I disagree. This seems to be a perfectly decent bit of infrastructure, like the various 'list' pages. I can easily imagine finding it useful to make a link to this page from another site. Matthew Woodcraft
The best one so far is optical phenomenon. I think it shows both how interesting and useful this approach is. Fredbauder 17:30 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)
You're ignoring my argument, guys. Look at the argument; don't make bald assertions to the contrary. --Larry Sanger
You mean 'this is redundant'? I disagree. It's useful infrastructure. Matthew Woodcraft
How is it "useful infrastructure," and what does that mean? How is it an improvement over biology, etc. Is there a special category of scientific subjects, namely the scientific phenomena, that need to be listed out as such and distinguished from--what, the non-phenomena? I don't see it. --Larry Sanger
By 'infrastructure', I mean pages which are useful to help people find their way around Wikipedia. Many of the pages linked to from this one aren't readily accessible from electricity or electromagnetism, and even if they were, I think a list like this has value in itself. The point isn't to distinguish 'phenomena' from 'non-phenomena'. This page seems is a useful place to start for someone who wants to read interesting things about electricity, but might find the electricity page intimidating. Matthew Woodcraft
Then you should favor a page titled introduction to electricity[?] or how about cool entrees into electronics[?], because "x phenomena" does imply that the subject of the page are the x phenomena as distinguished from the non-phenomenal x (I guess). If it's an introduction you want, you'll be missing out on a lot of introductory topics if we list only the electrical phenomena, won't you? --Larry Sanger
introduction to electricity[?] would be a very different page. Electronics is something different entirely, of course. You're right, the subject of this page is electrical phenomena, as opposed to theories of electricity, the equations governing electricity, the fundamental particles carrying electricity, experiments with electricity, the history of electricity, or the techniques and economics of electricity production (all of which would also make perfectly decent pages). But the point of the page isn't to clarify what is a 'phenomenon' and what isn't, it's merely to provide a list of such phenomena to people who might find it useful. Matthew Woodcraft
There's certainly call for Electrical phenomenon to be a valid link, so we can write "x is an Electrical phenomenon...", but I agree with Larry's analysis: maybe it should redirect to "Electricity". -- Tarquin 20:28 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)
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