Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Conventions

Probability

I strongly disagree with CMummert's comment about internal consistency
being sufficient.  An article links to another so that a reader can
get background information on concepts used in the first article.
If a page with one notational convention links to a page with a
different convention, the process of obtaining background is at least
inconvenient and sloppy-looking; in worse cases, it can lead to
incomprehensibility or misinformation.  So consistency across articles
is a very important consideration, at least within the same general
subject matter.  There is a problem, though, in that <math> tags are
widely seen as inappropriate for inclusion within paragraphs of text.
So as much as possible, there should be a pair of standards, depending
on the rendering environment.  I suppose mathml will be a third
environment to consider, but I haven't used it.  -Dan Hoey 18:48, 30
April 2007 (UTC)