User talk:David Fear

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Initial context setting
Hello.

In creating a new Wikipedia article, you need to remember to include some initial context-setting. "Let G be a group, and let θ be a permutation of G." is not a suitable initial sentence because it does not inform the lay reader that mathematics is what the article is about. The word "group" in common parlance does not at all mean the same thing that it means in algebra.

Sometimes the title of the article will take care of that (e.g. "mathematical induction") but more often not. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:55, 10 October 2014 (UTC)