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MO policy regarding pseudonyms that are other people's real name
I think that it makes a difference whether there is any chance that the person using the pseudonym could be confused with a more well-known person with that name.
There are a number of users who have ...
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Guidelines for contacting author of paper directly as opposed to asking on mathoverflow
Upon thinking a little longer about my question, it seems to me that the following should often constitute a sensible procedure:
If you think the answer would be of public interest, ask on ...
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Altering the question in a way that makes an answer obsolete
As Gerald Edgar said, the most common reason for this situation is that the answer reveals to the OP that they posed the question in a form that did not properly capture what they intended to ask. I ...
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Strange username
The user has changed to another username Math is like Friday.
(Just answering to make the possibility of considering the issue as solved.)
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Guidelines for contacting author of paper directly as opposed to asking on mathoverflow
Stefan Kohl has the right idea, which I amplify.
Authors are usually interested in sincere feedback and appropriate level questions about their work. It is not clear to me how your question will be ...
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MO policy regarding pseudonyms that are other people's real name
It is evidently inappropriate to use someone else's identity to post on MO (or anywhere else!).
That said, people's chosen username is a sensitive issue. If someone is legitimately known as "...
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Citing papers in questions/answers
I would say that to some extent this could be simply based on common sense. And perhaps you could take into account your estimate whether you think that your answer (and the link/citation) might be ...
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Citing papers in questions/answers
I post my comment as an answer: it is definitely good to use the citation helper (see New feature - citation helper). It makes citation easy, and puts all the information needed into the post. Ideal ...
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Is it allowed to use images for pasting math formula?
I stumbled upon this post on Meta Stack Exchange, where various reasons why typing the math formula is preferred over including images: Why are images of text, code and mathematical expressions ...
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Is it good practice to write "@someone" in a question?
As explained in other answers, writing at_username in a question/answer does not notify a user. This would not matter that much - experienced users know that you ...
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On using MathJax to create 'white space'
The answer that I found that works for me is backslash semicolon
\;
I found this answer at https://texblog.org/2014/04/09/whitespace-in-math-mode/
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