Talk:Aristotle/Archives/2004

message: I've added the Greek form of the name 'Aristotle',  both in Greek characters and romanisation. I've also remove the mention of the form in Italian and other languages, which I don't think is of interest to English speakers, and is covered by romanised form of the Greek. m.e. 09:51, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek form of name 

message: I was wondering if I could really clean up this page a bit, specifically under the section titled "Biography." It's long and informative, but in my opinion it needs some editing. Some of the sentences are structured in a format that seems outdated and certainly is not used on most Wikipedia pages. So I was wondering if I could 'get permission' from someone to edit the section, keeping the info, maybe adding some of my own, but changing the sentence structure.
Second, I think it would be a good idea to open a section discussing his actual ideas and theories instead of just methodology and influence. It would have to be divided into subsections like 'Politics,' 'Physics,' 'Embryology,' and 'Ethics,' and that way a lot of miscellaneous information, like the bit on zoology posted above, could be fit into the article properly. Unfortunately, I'd need a little help on this since a) I'm not an expert on Aristotle and b) I'm very inexperienced at Wikipedia contributions. Any volunteers? Brutannica 00:28, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: All right, so so far no one's "volunteered." I won't do part 2 now, but I will go ahead and rewrite the Biography. If anyone objects, they can revert and please post your complaint. Brutannica 19:20, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up 

message: In what sense are numeric values more "correct" than mnemonics in entering non-Latin characters? Please see
Wikipedia:Special_characters,
which specifically recommends menomics, as does
Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#The_wiki_markup Dandrake 19:19, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
See Greek letters in Aristotle entry on my talk page for a good explanation. Rafał Pocztarski 19:44, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Form of Greek names 

message: Maybe it would be a little clearer if links would point to Academy (the one meant in the article) instead of Academe (which redirects onto Academia anyway)? --Oop 00:37, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
:Oh. O.K.... Brutannica 05:08, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Academe, Academia, Academy... 

message: I think this is an exaggeration. Please give more examples of his mistakes if you have time. Andries 19:52, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  His works littered with mistakes for his failure to follow his own precept? 

message: I do think there should be some general introductions to the topic. Some of the readers might want to know more and be looking for sth like this.
:Fine, but let's work it out here before adding it to the article. As I said before it is potentially the whole of philosophy and can give rise to silly, unnecessary debates. And sign your posts by adding four tildes. - Simonides 21:24, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading 

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