User talk:Abcxyz

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Amending existing pages
What I've seen you've done is taken existing pages and rewritten them. In particular you have expanded the context of a lot of pages so as to include the complex case. While this in itself is no bad thing, I have concerns about how (in particular) the Definition:Radius of Convergence page has been completely changed.

The philosophy of this site is to include definitions for all the various contexts into which they are encountered. So we would include this definition for both real and complex numbers - and the same applies to all the other definitions that you have amended to make more general.

I admit that complex analysis has not been addressed properly yet - that is purely due to me (or anyone else) not having got round to plugging away at putting the foundations in place. As you will have noticed, another philosophy of this site is to ensure that the foundations of a subject are put in place as rigorously as possible first.

In short, please don't change the context of existing pages (in this particular case from the real to the complex domain), instead add a separate definition for the extended definition. Otherwise people coming to this site to use it as a resource who don't understand complex numbers will not be served well.

I will go through and see if I can sort out what you've already done (I hate to use rollback indiscriminately, so I'll see if I can find the time to invest to sort it out properly), but in the meantime please bear in mind what I put here. --prime mover 01:17, 7 March 2012 (EST)