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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.

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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