Talk:Cantor's first set theory article: Difference between revisions

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I think one problem we are facing is that the current Wikipedia article goes far beyond Cantor's article: Starting with the Development section, it mentions 16 other mathematicians. So titling the article '''''On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers''''' doesn't capture the article's content but would capture the content of the 2nd article I'm offering to write. The math history section of the current Wikipedia article covers a slice of math history that came about because of Cantor's article. For everyone reading this: I welcome suggestions as what to call the current Wikipedia article that would accurately capture both its math and math history content (I'm working on this myself). In the absence of title suggestions: What's wrong with having two articles, one titled '''''On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers''''' and one titled '''Georg Cantor's first set theory article'''? [[User:RJGray|RJGray]] ([[User talk:RJGray|talk]]) 22:50, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

::I believe strongly that a Wikipedia article should be ''about'' one clear thing, and that thing should be named in the title. If the title refers to the paper, then the article should be about the paper, and I think should be named after the paper. (We wouldn't put the article about ''Gone With the Wind'' at [[Margaret Mitchell's most famous novel]], say.)

::You seem to be saying this article should be about the content of the paper. I don't think that's a natural topic for an article, the two results being so divergent. I think the article is fine, but it should say more about the paper per se, and be named after the paper.

::I did find the reference to ''Crelle's Journal'', later, but it's too buried. If the article is about the paper, which I think it should be, then the journal and publication date should be named in the first paragraph, probably in the first sentence. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] ([[User talk:Trovatore|talk]]) 22:59, 16 February 2016 (UTC)