Tuesday, March 05, 2013

[wyfngkkq] WP:NOT understandable

The policy "Wikipedia is not a textbook" (Wikipedia:NOTTEXTBOOK) seems to hurt mathematics articles a lot, leaving them generally incomprehensible except to the people who already know the material well enough not to need a Wikipedia article.

Or it could be less sinister (than useful text being deleted by policy): good pedagogical text, especially on abstract mathematics, is hard to write so no one has.

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