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::(5) "but elementary proofs are not always preferred ..." by whom? One doesn't allow a fox to guard a henhouse, and neither mathematicians nor politicians should be setting their own rules as they go, or else before long all sorts of nonsensical "proofs" might be asserted by some academics at [[liberal]] institutions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:46, 8 April 2012 (EDT)
::(5) "but elementary proofs are not always preferred ..." by whom? One doesn't allow a fox to guard a henhouse, and neither mathematicians nor politicians should be setting their own rules as they go, or else before long all sorts of nonsensical "proofs" might be asserted by some academics at [[liberal]] institutions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:46, 8 April 2012 (EDT)
::: There is no point in arguing with you. You seem to have already permanently made up your mind. I will be leaving Conservapedia after finishing this post; please don't cry. I would thank you to read the rest, though, since I read yours.
::: Your response is unfortunately what I expected--prompt, ignorant of mathematical convention, argumentative, mathematically incorrect, rude, off-topic, political, religious, incomplete, and badly reasoned. It's characterized by the misapplication of decent general principles, often due to faulty reasoning by analogy (apparently a favorite of yours?). You are a high-functioning but certainly insane person. That would be fine, except that you're also productive, verbose, and superficially authoratative, so a small fraction of the population listens to you. You are unfortunately intelligent: if you were a little stupider, you'd have no audience, and if you were a little smarter, you'd see your own insanity.
::: I had hoped to edit the article to correct some obvious mistakes, but on a larger scale I had hoped that Conservapedia was interested in correct articles vetted by experts, at least on what I expected to be an uncontroversial topic. That hope, as I predicted initially, has been dashed. I wanted to test Conservapedia for myself and now have. Thankfully, I can soon leave this dark corner of the internet.
::: I have a request. Please, delete this article. It's not a terribly important term and the article is short. Its content does not conform to Conservapedia's guidelines either: "Conservapedia articles [sic] tone, style, and content should be written with an American, conservative and/or Christian orientation or focus" (taken from the Quick Reference page). The current page has none of those focuses since it mentions nothing about region, politics, or religion. Many mathematics articles likely fail in the same way, which makes me curious why you allow them on Conservapedia at all. Perhaps all Mathematics-category articles should be deleted?
::: There are other reasons to delete this article. It has generated an order of magnitude more talk than content which wastes your time. This article also makes Conservapedia look bad compared to Wikipedia since the Wikipedia version is longer, more detailed, a little better sourced, and has no talk on its talk page whatsoever, let alone numerous unfruitful debates (which, frankly, make you look terrible; even your own people repeatedly point out your ignorance throughout this page--why they don't simply leave is beyond me).
::: Please feel free to ban me and/or delete this account. I won't be back so it doesn't matter. I do wish you a happy life, Andy, though I also wish it were in seclusion so that your brand of crazy couldn't infect anyone else.
::: P.S. I'm gay. I read your article on homosexuality, since some of the worst atrocities ever occurred because of close-mindedness. It makes some good points: gay men have high STD rates and often pursue very unsafe sex; some men can convert from homosexuality to heterosexuality behaviorally; "homophobe" is thrown around too frequently. However, there is no discussion whatsoever of loving long-term gay relationships. Reading the article one gets the impression that being gay means taking meth and attending a circuit party every night until you die of AIDS after beating up your boyfriend and infecting your wife; the best parts of homosexuality are entirely ignored. Do not simply ignore difficult points. You've done the same thing repeatedly on this page by not responding to RSchlafly's questions, and you didn't respond to my own point that you should refrain from editing an article you are so inexpert in. You also did the same with a group of your own students in an episode discussing grading irregularities I stumbled across--you even called their points "nitpicky" just like you did with me. Enough. You're a fool and your web site is mostly garbage; neither of you are worth any more of my time. [[User:Elproof|Elproof]] 08:38, 10 April 2012 (EDT)
== Unique square root of -1 necessary for complex analysis ==
== Unique square root of -1 necessary for complex analysis ==