Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy

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Thank you! Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X. Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC) Merger proposal of Trustworthiness to Trust (social sciences) Some time ago I proposed merging Trustworthiness to Trust (social sciences). There was some discussion of it, but not a large response. It's probably safe to merge them, and I will if no one else responds soon, but I figured I would bring it to the attention of anyone who is interested, so I am posting notices on the related WikiProject talk pages. Cheers,  DiscantX 21:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC) Philosophy of medicine - help needed please This recently created page regards a highly-relevant and wide-ranging topic that is of interest both to this project and to the Medicine project (help also requested here). Cheers, 109.157.87.122 (talk) 14:41, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Universal mind I've done a bit of work cleaning up the article Universal mind though the last conclusions are still dodgy and i can't reference them at present.I would appreciate some review and classification as to the importance of this page.Darwinerasmus (talk) 19:40, 17 February 2015 (UTC) Spanish Civil War GAR Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Anotherclown (talk) 07:35, 3 March 2015 (UTC) Who can usefully be labeled a "philosopher"? There are some entries (Zoltan Istvan and Stefan Molyneux come to mind) where the subject has called themselves a "philosopher" and got that into media bios, but in general other philosophers don't accept them as anything of the sort. I feel that if the word "philosopher" has four mass-media cites which are obviously subject-sourced to back it up and nothing third-party, it's a bit tenuous. But I might be wrong. Does the project tend to take a narrower (you're a philosopher if other philosophers accept you're someone who does philosophy) or broader (anyone can call themselves a philosopher for intro sentence purposes) view? - David Gerard (talk) 07:36, 8 March 2015 (UTC) Comment: A philosopher is not like say an architect or medical doctor, where in most countries you cannot call yourself one unless you have a professional qualification. On the other hand, any nutter can proclaim a new religion and call themselves a minister, or write rhyming drivel and call themselves a poet. I would allow that a self-styled philosopher is still a philosopher, even though their quality of thought may be rubbish. But if they are self-styled and work on the fringe, then we should say so. Perhaps we need a Category:Crank philosophy. The usual criteria of notability also apply: if the sources are minimal, then WP:UNDUE means we should ignore the claim anyway. Just my opinion. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:36, 8 March 2015 (UTC) In the Istvan case it's media coverage, in things that would be RSes for most BLP purposes. I'm thinking of how to discuss the point with ardent fans here - David Gerard (talk) 21:56, 8 March 2015 (UTC) Around the time that one editor was actively attempting to insert promotional, primary-sourced, and undue content into the Stefan Molyneux article, there was an RfC at which it was decided not to call that individual a "Philosopher" in WP's voice. There was also a bit of activity at the Philosopher article and I recall having asked on this page for assistance with the Philosopher article. That one is still in poor shape and if it could be improved, that would at the least clarify the current thinking of editors on the subject. SPECIFICO talk 19:36, 8 March 2015 (UTC) Philosophy of language wrt Shitburger Where, if anywhere, would this article fit? TIA. —ATinySliver/ATalkPage 02:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC) Nowhere, per Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC) FAR Rabindranath Tagore I have nominated Rabindranath Tagore for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:17, 21 March 2015 (UTC) Free will again We could do with some extra eyes over at Free will again if anyone cares to join the discussion there. I am concerned about the edits of another well-meaning but very bold and philosophically inexperienced editor, but I'm extremely preoccupied with real-life problems, and rather than abandon the article or get mired in another unending debate there, I would really appreciate having some other philosophically educated people participate in the discussion. Thanks. --Pfhorrest (talk) 23:18, 24 March 2015 (UTC) "Homunculus" The usage and primary topic of " Homunculus " is under discussion, see Talk:Homunculus patagonicus -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC) John E. Toews Are there 2x John E. Toews? Presumably the Christian scholar and the Hegel scholar are the same person? http://www.directionjournal.org/38/2/john-e-toews-bibliography.html In ictu oculi (talk) 13:05, 3 April 2015 (UTC) Large scale changes to multiple articles There have been recent massive refactorings of articles egocentrism, obedience (human behavior) and minority influence, at least some of which are in this project's scope. Similar changes to another article, egocentric bias, were reverted by JorisvS with an edit summary of "rv: too many poor-quality edits". I'm therefore drawing attention to these other edits as well, so that you can ensure quality of these articles is not compromised. Regards, Samsara 02:19, 6 April 2015 (UTC) Socrates This article is being totally rewritten by one user. It desperately needs wikifying and checking for factual accuracy and needs to brought back to a manageable size. I do not have the expertise to respond to this myself - I was just reading the article today but could not do so as it now has a highly complex structure and layout and is full of unnecessary quotes and content that suggests OR. Can someone familiar with the life and times of Socrates please look at the article? Alternatively, can we go back to the version as at 24 February 2015? Thanks --Chewings72 (talk) 11:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)