[WikiEN-l] Categories vs lists vs navboxes (was Re: Deletions, lists, etc?)

Tue Dec 5 02:31:37 UTC 2006

On 12/4/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Another way to put it: they are tendentious and can even be considered a type of advertising.

Advertising as in "Come and see the great article I wrote"? I don't
see any harm in this, and indeed, it would serve as encouragement to
our readers. I shamelessly add links to articles I write. You could
also call this [[WP:BTW|building the web]]. As long as it's not too
obnoxious, relevant links to groups of articles that Wikipedia has are
valuable.

>We have debated this recently at the mathematics WikiProject, and
apart from calculus, where students may well want to get from one
calculus article to another via a menu of suggestions, and a few
limited list like exceptional Lie groups, there is no enthusiasm at
all.

This may say something about mathematicians :) Now, I just had a look
at [[Trigonometry]], and I really wouldn't have guessed, until I
clicked on the category link that there somewhere between 44 and 53
articles about trigonometry. Wikipedia has such an incredible depth of
material that it seems a shame not to make that more visible. Why not
a navigational box that effectively carves out that part of Wikipedia
as a specialist encyclopaedia on trigonemetry?

Steve