User talk:Marknau

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, we have articles here on every state of the US and every country of the world so Department of Energy is probably going to be a bit ambiguous. How 'bout United States Department of Energy? Cheers! --maveric149

RE your comment on my talk page: No problemo and we don't go yelling and screaming at newbies about RTFM here (well most of use don't -- and those that do get yelled at by people like me ;). Oh boy; made the Department of Energy article by clicking on an edit link on the most wanted page eh? That's not in any way your fault and I am embarrassed that so many wikipedians before you had made wiki links to that title as if there were only one organization named DoE in the whole world. However the one you did write about is the most famous one which is dealt with around here is a special way: you still move the content to a disambiguated title but you redirect the non-disambiguated title to it then you create what is called a disambiguation block at the target of the redirect. Here's how:

It's easy to move an article, all you have to do is make a wiki link with the correct name, hit preview, move all the text into that edit link and then place, in this case, #REDIRECT [[United States Department of Energy]] in the now empty page named Department of Energy. Then it gets a bit complicated and it is best to show you an example. Just click on this link to Paris (in a new window). You will see a statement at the top of the article and a link to something called Paris (disambiguation) (which is hidden behind a pipe). Just copy that general format and place something similar at the top of United States Department of Energy. Easy eh? Don't be discouraged about the learning curve, it really isn't that steep -- you just so happened to fall into about the most complicated thing here (disambiguation). Welcome to wikiland! If you need anything don't hesitate to ask. BTW, I'm not anybody particularly special around here, just a contributor like you (been here since January though -- we only had about 15,000 articles then). --maveric149

Ah, classic reliance on set theory when simple logic will do:

There does not exist a subject E such that I am an expert on E.

Or in symbols:

¬(∃subjectE, expert(I,E)).

No sets, just logic!

— Toby (sometimes described as "an expert on the empty set")

PS: Sometime later we can discuss how you're putting yourself down by making a stronger statement, under intuitionstic logic, than may actually be necessary. — Toby 13:07 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

I was drawn to the set theory expression becuase my first thought was to put "The topics I am an expert in include" and end it there. From there, I thought "Ha, ha, I'm an expert in the empty set." I haven't really thought too much about the equivalence between certain set theory expressions and certain logical expressions. Hmmmm. -Mark.

You're an expert in the empty set? But nothing's in the empty set! — Toby 11:33 Jul 25, 2002 (PDT) ^_^

My only possible response to that is "mu." -Mark