Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theory of Structure and Counterstructure
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If the article is correct, this is a newly developed theory that has not been referenced by any secondary sources (none show up on a google search). It has been substantially edited by two people, one of whom is clearly the author of the theory. A search of "structure and counterstructure" comes up with a few more google hits. Some of which show that this phrase has been used as a background theory by other academics. For example, 1993 "The Legend of The First Pahkola: Structure and Counter-Structure in a Syncretistic Yaqui Myth" by Alfred Robinson, and, 1981, "Enoch, Levi, and Peter: Recipients of Revelation in Upper Galilee", by George W. E. Nickelsburg. These are, however, different uses of the term. I am unsure of the right attitude to take to this article. So this is a somewhat tentative AfD proposal. Is wikipedia a place for "new theories developed by academics and published in a couple of places", but not yet treated seriously by anyone else? Anarchia 21:38, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I am too new to Wikipedia to understand its rules - so my apologies if my intervening here is inappropriate, and my application of 'Be Bold' too .....bold. My outline of the theory of structure and counterstructure seems to pose questions. I can only say, hoping it clarifies, and helps, that this theory has already been published in reputable scholarly volumes, and so does not attempt to use Wikipedia to publish original research. That I can do elsewhere - well, I have... Yes, it's my own invention - insofar as any humanistic idea can be entirely new... I think it explains itself clearly, and is interesting, and important to a number of philosophical problems, so should be on Wikipedia. I'm not sure that it isn't possible to over-emphasize the 'don't write about your own ideas' - if applied ovevr-reductively, this could too easily be got round by networking and at the same time, lead to a failure to keep up- to- date. Most of all, I'd really like to see any intellectual contagion that might arise from putting this theory on to the Wikipedia cognitive multiverse, since it's so vast and diverse. Wikipedia is such an essential example of memetics at work (I am a member of the Societe francaise de memetique). Thanks for your attention! DrAngelaRyan 23.00, 24 September 2007