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On 03/04/2016 13:50, Mike Gonta wrote:
> Rod Pemberton" wrote:

...

>> Mike can be rather terse at times.  So, it's not always
>> obvious to me what he is getting at.  Sorry Mike.  I'd
>> rather have a description of where I could or why I
>> should use his stuff than all the technical details up
>> front, but we still need that stuff after the fact.
>
> That's a very good suggestion, especially with all the
> confusion surrounding the Virtual Partition. A much better
> "presentation" will be forthcoming soon in the promised
> AOD Virtual Partition Specification and Protocol.

Agreed. ISTM Wikipedia has a good format: an opening section which 
explains the very basics of the topic, followed by the details. I find 
the opening Wikipedia section is normally ideal for a term, T, where I 
as a reader have never heard of T before and want to know what it means.

OT but the big Wikipedia area which, ISTM, does not use that approach is 
chemistry. For example, here is the opening paragraph about Hydrogen:

"Hydrogen is a chemical element with chemical symbol H and atomic number 
1. With an atomic weight of 1.00794 u, hydrogen is the lightest element 
on the periodic table. Its monatomic form (H) is the most abundant 
chemical substance in the Universe, constituting roughly 75% of all 
baryonic mass.[9][note 1] Non-remnant stars are mainly composed of 
hydrogen in the plasma state. The most common isotope of hydrogen, 
termed protium (name rarely used, symbol 1H), has one proton and no 
neutrons."

That includes comments which are way too specific.

That was an aside. As I say, much of Wikipedia starts with a good intro 
to the topic being described.

-- 
James Harris

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