Talk:Quaternions and spatial rotation: Difference between revisions

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:::Though I don't particularly put much stead by the COI as an argument against inclusion, adding a link to an external site is usually to be considered suspect (and summarily removing such is typical). And while the intention is clearly to share what might be an interesting derivation for some rather than to advertise own work, the result must still be encyclopaedic. More than a demonstration of correctness is unneeded in this context; though I have not reviewed the linked paper, and though my reasoning might differ from JohnBlackburne's, my general conclusion about what should be in an *encyclopaedia* page is much the same. That said, a new editor getting the feel of what is considered to be encyclopaedic and who has value to add to WP is most certainly to be encouraged. May I suggest at first working on page wording and contained content than external content while growing familiar with the style and objectives? It is exactly interactions like this from which one learns what works. —[[User_talk:Quondum|Quondum]] 05:52, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

::: I did look at it before my first revert: I will check all links as they may be useful references or external links. I generally only revert without checking for obvious spam such as adding links to multiple articles. It's only after your posting that I tried looking at it more closely. Looking at it again I can see an error. It has "At this point a very small leap of intuition suggests that...", but you can't do that. You can't when you're trying to prove a result effectively intuit the main part of the result. Because yes, you know the result already, so it's in your mind. This makes your derivation even less impressive; all it's really doing is checking the result which is neither interesting or useful.--<small>[[User:JohnBlackburne|JohnBlackburne]]</small>^{[[User_talk:JohnBlackburne|words]]}<sub style="margin-left:-2.0ex;">[[Special:Contributions/JohnBlackburne|deeds]]</sub> 19:51, 6 January 2015 (UTC)