Talk:Introduction to Likelihood Theory/The Basic Definitions

May I suggest that this page be named by something more specific? When I saw this page in recent changes, I had no idea what it was about (still don't, but that's another matter ;-)). I think it would be better off named "Basic definitions of <insert whatever it is that it's defining>". Cheers. Cormaggio 17:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Basic?

I can see that this is the core of maths, but it is not "basic" in the way I would use the word.

No, it is not. It is however an excellent example of bad teaching. Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 18:14, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Making sure there are definitions for all terms

I am going through and creating wiki-links (brackets [[]]) around all the words whose definitions are pre-requisites to understanding this content. For example: set.

I have a question though: Should I use set or should I use something else, like set (with slashes "/")? In the interest of quick content creation, I believe that set should go to a disambiguation page that lists all uses of the term "set": later editors (or later revisions by the same editor) can change the link to go to the specific, disambiguated page.

Some things that I do to try to minimize the amount of redundancy can include re-directs from plurals ("sets" would redirect to the "set" disambiguation page).

In order to do this, a list of pages that direct to the disambiguation page would be useful. . . I think we can track this via "incoming links" - so, people that change the link from set to a specific definition of "set" would need to add that possibility to the Disambiguation page. I think Wikipedia does this by naming things like, "set_(Mathematics)" (w:set_(mathematics))

In an encyclopedia like Wikidedia, definitions are meant to be as inclusive as possible: give people the whole view of a given topic. However, for our uses in education at Wikiversity, definitions should be the minimum amount necessary to understand the term in its specific context. When this is built up, people with little knowledge could make their way to greater knowledge.

1. It could function as a reverse-lookup: take, for example _NP_r = N! / (N-r)!:
   1. Unfortunately, you can't make the whole thing a link by putting brackets around it: (it comes out like this: [[_NP_r = N! / (N-r)!]]) If

Joshp (discuss • contribs) 00:20, 1 April 2014 (UTC)