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

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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