Talk:Encyclopedism

Several Article Issues to Work On
The page is currently divided roughly into two sections: "History" and "As a practice." The History section largely summarizes disproportionate aspects of the Encyclopedia article, jumping from Pliny to HG Wells in a sentence, completely omitting the very group referred to by many as the capital-E Encyclopedists of the French Enlightenment. "As a practice" offers no sources and two sections: "Genres" with one genre listed and "Areas" which lists four seemingly at random. I'm not sure what separates genres from areas here or why these were chosen. Sources would be hugely useful of these terms (e.g. "advocacy encyclopedism") in use and would give us something to build upon. Apologies for criticizing and leaving without improving; I'm planning to make time to help out with this article in a few weeks (early summer probably). If you want to coordinate an effort to improve the coverage of this topic so relevant to Wikipedia maybe leave a comment on my talk page? --Rhododendrites (talk) 17:47, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Several changes
Overview: I didn't have much time tonight, but I do have many sources I plan to add. Hopefully you do, too. --Rhododendrites (talk) 03:51, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * A lot of the content duplicated Encyclopedia and Wikipedia. Removed what was unnecessary as well as the tag.
 * More general definition in the lede
 * Expanded history, made it more about encyclopedism rather than encyclopedia.
 * history was disproportionately about technology, and in a way taht duplicated encyclopedia. chopped most of it, expanded other parts.
 * still needs a lot of expansion
 * still needs references
 * the "genres" and "areas" sections had to go. OR, incomplete, undue, and not representative of the topic
 * added section on historical themes to which I've added something on intellectual property/copying and advocacy. more could go here