User talk:A1E6
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Just a heads up, but the use of \operatorname for functions like etc. is generally inappropriate. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 23:55, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- I don't think that is better than . As you can see, \operatorname fixes inappropriate spacing in the case of functions with fractional arguments. \sin, \cos and so on are exceptions. –A1E6
- Please indent your replies and keep conversations in one location; see Help:Talk for more details. It's a very small difference, and fiddling with spacing should only be done when really necessary. Moreover, this will leave functions named with Latin alphabet letters inconsistent (e.g. because it's not possible to use
\operatornamewithout making the f set in roman. Plus, doing it like this, the spacing is now wrong on the left instead. Also, testing this on a normal LaTeX distribution, using\opertornamedoesn't produce the same effect. So this is just exploiting a weird quirk in the Texvc engine that Mediawiki uses in order to produce spacing that you happen to think is slightly better, but only for greek-letter function names. That's not a good enough reason to make such changes.
- Please indent your replies and keep conversations in one location; see Help:Talk for more details. It's a very small difference, and fiddling with spacing should only be done when really necessary. Moreover, this will leave functions named with Latin alphabet letters inconsistent (e.g. because it's not possible to use
- It does appear that the spacing is the same as the standard spacing with \cos, \log, \exp, etc. only when \operatorname{} is used. That does not surprise me. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- I would not call \cos, \log, \det, \max etc. "exceptions"; rather I would say they are already operatornames. The spacing to their left and right depends on the context, as with \operatorname{}. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:27, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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July 2020
Hello, I'm DVdm. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Generalized continued fraction, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. DVdm (talk) 18:37, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Inverse trig functions
You reverted my change of 2020-09-03 on 2020-09-05. I believe it was valid. I now also have several other changes to the Logarithmic Forms that I believe make them valid everywhere for principal values of the functions, not just on the complement of the branch cuts. I am opening a section called Complex logarithmic forms in the Talk for the article where we can discuss all this if you are interested. Rickhev1 (talk) 18:29, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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Sources please
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Sine, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 15:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Note, see also wp:NOR and wp:CALC. Cheers. - DVdm (talk) 15:50, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- I consider my edit to be an improvement for Wikipedia. In my opinion, it might be helpful and interesting for many Wikipedians. But here, bringing up the "no unsourced content" rule seems a bit off, considering that there are no sources at all in the "Arc length" section, yet the stuff still stays there (most importantly the expression of the arc length in terms of the gamma function) and considering that the proof I provided can be easily followed—the proof is in the spirit of many other Wikipedia proofs which are unsourced and stay on Wikipedia.
- Unsourced content is not an invitation for more unsourced content, but I do not find strictly obeying the "no unsourced content" rule to be beneficial for anyone in the case of my edit. One could say that unsourced content has still its place on Wikipedia because of how old the edits are and because the community consensus is that they are fine.
- In my view, the "no unsourced content" rule is less relevant for mathematics than for any other field of study which has its community on Wikipedia (given that proofs of the theorems are provided). Maybe, if you gave my edit some time, it would still be there, just as the expression in terms of the gamma function mentioned above. Would this make my edit "accepted by community", among dozens of other accepted unsourced contributions?
- Imagine how poor would **mathematics** on Wikipedia be if everyone was constantly reverting every contribution that involves no source. Where would such Wikipedia be today?
- Also, I do not want to be rude, but if I am not mistaken, in your edit summary, you called the needed citation "inlikely" (I think you meant unlikely), but at the same time, you want me to "take this opportunity to add references to the article"—this is rather contradictory and if anyone is possibly willing to add the references in the future, calling them "unlikely" hardly motivates the editors to do so.
- However, if you just don't like my edit or edits of similar nature, I respect that. A1E6 (talk) 02:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- It's not a question of liking. Wikipedia needs sources (1) for verifiabiliy, and (2) to make sure that added content is worthwile to be included. If we discover new mathematical truths and the world doesn' care, then Wikipedia cannot take it on board. After all, by design, it's an encyclopedia, not a textbook. My apologies for the addition of "unlikely", and for the typo
. - DVdm (talk) 10:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- "If we discover new mathematical truths and the world doesn't care..."
- I think that "If we discover new mathematical truths and the world doesn't **know**..." suits your thought much better. The words have very different meanings, otherwise I wouldn't be pointing this out.
- For the sake of clarity, my edit didn't resemble a textbook at all. There were no instructions, no leading questions and no systematic problem solutions. The way the information was presented had a 100 % "state-the-facts" tone. So I quite don't understand why you're referring me to WP:NOTTEXTBOOK.
- My aim was just to expand the poor and unsourced "Arc length" section. In general, adding unsourced content is not always a good idea, but given the circumstances in the "Arc length" section, I used the WP:IAR as I thought that the edit was definitively improving the section (and I still do, but if you're against it, I am not able to do anything with it unless I have the citations).
- I do not want to encourage you to delete anything, but from my view, your actions would be understandable if they included the deletion of the whole unsourced "Arc length" section, otherwise not. Yes, I know, "community consensus", but nothing was preventing you from waiting and possibly seeing how my edit becomes a part of unsourced Wikipedia which is accepted by the whole community and makes the mathematics part of Wikipedia a better place.
