Talk:William Frankena

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A fact from William Frankena appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 September 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era" while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/September.

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++Lar: t/c 23:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Value (interdisciplinary) into William Frankena

Per User:Phlsph7, the article almost exclusively discusses Frankena's views. Remsense ‥ 论 23:14, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what to do with the article Value (interdisciplinary). Some of its issues are discussed at Talk:Value_theory#Proposed_merge_of_Value_(social_sciences_and_philosophy)_into_Value_theory. The article discusses in various places how Frankena's 1963 Ethics categorizes distinct groups of values but, based on a short look at the book, at least some of these claims appear to be original research. Another problem is that the article Value (interdisciplinary) is very long while the article William Frankena is short, so a direct merge would create issues for WP:BALANCE.

One way to proceed would be to condense the discussion at Value (interdisciplinary) into a one-paragraph summary of Frankena's 1963 Ethics, ensuring that all the claims in this summary are directly supported by the book. This summary could be added to William Frankena, while Value (interdisciplinary) is turned into a redirect to Value theory. I could give it a try to write the summary, but this would be an odd way to merge so I'll wait to hear what others think. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:17, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]