User talk:Twalton

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Hello, Twalton, 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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Also -- when appending to talk pages, please append to the bottom, not the top. You may also find some interesting discussion over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics. linas 14:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Twalton 12:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Style

Hi, thanks for the fantastc expansion on Jet bundle! Now for a few critiques: One thing I noticed is that you centered all of the formulas; this is not really the style employed on WP; we prefer to indent. To that end, I'd like to get you to review Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). If in doubt, try to make your articles resemble other pre-existing math articles. Another remark regarding long formulas, and derivations aka "proofs": you might want to review the contents of Category:Article proofs and the discussion it references. In short, there is a lack of consensus as to how much should be shown in the way of derivations in articles. I'm not against providing detailed derivations in articles, but I should note that my view is somewhat controversial. linas 17:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

And please do take this well: I think that you could be awarded the prize for the "best first-time ever contribution to a Wikipedia math article" (If such a prize existed)! We might need to invent such a prize ... Hmmm.. linas 18:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks indeed for your constructive criticism. It will only help my mathematical writing style for here and in my worklife too. Thanks Twalton 19:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Ditto. Very nice article! Although you've now forced me to read this massive thing in detail. But don't worry, no one will be ripping this apart any time soon. I see several ways to integrate it better with existing Wikipedia articles, so I may tweak it here and there. Furthermore, it duplicates some of the contents of jet_(mathematics), but that article takes a different approach (it starts with an intrinsic formulation). Anyway, I'll stew this over for a bit and see what can be done. Sometime after the end of term chaos, I should be back in action. At any rate, thanks for the post! Silly rabbit 22:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jet bundle

Very nice expansion. Let's start polishing. -MarSch 11:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)