User talk:Jmaidens

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[edit] Style conventions

Hello. Please look at my edits to Coates graph. Note that a Wikipedia mathematics article should never start by saying anything like "Let X be..." etc. It should inform the non-mathematician reader at the outset that mathematics is what it is to be about.

In Wikipedia articles generally:

  • The title word or title phrase should be set in bold at its first appearance, usually in the first sentence. Thus: "In mathematics, the Coates graph is...".
  • Although TeX looks very good when "displayed", often "inline" TeX gets misaligned or is much bigger on many browsers than the letters in the surrounding text. Consequently many prefer to avoid it (although there is less than universal agreement on this). See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics).

Michael Hardy (talk) 15:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)