Quite by coincidence I was at Bible study yesterday when another one of the students brought up something about the number 3 in the old Jewish theological tradition and how it has been re interpreted by Christianity I was pretty sure the Wikipedia article had that very bit of information so I looked it up and I couldn t find it I didn t pursue the matter further at the time because we had gotten on enough of a tangent as it was Later that night I saw in the history that a good 14 kilobytes were restored to the article Guess what It still doesn t have the bit of information I was looking for Or maybe it does have it but it s buried in such a muddled mess that it s beyond my ability to find it Or maybe that bit of information is in a very very old version of the article Or maybe my memory is playing tricks on me and that bit of information has never been in Wikipedia Whatever the truth of that may be it s pretty clear that in the tug of war between focusing these articles exclusively on mathematics and filling them with any and every thing that has anything to do with a particular number these articles have become pretty useless to anyone who just wants to find some particular bit of information