User talk:Dylan.Finneran

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ClockworkSoul 04:29, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Pick's theorem
How exactly is the paragraph that you edited in Pick's theorem more cohesive? To me it just seems wordier, and a bit non-standard. "Interior points of the polygon" seems like a standard locution. "Boundary points on the perimeter" is redundant; what information does it convey that is not already in the phrase "boundary points"? Where, besides the perimeter, would boundary points be? The boundary is the perimeter; in the present context, the two words are synonyms. Michael Hardy 04:10, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm pretty new, and am not sure if this is how I should respond, and whether or not you will receive this. I started out by making the words 'of' and 'on', 'in' and 'on'. Then I thought it needed a little more substance to make the senctence more understandable. I realize now that it would be fine in the previous version, with just the words 'in' and 'on' added, or how I have it now. I was just thinking about the grammar when I was changing it.

Dylan McKenzie-Tavish Finneran 02:50, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Guajome Park Academy
Hi Dylan. I went to look at your article, Guajome Park Academy, and it looks like it has been tagged as being a possible copyright violation from the page http://www.guajome.net/FAQs/default.aspx. I know that sometime's it's very tempting to just copy something that seems to be worded so perfectly, but unfortunately that composition is owned by its author, and we're not allowed to use it (even if you change it around a little bit). Also, the part about the "personal project" that you put on the bottom isn't entirely appropriate for an entry in an encyclopedia. A good guideline is this: if you were writing a general report about Guajome Park Academy, which parts would might care about? Anything else you can just cut. I'm looking forward to your revisions, and I hope this helps! – ClockworkSoul 15:53, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)