User talk:Nfgdayton

Welcome to Wikibooks, Nfgdayton!  First steps tutorial Wikibooks is for freely-licensed collaboratively-developed textbooks. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing and assume good faith about the intentions of others. Remember, this is a wiki, so you're allowed to change just about anything, and changes can be made easily. Come introduce yourself to everyone, and let us know what interests you.

If you're coming here from other Wikimedia projects, you should read our primer for Wikimedians to get quickly up-to-speed.  Getting help  Goodies, tips and tricks  Made a mistake? Thanks. Thenub314 (talk) 13:57, 22 June 2010 (UTC) (P.S. Would you like to provide feedback on this message?)
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Hi, nice work at High School Mathematics Extensions. It is nice to see someone working on the math pages here. Let me know if you need a hand with anything or drop by the a Reading room and leave a message.

Changing your mind
Hi, I saw your question when deleting a page you had abandoned. If you change your mind about the name of a page, just move it (using the move tab at the top of the page) to the new name you have chosen. If you don't want the page at all, just put at the top of the page and we'll delete it for you. QU TalkQu 20:49, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Mathematics
Hi, I have been trying to restart the Mathematics project here at Wikibooks. The aim is simply to provide some community for the editors interested in improving the mathematics coverage here. Give a place to discuss issues with wikibooks (such as "hey this won't TeX correctly" or "how do I make a nice picture"); or actual mathematics content. I have noticed your edits at High School Mathematics Extensions and Algebra and thought you might be interested in joining. Thenub314 (talk) 15:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Replying here
Hey Thenub314,

I got back to editing today and I was looking for a way to return to a section in an article. I went to some of your posts and found this one.

Ironically it showed me how to do what I was looking for So thats how you do it

... well I could get it to work in my article where I didn't have to name the root node.

I just spent 45 minutes messing with the above and now my wife has some stuff for me to do.

I appreciate your position, but I also have some history with legalism that I might write about here later ...

Anyway, I think the canonical response to not liking an article is to write a counter-article.

In addition I think it might be good to have a Wiki portal that doesn't have links to harmful / mature material. I am adding to the Algebra text book in an effort to practice my explanatory skills. I would like to use this material in a classroom, but I now know that I need to be careful when I approach any potential school administrators about opening up their firewall to wikibooks in general.

Nfgdayton

 * I hope you don't mind me moving the conversation here. Does your school firewall really block wikibooks?  Understandable but what a wake up call for us.  This, together with some personal support from one of the other admins here has inspired me to fix the book.  So there is less reason to block our site.  Luckily the National Institute for Drug Abuse runs a "Drugs:Fact and Fiction" week every year and as a government organization all their materials are public domain.  So it should be possible to provide reliable, responsible information that a school administrator wouldn't object to.


 * About linking. I thought you'd find the following helpful.  If you want to make a link to some specific point in a page that is not necessarily a section title you can add  and link it later as text that should in the link .  I am not taking that wikibreak just yet, so feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need any help.


 * Another useful fact is that 4 ~'s signs your name. Like this ~ .  Other numbers of them do other things.  I leave it as an exercise to play around and find out what.  – Adrignola talk 19:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Orphaning
You removed Algebra/The Coordinate (Cartesian) Plane from the contents of Algebra. If you would like to have a page removed from a book, you'd want to propose it on the book's talk page and if nobody opposes, then speedy can be placed on the page. – Adrignola talk 19:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Designing OER mathematics textbooks
You may find a website like wikieducator.org/K-12math.info (English, Español, Français)which provides a variety of aids to develop elementary and secondary school mathematics materials useful. Designing a textbook or a textbook series is more than just compiling a random collection of topics. Organization is needed. I hope that Wikibooks will take up the serious challenge of creating a series of OER mathematics textbooks. Jim Kelly - 10:42, 09 November 2010