User talk:Paul D. Anderson

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Welcome!

Hello, Paul D. Anderson, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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1 Math formulas
2 A delayed welcome
3 List of Book of Mormon people
4 Hi
5 WikiProject LDS
6 Liahona
- 6.1 Reply
7 Hi Paul

[edit] Math formulas

I undid your changes at complex conjugate. Per the math style manual, one should attempt to not use formulas which display as PNG pictures in the middle of text. They often look too huge compared to everything else around, as is the case on my laptop. This is an unfortunate state of events, as in some places formulas are in HTML, in some other places they are in LaTeX which displays as text, in some other places it is LaTeX which displays as PNG. But until we get MathML (our holy grail), it seems that a better solution is to keep inline formulas as text and big formulas on separate line as as PNG. Thanks, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know that was the preferred style. Oh well, I'll wait for MathML.--andersonpd 05:19, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A delayed welcome

Paul, I wanted to welcome you again to Wikipedia and introduce myself. You've done some great work and needed cleanup in a number of places within the WP:LDS. Keep up the good work and let me if there is anything I can do to help. I've also noticed a good deal of work you've done on the categorization system - we need to figure out a way to include them on the List of articles about Mormonism and in the categorization system. Thoughts? -Visorstuff 19:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I'm not sure I've done anything notable in the categories other than a little cleanup and some synchronization with the "List of articles...". I just kind of work where the urge takes me. I can be a fusspot at times. I hope I don't step on any toes while I'm at it. Thanks again for welcoming me. I'm enjoying myself.--andersonpd 22:32, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Book of Mormon people

Thanks for creating the List -- we've talked about it several times but............ Would a table such as the format below be of any use? What material should be profiled in the columns? What would be best for our readers reference? Would we want chapter and verse for source/reference material? The example below is only a suggestion. Welcome to Wikipedia and the LDS project. I look forward to working with you. WBardwin 03:10, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Name	Date	Description	BofM Source
Nephi	circa 600 BCE	son of Lehi	I and II Nephi
Jacob	circa 590 BCE	son of Lehi	Jacob

A table such as this would be very cool, but why only Book of Mormon people? AusME 06:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I don't believe I have made your acquaintance. So welcome to WP and WP:LDS. Thanks for your help. Tom Haws 23:22, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject LDS

Hello! I noticed you were on the list of members in the LDS WikiProject, and I was wondering if you were still interested in helping out there. You see, over the past few months, it appears that it has slowly drifted into inactivity. But you CAN help. Please consider doing both of the following:

Take ONE thing form the To-Do list and do it. Once you're done with it, remove it from the list, and from the<>{{Template:LDSprojectbox}}<>, so we know its done. Keep the page on your watchlist. We have a backlog going for more than half a year. Please help to work on it, and remove it.
Vote on the LDSCOTF, and work on it!
Tell your friends (esp. LDS friends, & esp. Wikipedian friends) about this WikiProject, and enocourage them to join (and be active).

Remember: your involvement in this WikiProject is just that - involvement! Please help us out.

(Note: I'm sending this out to everyone who's name was on the membership list, so I will NOT be watching this page for a response. If you want to contact me, do it on MY talk page, please.)

Thanks for all that you do -Trevdna 15:52, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Liahona

I've been reading this Russian's talk page and he says that in his religion, a moral compass is like a device called the Liahona. I saw that you edited this article, so I thought I would ask. Is the Russian right? Here's a link to his talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kaspersky_Trust

It's at the very bottom.

[edit] Reply

It's a reasonable metaphor. In the Book of Mormon the Liahona is referred to as a compass (in the physical "points to north" sense) and is also described as indicating the will of God (both in written messages and in guiding them in the right direction). I'm not familiar with direct references to the Liahona as a "moral compass", but references to a "personal Liahona" and comparisons among the terms "conscience", "the Spirit of Christ" and "personal Liahona" are not uncommon. andersonpd 17:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

p.s. It's usually considered good form to sign your comments. Just type four tildes (~) and the editor will insert your username and timestamp your changes. andersonpd 17:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)