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

Mon Dec 12 11:10:03 UTC 2005

Delirium wrote:

> 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.

Sourcing standards need to vary from one topic to the next, or according 
to the nature of the materials.  Anything that could libel a living 
person needs a much stricter standard than basic textbook math.

Ec