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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

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Subject: [permaculture] Wikipedia's Permaculture Problems
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:19:51 -0600
From: Rael Bassan <rael@ripco.com>

On skimming the wikipedia's permaculture article,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture It was obvious that additional
editing is needed.

To reduce edit war energy, perhaps the changes could be collectively
burnished in a more open wiki, before submission to wikipedia.

At first glance, these sections drew my attention:

1) Permaculture design for ecologinomic (ecology-economic) ethics.
The horrid neologism "ecologinomic" is missing both quotes and definitions
in dictionaries (Websters and the top two neologism dictionaries listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism which includes The Internalational
Dictionary of Neologisms, http://www.neologisms.us/ curated by
permaculturalist mIEKAL aND.)

2) In the Critiques section they have:
Some critics have argued that permaculture is best suited to tropical,
mediterranean or desert conditions, but isn't suitable for a cool temperate
country such as the UK. [5]

Which ignores the many UK usages that follow in the Contemporary examples
section:

3) In the Contemporary examples section, they request:
Please wikify (format) this [North America] article or section as suggested
in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style

Rael

Chicagoland Urban Permaculture (CUP)
http://sustaincup.blogspot.com/


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