>Not a criticism, just curious. Why do you not just
improve the article(s)
>yourself, rather than devising a "plan" to involve many others - which
>would inevitably take a great deal of time and effort, and not necessarily
>achieve a much better result?
Do you think it would be worth the time and effort to have a worthwhile
article on one of Britain's greatest philosopher theologians? There are
many errors in the present article, as I have already pointed out, and it is
seriously incomplete. The plan need not be necessarily very complex. I
propose meeting up with someone like Charles Matthews or another trusted and
competent editor (I have the highest regard for the quality of Charles'
editing). I could do the key parts of the research separately - indeed, as
I mentioned, there is much material Jack Zupko and I eliminated from the
current version of the forthcoming book which is not copyrighted, and which
could be incorporated into the Wikipedia article. Plus much other material
which has formed part of separate research (reliably sourced, of course, no
original research!).
Then I could provide the material to Charles or someone, he could upload it,
and I could dictate the usual changes connected with linking, wikifying and
so on. I will copy this to Charles in case he is interested. I could also
ask if other specialists in Scotist studies would like to be involved.
It would also be a great piece of PR, showing that Wikipedia and Wikimedia
can 'work with the system' to involve even those who are banned from the
project, but who want to improve it. It would involve 'outreach' if other
medieval
specialists could be involved. Also, I still have contacts in the world of
higher education journalism who would love to publish something about this.
> So what's the point in having people here, who
are banned from WP?
That's very hurtful. Just because I am banned from Wikipedia, for an
incident entirely unrelated to the quality of my editing, does not mean I
cannot usefully contribute to the project. I was working with one of the top
medieval scholars for the Scotus book, and I have contributed many many
articles on medieval philosophy and logic to Wikipedia in the past. I am
probably one of the longest serving editors contributing to this forum
(since July 2003). Just because someone is banned, does not mean they
cannot contribute usefully to the project. That's a horrid form of
discrimination.
Ed