User talk:Dsilvera

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Thank you for your kind help. However I wonder whether I will go on with annotations. I am indeed puzzled by what I find, or do not find in entries. I started more or less randomly with a stub and looked for information to complete the entry. I was in fact overwhelmed by the wealth of information, readily available (with easy cross-checks for validity) which is not there, even in simple existing categories (this is why I just included obvious categories). Huge work should be done, and it is not clear to which final purpose. The way an entry, even for a biography, is written has enormous consequences on the way other entries may be, or not be connected to that particular one. And this is, I am afraid, a considerable entry point for ideology.

Then, I wandered and explored more or less related entries, dealing with interesting persons. My impression has then been that most what is found is biased by some kind of prejudice (possibly good ones, of course). And, curiously, the very width of Wikipedia does not seem to be used at all, as one rather find narrow interests than broad ones. Well, I still have to explore. I got interested in Umberto Eco, but only standard things are said about him, while he is certainly quite an original person. It would have been interesting, if not revealing to notice his curious experiment, Transcultura. This would have considerably broadened the idea one could have about his interests. And the fact that this may have been related to the time of the Centre Royaumont pour une Science de l'Homme - I did not find exact information, this is just inference, and later on, the interactions he had with his friend Ruggiero Romano, would have been fascinating (got that through going from link to link). As a further example, I found that the latter (Romano) is linked to Fernand Braudel, and from there on I find an incredible number of other entries: Furio Colombo, Paolo Fabbri, Jacques Le Goff, etc. Of course, some entries are only in Italian, or French or what not...

Conclusion, I would need full time to go on. Anyway, I might add some links to categories, here and there, and also extend the interests noted under some names: my impression is that the more connections to outside, the more interesting is the entry. Is this right?

Anyway, thanks for the tips.

mam_kiende_beogho 20:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]