User talk:Keith.U

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Cheers! prime mover (talk) 15:45, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Eqn template
This might help: Help:FAQ/Technical questions/Problem with Eqn template


 * Thank you! You probably saw me struggling to get a modulus inside of curly braces


 * Yeah, you also had a couple of adjacent double close curlies as well. We went through this big-time when we moved to MathJax from the MediaWiki LaTeX browser. It took a bit of headscratching to work out what we were doing wrong. --prime mover (talk) 06:01, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Refactoring
There is one comment I need to make: it would probably be better if you did not change the main pages so as to directly transclude the work-in-progress pages you're working on -- I see this in the Definition:Exponential page:

Definition
The exponential function is denoted $\exp$ and can be defined in several ways, as described below.

Real Numbers
I am worried that the existing pages will get into a mess.

The whole idea of taking a backup is that you can do all the work you need to do in your development area, and not do the work directly on the live pages. --prime mover (talk) 06:08, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * That was an oversight. My mistake there. Definition:Exponential/Real has been created and all links now direct there. --Keith.U 06:13, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Good job -- thx. --prime mover (talk) 06:21, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Recent deleting requests
A good job you are doing.

A suggestion, which makes a lot of things easier:

If you find you have named a page incorrectly, then rather than copy it into a completely new page and flag it for deletion, suggest you use the "Move" tool which can be found under the "More" menu at the top of the page. Please note always to preserve redirects so as to make it possible to identify any wikilinks that need to be moved along with them.

Using that technique there is never any urgent need to delete the original pages -- that can be done whenever is convenient.

You will note that I noticed there were still some of the links to those "less than zero" pages which I changed to their "between zero and one" counterparts.

Apart from that, I note one or two things: I still see the occasional underscore in wikilinks, which I correct when I find them. This can happen when you copy the page name from the address bar. Preferable to copy it from the page title itself. --prime mover (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Exponent Combination Laws
Reference the above talk page: I seem to have changed my mind on this subject. The establishment of these laws for integers and rationals crop up as exercises in Knuth's TAOCP which I happen to be studying at the moment, and I have been finding it difficult to find the results I want. Your idea is a good one. I may have started it (or done it) already. --prime mover (talk) 20:57, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Incidentally, while I think about it: when you autosig your page, I note it just comes up with your username as a raw text field, rather than a wikilink. Is this intentional? If not, I believe there may be a setting that you can set up in your user preferences which gives you the option. You might like to experiment. It makes it easier to link back to your page to discuss things. --prime mover (talk) 20:57, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Changed back. I think I was just clicking around on preferences a few months back. --Keith.U (talk) 06:31, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Replies
Please note that I replied to your comment on my talk page on that same page -- it is the convention for keeping all bits of a conversation in the same place. --prime mover (talk) 07:17, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Minor Edit checkbox
Please consider checking the "This is a minor edit" when saving experimental edits in a sandbox. This allows a user selecting "Recent Changes" to filter out all such minor edits and so find it easier to hunt down a particular recent edit in which he/she is insterested without having to page through a lot of material which is irrelevant to him/her.


 * Of course - thank you. I'm entirely new to MediaWiki. --Keith.U (talk) 10:30, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't mean to irritate, but you don't seem to be using it. --prime mover (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Neither do I, and I smack my face against the keyboard each time I forget. Getting into the habit still. --Keith.U (talk) 16:39, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Appears there's a setting in the preferences that will mark it as minor by default. I'll stick to that and mark the major edits instead. Should work. --Keith.U (talk) 16:42, 3 July 2016 (UTC)