> See also: > Ship of Theseus I'm often interested in the use of "See also" in Wikipedia articles to bring in related topics that may not be obviously re

> See also: > Ship of Theseus I'm often interested in the use of "See also" in Wikipedia articles to bring in related topics that may not be obviously related to a naive reader, without directly addressing the relation in the article. I feel like it's an idiom that has developed over time, although I wouldn't be surprised to see similar things in card catalogues. It's interesting to me because an encyclopedia generally spells everything out for you -- that's it's purpose, to explicitly explain things. The "tangentially-related See Also," on the other hand, demands that the connection be made in the mind of the reader, without explaining the connection explicitly.