User talk:Aftermath

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Hello Aftermath, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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-Poli (talk • contribs) 06:17, 2005 July 25 (UTC)

[edit] More welcome, and remarks

I saw you rewrote geometry. It reads well, so thank you! And just a couple of remarks about approaches here, then style.

Usually, it is good to start a discussion on the talk page before doing a rewrite of this magnitude to a promient article, this so that you know for future reference. This can avoid a lot of bitter feelings later (believe me, it happens even in math).

As far as style is concerened, according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Headings, one should not use too many capitals in section headings, so for example ==See also== is OK, while ==See Also== is not. Same for links, so "See Areas of mathematics and Algebraic geometry" should have both A's lowercase.

One also needs to write Pythagorean Theorem with small t, so again, capitals only when absolutely necessary, as in proper names, etc.

I am confused about the redlink Egyptian mathematics: Geometry, do you mean Egyptian mathematics#Geometry? (Btw, this better be written as [[Egyptian mathematics#Geometry|Geometry in Egypt]] or something, that is, with the # sign being invisible.)

Lastly, a good resource is the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, there you can meet fellow mathematicians. Enjoy! Oleg Alexandrov 03:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC)