----- Original Message ----- From: "David Goodman" <[email protected]> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:07 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
> I am not qualified to judge articles on philosophy on my own > understanding of the material. I must ask whether you are so very sure > that academic consensus will endorse your views on the articles > mentioned that you would be able to write a replacement article, and > ask for an RfC on it, and convince outsiders by reference to multiple > understandable authoritative sources? I've already mentioned this list, but here again is my analysis of some of the Wikipedia articles. http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/william-of-ockham.html This is a comment on the William of Ockham article. William was one of England's greatest philosophers. Gets barely a mention in Wikipedia and there a number of serious mistakes in the article itself. http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/07/francesco-patrizi.html Francest Patrizi. What a mess http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/avicennian-logic.html The Avicenna articles were so bad it got into the London Spectator. In this case, there was a Wikipedia RfC so you don't have to take my word for it. This was a case of a rogue editor who contributed to 8,115 pages, making 63,298 edits. Much of the problem material seems still to be there! http://logicmatters.blogspot.com/2009/05/wisdom-of-wikipedia.html This is by the distinguished philosopher and logician Peter Smith (editor of the Journal Analysis for many years). In my most recent post I commented on this gem here, in the article on Aristotle. Even Plato had difficulties with logic; although he had a reasonable conception of a deducting system, he could never actually construct one and relied instead on his dialectic. Consequently, Plato realized that a method for obtaining conclusions would be most beneficial. He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
