[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:23:48PM -0500, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> The very definition of "important" is, that many people cite it.
> If no one cites it, it's not important.

Remember that I do not count a "name check" of a theorem as an actual 
source for the theorem (since it is not actually a source in any 
ordinary meaning of the word "source"). This may be leading to some 
misunderstanding. 

Another issue is the cyclical nature of academic research. It's 
perfectly possible for a microfield to spring 25 peer reviewed papers in 
a decade and then pass out of fashion or have all the accessible results 
exhausted. Some of these microfields will get a book written about them, 
some will not. All are of encyclopedic interest.

 - Carl