From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6741 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ronnie Brown Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Comments on a wikipedia article on a Timeline of Category theory Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:14:11 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Ronnie Brown NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310082642 23707 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2011 23:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:50:42 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" , George Janelidze Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Jul 08 01:50:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.30]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeyL7-00018D-Lq for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:50:37 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:42916) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeyJp-0004Ll-Mw; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:49:17 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeyJp-000274-45 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:49:17 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6741 Archived-At: We would like to draw the attention of readers of this list to the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_category_theory_and_related_mathematics We feel that this entry is slanted, unbalanced, and in many cases wrong. It gives credit to work at a given time often presented in the form of vague ambitious titles or conclusions that give no information on the actual theorems the authors either claimed or published at the time. It fails to give credit to many authors for their contribution to the development of category theory and its wider applications, and fails to describe many developments in the area. It also fails to give references, which is usually a requirement for wikipedia articles, and the `discussion' makes it clear that the author(s) of this entry have no intention of so doing, and have not done so since the entry was made in 2009. The anonymity of the entry is also a handicap. One of us has tried to make a correction, but this is using a sticking plaster on too great a problem. The entry fails to come up to the standards of wikipedia in scholarship, accuracy and presentation, is not really possible to correct, and should therefore be removed. We would be grateful for comments on this matter, and for agreement to support this proposal to wikipedia. Ronnie Brown George Janelidze [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]