On 3/26/07, Avi avi_wiki@yahoo.com wrote:
We are quoted in this month's issue of Focus, the Mathematical Association of America's newsletter, on page 5, for bringing a source for the term "spline".
PDF link here: http://www.maa.org/pubs/march07web.pdf
Ahhhh... Darn it, and that article [[Spline (mathematics)]] sources it to a much more recent derivation than is correct (see [[Spline (device)]]), though it's sourced.
*bang head on the wall*
We've become a reliable source for a scientific publication. With info from a published reliable source. Which is wrong - it quotes the origin as recent (WW II aircraft building, as opposed to the correct shipbuilding origin in the middle ages, which [[Spline (device)]] alludes to but doesn't go far enough explaining). And moreso, our [[Spline (mathematics)]] article lifts several sentences worth of material from cited source (http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/98/v98n26.html#1) without direct reference, probably a copyvio.
*bang head on the wall again*