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    Posted: 15-Mar-2007 at 20:30
Hello Everyone
 

You may have noticed that there are a few things going on in the forum. New forums and sub-forums popping up. This will continue for the next little while. As well you will notice very soon a major reorganization ( can't help it - it's spring and I'm a women - must redecorateBig%20smile) in some of the forums. This is all to serve you as members better. To help you find those topics that interest you easier. To further this aim I ask that you be patient with the upheaval , like home improvements you have to make a bit of a mess to make things better. If you suddenly lose a thread it probably has just been moved to it's new home. To help find it again just scan down the forums and look for the most likely place that I might have put it. If you really can't find it just drop me a note and I'll help locate it. Again thanks for your patients

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We will be patient.Approve
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Forum Resignation ?

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ULRICH be good!Smile
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Originally posted by Dawn

ULRICH be good!Smile

 
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Dropping in to say great move Dawn, finally someone has given AE forums a much needed surgery.Thumbs%20Up. A woman's touch is indeed what is reqd 'sometimes'.LOL
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-Mar-2007 at 07:53
Originally posted by malizai_

Dropping in to say great move Dawn, finally someone has given AE forums a much needed surgery.Thumbs%20Up. A woman's touch is indeed what is reqd 'sometimes'.LOL

 
..does that mean we are to have lace curtains and pink lampshades everywhere?..and god forbid.....cushions!!!!......Wink


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Ok phase one is now compete. everyone seems to be finding things (old and new) and no cushions yetWink AofO.
 
Phase 2 will begin sometime later today or maybe tomorrow. This is the major change from what has been in the past.  These changes are to remove double forums and make it easier for you the members to find those threads that intrest you and help you place threads where everyone can find them.
 
Here's what it will look like:
 
Community Forums
 
Community Information, Announcements- (read only)
-- Community news - comments incouraged
--Newsletter Archive
--Total Quiz Archive
--AE Magazine
 --Warning and Ban Announcements

Administration and Technical support (The Meeting Hall renamed)

The Tavern
--General Gaming and Computers
--Historical Amusement
-- Sports and Sports History
Legations and Advertising Area

General History

General World History
--AE History Portal Project
 --Womens History
-Archaeology and Anthropology
-- Historic Arts and Architecture

Military History

--Modern Warfare
--All Battles
Historical Pictures Gallery
 --Historical Maps Gallery
 
 intellectual Forums ( needs a better name)
The Academy
Intellectual Discussion
--Philosophy and Society and religion
--Current Affairs
-- literary pursuits
  Linguistics
--Social Sciences
Natural History
Questions and Answers
 
sugestions and comments apreciated although it may not be possible to implement them all.
 
 
 
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Couple of thoughts.

Society Vs a seperate Social sciences section. ??

Literary pursits => (Maybe just) Literature

Sports history=> Wouldn't it be part of Cultural history.

AE History Portal Project--Why not just History Portal Project

General Gaming and Computers-- How would it be different from say just Gaming and Computers. I may further suggest an alternative, Gaming and Information Technology.
 
Topics by region or time period, may become Regional History or Period History.
 
Sub-section headings under Regional history could then be reduced to name of the region, loosing the suffix and prefix of 'history'. African History could become Africa etc.
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Sports history=> Wouldn't it be part of Cultural history.

Cultural History is in fact retired. Sports history was requested in a thread in the meeting hall, although personally I'm not convinced that its needed.
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intellectual Forums ( needs a better name)

Scholarly? Something along those lines possibly...? Smile
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No hard sciences and literature forums?
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Liturary pursuits counts as liturature forum as to science natural history, acheology are the closest. Dis you have something in mind?
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I'm not sure what 'natural history' means (sounds a little 19th century Smile), but science and maths history seem conceptually to be gaping holes.
 
On the other hand in the past not too many people seem to have been seriously interested in them.
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Mathematical history would just rule.. natural history is for the NATURE... :D
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I too favor something for hard sciences, + economy and technology.
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The problem with the physical sciences, is that there isn't much scope for discussion. The sciences don't care about other peoples opinions, its right, or its wrong.

If you notice that while there is a lot of Engineers on this board, there is hardly any Engineering related discussion? And even when there is, it is short. Usually someone correcting someone else.

I'm not at all sure what would be discussed in a physical sciences forum... except possibly people posting homework questions.


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Well, we could discuss the possible reasons of such discoveries... Like why and how did possibly Galileo come up with something...
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In my opinion, we should not stray from the core theme of this forum - history. If we introduce too many non-related subject areas, it will detract from this forum's central theme. 
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There seems to be some confusion over the distinction between a science forum and a history of science forum. Granted I see no reason why AE should have forum devoted to discussing issues like whether the universe will continue to expand or eventually shrink It seems to me that tracing the course of events which led up to Einstein formulating the Special Theory is an essentially historical question we should have room for.
 
An equally valid historical question would be the reaction of empiricism against idealism in people like Ockham - as covered so well in Eco's The Name of the Rose.
 
Maybe the distinction is that in a science forum the issue is whether such and such a theory is correct (or at least justified), whereas from a historical perspective, in a 'history of science' forum, the  correctness of the beliefs held is immaterial.
 
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