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Idea: edit Wikipedia to incorporate DK numbering about presocratics in general

This is a kind of "note to self", and suggestion to others, regarding wikipedia content about presocratic philosophers in general. In treatments of the presocratics, partial reference is made to DK numbering on a regular basis, yet in one instance (Waterfield), this is only slight, partial listing. The scheme goes: every figure gets their own number. I come up with 90 such numbers, though there's more parsing to do.

This article, and probably other English wikipedia articles to do with the presocratics, could be meaningfully improved by identifying the DK number for each figure and consistently applying them throughout the encyclopedia. The first step would be to get a good, robust table on THIS page of all 90 entries - the Spanish Wikipedia already has a very good table which should basically be mimiced in the English version: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Fragmente_der_Vorsokratiker

Using an Amazon link (I don't have the book handy), this Spanish material appears to concord very well with the table of contents of Freeman's "Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers", an English translation of Diels (the numbers match the partial listing given in Waterfield). The point here is that the modern scholarly standard about DK appears to be 90 numbers, which can be properly sourced and verfied once the grunt work is done. I've put this suggestion on the English "Diels-Kranz numbering" talk page and I'll post it on the general presocratic philosphers' page as well. --MinnesotanUser (talk) 07:02, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]