[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)

Sun Dec 11 21:27:09 UTC 2005

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>Well, I think I've made it abundantly clear I disagree.  Those
>mathematical articles should all be referenced.  The person who is in
>the best position to do that is the original author.
>
For most of them, the original author is no better placed to reference 
them than anyone else, because they're results that appear in standard 
textbooks.  I could singlehandedly "reference" most of the linear 
algebra articles, for example, just by copy/pasting the reference list 
from [[linear algebra]] to the end of every one.  But in cases where 
something is a standard result in elementary textbooks, I don't see what 
advantage actually listing some arbitrarily chosen textbook gives the 
reader.

-Mark