Talk:Information revolution
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[edit] Nonsense?
This page sets off my nonsense and auto-generated thesis alerts. How about you? Philip (Respond?) 08:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Anything could be classified as "nonsense", without justification. Most likely Philip is not familiar with related literature. For instance, why the OECD countries are measuring the information sector (http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_34449_1_1_1_1_37441,00.html)? PlatonicIdeas 18:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unsatisfactory
This article does not provide a definition of the term and its historical context and does not provide examples. A reader trying to find out more about the term will find it's usefullness quite doubtful. 62.90.164.39 08:23, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comments
I agree that the article as it stands is full of unexplained jargon, as well as being in need of copy-editing, and is lacking in clear information. The term "informational" isn't standard English, and reseasrch shows that it's mainly used by people whose first language isn't English; I've therefore renamed the article. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 22:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Meletitis as an Oxford philosopher, self-described as "not Greek but English (half Irish, in fact, but born and brought up in England)" should know that the same controversy arose when OR was invented during WW2. This is also stated in the article Operations Research or Operational Research (OR): ""It is known as "operational research" in the United Kingdom"" (my italics). In the UK the type "operational" is favoured, while in the US "operations" is preferred. PlatonicIdeas 18:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
