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Just curious, Selfworm, about how in this debate you've mentioned my name several times with no reference to where I made any assertiona about what the title of that article should be. Other than your mentions, my name is only seen as a relister who made a comment. I have not participated in that debete. Please explain.  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  19:25, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I was used to assuming that the user tag that appears at the very end of a comment is always the user tag of the person who wrote the comment. I had never before seen something of the form:

06:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC) --Relisted.  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  23:41, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't remember what I was thinking at the moment but I must have automatically assumed either that (1) you had the word "--Relisted." as part of your user tag for whatever reason or that (2) the word "--Relisted." was the last word of the comment just before your signature, as in:

[...] One happened just today. Editor abcdef (talk) 06:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC) --Relisted.

where I thought that it was meant that the thing that "happened just today" was done by "Editor abcdef" at "06:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC)". I now see that my assumption was incorrect. Learn something new every day I guess. My apologies for incorrectly referring to you when I should have referred to Editor abcdef. Would you like for me to strike out your name in my comments and place Editor abcdef's name next to it? selfworm^Talk) 19:49, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your explanation. Probably best to replace the instances you made to show Editor abcdef as having written those things. If I decide to close the debate, it would be confusing to other editors, since closers cannot also be participants. Thanks again!  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  20:00, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Selfworm, as far as indentation goes, it's best to use extra indentation (add two colons instead of one, ::) when not using bullets after replying to a bulleted comment, or it will appear to have the same amount of indentation as what it's replying to. Also, it is probably not necessary to remind participants that move discussions are not votes; discussions are closed by uninvolved administrators or page movers who are well aware of this. While I have no real opinion on the move request itself (as I was the previous closer), I would be happy to address a few of the assumptions you made in your "supportive arguments" that might not hold up under scrutiny. For example, we do not preemptively disambiguate article titles. Per WP:D, disambiguation only takes place when "there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead," not when there are other things in the real world that might make the title ambiguous. We fix ambiguous links all the time whenever the need arises (I've done thousands myself), but again, WP:CRYSTAL is part of policy. And "no good argument against it" is a reasonable standard, but not the one we employ per WP:TITLECHANGES, which is instead "if there is no good reason to change it, it should not be changed." On the other hand, in this case the current title is relatively new, so there is less of an assumption that the title should remain in place. Dekimasuよ! 18:29, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information!  selfworm^Talk) 19:16, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you have a source at hand for your addition in the article's lead ([1])?--Kmhkmh (talk) 02:27, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Here: planetmath.org/intercepttheorem

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