User talk:J D Bowen

DISCUSSION MOVED TO Talk:Main Page BECAUSE IT IS A SITE-WIDE STYLE QUESTION. --Cynic (talk) 18:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Since in places we're plainly covering (or intending to cover) the same or very similar ground, no doubt we'll be hacking each other's work to shreds somewhat! I will try to ensure that anything I change is kept in, commented out inside so you'll be able to restore what you think I've taken too many liberties with. --Matt Westwood 23:07, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Group Examples
Yep, I think I like that ...

So you define, say, Definition:Quaternion Group and have a sentence in it that says "For proof that it is a group, see Quaternion Group" which will redirect to Dicyclic Group. (Better done like that than to go straight to Dicyclic Group in case we decide to make Quaternion Group its own special page, and better to jump straight to the proof of Dicyclic Group than to go the roundabout way of via Definition:Dicyclic Group.

Yep, same with Definition:Alternating Group which goes to "For proof that it is a group, see Alternating Group".

Okay, let's do this. Thanks for taking this one on, as I say I was getting bogged down on groups, which is why I changed to something I'm more comfortable with (analysis), which is dead boring but straightforward and undeniably essential to get right. --Matt Westwood 22:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Equivalency
Oh fair enough (although I'm not sure I have any respect for the authorities you quote, my bible is the Oxford English Dictionary) ... but it means equivalence, right?

Since "equivalence" is what's been used throughout till now (e.g. see Material Equivalence), and "equivalency" is ugly and wasteful (it requires more syllables to say) and its use is AFAIK limited to American English, whereas "equivalence" usage is more worldwide, I'd recommend "equivalence". Your call though, you wrote the page whose name I changed. Feel free to change it back. --Matt Westwood 17:54, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

About the sandbox
Good idea if you're writing to the sandbox not to delete the top three lines. I've just put them back. --Matt Westwood 21:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Might be worth setting up your own sandbox. You can do that by setting up a page User:J D Bowen/Sandbox.

Oh and another BTW: please use my "User Talk" page, not my main page, when writing a message - I edit my own page on a sporadic basis and there are going to be inevitable edit conflicts. --Matt Westwood 22:25, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Best wishes for the PhD!

Apologies
... on behalf of the troll who corrupted your user page. I have reverted it and prevented the user doing it again.

Contacting You
I would like to discuss another wiki with you, but I have been blocked on that wiki and cannot edit there. Can I email you, or simply discuss with you here? Chris3145 20:37, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

I've pinched something
... off your sandbox. Hope you don't mind:


 * Product of Row Sum Unity Matrices

Feel free to delete it and resubmit it if you feel I've misappropriated. --Matt Westwood 08:06, 27 June 2010 (UTC)