[WikiEN-l] Response to Anthere's claims

Tue Jul 1 20:35:47 UTC 2003

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:23:42 -0700 (PDT), Robert <rkscience100 at yahoo.com> 
gave utterance to the following:

> Look, among English speakers, people
> who look up encyclopaedia entries on Gaia theory are
> usually looking for information on theories about how life
> on Earth may regulate the Earth itself to make it more
> hospitable for life.
>
> Most English speakers generally are not using this title to
> look for information on pre-1900s mystics (who *never* used
> the name Gaia theory), nor are they looking for info on
> radical European left-wing political acitivists (i.e. the
> Gaiains).  If someone wants to link to articles on those
> topics, fine: We already have a working convention for
> this.  We can create a disambiguation page, or use "See
> also".  This is a convention that all of us have
> successfully used in the past; why now are so many people
> dead set against it?
>
Actually, I would hazard a guess that the most widely known occurence of 
"Gaia" is Isaac Asimov's portrayal of a highly-evolved, collective 
consciousness planet in the Foundation series. (How closely does Asimov 
follow Gaia theory?). We currently have two pages which mention both Gaia 
and Asimov, and the word Gaia isn't linked in either.

I would suggest that we move [[Gaia]] to [[Gaia (Mythology)]] and remove 
the material that isn't about the Greek Goddess, and make [[Gaia]] a 
disambiguation page which links to all relevant articles plus a new one 
about Asimov's Gaia.

-- 
Richard Grevers
I can't march any more the soldier said haltingly