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Still, it would be easiest for me if someone could just revert the revert. Anybody who can read the mathematics can verify that my derivation is correct. And it's just a paper with my name attached for contact purposes. It's not like I'm shouting out ads for goods or services.
: As I wrote in my edit summary it's out of place and COI; inline links should never appear in the body of the article like that and the COI is as it's your own paper; the presumption on any editor that comes to WP and just adds links is they're not interested in improving the encyclopaedia, just in promoting their web site/special cause/new discovery.
: Looking at it more closely again it does not seem a remarkable or interesting result. It's wrong to say it derives the identity without knowing it; it assumes the form of the identity with quaternion unknowns then does some very longwinded calculations to work out the unknowns. A pointless exercise in algebra. There are far better (shorter, clearer and more interesting) geometric derivations using [[geometric algebra]]. Not everything needs a derivation but that could perhaps be added. But your derivation or a link to it I don't think helps at all.--<small>[[User:JohnBlackburne|JohnBlackburne]]</small><sup>[[User_talk:JohnBlackburne|words]]</sup><sub style="margin-left:-2.0ex;">[[Special:Contributions/JohnBlackburne|deeds]]</sub> 03:14, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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