User talk:JayBeeEye

Hello, JayBeeEye! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Imaginary number. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 18:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Complete newbie and not a mathematician. However, I am an experienced editor and knowledgeable about formal American English (I also grew up in England, where I learned British English grammar, spelling, wit, etc.) Other than my suggestions about the Regular Polygons area table, all of my edits have been minor, and marked accordingly: a missing space between a comma and the following word, a missing comma. My other edits have been to change a few relative pronouns from "which" to "that," consistent with formal American English. Before doing so, I did look at the Manual of Style, which as I recall preferred using "which" nonrestrictively and "that" restrictively, except where an article is regionally British (e.g., one about the Royal Family or Charles Dickens). And yet this evening, I couldn't find the WP:MoS page to reference. The issue is discussed in general under English relative clauses and given as a frequent point of dispute. Sometimes I just can't help going on a "which" hunt because the language is clearer if we keep "that" as the restrictive relative pronoun. No vandalism intended. JayBeeEye (talk) 05:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know, no vandalism suspected either :-). That message I had put here a few days ago, is a template. I typed "{{subst:uw-editsummary|Imaginary number}} - ~~~~", and the system took care of it. Do stick around — your input is much appreciated! Cheers - DVdm (talk) 09:49, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent idea

Done - See Article and Talk page. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 17:05, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]