[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:51:10PM -0500, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> Specifics would be helpful.

The result described at [[Green-Tao_theorem]] was groundbreaking and of 
extraordinary scientific interest. It will no doubt eventually be 
covered in a text some day. The present article is just a stub, but if 
we were to expand the article to something longer, the main sources at 
the moment would have to be journal articles.  There is a 0% chance this 
article would be deleted at AFD.

The stub [[Ω-logic]] describes a much more esoteric theory [1]. There is 
a "secondary" source for this - a survey article written by Woodin 
himself. Again, any expansion of the article would need to use journals
as its main sources.  I think this has a much lower chance of being 
covered by a text any time soon.

I picked these because they are already existing articles. I can also 
think of several research programs that could have a wikipedia article 
but do not. 

Going farther, there's a large collection of articles for which there 
are secondary sources on the broader topic, but only journal sources for 
large sections of the technical material. 

I will write a separate email on the topic of creating new survey 
articles on Wikipedia.

 - Carl 

[1] If the Unicode link doesn't work, pick the second article in the
list at [[Omega-logic]], the one with a capital Omega.