Talk:Étienne Wenger

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This article is very skeletal, there really isn't very much elaboration on any of the points made. He has multiple social theories that could easily be added and described. Some of his contributions are named, but are not properly described, and someone who does not have a good level of background knowledge in the field would not be able to grasp what he has done. A picture of him would really help as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmHenn11 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

There is very little information in this stub about the person in question. Despite having a good list of sources and references it ends rather abruptly. The resources and bibliography section seem to be pretty much in order and there is definitely the framework for a good article already set up. I'm going to see if I can find any more information so I can elaborate on Wenger's work and life. Feel free to post any suggestions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzarefth (talk • contribs) 19:53, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

This article has very basic information, but there has to be more personal and professional information that can be included. For instance, I am aware that Etienne Wenger has numerous published works, but they are not mentioned in this article. Furthermore, the quality of this article may be improved if a picture of Wenger could be obtained. I think it would be helpful if we could elaborate on his previous works, and the impact his projects brought, while also trying to validate claims made in the article, such as confirming that Etienne Wenger is on the board of recommendation for the Kaospilots Netherlands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardosr1 (talk • contribs) 22:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I've found some scholarly criticisms and more expansive studies of Wenger's work, most notably with communities of practice. The links are as follows. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2634938 http://informalcoalitions.typepad.com/informal_coalitions/2010/01/ralph-stacey-and-etienne-wenger-3-on-wengers-use-of-abstract-concepts.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmHenn11 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

I have come upon a few sources that may help improve this article. They consist of an interview that could provide more personal information about Etienne Wenger, as well as a book review which expands on his ideas about communities of practice in his book Cultivating Communities of Practice. The references are as follows. "Etienne Wenger." T+D 65.4 (2011): 96-97. Academic Search Premier. Web. 18 Dec. 2011. Holford, John. "Cultivating Communities Of Practice: A Guide To Managing Knowledge." International Journal Of Lifelong Education 22.4 (2003): 422-425. Academic Search Premier. Web. 18 Dec. 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardosr1 (talk • contribs) 06:01, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Having difficulty referencing a source for my edit, I would appreciate the assistance.68.87.29.229 (talk) 04:08, 21 December 2011 (UTC)cardosr1
 * Fixed, (I think) ARK (talk) 23:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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Etienne Wenger → Étienne Wenger –
 * WP:FRMOS, sources In ictu oculi (talk) 02:49, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - He lives and works in the USA. You don't see the acute accent in his listing in Google Scholar. I couldn't find 'Étienne' except in a French translation of one of his books that was done by someone else. EdJohnston (talk) 03:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ed, this isn't a big issue and it won't be any injustice to him if we Americanize him, but the problem of Étienne without the accent is that it generally says "South African." But Wenger isn't South African, he's Swiss-French, and there's no evidence that he's now an American citizen, nor that etienne Wenger is functioning as a WP:STAGENAME as might be the case with a French DJ in America, which under WP:FRMOS requires the full accurate spelling of the name.
 * Also
 * - Liljefors The Atomized Body: The Cultural Life of Stem Cells, Genes, and Neurons 2013 Page 207 "Étienne Wenger's concepts (1998) ofhow shared repertoires are made manifest by reification come in the intersection ..."
 * - Linn Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships 2012 Page 49 "Étienne Wenger has gone on to develop..."
 * - Sideridis Next Generation Society Technological and Legal Issues 2010 Page 354 "a classification of community-oriented technologies was published by Étienne Wenger"
 * - Cooper Work Integrated Learning: A Guide to Effective Practice 2010 Page x "for use of Étienne Wenger's (2000) definition of 'communities of practice'"
 * - Levy The Semantic Sphere 2013 Page 139 "On the concept of the community of practice, see the work of Étienne Wenger"
 * - Anderson-Levitt Anthropologies of Education 2012 Page 253 "Lave, Jean, and Étienne Wenger. 1991. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press."
 * - Swaffield Unlocking Assessment: Understanding for Reflection and Application 2008 Page 114 "progress as developments in participation in communities of learners as described by Jean Lave and Étienne Wenger (1991) or Barbara Rogoff (1997).
 * - Moss Early Childhood and Compulsory Education 2012 Page 93 "As Étienne Wenger has reminded us: (When) a child moves from a family to a classroom, when an immigrant moves from one culture to another, or when an employee moves from ....
 * etc. etc. etc. It seems pointless to enter into a beauty-contest to count how many Australian, American and British sources follow WP:FRMOS, there are enough sources which are out there which do treat him as Swiss-French, and he is Swiss-French, so either our nationality category is wrong, and we remove WP:SWITZERLAND banner and make his bio a WP:CALIFORNIA article or we follow WP:FRMOS. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:34, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Also he is spelled accurately in many Google Scholar sources:
 * - [PDF] An Informal Community of Practice: The Case of the DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group 2012 "Étienne Wenger defined a.."
 * - [HTML] Why Gender, Professions, and the Press Now? 2009 - ncgsjournal.com "Specialist publications like the Accountant, British Architect, Engineer, Law Magazine, Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress created what Étienne Wenger has termed “communities of practice”, groups which identify themselves through what they do and the specific knowledges ..."
 * - [HTML] Learning the Rules? An Anthropological Approach to Art Education Practices 2009 - actesbranly.revues.org "reproducing, communities of practice as described by Jean Lave and Étienne Wenger in their theory ... "
 * etc. It may be that the PDFs and HTML which make up the bulk of Google Scholar have more of a habit/problem of leaving off majuscule accents than paper books. A brief look at the Spanish surname Álvarez shows the same thing happening. But again this is their problem not ours, it isn't en.wp's job to reproduce orthographic weaknesses. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:42, 10 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Support per extensive evidence in sources, encyclopedic accuracy, and many related RM outcomes. --BDD (talk) 16:49, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
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