"Laura Scudder" wrote
I'm am very pro-citation when it helps us
build a better
encyclopedia, but I'm anti-"let's footnote everything even though
it appears in any textbook on the subject and is totally
uncontroversial, just to satisfy a process decision".
I think it's a horrid idea to have any policy on this which would
allow people to spam us with inline references, for example, to their
version of The Great American Calculus Text.
Those books _all_ follow the pattern set down by Thomas of MIT in the
1950s. They are alike as two peas in a pod. They are written for
money, and contain material that has all been known for 150 years.
/me thinks we might need a "list of reputable textbooks which can be
used as inline references" somewhere in Wikipedia: space...
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