Template:Did you know nominations/The Analytical Language of John Wilkins


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

The Analytical Language of John Wilkins

 * ... that Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay where he imagined a list in a Chinese Encyclopedia that is just bizarre?
 * Comment: not a self nom and s/he's a newbie so no review (but assistance) required

Created by Rhododendrites (talk). Nominated by Victuallers (talk) at 17:17, 24 September 2014 (UTC).


 * ALT1 ... that a passage in Jorge Luis Borges' essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, where he imagined how a Chinese Encyclopedia would organize subjects, caused reviewers to burst out laughing?


 * Symbol question.svg I can't pretend to be a reviewer, but I did burst out laughing when I read the passage. Suckling pigs! As always, a single line of humour can get to the bottom of a topic that might otherwise need a thousand words to explain. Now I need to read more Borges! Following the comment above I won't bother with the QPQ, and the rest is good to go - very well refed, new, QYKCheck all yellowy goodness. Lets get this one up near the top of the list, this is great writing!
 * Now that said, this article is, to a large degree, a better version of this much older one. So that's why I've put up the question-mark. The topic is certainly notable, and the article stands on its own very well (better than the original IMHO), but is there anything else to do here? Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:48, 25 September 2014 (UTC)


 * ALT2 ... that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"? EEng (talk) 21:55, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
 * comment - I didn't think of using a quote, but this one (ALT2) does summarize an interesting and overarching point from the story. May also be best not to focus on the Celestial Emporium since, as points out, there is an article on that topic separately (though I may end up proposing a merge there in the near future--but that's a separate issue). --&mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:07, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * If a merge is in the future, I'm perfectly willing to pass this now. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:25, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll do the merge myself if no one else wants to (I'm a great fan of Wilkins) but I'd like to put it off for a few weeks. If forget, someone ping me in late October. This nom is fine without the merge. EEng (talk) 18:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 *  -- there's something about your signature that makes later text disappear -- better fix this! (See earlier version of this nom page)
 * Oh dear you're right. Guess I haven't had cause to sign inside of a template before. There was a pipe between "talk" and the timestamp, which seems to have been treated as moving to the next parameter. Fixed now: &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 17:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svgthing checks out, as above, approving ALT2. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:01, 1 October 2014 (UTC)