to subpages, it seems like I used a backslash for problems 1 through 9 instead of a foward slash. Now this has messed up those pages and will not let me move them. Do you think I should manually copy and paste the pages over to their correct locations? This would cause the history to be erased though although there isn't much history. Ignite168 19:42, 7 July 2006 (EDT)

Silliness

You're silly. But I'm honored to be considered on a par with Euler and Gauss. :) --ComplexZeta 12:28, 30 July 2006 (EDT)

I just want to say that I thoughly enjoyed the NT book, and I think that adding the "All your base are belong to us" as an Extra was utterly brilliant. --IntrepidMath 11:09, 3 August 2006 (EDT)

Why is User:MCrawford protected?

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-== terminology ==
+When you say that a book is Douglas Adam's only non-fiction work, you need to check around. I think you miss the salmon of doubt.
+--[[User:PenguinIntegral|PenguinIntegral]] 21:33, 21 June 2006 (EDT)
-It appears that i began the ellipse page with the term "locus" in the first line, but defined that merely as "set" in the appositive following it.  Later, i used words like "far end" and "closer end" to help define the semimajor and -minor axes.  I forgot middle schoolers would be reading this as well.  Would it be okay then to describe things like that and just use the fancy terms at the end?
+I agree that the titles in my small "rational approximation" series are far from perfection, so feel free to change them. On the other hand, the proof of the non-Liouvillian charachter of <math>\pi</math>, say, is sufficiently long and complicated to deserve its own article. My plan was to give the proofs for <math>\pi</math>, <math>e</math> and <math>\ln 2</math>. To combine them all in one article would be a disaster: it'll be just too long to be readable. Anyway, if you can come up with a better structure and article titles for this small series, I'll be only happy. By the way, should I post my replies here or in my own User Talk section? This time I did both.--[[User:Fedja|Fedja]] 13:00, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
+EDIT: I was trying to create a template, and had a question, but I figured it out.  Sorry! --[[User:Mysmartmouth|Sean]] 23:19, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
-It's probably best to divide the article in half.  Define it in a "nice" way for the students who will be reading about it for the first time.  Later, define it again.--[[User:MCrawford|MCrawford]] 20:54, 19 June 2006 (EDT)
+== Using the "+" button ==
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-Let's say you're posting an article with some problems in it.  Some of them you'll want to use as examples but you'll of course want to leave some exercises for users to try themself.  But the solution should also be available (but not visible).  So how would you suggest doing this?  It would be nice to have hide tags, but those aren't available on the wiki (or is there an equivalent of hide tags?...).  Other possibilities are to create a whole new article for the solution (this seems like it would create way too many articles though), post the solution on the message board somewhere and then link to it, or post all the problems and then in the next section post the answers and leave it up to the reader to not read ahead?[[User:Joml88|Joe]] 09:04, 20 June 2006 (EDT)
+When leaving messages on other people's user talk pages, it is generally advised to use the "+" button unless you're replying on the same topic. This creates a nice table of contents, and makes everything nice and neat, and you can see the different conversations rather than it all be jumbled together ;) [[User:Ignite168|Ignite168]] 23:45, 30 June 2006 (EDT)
-I don't think it's a big deal not to have solutions hidden for examples.  They are after all the first examples students will see.  There shouldn't be need for extra articles.  Then link to 2 or 3 additional problems in the forum where solutions are hidden.--[[User:MCrawford|MCrawford]] 12:17, 20 June 2006 (EDT)
+Heh. :) --[[User:MCrawford|MCrawford]] 23:47, 30 June 2006 (EDT)
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+== Protected pages? ==
-Yes, the MIMC article was copied from Wikipedia by iversonfan2005.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMC Here] is the Wikipedia article, [http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/MIMC here] is the AoPSWiki article.  However, I wrote that article on Wikipedia with my AoPS screename, as shown [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Masters_Invitational_Math_Contest&action=history here].  Since I wrote the article for Wikipedia, perhaps they get the copyright, and if that is indeed so, please delete the article, and I will start from scratch. --[[User:Mysmartmouth|Sean]] 14:03, 21 June 2006 (EDT)
+Can I ask why some pages are protected? Ones such as [[Art of Problem Solving]], [[Art of Problem Solving Foundation]], etc? Usually articles are only protected during an edit war or they may be protected for 15 minutes or so during a heavy attack of vandalism but there is probably zero vandalism on AoPSWiki and it seems you were the only contributor to Art of Problem Solving. I'm sure many other editors can make contributions too and Wikipedia doesn't have the article Wikipedia protected. (although it is semi-protected and even semi-protections are used as a preemptive counter as vandalism) I was wanting to expand the forum section a bit but I found I couldn't to my dismay. Would you reconsider protecting it? [[User:Ignite168|Ignite168]] 17:26, 2 July 2006 (EDT)
+I want to organize the information under those pages personally.  Also, I don't even want to leave open the possibility of vandalism.--[[User:MCrawford|MCrawford]] 17:30, 2 July 2006 (EDT)
+== 2006 AMC 12A Problems 1-9 ==
+Ugh, while moving problem pages to subpages, it seems like I used a backslash for problems 1 through 9 instead of a foward slash. Now this has messed up those pages and will not let me move them. Do you think I should manually copy and paste the pages over to their correct locations? This would cause the history to be erased though although there isn't much history. [[User:Ignite168|Ignite168]] 19:42, 7 July 2006 (EDT)
+== Silliness ==
+You're silly. But I'm honored to be considered on a par with Euler and Gauss. :) --[[User:ComplexZeta|ComplexZeta]] 12:28, 30 July 2006 (EDT)
+I just want to say that I thoughly enjoyed the NT book, and I think that adding the "All your base are belong to us" as an Extra was utterly brilliant. --[[User:IntrepidMath|IntrepidMath]] 11:09, 3 August 2006 (EDT)
+== Why is [[User:MCrawford]] protected? ==
+Why is [[User:MCrawford]] protected?

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