User talk:TEaslick
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Cheers! prime mover (talk) 00:58, 15 May 2018 (EDT)
your contribution Harmonic Series is Divergent
a) The maintenance tags are there for the admins and other more experienced staff to come in and attend to it when they are of a mind to.
b) You may be able to compare the page you wrote with other pages on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$, where the style is tight and terse, non-discursive, reading more like a dictionary entry than that of an encyclopedia.
c) Every concept is to be linked back to, for philosophical reasons made clear in the house style guide. In particular, on the first line there is mention of "tail of the harmonic series which converges. Tail, harmonic series and converge all need links. And when you do the links, a) you need to make sure they point to the correct subpage (using the specific redirect), and b) you need to make sure their presentation is tidy (so you don't leave it looking like "Then from Definition:Series/Sequence of Partial Sums:").
d) Your understanding of language (in particular what a sentence is) is insufficient for the page you wrote to be considered "complete". No big deal, many mathematicians are less than facile with language, so you are not alone.
e) The page itself does not seem to add more to the understanding of the divergence of a harmonic series than proof 1, which demonstrates neatly and cleanly the technique of collecting its terms up in progressive sections of lengths of successive powers of 2. Your page is just a much more roundabout and meandering way of doing it. As such I am not sure it contains anything new enough to be accepted as an extra proof.
f) I encourage you to look at the Help pages (linked above) where you may be able to pick up on house style. Contributors are encouraged to be autodidacts.
g) Usually not a good idea to directly email contributors. Write messages on their talk pages, then everyone can see what you're saying. --prime mover (talk) 01:20, 1 August 2019 (EDT)