CZ:Requested Articles

Would you like the Citizendium to write an article about something? Please request it here.

Requests that have been fulfilled have been moved here.

For top-priority articles requested by the entire community see Core Articles.

2009

November

• Jamaica --Tom Morris 17:51, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Older Requests

• Affect (psychology)
• open source licenses (GPL, LGPL, BSD, Mozilla, etc.) - requested by Greg Woodhouse
• philately - requested by Julian Halé
• political spectrum - requested by Matthew Woods

  Besides giving examples of other spectrums out there, I propose that we order political beliefs into a three-axis table based on the following properties: economic freedom, political freedom, and social freedom. I'd also like to see tables where variants of the same belief are compared to each other.

  Response from Bruce M.Tindall 18:06, 21 November 2007 (CST): Ah, but it might be difficult to do so in an objective way. One person's "high degree of economic freedom" is another person's "low degree of social justice"; "high social freedom" might be described as "low social order" or "low public safety" by someone else. The choice and naming of the axes for such a scheme right away implies a system and hierarchy of values. There's also the question of which axes are left out: is there a dimension for measuring, say, the relative powers or duties belonging to different groupings of people (individuals, families, "races," nation-states and their political subdivisions, genders, voluntary organizations, etc.)? After all, in the U.S., the 50 states have considerable sovereignty in certain areas; in other countries, power is more centralized; so there's yet another dimension of the political spectrum (probably not describable as any kind of "freedom") right there.

• Pope Benedict XVI - requested by Tom Morris, 2009-08-30
• product design - requested by Beano Lee
• Charles Stewart Parnell - Requested by Denis Cavanagh
• quantum computing - requested by Matthew Woods
• shin splints - requested by Mike Johnson
• Sony - requested by Beano Lee
• substantive due process - requested by Yi Zhe Wu
• Shorin-ryu Shido-kan
• sucrochemicals - requested by Matthew Woods
• trope - requested by Matthew Woods - which sense?
• UFO - requested by Larry Sanger, a timely topic given recent Stephenville, Texas UFO reports
• The Wisdom of Crowds (book) - requested by Larry Sanger
• zero - requested by Matthew Woods

Completed Requests

Once a Requested Article has been developed beyond the absolute minimal level of stubbiness, it should be moved here, then eventually to the CZ:Requested Articles/Archive Archive.

• Jimbo Wales - requested by Matthew Woods (Isn't his name Jimmy or James? --Robert W King 12:10, 16 October 2007 (CDT))
• Bayes' Theorem - requested by Matthew Woods
• Norman Borlaug - requested by Matthew Woods
• globalization - requested by Stephen Ewen
• Khmer Rouge - requested by Matthew Woods
• commissioning and decommissioning ships (written as Ship ceremonies) - requested by Larry Sanger
• Zionism - requested by Matthew Woods