[seqfan] Re: Arabic Poetry Sequences

[Neil Sloane]

Brad,  You are mistaken, the OEIS does not have a pro-Western bias.
We have a great many sequences from the Middle East, India, China, Japan,
Australia.
We do have a pro-scientific bias, but that is not the same thing.
(Submissions do have to be in English and use Arabic numerals and ASCII
characters: if that is a pro-Western bias, so be it.)

In my opinion, the Arabic poetry sequences do not belong in the OEIS.



On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 9:47 PM Brad Klee <bradklee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ali, Peter, and others,
>
> Thanks for this interesting discussion--it's one of the more diverse
> that I've read on sequence fanatics lately. I don't currently have a
> vote, but if I did, it would go after Peter's. I am also in favour of
> trying to figure out how to encode tala matrices as integer
> sequences or integer tables.
>
> It is no easy task to analyse cultural products, even slightly unnatural,
> so referees and editors would need to take extra time to make sure the
> content is correct.
>
> Ali Sada's encoding must be consistent with other analyses, including
> wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_prosody . If sufficient
> agreement is not found, the submission would need to be rejected on
> grounds of possible inconsistency.
>
> I don't think the pro-western bias of OEIS is at all a secret, but
> those involved in steering should be concerned if this exclusion
> scheme is a desirable feature of the knowledge service.
>
> Thanks
>
> --Brad
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:50 AM Peter Luschny <peter.luschny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > For these three reasons, I think that the proposed sequences
> > have their place in the OEIS. Provided they are accompanied
> > by carefully selected references and their encoding is clearly
> > explained. Which of course can happen on a blog page that will
> > be linked to, as Giovanni suggests.
> >
> > Peter
>
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