User talk:Seresin

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Calculus: Maxima and Minima
Hullo! I found out you modified the terms "maxima" and "minima" in a book on Calculus to "maximum" and "minimum" under the wrong assumption that they might be mistakes. However, this is not the case. It is, in fact, "maxima" and "minima" not "maximum" and "minimum". See here. Thanks-Ravichandar My coffee shop 05:49, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the welcome. I know what maxima and minima are. They are plurals of the words "maximum" and "minimum". I changed the words because they were used as plurals, when they should not have been. "...that it is a maxima or minima" does not make grammatical sense, as "it", which is singular, is not a maxima, which is plural. That would be the same as saying "it is an inflection points". As a side note, I note you reverted my edit with Twinkle, calling it vandalism. Labeling good-faith edits as vandalism is poor form, and you would do well to not do so. Seresin (talk) 06:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I am sorry about that. Rather, I should have worded it as "unintentional vandalism" or should've left the field blank. Nevertheless, I don't regard that edit as disruptive, else, I would've sent a warning. I am really sorry about that. Well, I guess a maxima includes a local as well as global maximum and that the same is for minima too. Feel free to revert my edit if you feel that I had been wrong here. :-) Cheers-Ravichandar My coffee shop 07:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no such thing as "unintentional vandalism"; vandalism requires specific intent to cause harm to the project. For future reference, if TW here is the same as it is on en, there should be an option to mark the edit as "good faith". Seresin (talk) 07:24, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know that TW does have an option for "good faith" but I am not a rollbacker here. I cannot rollback; I can only restore earlier versions.-Ravichandar My coffee shop 07:33, 14 November 2008 (UTC)