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re: Môge

It already appears in the Notes section and really shouldn't be in the Further reading section, so you formatted the reference correctly. Are you sure that the statement (while true) doesn't place undue weight on the number of mathematicians that were Persians? In my opinion it is already stated clearly enough in the previous paragraph that those scientists were of many ethnicities. 18:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes, but wikipedia is not a WP:SOAPBOX, so there is no reason to state something using WP:WEASEL words like "overwhelming", when people can simply look up the exect number from a list. —Ruud 18:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Why does it need to be mentioned explicitly. Don't you think the reader is intelligent enough to draw his own conclusion from the list of biographies? —Ruud 19:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)