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

Sun Dec 11 21:33:39 UTC 2005

On 12/11/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> It gives the reader a starting point for further research, and at least
demonstrates that the information wasn't pulled out of a hat.

Spangineer/Nathaniel