User talk:PaulEdwards

Dear Prof. Edwards,

The work was indeed based on your work (a quite admirable work, in my mind), and cites you and it explicitly in the text. However if you feel that it is too derivative, I'm happy to cut it down quite a bit and resynthesize it. It is not Wikipedia policy to mark things as used "with permission" but to re-write them from scratch based on other works, citing them of course as references; this is in part because of our own licensing scheme.

It was not the desire to take anything away from your work, and I'll make a personal attempt to make this something you can be happier with. If there have been explicit overlaps from your work, it is likely from some form of cryptonesia and certainly not an attempt at copyright violation. There is no attempt to take away credit, it is simply an attempt to share some of the factual information which you dutifully researched, and attribute all major conclusions to you.

The goal is to produce an article about the Operation which gives the basic factual information in a condensed and synthesized form with references and citations for people wanting more information to turn to your work. The only purpose here is increasing the available knowledge in the world, and it is not meant to in any way diminish your own work and achievement. I'm sorry this was not to your satisfaction and take this seriously.

I'll give a complete work-over, though. Please feel free to check back in a few days and let me know what you think.

--Fastfission 01:47, 13 October 2005 (UTC)