User talk:Xeransis

Thank you (again) for your valuable additions to coding theoretic articles. I assume you contributed to cyclic codes as well, for which I have left you a note on your anonymous login. Anyway, I will repeat. Your text adds a lot of redundant information that is (or should be) covered in other articles on wikipedia. There is no need for an introduction on distincting block from convolutional codes when the article is on block codes, only, or how encoding works in principle, when this is better addressed in forward error correction or error detection and correction. Similarly, for a verbose description of Hamming weight the reader should be referred to using wiki links syntax. What you are subsequently describing, error detection/correction through sphere-packing (minimum-distance coding) does not belong to a definition of block codes, but can be moved to a properties section. Note that the d/2 correction ability is not a strict bound.

Anyway, as I said, those are valuable additions, anyway. Just try to present the information in a more structured and concise way instead of like some lecture notes.

Hope you keep going! Thanks, Nageh (talk) 07:55, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia conventions
Hello.

Please look at WP:MOS and WP:MOSMATH.

You're using FAR too many capital letters in section headings. Capitalizing an initial letter merely because it's in a section heading is clearly wrong under WP:MOS.

And "Let $$C$$ be a $$q$$-ary code of length $$n$$," is a very inappropriate opening sentence for a Wikipedia article. There's nothing in it that tells the lay reader that mathematics or information theory or coding theory is what it's about. It's as if you're assuming the reader is a mathematician. You can't assume that. Michael Hardy (talk) 06:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)