[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Fri Jun 30 17:30:26 UTC 2006

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Genus:    Priority Inversion
Species:  Pseudo-Consensus Superseding the Big Three (NOR, NPOV, VER)

Case 4.

Article:  Charles Peirce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce

Section:  Pragmatism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Pragmatism

Edit:  Revision as of 15:46, 11 June 2006 by AnnMBake 
(-> Pragmatism - editing for clarity and appropriateness
to audience of generally educated as identified by Blainster)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Peirce&diff=next&oldid=58043347

Edit by "new user" AnnMBake (incept date 8 June 2006).

There is no question that the clarity of any article in WP can be improved,
and some of the edit here is well-conceived, but in the process of trying
to be concise it converts several accurate statements into misleading ones,
many of them recognizable from pop philosophy books and non-peer-reviewed
sources.  In addition, it wholesale deletes the most important quotation
from Peirce to have in any article about his philosophy, namely, his most
often cited statement of the so-called "pragmatic maxim".  All of these
features of the edit violate principles of Verifiability and Reliability
that are stated in the pages hanging off of [[WP:VER]] and [[WP:CITE]].

Jon Awbrey

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