User talk:Gandalf61/Archive18

Future Perfect

His closure of the Q was uncalled for, and especially his removal of your link to the guidelines saying a discussion should be left open for at least a week, where his edit comment said he was reverting you as a banned user (you aren't, are you ?). He also reverted my comment agreeing with you. If you would like to submit a complaint on him, I will support you. He also threatened to block anyone who reopens the discussion. This type of behavior, using Admin powers and threats, to get his way, is unacceptable. See this edit and the previous one: [1]. StuRat (talk) 16:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, I am not a banned user :) I assume FPaS was referring to 82.47.242.185 (talk · contribs) who restored my post before FPaS deleted it again. As regards FPaS's behavior, I pretty much agree with you, but I see no point in complaining at ANI or anywhere else. Admins always close ranks and support each other, and the response would simply be "maybe he was a bit naughty but he's a good lad really and he meant well ...". But thank you for your offer of support anyway. Gandalf61 (talk) 16:47, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree, it's like the police policing themselves, there's a huge conflict of interest there. Behavior which would get a user banned is completely ignored when it comes from an Admin. StuRat (talk) 17:34, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

I found your user account by searching through the revisions to the generating functions article, which my new article draft suggests as the main article for the topic in my page header.

Would you mind reviewing my related article located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Generating_function_transformation_(Mathematics)? It contains notes, listings, citations, and examples on transformations of generating functions, which is again related to the main article topic, but is of sufficient length and I think has broad enough topic coverage to have a separate article dedicated to it. I have been waiting for someone to review the article since I posted it as a draft 3-4 weeks ago. I guess math articles require special mathematician reviewers.

Good job on the first generating functions article. Maxieds (talk) 19:25, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the barnstar. Your draft article is well written and interesting, but I notice that quite a few of the results are unsourced - I think it would be better with more references. Also, in terms of style, you need to bear in mind that Wikipedia is not a textbook. If you would like a wider opinion from the mathematics community on Wikipedia you could post at the WikiProject Mathematics talk oage. Gandalf61 (talk) 12:48, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proof by Exhaustion

Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proof_by_exhaustion&oldid=prev&diff=779555197

I can see why you reverted this, but I would like to argue that the process of finding a counterexample would require case by case analysis. For less obvious problems, you might not always find the right answer on the first case you try. (Perhaps a better example should be used in the article?) Let me know your thoughts =) Popcrate (talk) 00:41, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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