Talk:Geometry for Elementary School/Coordinates

Although I have edited articles on Wikipedia, I have only today looked seriously at Wikibooks, and Wikijunior in particular. I stumbled across this article by chance and was appalled to find the sentence in the introduction "Worst of all, we would lose wars and Nazis and Japanese people would rule the world, turning it into a ginormous tyranny." I fail to see how the outcome of the Second world War, (assuming that this is the reference intended), was determined by the use of coordinate systems, or if it was I cannot see any justification given elsewhere in the article. Is the implication that neither Nazi Germany nor Japan has mastered such mathematical skills, or were less good at them than the Allied powers, or is this an obscure joke?

Apart from above and the possible impact of racist associations on Japanese readers, this sentence also contains slang that would seem inappropriate for this type of article. However, given that the article has gone through more than one review with this text included, perhaps I've missed something? Could someone enlighten me?

Inspeximus (discuss • contribs) 20:07, 3 September 2011 (UTC)