Unintelligible to non experts Like most maths articles on Wikipedia this one is unintelligible to someone that does not already know the material Consider an intelligent programmer with a basic knowledge of maths who wants to get an ideal of what all the talk about Baysian Networks is about and whether they should read more Well they won t be any the wiser from this article I have a PhD in Comp Sci but limited knowledge of this field and I can only follow the sprinkler example with effort so don t tell me that it is intelligible The topic is technical and we certainly do not want journalistic waffle But an introductory example of showing how the joint probablilities for a simple two node example can be simplified would be a good start Then maybe somthing about independent nodes which is not even mentioned Etc The goal of Wikipedia is not to demonstrate how clever Wikipedians are