[seqfan] Re: Refs artefact.

[M. F. Hasler]

This and other references that are related to many unrelated sequences
could be uploaded to the wiki or stored in a different subdirectory (/refs
or /A000000 if it must or should be of that form for some reason).
Changing the 64 links to that file is a matter of seconds through the
global search & replace command.

Conceptually, an encyclopedia is not (and should not be) an archive or
library, although it is certainly useful to have an *associated*
archive/library/repository (which could here simply take the form of one
additional directory).

In an "ideal" world we wouldn't even have duplicate references (not even
(author's) names), but any of these would just be a reference to a global
and separate list of references, names etc. (I do agree that we don't live
in an ideal world and that some redundancy is good for data safety, human
readability etc. This is just to say that it's more than legitimate to
operate such a separation when it *might* be desired for some reasons.)

-Maximilian


On Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 06:34 Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:

> This can't be the only example of popular article being attached to one of
> its relevant sequences arbitrarily.
>
> Perhaps we can solve this problem, and others like it, by putting in the
> links section a custom link to
>
> https://oeis.org/search?q=A005165+-id:A005165+-"The strong law of small
> numbers"
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 4:18 PM Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Is it possible to move this pdf to some other OEIS directory ?
> >
> > but that would mean changing all the links to that article, and as you
> > noticed, there are a lot!  And it is a lot easier to attach the paper to
> a
> > sequence than to find another place for it.  And also if we change this
> we
> > will have to make similar changes to all the other Guy letters and
> papers.
> > And all the other scanned documents from the past.
> >
> > Maybe this is an occasion to "let sleeping dogs lie"!
> >
> > Best regards
> > Neil
> >
> > Neil J. A. Sloane, ...
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 2:13 PM Michel Marcus <
> michel.marcus183 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello seqfans
> > >
> > > A recent edit on A005165 made me find something.
> > > If you go to A005165 and click on refs, you get 64 hits.
> > > But if you look at them, you'll see that many of them do not have
> A005165
> > > in their text, like for instance A000045.
> > > Why? It is because they have a link to the Annotated scanned copy of R.
> > K.
> > > Guy, The strong law of small numbers
> > https://oeis.org/A005165/a005165.pdf.
> > > Is it possible to move this pdf to some other OEIS directory ?
> > > Or, there is a simpler solution for this: modify the search string to
> > > A005165 -id:A005165 -"The strong law of small numbers".
> > > And you get 21 hits.
> > >
> > > Best.
>