OEIS links in the Wikipedia

[N. J. A. Sloane]

sequences in the OEIS were relevant
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Subject: Re: OEIS links in the Wikipedia
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I once added a link in wikipedia to my number gossip page
(numbergossip.com). The link was removed and I received an angry
letter.

It looks like by the wiki rules you are not allowed promoting your own
website.

That probably means that it would be preferable if seqfans other than
Neil will add links to sequences.


--- "N. J. A. Sloane" <njas at research.att.com> wrote:

> 
> Dear Seqfans
> 
> Although Eric Weisstein's site has many links
> to the OEIS, it seems that the Wikipedia has very few.
> 
> I noticed this because a correspondent said A002067 was wrong
> because it disagreed with the entry 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function
> 
> In fact the sequence he should have been looking at was A092676.
> 
> So I went in and edited that entry by mentioning which
> sequences in the OEIS were relevant
> 
> I think the world only benefits by having more links like that, so I
> would
> like to encourage seqfans to add more OEIS links
> to the Wikipedia
> 
> Neil
>