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Hello
You're right: a tremendous value of an online encyclopedia is to the contributor, as it forces him to organize and understand what he is writing. A [[positive externality]] is the benefit to the readers also. Welcome and I look forward to learning from your contributions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 12:01, 8 December 2007 (EST)
You're right: a tremendous value of an online encyclopedia is to the contributor, as it forces him to organize and understand what he is writing. A [[positive externality]] is the benefit to the readers also. Welcome and I look forward to learning from your contributions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 12:01, 8 December 2007 (EST)
== Hello ==
Greetings, thanks for your message. I'm sort of with you on the politics bit. Well I'm a conservative, and a Christian, but not that sort of conservative, nor that sort of Christian. But I felt there had to be an alternative to the occasionally outrageous bias of WP, plus I had an enormous bust-up there and have no plans to go back.
I'm not sure how to interpret the 14-18 year old bit. But since I was raised in the 'plain English' school, i.e. avoid technical terminology wherever possible, introduce and define technical terms in a clear and simple way, avoid long words where short ones will do, I'm sure my contributions will please. I liked your article on Thales. Do let me know of your plans for a philosophy project of some kind. The biggest weakness in Wikipedia I felt was the inability to grasp the three most important things (say) about a subject and then just say them, and no more.
Was a bit mystified about the plan to skip over Plato. Is that wise? I know a little bit about Aristotle (have just finished translating chapters 10-12 of book Zeta from William of Moerbeke's Latin, into English – don't ask why).
I wrote much of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics_%28Aristotle%29 the Wikipedia article on the Metaphysics, though this drew some criticism, particularly the assertion that the theory of Forms is a synthesis of Heraclitus and Parmenides. Perhaps this was justified, but had no time to do further work on the article.
Looking forward to working with you, there is a lot to do! [[User:WilliamofOcham|WilliamofOcham]] 09:04, 18 December 2007 (EST)