[Wikipedia-l] Re: MetaTree

[Gareth Owen]

tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> writes:

> encyclopedia you *never* stop off and read about something else that has
> caught your eye?

No.  Sometimes I do exactly.

But I don't want it forced upon me.
I do *not* want to use a work that gives cross references like
"See also: something on page 187 or 188, but we're not saying which"

Its not as if we don't have "Random Page" feature for browsing.

> That's the huge joy of reference works!

Is *a* huge joy of reference works.
Accurate and efficient cross-referencing is also a huge joy of well organised
reference works.
-- 
Gareth Owen