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:[[User:Homebum|Homebum]] has reverted my attempts to start improving this article, and has accused me of vandalism. For the record, some of my issues with this article are:
# The lead - arbitrary editorial comments such as "This article is written exclusively in Hamilton's original notation, using his original definitions of terms" and "It uses only Hamilton as its primary source and reliable secondary sources written on or before 1905" have no place in a Wikipedia article. We are creating an encyclopedia here, not a historical re-enactment. Both the notation and the sources should be those that best explain the subject of the article. Parts of Hamilton's notation will be unfamiliar to the modern reader, and so need to be explained in terms that a modern reader can understand.
::Key word is agreed upon editorial distinction used to organize the material. Please go back and read the deletion discussion. There was a minority opinion that the content of this article should be merged merged into the main article. This is the agreed upon topic of this article.[[User:Robotics lab|Robotics lab]] ([[User talk:Robotics lab|talk]]) 01:22, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
# The length - much too long, partly because there is no coherent structure, partly because of pointless repetition (e.g. Hamilton's usage of the term "tensor" is described in four separate sections, which could be replaced by one much shorter section), and partly due to an inability to focus on the important aspects of the topic.
::And getting longer! There is a lot of material to organize here. I am thinking about a summary style.[[User:Robotics lab|Robotics lab]] ([[User talk:Robotics lab|talk]]) 01:22, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
# The style - parts of the article have a poorly written essay-like style - which is also a factor in the length of the article. Hamilton had a penchant for inventing strange and complex terminology, and much of his writing is prolix and obscure but there is no need to repeat that style this article. An example - "The vector of a versor is then once again an element of pure distance not associated with time" - huh ??
::Some what of a cheap shot. Remember that you proposed to roll some very raw draft material into an article that was still in a very raw but somewhat more polished state. Work is proceeding as fast as possible on improvements[[User:Robotics lab|Robotics lab]] ([[User talk:Robotics lab|talk]]) 01:22, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
# The inappropriate POV - the article seeks to promote [[User:Homebum|Homebum]]'s opinion that modern mathematics takes a "quaternion negative" stance. To do this, it exaggerates the differences between Hamilton's approach to quaternions and the modern approach. There <u>is</u> a legitimate (and much shorter) article to be written summarising Hamilton's geometric approach to quaternions and making it accessible to the modern reader - but this bloated and rambling POV vehicle is not it.
:::This one is already fixed by the way. So you have your way on one out of four topics[[User:Robotics lab|Robotics lab]] ([[User talk:Robotics lab|talk]]) 01:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
:[[User:Homebum|Homebum]], you clearly seek to [[WP:OWN|own]] this article, and you do not want to collaborate with other editors. This is contrary to Wikipedia's guiding principles. As the essay [[Wikipedia:Collaboration first]] says: "In a collaborative environment such as a wiki, contributors who are unable or unwilling to collaborate with others should be politely but firmly excluded from the portions where conflict occurs, or even excluded from the community." I am not interested in arguing endlessly with you. Eventually you will get bored or be banned, and then the article can be usefully re-written. [[User:Gandalf61|Gandalf61]] ([[User talk:Gandalf61|talk]]) 09:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
:::Wow, you seem to have mind reading powers here. You got your way on section six, how about a compromise on the section explaining what the article is about?[[User:Robotics lab|Robotics lab]] ([[User talk:Robotics lab|talk]]) 01:22, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
::Nothing could be farther from the truth. Perhaps you should work to achieve consensus for rolling the contents of this article into the main article, but I really doubt it. One problem you seem to be having is consistently introducing horrific factual errors into the article with each edit you make. On the other hand you are improving. Perhaps if you would like to discuss changes you would like to make before making them instead of the slash and burn and Coercion.
For example you recently deleted the sections on cardinal and ordinal operations. There are a large number of confusing terms regarding these operations that need exposition, including factor, faciend and factum, which are not really hard to understand once they are hyperlinked to but really need to be included in an article on Hamilton's terminology and approach to quaternions.
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