Talk:Abel's curve theorem

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I left a note at Abel-Jacobi map as well, but I can't let this one go without one. Whatever happens with regard to my suggestion there, I think that before merging this thing anywhere it should be improved a lot. The sentence (!) itself is quite impenetrable and it doesn't give any indication why it should be related to the Abel-Jacobi map (though one can guess) or indeed, just about anything else. Ryan Reich 22:12, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A reaon for incoherence

Well, one reason it may appear incoherent is that it's almost identical with the Mathworld article with the same name. DavidCBryant 17:43, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

The seventeen-year-old part of me (the part that used to read MathWorld like I now read Wikipedia) wants to protest, but...I agree. Too bad, really; math is so easy to write poorly, not as easy to write well. Ryan Reich 20:06, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I also directly cited that material as the reference for the article. It was my understanding that Mathworld content was released under GFDL.--Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 18:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I also figured something like that since we do seem to be inspired by MathWorld a lot, but if you go to "Terms of Use" in the small print at the bottom of any article there, you'll find that they are not at all free and open. Ryan Reich 20:04, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I have gone through and tagged the articles that I created. I was confused because I had seen other "inspired" content (i.e. copying) from mathworld, and I figured that it was GFDL like planetmath (bad assumption to make).--Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 05:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)