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Sam [Spade] 00:12, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hello. Your way of using the phrase the existence theorem in the article titled trigonometric identity make it look as if you have in mind either that you've specified which existence theorem you're talking about, or that there is only one existence theorem. In the former case, the link to existence theorem seems inappropriate, since that page is not about any particular existence theorem concerning solutions of differential equations, but about existence theorems generally. There are thousands of existence theorems, and most of those are not about the solutions of differential equations. Michael Hardy 00:37, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I did not notice that. I just added a little colon (which definitely seemed to be missing) and did not think about the deeper meaning of the sentence at all. The link is really out of place, but right now I have no idea what it should point at. Perhaps User:Dissipate, who wrote that sentence first, knows... --Pt 10:05, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Issue
Hi. I'm afraid a user cannot insert himself in one of Wikipedia's category, as you have done with the 1986 births category. That would qualify as vanity, and Wikipedia has some strict policies concerning it. I would suggest that you remove the link from your user page (and hence from the category) before someone else catches up and edits your user page (and nobody likes that...). Regards, Redux 13:39, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Thank you for pointing this out. Now I know. --Pt 23:02, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)