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Revision 6 . . December 15, 2001 1:50 am by Stephen Gilbert [Larry's Text and essays]
Revision 5 . . December 15, 2001 1:11 am by (logged).146.101.xxx [What is the role of essays in wikipedia?]
Revision 4 . . December 15, 2001 12:47 am by (logged).155.128.xxx [Maybe we should create a new entry on the nature of God]
Revision 3 . . December 14, 2001 8:57 pm by Wesley [purpose of the article???]
Revision 2 . . December 14, 2001 5:01 pm by Arcade
Revision 1 . . December 14, 2001 1:35 pm by Cayzle [question about title]
  

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: There's an article on process theology, but most of the other material you list could still stand additional coverage. I'm not sure what the entry should be called; "nature" has a specialized meaning or definition within Christian trinitarian theology, but I suppose it could be used in the article heading in its more common and general sense. My real question, though, is, "what is the role of essays in Wikipedia?" Are we encouraging people to write essays about their favorite topics, pick a title that isn't taken yet and send them in? --Wesley
: There's an article on process theology, but most of the other material you list could still stand additional coverage. I'm not sure what the entry should be called; "nature" has a specialized meaning or definition within Christian trinitarian theology, but I suppose it could be used in the article heading in its more common and general sense. My real question, though, is, "what is the role of essays in Wikipedia?" Are we encouraging people to write essays about their favorite topics, pick a title that isn't taken yet and send them in? --Wesley


Just so everyone knows, this pages is a portion of Larrys Text, which is a series of undergraduate introductory philosophy lectures given by Larry Sanger. He put it in Wikipedia during the early days of the project with the intention of turning the text into proper articles. It's been slow going. :) At taht time, essays were fairly common in Wikipedia, so it was decided that they should live at Wikipedia commentary. Recently, those essays have been moved to http://meta.wikipedia.com.

To make a long story short, essays don't belong in the encyclopedia. --STG

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