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So what's the problem ?? What page ?? Why don't you just make it better instead of not retaining it ?? Lilily (talk) 23:10, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
It's probably best to talk to Masum Ibn Musa about that. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @ 23:38, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
I believe Masum Ibn Musa, while welcoming quite a few users, by accident chose the wrong welcoming template. I assume the article would be the one you created most recently, Carleman's equation, but I don't see any immediate issues with that article (though a little more context could help - why do we care about that equation? Why is it important? Does it appear in physics? Did solving it lead to any further advances? What kind of methods were employed to solve it?). Huon (talk) 00:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Proper mathematical notation

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Right: b − a ≠ 4
Wrong: b-a ≠ 4

Please look at WP:MOSMATH. Notice these differences above:

  • The minus sign is not a stubby little hyphen;
  • Spacing precedes and follows it (I've made them non-breakable;
  • Variables are italicized (but digits, like 4, and things like parentheses are not.

This is consistent with what is done in TeX-like systems:

 

Michael Hardy (talk) 19:20, 27 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hello, yes, thanks for making it better. I do count on other wikipedians for correcting such things, especially if I don't have the time to do it.
And by the way, usually I use scritpstyle math in the text, and then it is really translated by LaTeX, but since that's more work, I usually come back later to do that.
Wikipedia is collaborative and evolutive (so I guess I don't have to get everything perfect from the beginning, even if its just style)
Lilily (talk) 23:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

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This looks very much cut/paste to me, and you acknowledge basing this article off the other wiki. However, in the absence of any copyright notice on MWiki, it is default all rights reserved. Consequently, it's a copyright violation to copy it, and much of the structure survives to the current version, so revision deletion wouldn't solve the problem. Even if it were free content, this would still be plagarism. This article needs to be rewritten from the ground up, citing multiple sources. I can help with that. Bellezzasolo Discuss 01:34, 25 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
If you consider their FAQ it says "About the philosophy of the site: Who wrote all this? The users of the wiki. Several people. Whom do the pages belong to? Nobody." The article has now been reworked, but your help is welcome if more has to be done. Lilily (talk) 02:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
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