From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6749 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Valeria de Paiva Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Comments on a wikipedia article on a Timeline of Category theory Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 06:43:43 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Valeria de Paiva NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310171167 4955 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2011 00:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 00:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories@mta.ca" , George Janelidze To: Ronnie Brown Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Jul 09 02:26:00 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 1QfLMt-000559-Po for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:26:00 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:40816) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfLLS-0005nm-5F; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:24:30 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfLLR-0006wH-BM for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:24:29 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6749 Archived-At: Dear Ronnie, and all, In the internet there is no *removing* of any information, as you suggest, at all. The only way to remove anything (ask celebrities PR people) is to add new information that supersedes the undesired one. I suggest applying as many band-aids as are necessary as soon as possible. Believe me, I just spent 3 years working for a search engine... Best regards, Valeria On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Ronnie Brown < ronnie.profbrown@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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/ ]