[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Mon Dec 12 11:10:03 UTC 2005
Delirium wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>
>> Well, I think I've made it abundantly clear I disagree. Those
>> mathematical articles should all be referenced. The person who is in
>> the best position to do that is the original author.
>
> For most of them, the original author is no better placed to reference
> them than anyone else, because they're results that appear in standard
> textbooks. I could singlehandedly "reference" most of the linear
> algebra articles, for example, just by copy/pasting the reference list
> from [[linear algebra]] to the end of every one. But in cases where
> something is a standard result in elementary textbooks, I don't see
> what advantage actually listing some arbitrarily chosen textbook gives
> the reader.
Sourcing standards need to vary from one topic to the next, or according
to the nature of the materials. Anything that could libel a living
person needs a much stricter standard than basic textbook math.
Ec
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