User talk:Warshall

Welcome, Warshall!

Come introduce yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask there or contact me personally.

--Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 21:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Hi this message should be seen as more or less spam. I have been trying to revive the WikiProject Mathematics page in an attempt to improve some of the mathematics here, so far I think I am the only person who knows this page exists. Anyways, Calculus is the book I decided should sort of be a first priority for a collaborative project a few months back, and I am glad to see the work you've been doing on it. (I have been rather distracted by the Linear Algebra book, on which 90% of the TeX would fail to render, but I am almost finished cleaning that up now.) If there is any way I can be helpful, don't hesitate to ask.

Despites my complaints otherwise, having a user page is a prerequisite for getting editor privileges. Wikibooks is using this extension to the software called flagged revisions, which allows it to show only the most recent flagged revision, but not the most recent revision. This is considered good because if someone comes by and vandalizes a page, the vandalism would not be shown to the public. The flip side of the coin is that if someone like yourself comes along and improves the Differentiation page of the calculus book, then it doesn't get shown until someone comes along and "sights" it. Which most of the time can take a long time. On the other hand most pages have never had a revision flagged, in which case the software shows the latest revision. When you get autopromoted to an editor, then you may set which revision is flagged yourself, and if you edit the latest revision of something, and that revision is flagged, then the new revision automatically gets flagged. So that is a very long winded comment about why someone may want a user page.

Lastly, do you know a Geometric group theorist by the name of Margalit? Thenub314 (talk) 09:41, 15 July 2009 (UTC)