User talk:E. H.-A. Gerbracht

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Hello, EHA Gerbracht! I noticed that you recently wrote this article, and thought I'd say hello. I see that Herr Fricke's picture is missing. Do you have any more particulars about his life you intend to add to the article soon?

Have a great day! DavidCBryant 10:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Carl Runge
Thank you for alerting us to the fact that the first name is Carl. One would hope that his daughter knows how to spell his name. ;) However, please use the move button at the top of the page if you need to rename the title of a page. What you did (copying the text) destroys the page history, meaning that we lose track of who did all the hard work. This author information must be conserved. There is more information at Help:Moving a page.

Don't fret about it, as I fixed it now. There are lots of details that you need to know, and it's impossible to know everything. One of the good things is that there are many people here, meaning that this kind of mistakes get quickly fixed. However, errors like the Carle/Carl mistake that you found are much harder to locate, so we're very grateful when somebody points them out.

If you don't mind, I'll send an email to the good folks at the MacTutor alerting them of their mistake.

Kind regards, Jitse Niesen (talk) 01:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I replied to your message on my talk page. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 06:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

The "need" for biographies.
(This is in response to this message that you left for me.)

Sorry to be a bit slow about writing back, Herr Gerbracht.

I understand your doubts about the editorial policy. Sometimes I wonder a bit myself. Still, on the whole it seems to work out better than one might reasonably hope. Most people who want to hurt Wikipedia aren't as serious as the people who are trying to improve it. So it converges – slowly – toward a more coherent version.

I'm far less certain about the need for additional biographical material relating to mathematicians. I like to use Wikipedia to look things up. That's how I got started writing articles here in the first place. Since I found it a handy reference, it seemed only fair to fill in some of the gaps. I think it's more convenient to find a link from, say, Gödel's incompleteness theorems to the Wikipedia article about his life than it is to go outside the site to satisfy my curiosity. So I'm sure your contributions relating to mathematicians who studied under Klein would be of value to students like myself.

Your time is of course valuable to you, so ultimately it's your decision as to how much effort you wish to put into it. I have seen some of your work, and it's very good, so I would encourage you to do more, as time and energy permits. I am of course thankful for the parts you have already contributed. DavidCBryant 20:25, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Missing articles about literature.
Thank you, although I must say that some of those misspelling were based on the sources at the end of the list. I'll update the list in due course. - Skysmith 11:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)