- Would this be more helpful and more useful for the community than me waiting for someone to publish the result in a journal or some book? I think it would. In case of any doubts (this probably wouldn't have happened, the result is easily verifiable, by the way, but that's not important here), any problems could have been resolved in the article's Talk page.
- That is just my opinion, though. A1E6 (talk) 13:53, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- It's not a question of liking. Wikipedia needs sources (1) for verifiabiliy, and (2) to make sure that added content is worthwile to be included. If we discover new mathematical truths and the world doesn' care, then Wikipedia cannot take it on board. After all, by design, it's an encyclopedia, not a textbook. My apologies for the addition of "unlikely", and for the typo
- If you think the whole unsourced "Arc length" section should be deleted, then, given the fact that it has been sitting there for quite some time, the place to discuss this is the article talk page. Perhaps it is sourced, but not "inline". Perhaps there is no source, but there was some de-facto consensus to keep it anyway. For new content, there is the wp:BURDEN upon the provider to get the sources. See also User talk:DVdm#Edit reverted. - DVdm (talk) 12:46, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- For the record, I don't want the section to be deleted. I thought that you could have deleted it a long time ago though, before it even "reached" consensus.
- I don't know why you're referring me to WP:PROVEIT when I actually provided a proof. After I provided it, the verifiability was not likely to be challenged. And I'm sorry but, except for the case of creating whole new articles, I can't seem to find the "content must be **worth** mentioning" rule (which you discussed on your talk page with someone) anywhere on Wikipedia policy pages – could you please refer me there, if possible?
- Nevertheless, I think that a compromise would be more useful than deleting it all for everyone viewing the article. The readers could make use of the facts presented in my edit, while being alerted by the "Citation needed" tag, as in the case of Anita5192's edit.
- With the "Citation needed" tag, it was possible that some editor would actually find the citation and add it there, but now that you've deleted it all, it's not possible for them (unless they're browsing diffs, which is much less probable than just viewing the article). A1E6 (talk) 23:22, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- See WP:DUE. Also note that wp:BURDEN (aka wp:PROVIT) is about providing sources, not about proving content: The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material. (bolding form original, underlining mine). I can prove that 464646446446 + 323232323233 = 787878769679. Shall I mention that (with my proof) in article Addition? Try to imagine what would happen to Wikipedia if we let go of wp:BURDEN. - DVdm (talk) 10:40, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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Dimension maximizing the volume of a fixed-radius ball
Thank you. For many years I've been thinking that I am (almost) alone. Almost always. Guswen (talk) 17:46, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
Simple algebraic expression
Dear A1E6,
I have been attempting to introduce a simple and straightforward simplification of the black hole surface gravity. Schwarzschild radius is . Hence . Thus a black hole surface gravity is . This form is simpler as it depends only on D, but the "resistance of the matter" is similar to that that we experienced in our struggle to maintain the unit n-ball picture in the Volume of an n-ball last November . I am not an experienced Wikipedian, so I simply don't know what should I do. I will appreciate, and in advance I thank you for an advice. Guswen (talk) 08:52, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Guswen,
- The "resistance of the matter" is quite different from the unit n-ball – since the unit n-ball stuff can be backed by sources (but I'm not sure if your derivation can). For what it's worth, I think that your derivation is too simple to be considered "research" (or original research, for that matter), given that you combined two known facts. However, it's understandable that someone, perhaps in the field of physics, can have a different opinion. There can also be notability issues, meaning that even if the derivation is straightforward, it has to be in some reputable sources.
- Tarl N. was not satisfied with your contribution, referring to WP:SYNTH. Perhaps you could use WP:NOTJUSTANYSYNTH, in particular: SYNTH is original research by synthesis, not synthesis per se. Maybe there's a good chance that someone came up with the same thing as you did – in that case, my advice would be to search for sources. A1E6 (talk) 15:04, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
- For what it's worth, see discussions on article talk page and user talk page. My main objection at this point is mainly "what's the point?". It's not something that has been found meaningful elsewhere (at least not enough to publish), and it's not relevant to the subject of the article, Surface gravity in general. It's something specific to black holes, and an obscure factoid which doesn't seem to have any particular relevance.
- I have a lot of objections with how my interaction with Guswen has gone, among other things that they like to forum shop. I've informed the editor what the dispute resolution mechanisms are, and they have either been roundly ignored or misused - they tried 3O and neglected to notify the other parties in the dispute. Didn't matter, the matter was rapidly rejected from consideration. This last instance where they decided that three months after a discussion ended, to simply re-introduce the changes with a comment to the effect of you didn't win, I'm doing it anyway, I found particularly irritating. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 17:32, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Lemniscate constant formula
Hi, you have improved the Lemniscate elliptic functions page a whole lot and you have my gratitude for it, I don't understand much but there is aformula that catched my attention which you added in February later you cited a reference which contains the first equality but I think it doesn't contains the second so I would like to ask you how is done (or a reference), thanks in advance and best regards Dabed (talk) 21:30, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

