On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:02:26 PM EDT John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu> wrote:
... The way to fix it is: go to Wikipedia, click "Edit" and fix it.
I was going to do this and say "look, it took just one minute!" - but it seems Peter Selinger beat me to it. (Just click on "View History" and you'll see someone named Selinger made this change on 1:52 UTC, September 14th, 2010.)
Yep; certainly now my original objection no longer applies. Instead, I'm annoyed by the mealy-mouthed lack of content in the new "disclaimer" (?), | The illustrations on this page are derived from various different | parametrizations. Shouldn't a Wikipedia article be *providing* (rather than suppressing) information? Is it really informative to hide the fact that the color illustration (at top) for the (3,7)-torus knot *is* using the parametrization that the text displays, while the b/w (2,3)-torus knot (displayed next) is using rather a *different* style of parametrization, whose details are ... well, you see what I'm after? And if I change it, who next will change it away again? Cheers, -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]