Talk:Thinking Maps

This page is not meant as advertising. This "Thinking Map" stuff is popping up in a lot of public school curiculums, and I wanted to put a good article up on wikipedia to explain what this was and the pros/cons of the system. I lazily hoped other people would contribute, hopefully this won't get deleted. Even though this is the name of a propriatary system, it seems in use widely enough to be notable and worthy of inclusion. --Zeke pbuh (talk) 02:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I do wonder how much the copyrighted concept is notable versus the general, non-copyrightable idea. For instance, there is a striking resembleance between a bubble map and a mind map. What I've seen from a little cruise on the thinking map website strikes me as "yet another hype wave"; this stuff needs *independent* sourcing. --Alvestrand (talk) 06:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * It may be "another hype wave", but it is still notable and worthy of inclusion based on its current popularity among educators.  By all means feel free to add sourced info that discredits this if you have any, or perhaps propose merging into another article if the info is too sparse to warrent its own article.  --Zeke pbuh (talk) 21:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * It's the popularity among educators that I feel needs documenting. So far, I've only seen material that relates to the people selling the concept; if the popularity that the proponents claim can be documented from reliable sources, I'm happy to have the article. --Alvestrand (talk) 06:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Removed from article
I removed the following comment by from the top of the article; it had been there since 2014 but clearly does not belong—however, on the chance there‘s something useful in it, I‘m moving it here instead of just deleting it.

"This Wiki description is actually an advertisement for a system of diagrammatic thinking derived from Section 3 of Upton & Sampson's out of print workbook text, Creative Analysis, for which Innovative Sciences held (or still holds) the copyright. Creative analysis, in turn is based upon Albert Upton's book, Design for Thinking (Pacific Press). The latter book is derived from Ogden & Richards' book, The Meaning of Meaning. The latter authors based their work on that of Victoria Lady Welby, whose writings were directly influenced by a long term exchange of letters with the great American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, developer of the logic of semiotics. Creative Analysis, when taken in its entirety, enables the development of discernment, analysis and linguistic skills in such a way that students are able to apply these in myriad ways. Unfortunately, by leaving out Sections 1 & 2, Thinking Maps removes the depth factor from this remarkable Peircean system."

—Odysseus 1 4 7  9  02:24, 20 January 2016 (UTC)