User talk:Mathemens

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Mathemens, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Context setting

Please don't start a mathematics article without first telling the non-mathematician reader that mathematics is what it is to be about. "An ordinal is called nondecomposable if...." is not the right way to start a Wikipedia article. The word "ordinal" has meanings in the field of religion and a variety of other subjects besides mathematics. It would probably be a good idea if you looked at some of the math articles to see how they're written. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

PS: See my edits to additively indecomposable ordinal. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)