On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, xaosflux wrote: >>While YOU may use the >>article as a movie review to see if you want to watch the movie, >>other readers may use them for many other purposes. > > This statement is trivially true no matter what phrase you substitute in. > *Any* purpose for using an article is one that only a minority of readers > will have. If it's wrong to put something in because only a minority of > readers will use or need it, then we shouldn't even have articles. > > Besides, the reader who wishes to use the article for other purposes just has > to ignore the spoiler warning. It's not like it prevents other readers from > using the article the way they want. > >>Would you read >>any of our other articles just to see if you want to read their >>references? > > This is about an article which has a work as a *subject*, and only secondarily > if at all as a reference. I wouldn't read our article about potatoes to > decide if I want to read a particular book about potatoes, but that's because > the book really is just a reference; the subject of the article is potatoes, > not potato books.
Though we do have articles on research areas and the books in them. More usually categories, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shakespearean_scholarship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Politics_(book) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Shakespeare_criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_by_topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_books Some are very specific: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_about_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Holocaust_books I couldn't rule out looking to see if a book had an article on Wikipedia before buying it, or more likely, reading about the author. But I would, admittedly, be more likely to read a review somewhere, though I *might* come to Wikipedia to find a review through the article. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
