Talk:Charles Fourier

message: Did it work? I dont' know how to make comments. I'm the one who got rid of the portrait, cause it can't be both Fourier and Proudhon. I really hope this comment works. I don't want to get banned from Wikipedia or somethign like that. It's just that everytime I hit save it doesn't save the changes but after I close the browser cause I'm sick of waiting it has changed.
:Indeed.  Good catch.  For the record, identical photos (uploaded by two different Wikipedians) were on this article and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.  Presumably the photo is of one man or the other, but without more work I don't know which.  Isomorphic 12:32, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Could someone please replace Proudhon's portrait w/ Fourier's?  The link in last comment, and it's old enough to be OK!  I'm a bit inept w/ the images.  Thanx!  Billbrock 03:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ?

message: The whole 'ideas' section needs a lot of work to make it more encyclopedic. ike9898 21:54, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
The introduction states that he coined the term "feminism" in 1837. Yet, the biography section states that he died in 1834. Any suggestion as to how this anachronism can be eliminated?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.20.108.210 (talk) 22:47, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  needs work 

message: I was brought to this biography due to the article I was writing on La Reunion (Dallas) which was inspired by Fourier. What I discovered was a total chaotic mess. I have tried to clean it up by using a basic format, clipping a lot of jumbled and meaningless text and then removing the rest to this page. The original text looks as if it might have been written in French and then translated to English where it lost all sense of flow and meaning. Perhaps it made perfect sense in the original, I do not know. There were explanations that began and ended in mid-sentence. I have pruned it to keep it alive because it does link to other articles - including one I created. However, what had been written was as clear as mud. If you have the time to undertake a proper biography of this man, please go ahead. Here is the rest of the original text that I removed - but I advise against trying to rewrite this. It would be simpler and a lot quicker to begin again with a fresh article. MPLX/MH 18:35, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Attempted clean-up

message: After making a couple of other edits to the basic text it seems that the easiest thing to do is turn this into a bio-stub so that another editor who fully understands this subject can write a decent article that makes sense. To that end I further removed the original text that I had refined but which upon reflection was better removed than left in place. MPLX/MH 18:47, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bio stub

message: No mention of Fourier as a proto-feminist, arguably his most important contribution to utopian thought, as originated in The Philosophy of Utopia.  Significant lack of pertinent information.  Article has belittling tone which seems to violate Pillar # 2.  Will attempt to rework from scratch after renewed research.
Troublesleeping 15:04, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hard not to belittle Fourier a little (I wrote a diss. on his US followers), but I agree that the article needs a full rewrite.  Standard academic biography is of course Beecher. Billbrock 03:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The entire article is unintentionally hilarious!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

text:    <chuckle>"Dis." could have been intended to abbr either "disparaging" or, arguably, "dissertation". Since Mss. abbr's "manuscripts", is it reasonable to suppose that "diss." may be a Dodgsonian portmanteau of "dissertation", "<sarcasm>", & "Yeah, ya'betta b'lieve I diss' da' m-f-er!"?--JerzyA (talk) 07:47, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Still needs work

message: I've removed an entry to the effect that no one would want to work in garbage collection in a Fourier Society. I've also removed the entry:
One must understand, to have followed Charles Fourier while he lived required a great patience and an outstanding faith in the unrealized.
as both entries are clearly polemic.
--Philopedia 01:04, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed polemics 

message: What were the basic personality types listed by Charles Fourier? I read that in designing his utopian communes, Fourier listed several types necessary on each phalanx/ What were they? --Gary123 (talk) 06:16, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Personality types

message: There's mention of Fourier's influences on other people, but who influenced Fourier? Did he come up with these ideas on his own, or did he learn from others? If the latter, who and what were their ideas he adopted? 68.47.21.164 (talk) 15:09, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who influenced Fourier? 

message: In the film, Sally actually says either "Good luck with your Foyer-ism" (because Sally is an upper-class twit) or what sounds like faux-yerism (a possible allusion the the fact that Tom is not actually a serious Fourierist). I don't think I can make either change without committing WP:OR though. Dingsuntil (talk) 01:39, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metropolitan quote 

message: the article  still coud use some serious work.
 i feel especially grateful to the person who kindly removed a whole swathe of what was there in 2005 when s/he encountered it.
 The opening paragraph is still confusing. I believe it is true that Fourier invented the term feminism, for example, having read it elsewhere in more scholarly  circumstances, but it is put out there so baldly that it evokes the questions And? So?because no context is given. If someone would import parts of the substantive section, it would  help a great deal. and so on
I dearly hope someone can shape the article about this figure whowas actually influential.Actio (talk) 23:18, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  a dozen years after the cogent comments made on this page.... 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Fourier would often change business firms and residences in order to explore and experience new things.[citation needed]"
Small wonder 'citation needed'!
'Change' more likely should read 'moved' but I wouldn't know!
This is nothing but socialist hagiography.--Damorbel (talk) 06:47, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really? 

message: A colleague had presumably got caught entangled in the previous editor('s/s'), or the quoted author's, choice between dubl & single quotes, when nesting. I preferred indenting the inner quote, over what would have been reversing either a prior editor's &/or the quoted author's dub/sing choice. So go ahead, ban me again if it seems appropriate. (I don't question the existing guideline, but perhaps my example could help reduce confusion when it becomes practical to machine-aid quote verification, quote-sourcing, and failures to accurately attribute (if it isn't already practical).--JerzyA (talk) 07:23, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reformatted quote from (IIRC) Proudhon 

message: Colette's mother Sido was a devotee of Fourier. Sido's brothers were revolutionaries and freethinkers and Colette absorbed her mother's ideas. Thus this influenced Colette's fiction - particularly her support of for women's careers and homosexuality. The creator of Wonder Woman was also a devotee of Charles Fourier. 188.29.137.145 (talk) 11:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colette and Wonder Woman