Walter Vermeir wrote:
I find this article kind of weird. Larry Sangers takes issue with the current state of the philosophy articles, some of which he started, claiming they've gone backwards. However, the philosophy articles Larry Sanger started were, at the time he wrote them, by and large, utter crap, essentially cut and pasted from his lecture notes, filled with colloquialisms, outright biases, and no attempt to make them into paragraphs or any sort of coherent style. They're now mostly at least decent. Compare the abysmal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism/Larry%27s_text --- which doesn't even mention the existence of non-reductive physicalism, currently the most active research area! --- with the current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism, which at least gets its basic definitions reasonably close to correct.
It's also odd that Larry is said to have "co-founded" Wikipedia, which AFAIK he did not.
-Mark