User talk:Märt Põder

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Delegative democracy
Hi Märt Põder,

Thanks for your email. Well, your request to move may yet succeed, to be clear. I'd argue that editing all 4 of the articles is probably the most helpful thing you could do to aid your case with some of the sources you've found. The main warning I'll offer is that article titles don't have to be perfect, or even necessarily accurate! You mention that you found scholars saying "O'Donnell's term is misleading", and maybe so, but misleading terms sometimes stick. The Dark Ages and Middle Ages are pretty contested terms, for example, but they still get used. In the same way, O'Donnell can be "wrong" but possibly still be the primary topic for the term "delegative democracy". The best way to prove otherwise is to show unadored, unexplained use of the term for contexts unrelated to O'Donnel. SnowFire (talk) 17:39, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I get your point. For my mind, it's not that O'Donnell is wrong, but maybe not well aligned from viewpoint of encyclopedia and history of political theory. Negative concepts that are used to criticize something spread well and without proper connection to where they stem from. This can also lead to unproportional coverage and status on Wikipedia. It might happen, that if I read O'Donnell (who seems to be a respected scientist), he actually discusses his critical normative concept of "delegative democracy" in proper connection to rest of the core concepts of democracy. If this is so and this would be properly written into article, this could avoid confusion with the term. The same applies to "liquid democracy" which is invented not by political scientists or historians of political theory, but by contemporary democracy enthusiasts on Internet. So proper relations between terms should be stated by those who are specialized in history of political theory, but maybe because the relations are so self-evident to them, they don't write long books about it, but just get over with a short reference like David Held in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology (pg 641) and Bart Cammaerts in Respublica: Experiments in the performance of participation and democracy (pg 131). It's hard to say how to find balance between widespread (and maybe uneducated) use of the terms and how they would be categorized by neutral experts of those theories with wider philosophical and historical focus. But, yes, for the start correcting the articles step-by-step makes sense, although it would be simpler to start from rewriting the definitions and relating the titles in disambiguation pages for guidance for future of co-editors. And thanks for your feedback SnowFire, it has been helpful! Märt Põder (talk) 14:19, 19 January 2020 (UTC)