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Um, this relates to computer architecture, not building architecture. -- Treekids 15:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Is not calling it the foundation of a movement promotional? -- Treekids 15:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Would love to see a citation for this claim. Lot 49a talk 13:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
The article on A Pattern Language needed substantial clean up. Rather than do it in one major change, I took it a piece at a time, so I could write a brief explanation of the basis for each change.
At its core, the article as I found it on 22 Dec 2010 UTC contained significant errors, undocumented presumptions, non-encyclopaedic comments and ambiguous grammar. Rather than make presumptions about what Alexander and his team meant, I opened the book and as much as possible extracted what they actually said. I attempted to objectify the writing, and replace what may be regarded as opinion or cultural bias with factual statements derived from the book.
A Pattern Language is in some ways a milestone in its field. It created a tool that did not exist prior, both in its specific focus: a tool to enable ordinary people to speak about design, but also a larger concept, the idea of creating a "language" not in the sense of a constructed language such as Esperanto, but in the higher realm of what Plato in the Republic calls forms ( Theory of Forms): a language of the mind that can use any existing language such as English to form a new way of coherently thinking not only about an idea, but how those ideas interrelate.
This article still could use some more work, but it would be important that any future editors have a copy of the book in front of them, and carefully read the preface before writing. Alexander's team do a good job explaining what the book is about.
I put some time in it now to clean up the most egregious problems. At some time in the future, it should be edited so it flows in a more encyclopaedic fashion. ClassicalScholar ( talk) 23:07, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
The content of Pattern language is almost wholly based on the book A Pattern Language. It seems that these two articles should be merged. Any assistance with the merge would be appreciated. Gabriel Orion Crawford ( talk) 19:45, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
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Um, this relates to computer architecture, not building architecture. -- Treekids 15:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Is not calling it the foundation of a movement promotional? -- Treekids 15:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Would love to see a citation for this claim. Lot 49a talk 13:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
The article on A Pattern Language needed substantial clean up. Rather than do it in one major change, I took it a piece at a time, so I could write a brief explanation of the basis for each change.
At its core, the article as I found it on 22 Dec 2010 UTC contained significant errors, undocumented presumptions, non-encyclopaedic comments and ambiguous grammar. Rather than make presumptions about what Alexander and his team meant, I opened the book and as much as possible extracted what they actually said. I attempted to objectify the writing, and replace what may be regarded as opinion or cultural bias with factual statements derived from the book.
A Pattern Language is in some ways a milestone in its field. It created a tool that did not exist prior, both in its specific focus: a tool to enable ordinary people to speak about design, but also a larger concept, the idea of creating a "language" not in the sense of a constructed language such as Esperanto, but in the higher realm of what Plato in the Republic calls forms ( Theory of Forms): a language of the mind that can use any existing language such as English to form a new way of coherently thinking not only about an idea, but how those ideas interrelate.
This article still could use some more work, but it would be important that any future editors have a copy of the book in front of them, and carefully read the preface before writing. Alexander's team do a good job explaining what the book is about.
I put some time in it now to clean up the most egregious problems. At some time in the future, it should be edited so it flows in a more encyclopaedic fashion. ClassicalScholar ( talk) 23:07, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
The content of Pattern language is almost wholly based on the book A Pattern Language. It seems that these two articles should be merged. Any assistance with the merge would be appreciated. Gabriel Orion Crawford ( talk) 19:45, 28 April 2011 (UTC)