From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>
Cc: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Illusion and Forthrightness in Wikipedia
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:58:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OxKlp-0004sz-TM@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:02:26 PM EDT John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu> wrote:
> ... The way to fix it is: go to Wikipedia, click "Edit" and fix it.
>
> I was going to do this and say "look, it took just one minute!" - but it
> seems Peter Selinger beat me to it. (Just click on "View History" and
> you'll see someone named Selinger made this change on 1:52 UTC, September
> 14th, 2010.)
Yep; certainly now my original objection no longer applies.
Instead, I'm annoyed by the mealy-mouthed lack of content in
the new "disclaimer" (?),
| The illustrations on this page are derived from various different
| parametrizations.
Shouldn't a Wikipedia article be *providing*
(rather than suppressing) information?
Is it really informative to hide the fact that the color illustration
(at top) for the (3,7)-torus knot *is* using the parametrization that
the text displays, while the b/w (2,3)-torus knot (displayed next) is
using rather a *different* style of parametrization, whose details are
... well, you see what I'm after? And if I change it, who next will
change it away again?
Cheers, -- Fred
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2010-09-18 6:58 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
2010-09-19 22:07 ` Vaughan Pratt
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2010-09-19 23:38 Fred E.J. Linton
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2010-09-18 7:26 ` John Baez
2010-09-14 7:46 John Baez
2010-09-13 0:11 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-13 6:23 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13 8:42 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13 18:32 ` Mike Stay
2010-09-13 19:02 ` Timothy Porter
2010-09-14 16:54 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13 22:02 ` Toby Bartels
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