User talk:David W. Hoffman

Policy forbidding original research
Hello. Your recent posting about &pi; prompts me to point out this policy forbidding posting of original research to Wikipedia. If you first publish it in a scholarly journal, then for the purposes of Wikipedia's policy, it is no longer "original research", since it's not being made public for the first time on Wikipedia, so then you can put it on Wikipedia, citing the published article. Michael Hardy 22:26, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've added a comment at Talk:History of numerical approximations of π suggesting that maybe this could be included in a somewhat different form.
 * A related point is this: on talk pages, you should put your signature after your comment, but within articles you should not. If you click on "history", you see the edit history of the article.  That identifies who added what to the article. Michael Hardy 22:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * A related point is this: on talk pages, you should put your signature after your comment, but within articles you should not. If you click on "history", you see the edit history of the article.  That identifies who added what to the article. Michael Hardy 22:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)