Re: [WikiEN-l] Anti-intellectualism

2008-12-12 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/12/2008 3:44:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, snowspin...@gmail.com writes: Which is part of the problem. There's a lot of stuff that, in academia, we just consider too obvious to publish. We already handle Is the Sun hot? Our policy allows common sense

Re: [WikiEN-l] Serious problems with interlanguage links

2008-12-12 Thread Ian Woollard
2008/12/12 Lukasz Bolikowski b...@icm.edu.pl: C'mon, even mathematicians have common sense, sometimes :) A mathematician would simply say that the relation of being a close friend is not transitive. Yeah, but a physicist would say: 'Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman' and everyone would laugh.