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Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs?
Beetle B. writes "An argument has arisen over whether Wikipedia should allow pages that provide proofs for mathematical theorems (such as this one).
On the one hand, Wikipedia is a useful source of information and people can benefit from these proofs. On the other hand, how does one choose which proofs to include and which not to? Should Wikipedia just become a textbook that teaches mathematics? Should it just state the bare results of theorems and not provide proofs (except as external links)? Or should they take an intermediate approach and formulate a criterion for which proofs to include and which to exclude?"
No one will RTFProof anyway.
I've just finished Bioshock, and it is racist. The 'splicers' are obviously supposed to represent negros. Think about it; they're stupid and ruin things. Just like niggers. Atlas is the Jew; he is cunning and greedy. And Ryan is the white man; the great creator.
Bioshock is a warning that we should watch out for the negro and the jew.
But you see ... wikipedia is against absolute truth. After all ... everybody's truth is equal, right ? Except Christian, kapitalist or anything "white" truths obviously. But maths is different. You see maths is proof that there are absolute truths, valid everywhere, demonstrating that the scientific view of the universe/God (one that is bound by laws, predictable and inherently good) is one of these fundamental truths, and one that you can learn from. That the earth is our to make as we choose (instead of the "don't touch it !" climate alarmism we hear today, we can, and will, change the earth, and we'll change it for the better. The only thing climate alarmism will cause is change for the worse, a lot worse. Can you believe that these days the left's arrived again at it's 1930 eugenics "we must prevent bad people from having babies" state ? *1)
So no absolute truths please ... we're a multicultural "reality-based" society. No maths allowed, or allah (represented for the occasion by some middle eastern nutcase, who just beat his daughter into the hospital, so she could join her wife and at least now she is covered *2)
*1 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/10/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-Climate-Baby-Tax.php
*2 covered in blood, of course, that how the prophet likes his girls, and his cities
Wikipedia should not hold proofs but only allow offsite links to the proofs.
wikipedia is a hearsay site, requiring references to what is posted. By doing this wikipedia avoids being held responsible for its contents as it does not have the resources or the lawyers, and never will, to properly research subject matter or to keep it verified.
By referencing offsite information, it is up to the offsite location to maintain the verified information. For proofs this is a plus because an offsite link can prevent editing of the proof, where wikipedia is intended to be open to edit.
Constantly and growing is wikipedia being used for propaganda, as yet another article on slashdot mentions.
Propaganda, I'm sure, was never the intent of wikipedia, but people will do what they do.
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