Talk:Introduction to ordinal collapsing functions

Note: Please don't make the page until we have a consensus on the plan. There is a TL;DR below.

There is no resource (that I know of) on the internet that in detail explains any ordinal beyond the Bachmann-Howard Ordinal, and no resource I've come across that explains ordinals beyond the Takeuti-Feferman-Buchholz ordinal, besides deedlit-s blog posts.

In light of this, I think that we should create a page that gives a proper introduction to ordibnal collapsing functions. Not only are we currently one of the top results for explanations for OCFs already (afaik), but a large part of the community understand them, and a large part of the community don't; and ordinal collapsing funtions are the key for any truly large numbers.

However, we cannot just create this page without a plan, as it will be quite important which functions we use to make people understand the most easily. Therefore, please can all wikians here who understand OCFs help create a plan on the current page, which should just have section and subsection headers and a very brief description of what should go in each.

Also, please can wikians who don't understand OCFs, but do understand the extended Veblen functions, give feedback as to how we can improve the explanations.

TL;DR: We are creating an OCF intro page, and would like to do planning on content before the page is made properly. Also, users who don't understand OCFs should give feedback whilst we make it.

Thanks. ~εmli 13:58, June 22, 2016 (UTC)