Category talk:Ethics
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Guidelines for authorship
It seems to me that the following ought to be on this page, and out of view of readers, because it isn't part of the entry itself and is a specialized message just for authors.
"These are fairly obviously distinguished from ethical concepts by name alone. Inclusion or exclusion of an article is obviously an ethical issue in itself, as different people regard different issues as 'substantial', and different ethical works as influential.
Some simple guidelines:
- Where a separate article exists regarding only the ethical debate, link only that article, not the main article.
- Only very basic and influential abstractions from analytic philosophy or game theory, e.g. Prisoner's dilemma, Tit For Tat are included.
- Nothing dealing strictly with belief, e.g. propaganda - this has no direct impact on a living body and it does not imply or directly suggest an action by any body.
- Anything applicable only to one religion or only of historical interest belongs on Category:Religion.
- Metaphysics and epistemology are covered in Category:Philosophy instead.
- Political and diplomatic concepts should not be included unless they constitute a profound ethical problem, e.g. choices like the prevention of genocide by violating national sovereignty.
- Business ethics is considered a separate category - include only those issues large enough to affect the general society and planet.
- Legal ethics is a separate category as well.
- Medical ethics is also a separate category - include only those issues that seem to transcend the doctor-patient relationship.
- Concepts specific to economics should be added to Category:Economics.
- Concepts specific to Islam should be added to the category of Islamic terms in Arabic instead.
- Names belong in Category:Ethicists or Category:Philosophers."
Lucidish 17:45, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)