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Hello Trd89! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! Alex (Talk) 21:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

[edit] Page unprotection

Thanks for your message! In future it's probably best to request page unprotection here where it'll probably get a quicker response. Which article was it? --Alex (Talk) 21:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of calculus

I removed this text from calculus:

Leibniz and Newton both were working diligently on the founding principles of calculus. Newton had skipped the first step of Calculus that required the theory of limits to further progress his own work. Incidentally, Gottfried Leibniz was presenting the theory of limits at a convention Newton was attending. Leibniz had advanced Gauss’s mathematical theories to where Newton was stumped, but no further. Isaac Newton then took the breakthroughs by Leibniz and incorporated it with his own work. Thus the basis of calculus was founded. History credits Isaac Newton with the discovery of calculus since he published his finds first. Calculus was thus discovered "independently" with some "borrowing" of ideas.

This is wrong. No such convention took place, Gauss lived after Leibniz and Newton, Newton did not publish first, and history does not credit only Newton. Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 01:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)