comment on content not on the contributor speculations about other editors' teaching careers or nationality do not help improve the article comments on other editors' perceived levels of expertise in a different area do not help improve the article in this context it may be helpful for you to review wikipedia no personal attacks policy on derogatory comments comments on other editors' style improve the article only insofaras they are relevant to the material actually added to the article if you find that material is dry then improve it or suggest improvements deleting material you do not like the style of is much less helpful than disucssing and improving it this is how i would propose to lay out material on a subclass of semirings in this case complete star semirings firstly define complete semirings and star semirings each with a set of examples finally define complete star semirings again with a set of examples in this case continuous semirings are closely related to complete semirings so it makes sense to include them an additional motivation here is that this emphasises the relationship between partial orders defined on the semirings and the star structure for example conway uses the order approach to prove kleene's theorem in his book of course there are choices here for example should the examples of complete star semirings be introduced early on or only after the last definition there's no right answer to that i would like to see examples of a concept which are not examples of the richer structure folloewd by examples of the richer structure examples of continuous semirings would have been helpful but as some editors have said there is no deadline in my view a definition without an example is hugely preferable to no definition at all the reader in search of information will still be able to see what sort of thing it is and find references to further resources on the subject that it seems to me is what an encyclopaedia is for the current state of the material seems to me to be intended to do one thing only which is to introduce complete star semirings in a way which makes the star operation as close as possible to the traditional kleene star this is not the only approach a reason for the axiomatisation and separation out of the various properties is the entirely reasonable mathematical activity of finding out which of the properties of the kleene star derive from what assumptions on the way various structures of interest emerge and various theorems are proved about the relationships between them that may not suit the point of view that star semirings are really or completely unsurprisingly the original formal languages but that's only a point of view it isn't correct or at least isn't the whole truth and it isn't helpful to the reader of the encyclopaedia