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Is there some reason this isn't Jeremy Bentham? [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 01:46, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | Is there some reason this isn't Jeremy Bentham? [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 01:46, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
:Howard, I found this page as a legacy of Docmartin, with <nowiki>{{subpages}}</nowiki> on top but without template/data. As you know that gives some terrifying templates, so I decided to fill out the template/data page and to change nothing. I was tempted, though, to move the closing sentence to the talk page (and probably the Wikibox should be marked), but I resisted the temptation. --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 14:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | :Howard, I found this page as a legacy of Docmartin, with <nowiki>{{subpages}}</nowiki> on top but without <strike>template/data</strike> Metadata. As you know that gives some terrifying templates, so I decided to fill out the <strike>template/data</strike> Metadata page and to change nothing. I was tempted, though, to move the closing sentence to the talk page (and probably the Wikibox should be marked), but I resisted the temptation. --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 14:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
::I agree with your concerns. Had he actually given a citation to his work in the last sentence, it could be a reference, but the last sentence smacks of self-promotion. While I'm interested in, but not expert on, the topic, I think it would be good to have an article, but I'm very hesitant to have anything that he might criticize as his intellectual property -- although he seems to have donated it. | ::I agree with your concerns. Had he actually given a citation to his work in the last sentence, it could be a reference, but the last sentence smacks of self-promotion. While I'm interested in, but not expert on, the topic, I think it would be good to have an article, but I'm very hesitant to have anything that he might criticize as his intellectual property -- although he seems to have donated it. | ||
::The text box makes me very nervous purely from a cooperative editing standpoint. I know some perfectly fine editors that use them, but I find they are very difficult to edit except when the article is approaching a final stage. I'm even cautious in using tables and multi-column formats unless I consider them necessary, but it's so easy to make a change to a colored text box and throw off the entire page that only their creator should probably change them. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 14:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | ::The text box makes me very nervous purely from a cooperative editing standpoint. I know some perfectly fine editors that use them, but I find they are very difficult to edit except when the article is approaching a final stage. I'm even cautious in using tables and multi-column formats unless I consider them necessary, but it's so easy to make a change to a colored text box and throw off the entire page that only their creator should probably change them. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 14:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
:::I did not mean the textbox, but the templates you see when you have <nowiki>{{subpages}}</nowiki> on top and not yet a Metadata page. [After almost two years of CZ I still confuse terminology :-( ]. | |||
:::In the meantime I checked the WP article, the present article is completely different. If we make an ordinary citation out of the self-promotion, the article is probably OK (I'd never heard of Bentham, so I cannot judge its contents). | |||
::--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 16:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | |||
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Is there some reason this isn't Jeremy Bentham? Howard C. Berkowitz 01:46, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- Howard, I found this page as a legacy of Docmartin, with {{subpages}} on top but without
template/dataMetadata. As you know that gives some terrifying templates, so I decided to fill out thetemplate/dataMetadata page and to change nothing. I was tempted, though, to move the closing sentence to the talk page (and probably the Wikibox should be marked), but I resisted the temptation. --Paul Wormer 14:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with your concerns. Had he actually given a citation to his work in the last sentence, it could be a reference, but the last sentence smacks of self-promotion. While I'm interested in, but not expert on, the topic, I think it would be good to have an article, but I'm very hesitant to have anything that he might criticize as his intellectual property -- although he seems to have donated it.
- The text box makes me very nervous purely from a cooperative editing standpoint. I know some perfectly fine editors that use them, but I find they are very difficult to edit except when the article is approaching a final stage. I'm even cautious in using tables and multi-column formats unless I consider them necessary, but it's so easy to make a change to a colored text box and throw off the entire page that only their creator should probably change them. Howard C. Berkowitz 14:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- I did not mean the textbox, but the templates you see when you have {{subpages}} on top and not yet a Metadata page. [After almost two years of CZ I still confuse terminology :-( ].
- In the meantime I checked the WP article, the present article is completely different. If we make an ordinary citation out of the self-promotion, the article is probably OK (I'd never heard of Bentham, so I cannot judge its contents).
- --Paul Wormer 16:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC)