Talk:Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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List of encyclopedia articles
I'm working w/ the encyclopedia editors on compiling a list of these problems, linking to the closest-matching article. – SJ + 20:19, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
* Add acronym (EWPHP) after name Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential in the first sentence. The Acronym EWPHP will be used throughout the text and adding this will clear up potential confusion to the reader as to what is being discussed.

* Add “a research work” in the first sentence. This describes what the EWPHP is so the reader can understand at the onset of the article. MmeEditor (talk) 10:09, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

MmeEditor (talk) 10:10, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The COI editor is asked to provide references for this abbreviation, per MOS:ABBRTITLE. Kindly supply them in a reply post below. When ready to proceed kindly change the request template's answer parameter to read from yes to no. Regards, Spintendo  12:59, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello - Please see:
 * https://www.academia.edu/21917126/Encyclopedia_of_world_problems_and_human_potential
 * I apologize, but I don't understand what this means nor how to do it: "change the request template's answer parameter to read from yes to no".
 * Kind regards, MmeEditor MmeEditor (talk) 07:37, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * MmeEditor (talk) 07:51, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @MmeEditor Thank you for providing that source. Doing some searching, I think it would be acceptable to change it to the acronym instead of calling it the encyclopedia. However, there are many other issues with the article which also need to be addressed. There is a portion of text in the article which has been insufficiently paraphrased from the source material. This will need to be deleted. There is also a substantial amount of text (referenced to another publication from UIA) which discusses this book. The Encyclopedia's Wikipedia article should not exist as a testament to what UIA says about its own book. That text ought to be removed from the article. The article also contains several instances where idioms are used ("The encyclopedia was the backbone...." and "The encyclopedia was the fruit of...." etc) as well as maintaining a non-encyclopedic tone in its voice (where the article refers directly to the reader as would a textbook "Here are some charts. ...") and a handful of errors of grammar resulting from what I can only imagine were rough cut and pastes of text from other sources (probably published by UIA) . This all requires a good amount of cleanup, which I'll begin shortly. Regards, Spintendo  15:06, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Regards, Spintendo  23:34, 27 October 2023 (UTC)