On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:51:10PM -0500, WJhonson@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.