Template:Did you know nominations/History of the extraterrestrial life debate
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 23:01, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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History of the extraterrestrial life debate
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- ... that Plato and Aristotle opposed the idea of extraterrestrial life?
- Source: * Crowe, Michael J. (2008). The extraterrestrial life debate Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 8–13. ISBN 978-0-268-02368-3.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Phases of ice
- Comment: The article talks about a "plurality of worlds" (meaning, other worlds similar to Earth, including local life, that may exist elsewhere), that's just the ancient way to talk about extraterrestrial life. For the hook it may be better to use the terms that any casual reader may understand.
Moved to mainspace by Cambalachero (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 117 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.Cambalachero (talk) 20:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC).
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Hook eligibility:
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- Other problems:
- Hook and article wording needs to be changed. It isn't entirely clear from the article if they wanted extraterrestrial life not to exist, versus they just didn't think it actually existed.
| QPQ: Done. |
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(t · c) buidhe 00:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Actually, it's both things. He didn't think alien life exists, and didn't want (because of his own biases) for it to exist. Yes, perhaps that is faulty logic, but we're talking about ancient Greece. Logic itself was still a recent concept, and some things we know take for granted in discussions (such as a basic scientific method when talking about scientific stuff, or that fallacies make a bad argument) were either new concepts or not created yet. The article makes this clear enough: the way in which the Greeks discussed their ideas, their biases, the slow development of the scientific method, etc. Cambalachero (talk) 17:06, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Cambalachero and Buidhe: As written, this article would deserve {{lead too short}}, can this be expanded?--Launchballer 22:10, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Done Cambalachero (talk) 14:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Cambalachero and Buidhe: As written, this article would deserve {{lead too short}}, can this be expanded?--Launchballer 22:10, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
