User talk:Jitse Niesen

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Kind Regards, Chris Day (Talk) 02:37, 12 February 2007 (CST)

Hi Jitse, and welcome to Citizendium! Fredrik Johansson 03:12, 13 February 2007 (CST)

Hi Fredrik. Nice to run into someone I'd met before. Let's see how this Citizendium thing pans out. -- Jitse Niesen 04:54, 13 February 2007 (CST)

Straight line

Hi Jitse, happy to see you here. I agree with your views on straight line (I requested deletion). FYI, one may try to find a constable i.e. 'admin, I know you know what it means ;-). Better yet, you just write to constables_at_citizendium_org and someone takes care. But it is not constable who decide. It is rather an _editor. It could mean you, do not you think? Happy editing --AlekStos 07:09, 27 March 2007 (CDT)

Hi Alexander. Thanks for your help. I'm already spending too much time at the other place, so if I became an editor here I wouldn't have any time left to write papers, and we all know what happens when you don't publish ;) But you seem to quite like it here, so I assume you will become one.

For the moment, I intend to drop by regularly, lend a hand if possible, and see how the project develops. If you ever have an issue here surrounding the 65xx magic number, feel free to ask. See you, Jitse Niesen 07:49, 27 March 2007 (CDT)

Jitse, editor zijn kost net zoveel of net zo weinig tijd als schrijven. De tijd die je investeert bepaal je uiteindelijk zelf. Je hebt alleen wel duidelijk inbreng in de werkgroep als geheel, en sommige artikelen in het bijzonder. Groet. Robert Tito |  Talk  21:31, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Ik zal erover denken. Groetjes, Jitse Niesen 21:54, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Cantor's diagonal argument

I know this is annoying, but for tose of us who have forgotten, could you provide a glossary of symbols at a bottom section? I've forgotten what a lot of the symbols, including the Greek letters are, and so I can't read much of this. I don't mean a whole explanations just a simple:

Greek letter=theta Math symbol=union

kind of thing. Thanks for your patience. Nancy Sculerati 08:09, 31 March 2007 (CDT)

It's an interesting suggestion. My first reaction was that if you don't know all the symbols, you have little chance to understand the article. However, I now think that might be a bit harsh and that we should consider it on an article-by-article basis; there might be some articles in which such a glossary would be useful. For this specific article, I think it's possible to explain the idea of the argument without using any symbols at all. User:Aleksander Stos has been working on it and added a more elementary discussion; I think it could be made even more accessible.

I used to know the symbols and I have forgotten them, that's why a glossary would be great. And so what? Inclusion hurts no one- this is not a book that will be too heavy or too expensive to print. Just make an addendum at the bottom of the article. No reason not to. Nancy Sculerati 23:49, 24 April 2007 (CDT)

I think you should leave a message at the talk page as I did only one small edits while others are doing most of the work. In fact, I would have copied your message there had I been sure that would be a proper thing to do (I'm fairly new here). -- Jitse Niesen 21:04, 1 April 2007 (CDT)

Newton's method

If you have the time, perhaps you'd be interested in contributing to the article on Newton's method which I started a while back? Fredrik Johansson 10:42, 3 April 2007 (CDT)

The outline looks good. Rather embarrassingly, I don't know that much on the more sophisticated variants. Two quick points:

• I'm not convinced that you need that much about cubic convergence. Convergence failure, on the other hand, is rather important.
• If you want to add a bit on history, you can use the history section which I wrote in this revision on WP. I'm not sure how to fit it in the rest of the article.

I'll see whether I can find some time to add a bit on convergence failure. -- Jitse Niesen 20:04, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for having a look, Jitse. I agree with the first point. Regarding the second point, I'm glad you wrote that history section! It's the only part of the Wikipedia article that I envy :-) Maybe you could paste it at the end of the article? Fredrik Johansson 20:50, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

Such profuse praise makes me suspicious ;) As you will have noticed, I copied the history part. -- Jitse Niesen 09:21, 6 April 2007 (CDT)

Welcome again-as Editor

Welcome, new editor! We're very glad you've joined us. Here are pointers for a quick start. Also, when you get a chance, please read The Editor Role. You can look at Getting Started and our help system for other introductory pages. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. Announcements are also available via Twitter. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any administrator for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and thank you! We appreciate your willingness to share your expertise, and we hope to see your edits on Recent changes soon. Nancy Sculerati 00:50, 25 April 2007 (CDT)

Wow, you're fast. I was just writing a reply saying that your message had convinced me to send an application. -- Jitse Niesen 00:54, 25 April 2007 (CDT)

But-I had already received your application. Now, perhaps you will look at the messages under Approvals on the side bar? Nancy Sculerati 01:08, 25 April 2007 (CDT)

Congrats! Fredrik Johansson 02:10, 25 April 2007 (CDT)

Differential equations

Sorry about the slip-up - I think the phone must have rang as I was about to do something. Your edit summary is correct and thank you for spotting my error!W. Frank 08:42, 29 April 2007 (CDT)

Name

Thanks Jitse! I kept looking and looking to see why the link was red. I could swear I spelled it right, but when you put the two together it was so obvious!! Sorry about that. It is important... we don't want the wrong guy to get all the credit ;-) --Matt Innis (Talk) 21:49, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

Don't you worry, that's why they pay me the big bucks.. (not) ;-) --Matt Innis (Talk) 11:23, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

I apologize to you Jitse, I want everyone comfortable and I blame myself for not managing better to do that. sorry. Nancy Sculerati 17:58, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

help with focusing on developed articles

Jitse, each Thursday I highlight some articles that are developing nicely, perhaps seem ready for approval, or would be if the right people took an interest and worked on them. I do this by going to http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Developed_Articles and scrolling down to where the article's talk pages are listed, and browsing the corresponding articles. Could I ask you to do this? Well I just did, I guess I mean, could you kindly do this and let me know if you find any artices that you think might be ready for the kinds of attentions that bring approval? Either in your field or not. What looks like it would be an asset worth our combined attentions? thanks so much, (for reading this ramble- whether or not you oblige) Nancy Sculerati 10:27, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Essentials

Hi, glad to see you! Aleksander Stos 02:12, 4 August 2007 (CDT)

Thanks, and also for the work on prime number. Didn't know you made "promotion", congratulations (I think). -- Jitse Niesen 00:59, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

Thanks -- still learning and this time it took too long to move the text. I didn't forgot maths, though, and I'm thinking of a little innovation. CZ maths articles are deliberately "geared toward someone who is completely unfamiliar with the concept" (google it to find the author ;-) ). We have "tutorials" while I believe that a more advanced reader could benefit more from "reference manuals": just essentials (relevant definitions, formulas, theorems). I envisage math "users" (rather than laymans), starting from undergraduates preparing for exams through graduates, PhD students to --why not-- scientists. I find that our basic formula is too sparse/too easy to be fully useful. No problem -- a "reference manual" could be incorporated in the subpage system we are planning. To give an example I'm preparing Complex number/Essentials (when more or less finished I'll put a post on a forum). Meanwhile, I'd appreciate your comments on the idea and the draft itself. Aleksander Stos 08:05, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

Dag meneer Niesen :-), I know your name from Wikipedia, where you still seem active. You and I both supported Bduke for adminship. I got completely fed up with WP, and won't contribute to it anymore.

It would be nice if you could fix LaTeX because the last couple of days I spent quite some time in workarounds. I am in the process of transferring my stuff from WP to CZ. But in between, I just finished a couple of minutes ago a little stub about the Netherlands, just to have something about our country in CZ. Groetjes, Paul. --Paul Wormer 09:35, 20 August 2007 (CDT)