User talk:Eltwarg

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[edit] TeXnical issues

Hello. Please note that curly braces around the subscript are needed for things like this:

\aleph_{i+1}.\,

Click on "edit this page" and you will see how that was done. Similarly, in

x^{43},\,

without the curly braces around the numeral "43", only the "4" appears in the superscript; the "3" does not. Same thing with

\sqrt{43+65},\,

etc. Michael Hardy 00:32, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fun

In general, it seems like it is going to be a playground of non-human perfectionists (especially in the math section ;-). Probably I should take it all much more seriously - the problem could be I am too "fun-oriented" (with little son you must be ;).

Hello. I think no one's more "fun-oriented" than I am, but I don't see that as conflicting with seriousness; for me, they're largely the same thing. The more playful it is, the more serious it is, and vice versa. Michael Hardy 01:15, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Finally I want to say that I think I understand people who do not like your enhancements in "their" articles. I do not like too much "academical" approach to Wikipedia too and do prefer more human aspects if do not interfere with the purpose. One of the basic human aspects is "not to be perfect" what as I believe do not interfere much with purpose of Wikipedia in general.

I don't understand the point above at all, since it is completely non-specific. Could you please give some examples? Sometimes I don't like people's edits to article's I've started, but I know they're not "my" articles. Do you mean that correcting spelling or punctuation is not "human" enough? Or changing an erroneous assertion to a correct one is not "human" enough? The purpose of Wikipedia is to make information available. If you can point out some edit of mine that was does not support that purpose, please do. Certainly you can find some errors among my many edits, but I doubt that's what you're trying to say. Also, no one has expressed to me that they regard any article as "theirs" and dislike my edits for that reason. Has someone indicated that to you? If so, I wonder why they don't say that to me. Michael Hardy 01:03, 15 August 2005 (UTC)