Should more of WP:TECHNICAL be written into MOS:MATHS ?
editIt is interesting to compare the material in MOS:MATHS on article construction with the advice in WP:TECHNICAL.
In particular WP:TECHNICAL advises to
- Add a concrete example
Many technical articles are not understandable (and more confusing even to expert readers) only because they are abstract. A concrete example can help to contextualize the abstract content for many readers. Sometimes a contrasting example, such as a counterexample, can also be helpful. For instance, from the article verb:
- A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
On the other hand while our guide MOS:MATHS for writing Mathematics articles does mention examples, it seems as almost a throw-away add-on extra:
Some representative examples would be nice to have, in a separate section, which could serve to both expand on the definition, and also provide some context as to why one might want to use the defined entity