[WikiEN-l] On a lighter note for a change

[George Herbert]

On 3/26/07, Avi <avi_wiki at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   We are quoted in this month's issue of Focus, the Mathematical Association
>  of America's newsletter, on page 5, for bringing a source for the term "spline".
>
>   PDF link here: http://www.maa.org/pubs/march07web.pdf

Ahhhh... Darn it, and that article [[Spline (mathematics)]] sources it
to a much more recent derivation than is correct (see [[Spline
(device)]]), though it's sourced.

*bang head on the wall*

We've become a reliable source for a scientific publication.  With
info from a published reliable source.  Which is wrong - it quotes the
origin as recent (WW II aircraft building, as opposed to the correct
shipbuilding origin in the middle ages, which [[Spline (device)]]
alludes to but doesn't go far enough explaining).  And moreso, our
[[Spline (mathematics)]] article lifts several sentences worth of
material from cited source
(http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/98/v98n26.html#1) without direct
reference, probably a copyvio.

*bang head on the wall again*



-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com