Anthony DiPierro wrote:
For a strawman, let's take [[Myhill–Nerode
theorem]]. I assume you didn't start that article from memory. You
did use a source, right? Now given a few minutes of searching on
Google print I could probably come up with a source to verify that
information, but at the same time you could much more easily simply
list the book you actually used.
I did in fact start it from memory, since it's a standard result that
anyone who's taken a theory of computation class would be familiar with.
I could retroactively give a source, but any theory of computation book
will have it. The interested reader would be best served by consulting
whatever book they find easiest to access, rather than having me pick
one of them and tell them to use that specific one. (Of course, in
things that are only in a few books, or treated significantly
differently by different authors, giving the specific reference makes
more sense.)
-Mark