User talk:Victor Kosko

Calculator (Windows)[edit]

Hi Victor I have had to remove the repeat of your edits which I earlier deleted. Do please read: WP:3RR relating to repeated reverting of edits made by another editor. Wikipedia welcomes your experience on the subject of Calculator (Windows), but this is not a discussion forum. It is an encyclopaedia. Additions which are not supported by 3rd party sources, but which appear just as user opinions will always be deleted. Please bear this in mind. Edit warring between editors can lead to users being blocked from future editing, and that would be a real shame. Kind regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:57, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You misunderstand, I had trouble with the editor so had to send the page before I finished, so you blocked all my attempts to send the finished BUGS section before you read it. You deleted the first 2 parts only because you work for Microsoft. You should have discussed things with me instead so I could edit it. Further YOU are the guilty one by repeatedly changing my page not me, both bugs and fixes are quite valid, they caused me much trouble. You don't have the right to remove things just because you don't like (microsoft) being wrong. Now please recover the FINISHED bugs page that refused to send and edit it then post it, it took hours to work it on an android phone without me knowing why it would not send... Anything else I should know about contributing?! Victor Kosko (talk) 00:27, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Victor, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. I now see you're new to editing Wikipedia, so it must have been frustrating for you to see I'd removed your contribution. I'm sorry about that, though it was justified. You are welcome to visit my user page to see that I do not work for Microsoft, nor any IT company, and never have done. The only reason I removed this particular contribution from you is that what I saw looked to me like an expression of someone's personal opinions on the subject. No matter how valid those opinions may be, they have absolutely no place in an encyclopaedia like Wikipedia, where all stated facts must be supported by secondary sources, or they will face potential removal. So, whilst you might think some software is buggy, the only way that opinion can go into the encyclopedia entry is if it has been reported in print or online by a reliable source. (I've put in hyperlinks to pages you might wish to read)

I'm afraid individual users' views are best kept for discussion forums and blogs - or possibly raised on the article's Talk page, but again, only if they are directly relevant to enhancing or correcting the article, because Wikipedia is not a blog or discussion forum itself.

You asked if there's anything else you should know about contributing. Whilst there's tons and tons of formal guidance and encouragement to contributors, you might find Wikipedia:No original research useful to appreciate where I'm coming from on this. And try this link as a good place to start: Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia. Are you aware you can see all past changes to an article by going to the history tab at the top of the page and selecting the relevant point to look at? You could copy it and work on it a bit more before reposting with references). You can do this by drafting and save any work in your own personal sandbox if you're logged in. (There's a link high up at the top of every page). I use this a lot to prepare stuff to add to Wikipedia later. (That stops people like me coming along and removing half-finished stuff!) If you think about it, you probably wouldn't want to buy an encyclopaedia in a bookshop, only to find half the content headers for a topic were empty - you'd probably prefer just seeing a shorter article that all made sense. And you certainly wouldn't want the editors to be telling you their personal views of a topic - just the widely accepted facts that have been reported about it. I hope this makes sense, and that I haven't put you off at all. Bringing your skills and knowledge to help others is just what Wikipedia wants to encourage. Doing it in just the right way can sometimes be tricky - but you've made a good start along that road. Let me know if I can help you with anything else - or do either check the link to [Help:Contents|Help]] at the left side of this page, or ask a direct question at the Wikipedia:Teahouse.

Finally, one little tip which came up at a Wikipedia training day I was helping out at recently is the suggestion for new editors to add something about themselves to their own User page before they start editing. It might just be a line or two about their interests and knowledge that they hope to bring to Wikipedia. It helps other editors appreciate that they're not only new to Wikipedia, but also sufficiently committed to create that user page for others to see. There's no obligation, of course, but just an idea. Best wishes for future editing Nick Moyes (talk) 08:34, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Exponential ∞[edit]

The hypothesis states that the set of real numbers has minimal possible cardinality which is greater than the cardinality of the set of integers – or, equivalently, that the cardinality of the integers is {\displaystyle \aleph _{0}} \aleph _{0} ("aleph-naught") and the cardinality of the real numbers is {\displaystyle 2^{\aleph _{0}}} 2^{\aleph _{0}} (i.e. it equals the cardinality of the power set of the integers). Specifically, the continuum hypothesis says that there is no set {\displaystyle S} S for which

{\displaystyle \aleph _{0}<|S|<2^{\aleph _{0}}.\,} \aleph _{0}<|S|<2^{\aleph _{0}}.\, Assuming the axiom of choice, there is a smallest cardinal number {\displaystyle \aleph _{1}} \aleph _{1} greater than {\displaystyle \aleph _{0}} \aleph _{0}, and the continuum hypothesis is in turn equivalent to the equality

{\displaystyle 2^{\aleph _{0}}=\aleph _{1}.\,} 2^{\aleph _{0}}=\aleph _{1}.\, Victor Kosko (talk) 18:12, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 2018[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:Controversy over Cantor's theory are for discussion related to improving the article in specific ways based on reliable sources and the project policies and guidelines, not for general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics, or statements based on your thoughts or feelings. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 04:24, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page[edit]

You've been using your user page to keep a record of talk page posts that have been reverted (for generally being inappropriate talk page posts themselves) and other related writings. This violates Wikipedia's policies on user pages. In particular, Wikipedia is not a blog, webhost, etc. I'm leaving you this note in case you want to copy anything from it before I request that it be speedily deleted under criterion U5. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 11:59, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:Victor Kosko[edit]

User:Victor Kosko, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Victor Kosko and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Victor Kosko during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 22:33, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome![edit]

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Victor Kosko. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:52, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]