On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Robert wrote:
For some reason my fellow Wikipedias keep missing the main point: standard Wikipedia protocol for disambiguation. In the past, this has prevented flame wars. Why is it not being allowed here? Let's change the [[Gaia]] article to a disambiguation page (proposal follows)
I don't see why the current single paragraph that explains -- & links to a fuller treatment of [[Gaia Theory]] -- can't remain in the [[Gaia]] article, as it currently exists. In the article on [[Oedipus]], one would expect some mention of Freud's interpretation -- which currently exists -- & I would expect the same kind of brief discussion & link in any significant use of myth in intellectual thought.
I've been quiet about this whole issue until now because I haven't been able to consider any way to contribute to the discussion in a way others haven't already done. As others have pointed out, it seems that we have two contributors who are increasingly talking past each other, & refusing to find common ground.
But making the [[Gaia]] article into a redirect I feel does not solve the problem. Frankly, I find the division of the matter into an article about the goddess, the scientific theory, & the mystical belief adequate. Further articles would only add to the confusion, as would fewer.
Geoff