User talk:Martin Rattigan
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Martin, I have moved the signatures in your most recent talk page messages to the end of the messages. When you sign at the top of a message, the archiving bots will mess up the talk page. By the way, don't forget that on article talk pages we must discuss the article, not the subject. See wp:Talk page guidelines. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 16:19, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Your comments in Talk:Limit of a function
[edit]Your final comment was correct: Wikipedia is not for advancing or publicizing new knowledge, but to document existing one. I'll note that you were replying to a comment from September 2009; that means that the issue was pretty much dead already... In other words, it wasn't a proposal that was likely to be "live", and as such did not really need much further discussion.
Generally speaking, discussion in the talk pages should be about the page; discussion about whether something is or is not a good idea mathematically is not really relevant (though a discussion of whether something is or is not standard, sources, etc, as they relate to proposed additions or deletions is). It is easy for Talk pages to drift into a general discussion of the subject, but that is something that one should guard against because it's not really their purpose. Magidin (talk) 04:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Your recent edits
[edit]Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:
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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 19:05, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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September 2017
[edit]Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:Two knights endgame. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:43, 29 September 2017 (UTC)