Talk:Conversation theory

Development of article.
I've added some direct citations from Pask's books. The plan is to develop the article more significantly on my part. If there are any issues with what I have written or what I will write in future, feel free to change it if you feel you have adequate justification to. Anything which can improve the article impact in Wikipedia is welcome.Scibernetics Anon (talk) 21:37, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

I've updated the initial blurb of the article a bit to make what it is more consise (but less specific) for the general audience. While I do have my own biases regarding how conversation theory should be defined, I have kept it as general (yet concise) as possible to give people who aren't familiar with the theory a sense of what it is and how it relates to education and psychology. I may in the near future move parts of the beginning section down into the main overview as I feel it is more relevant there, but if there are any issues with this on behalf of other editors please let me know.--Scibernetics Anon (talk) 14:31, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

The notability of Conversation Theory
"Conversation Theory" has a google-rate of 23.800, with hundreds of real links. It seems to be more then just an idea from Gordon Pask, but developed into a scientific paradigm, to which multiple scientists contributed. - Mdd 10:05, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

As a start I have established notability with three indepent links, by examining the first google-links. If there is any reason to further question notability, please let me know first. - Mdd 10:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Normally the evidence of notability should be provided in the form of references, as opposed to just in the list of external links. If you'll say which ones you believe are independent reliable sources, I can help put them in as refs.  The other refs could use some work, too, to put them into a useful form. Dicklyon 17:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion there are two thinks here as in the Management cybernetics:
 * 1) The establisment if the subject is notable enough
 * 2) The collection of a good set of representative independent references

Now you know as well as I, that you don't establish the notability of a subject by just checking if the references are representative and independent. Hell no. More then half of all wikipedia articles lack a good set of references. To establish notability you have to create a picture of the role the subject playes in the field of study? Do you understand were this leads to? - Mdd 20:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Copy-paste registration

 * In this first edit text has been moved here from the Gordon Pask article. -- Mdd (talk) 14:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Diagrams in the article
The quality of the diagrams are not really up to standard 86.9.78.134 (talk) 11:42, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Conversation Theory → Conversation theory –

WP does not normally upcase theories, models, laws, rules.

Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony  (talk)  01:46, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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