Gerard Meijssen wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/3/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
I think Wikipedia really needs a central bibliography, because there are many books who are used in more than one article, some in dozens or even more.
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If a book is being used for dozens of articles, doesn't that show that it's really important and so should have at least a stub for it? Using articles would seem to fulfill most of your desiderata.
~maru
Hoi, When a book is used quite often, it may mean that someone is pushing a particular point of view.. When a book is relevant you want to annotate that book. But it does not follow that it needs a Wikipedia article of it's own.
Whether a bibliographic listing implies a whole Wikipedia article is another matter. I don't see that as the intent. The frequent use of a work could be that it reflects its status as a standard textbook for one of the sciences, and references to several such textbooks may show that an idea is widespread. From a Wiktionary perspective frequent quotes of Shakespeare's works are excellent evidence that the word in question was in use during his lifetime.
Ec