User talk:Papa November/Archive 1

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Thanks! You're the best. I'm not, though, and I'm going to continue mercilessly providing unpoliteness to anyone who confuses the fact that wikipedia can tolerate replicating allmusic.com with the fact that wikipedia should replicate allmusic.com in preference to its other missions. 12.210.113.235 15:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Clarity?
When TeX is used in the normal way, as opposed to the way it's used on Wikipedia, then it looks just as good when it's "inline" as when it's "displayed". But on Wikipedia, although "displayed" TeX looks good, it often looks terrible when it's inline. For example, contrast this: cos2(x) &minus; sin2(x); with this: $$\cos^2(x)-\sin^2(x)\,$$. At least on my browser, the latter looks comically gigantic and is misaligned---pushed downward below where it should be because of the superscrtips. Here's a more extreme case: $$e^{\int_0^1 1\,dx}$$. This makes the "e" look like a subscript on the left, whereas the "e" ought to be aligned with the letters in the word "case" and the integral should look clearly like a superscript. I don't think this adds "clarity", as suggested by your edit summary at list of trigonometric identities. Michael Hardy 21:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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Alex Yannis Valavanis? W guice 14:52, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * you've a very distinctive name. i think we were at school together some fourteen, fifteen years ago. Tom Redfern. W guice 18:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Single infobox conversions
G'day Alex. Well done with the infobox conversions. I'm currently working on cleaning up and converting Ashes to Ashes (song) so don't bother with that one. Gradually I'm cleaning/converting all the Bowie singles so you can concentrate on others before those if you like, however if you get to the other Bowie ones before I do then of course feel free, it'll save me some work...! Cheers, Ian Rose 02:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)