[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Sun Dec 11 21:27:09 UTC 2005
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>Well, I think I've made it abundantly clear I disagree. Those
>mathematical articles should all be referenced. The person who is in
>the best position to do that is the original author.
>
For most of them, the original author is no better placed to reference
them than anyone else, because they're results that appear in standard
textbooks. I could singlehandedly "reference" most of the linear
algebra articles, for example, just by copy/pasting the reference list
from [[linear algebra]] to the end of every one. But in cases where
something is a standard result in elementary textbooks, I don't see what
advantage actually listing some arbitrarily chosen textbook gives the
reader.
-Mark
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