On 12/4/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@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