[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:02:47PM -0500, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> Sure.  150 to 200 years ago, Sophie Germain published a very valuable  
> insight into Fermat's Last Theorem.  

It isn't necessary to go so far back. A large part of the important 
mathematics of the 1980s and 1990s does not appear in textbooks, or
does so only implicitly, because there is little incentive for 
anyone to rewrite it. I believe the situation is similar in many
areas of the humanities and social sciences. This has never meant that 
wikipedia does not want to include this work. 

 - Carl