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Incidentally, I know the Wikipedia article has been deleted, but I'm assuming someone will fix that. (Is this the current world record for deletionism, or have

• chaosmachine 16y ago
  It looks like there wasn't much of an article to begin with. Here's a mirror: http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Etherealization http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Etherealization Edit: Someone has already undeleted it.
  • deleted 16y ago
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• tokenadult 16y ago
  The way to fix that problem is with sources. Wikipedia is becoming more and more aggressive about deleting articles without sources, because it has been enough times already by articles that 1) plagiarize copyrighted materials, or 2) appear to cite sources but actually "fudge" the sources, or 3) blatantly push a point of view by omitting to use sources that are readily available. The quality screen for new articles is slowly becoming more stringent, so, no, that is not at all a record for speed of deletion of a new article. The long-term slog, for which I wish Wikipedia well (as registered Wikipedia editor) but would have to be paid to do in the current contentious editing environment, is to add correctly cited, balanced sources to the existing articles that have the problems just mentioned.
• alex_stoddard 16y ago
  It looks like there is some confusion over whether the correct term is etherialization or ephemeralization. The wikipedia article on ephemeralization is somewhat more complete and what is linked from the page on Fuller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization Other internet sources seem to indicate that ephemeralization is the term he used.
  • pg 16y ago
    You're right. Fuller says that etherealization was a name suggested by someone else, but that he preferred to stick with ephemeralization. I fixed the essay. Thanks!