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Proposed Changes to Atheism Article

Hi, a series of proposed changes to the atheism article and have been outlined at Talk:Atheism#article_.2F_source_discrepancies, comments would be appreciated.

Being needs a few more eyes

I wonder if there is someone here with the expertise to rewrite the lede of the article Being. We are looking for a few short paragraphs that introduce the term in much the same way it might be introduced to a freshman philosophy class.

Last december, I grossly simplified to the lede in order to remove some confusing prose, poor organization and (possible) original research. My simplification has been reverted with this recent edit. I don't want to get in an edit war over this, so I would appreciate a few more eyes. Thanks. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 09:03, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

I did what needed desperately to be done. What a disaster zone! Don't let anyone put that litany of impenetrabilities back again, please. The whole article needs work, but the lead was in deplorable condition. ☺♪ Noetica^Tea? 10:47, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

I have done a little more. This really will need watching. There has been an attempt to reinstate the manifestly defective lead that I have replaced. I don't mean to be high-handed; but the case was very clear.

Noetica^Tea? 00:41, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

This is a fascinating subject, and I applaud the work done on it so far. The question posed at the end of the lead, to me, is the central question posed by discipline, and I almost feel as though it might deserve to open the lead/lede?Jasonnewyork (talk) 20:07, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Peer review of religious language

Hi there. I've requested a peer review of religious language; I was wondering if anyone here could take a look for me? The review page is here. Thanks. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 20:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal: Scientific law into Laws of science

A proposal to merge Scientific law into Laws of science is being discussed here. RockMagnetist (talk) 15:32, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Libertarian Paternalism and Soft Paternalism

This is to inform people of a new (political) philosophy entry and ask for advice. My first entry on wikipedia was supposed to be on Libertarian Paternalism (term coined by Thaler and Sunstein in a 2003 article in The American Economic Review). However, I discovered that there was a redirect to "soft paternalism". Some authors have called libertarian paternalism a form of soft paternalism but the terms are certainly not synonyms, or even very close. I tried submitting a new article on libertarian paternalism anyway but had it rejected twice with the only explanation that there is an existing redirect. So now I have updated the old entry on soft paternalism to be in effect an entry on libertarian paternalism, with a clear statement that this is the case in the first sentence. This is not optimal though. If someone has the clout and expertise to rename the soft paternalism entry that would be swell. Or break the redirect and move the content to a new entry, or whatever is the best technical solution. Filofil (talk) 14:48, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Knowledge Acquisition

The Knowledge Acquisition entry was initially about a stage in the building of computerized KBS (Expert Systems), it had nothing to do with philosophy directly. It has now devolved into a third rate entry about philosophy. All mention of KBS has disappeared but the links to Knowledge Engineering remain.

The current version seems to be the result of changes made by a very inexperience editor. It contains citations to Wikipedia (that's right "citations" not links) and the Britannica. It was flagged as within the scope of WikiProject Philosophy by user: Pollinosisss I think this was a mistake.

I do not think that Knowledge Acquisition can be treated separately from epistemology especially as there is an "Acquiring knowledge" section there. I propose that the entry be changed back to something about KBS and all reference to Wikiproject Philosophy deleted. A paragraph at the beginning could point readers to epistemology and to cognitive psychology. --Logicalgregory 07:31, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Header template deletion proposal

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There is a proposal to delete the navigation bar on categories such as logic, aesthetics, etcetera. I am not seeing any very good reasons for the proposal, and it was at least a little bit of effort to create them. Greg Bard (talk) 22:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Globalization Project Proposal

HI WikiProject Philosophy! I'm writing to inform you of my interest in starting a group that works on articles about globalization, in order to improve coverage of globalization on Wikipedia. Your group has banners on some of the articles that are key to this discussion, and I believe many perspectives and disciplines needs to come together if we're going to get it right. If you would consider supporting such a project, would you please swing by the Globalization Project Proposal and expressing that interest? Thanks so very much! LizFlash (talk) 17:16, 24 May 2012 (UTC)