User talk:Ian Beynon

License tagging for Image:Activediffwiki.jpg
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Your addition to the general relativity article
Ian -

First of all, welcome to Wikipedia. It is good to have someone else involved who is interesting in general relativity.

Secondly here are some useful link for newcomers to Wikipedia:
 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
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 * How to write a great article
 * Naming conventions
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Thirdly, there is the business of your new section in the general relativity article: "Einstein on Background independence - 'Beyond my wildest expectations'". A Wikipedia guideline says "don't bite the newcomer", but even so I cannot let that section stay there. It is trivial with respect to the overall article, undocumented, and full of personal musings. However, the part on the "hole argument" is useful, and I would like to see it transfered to the article called hole argument and refined there.

So kindly accept my apologies in you feel bitten. I assure you that I am willing to work with you to add to the content of this encyclopedia, but you need to work with what is already present. You also would be well advised to review what Wikipedia is not. Thank you much, EMS | Talk 21:15, 24 April 2006 (UTC).

Image Tagging for Image:Hole2wiki.jpg
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Hole argument
Hey, do you have any idea what you're doing to the history of the Hole argument article?!? :-)

But seriously, thanks very much for your contributions. Hopefully when the article settles down a bit, you can start using edit summaries and batching your minor edits together so it's easier for the rest of us to follow what you're doing. --Doradus 18:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Activediffwiki.jpg
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Please feel free to contact me on my talk page or leave a message at Media copyright questions with any questions you may have. Thank you. Aksibot 21:21, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

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