Robert wrote: [snip]
Most English speakers use the names "Gaia theory" and "Gaia hypothesis" interchangably. They do make a distinction between Lovelock's Gaia theory and Margulis's Gaia theory, but not with the terminology she uses.
Further, we *already* have an article on this subject [[Gaia theory (biology)]] that discusses both points of view in detail. Yet Anthere keeps insisting that we have THREE articles on this same topic, in the same detail.
[snip]
Without devolving into flames and calls for banning, could you please answer the following questions?
a) What's wrong with having three articles (overview, specific on Lovelock, specific on Margulis)?
and
b) What terminology would you recommend, and on what basis?
And Anthere, can you please answer these questions?
a) What's wrong with one big article covering both these two specific versions and other variants?
and
b) What's the basis for the particular page titles you're advancing?
That would go a long way towards sorting this out.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)