[WikiEN-l] Nuke [[WP:CITE]] and [[WP:RS]]

[Phil Sandifer]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Stan Shebs wrote:

> Phil Sandifer wrote:
>> I'd be similarly shocked if one could write a good article on high
>> temperature physics or group theory while being totally dependent on
>> published reliable sources, because those sources were never written
>> for the purpose of being used to explain the concept to novices.
>>
> The best sources for general topics are textbooks actually; reliable,
> and written to explain concepts. I find the introductions to  
> monographs
> and papers as useful for WP as the bodies; at least the more  
> articulate
> writers manage to get in a few words intelligible to the  
> nonspecialist. :-)

I picked those examples precisely because there weren't good or  
usable textbooks for them. (Or, at least, I asked a random chemistry  
grad student I had nearby for two topics that would fit that bill and  
that's what she gave me. Damned if I know what the hell group theory  
is.)

-Phil