Talk:Parterre (theatre)

Having separate articles for each element of a larger conception, ones like this, which mean nothing on their own, is an example of "dictionary thinking". One can break down an article like Theater (structure) into such fragments no overall sense can be made of the theater structure: "parterre" stripped of context becomes no more than an expanded dictionary definition. Similarly one could not reconstruct King Lear from a dictionary, though all the words are there. "Encyclopedic thinking" seems more difficult for the average person to grasp than I could have imagined.

Parterre should contain text referring to the gardening feature, with a header directing the reader to this secondary meaning, as part of Theater (structure). People chop up articles and create disambiguation pages without thinking of the reader's requirements. --Wetman 02:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)