On 12/4/06, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Another way to put it: they are tendentious and can
even be considered a type of advertising.
Advertising as in "Come and see the great article I wrote"? I don't
see any harm in this, and indeed, it would serve as encouragement to
our readers. I shamelessly add links to articles I write. You could
also call this [[WP:BTW|building the web]]. As long as it's not too
obnoxious, relevant links to groups of articles that Wikipedia has are
valuable.
We have debated this recently at the mathematics
WikiProject, and
apart from calculus, where students may well want to get from one
calculus article to another via a menu of suggestions, and a few
limited list like exceptional Lie groups, there is no enthusiasm at
all.
This may say something about mathematicians :) Now, I just had a look
at [[Trigonometry]], and I really wouldn't have guessed, until I
clicked on the category link that there somewhere between 44 and 53
articles about trigonometry. Wikipedia has such an incredible depth of
material that it seems a shame not to make that more visible. Why not
a navigational box that effectively carves out that part of Wikipedia
as a specialist encyclopaedia on trigonemetry?
Steve