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416:. The particular article in question covers an advanced topic in topology. Anyone reading this article will have an interest and a basic knowledge of topology already. If they don't know what a union is, they are really not the audience for this article. Therefore there is no need for this extra link; it does not add anything to the understanding of the article as far as its audience is concerned. In contrast, in a more basic article like 22: 449: 286: 28: 404:
I see that you are adding a lot of wikilinks to mathematics articles. Overall it may be ok, but we should not overdo it either. Different mathematics articles are written at different levels; some of them are geared to beginners, while others are more specialized and meant to be read by people with
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last fall with the outcome that at the moment we will continue capitalizing "Internet" in Knowledge, even though several style guides changed to "internet". The Request for Comment to change was ruled "no consensus" with 30+ editors participating. The convention is to let some time pass before going
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Don't get me wrong, I love a good semicolon as much as the next Wikipedian, and to be honest I probably overuse them. It was just that the semicolon I replaced seemed particularly unnecessary and a full stop seemed far more appropriate. In fact I think it was the first semicolon I've ever disagreed
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through another RFC process, but I suspect sometime this year or next it might come up again - at which point the voting might be different. But right now we're still using "Internet"... so I'm just going to revert this last change you made - but I wanted to explain
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the requisite background and will not be (and don't need to be) understood by beginners lacking that background. Thus, in more specialized articles there is no need to overlink it, no need to create links to really basic mathematics terms.
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About your recent edit on the article; you are correct. I misunderstood the meaning of the edit (and thank you for the detailed edit summary). Good job on spotting the error. —-
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I've been meaning to try to get the article to GA status. Do you have any thoughts on what improvements the article needs to get to that point?
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Just a heads-up about an edit of your I just reverted. First, wholesale changes of "nonempty" to "non-empty" shouldn't be made per
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Just to give one example (but I think the same would apply to other edits of yours too) for an article I am more familiar with:
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for example, there can be and definitely should be a link to the "union" article. It all depends on the level of the article.
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using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.
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adds semantic meaning to italicization of words for emphasis and should be retained. Thanks, –
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with. You're right though: it was a very insignificant edit; I'm just very nit-picky. ;;;;;
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I was doing so. Thanks for your contributions to making Knowledge better! -
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article you had changed "Internet" to lowercase "internet". We had
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And one could make similar comments about other links like
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