Talk:Vulcan of the alchemists

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This page looks to be a big copyright violation. Google searching extended phrases from the text returns webpages containing the exact same words. Among them are:

Two of these sources also have 'See also' references linking to Hermes Trismegistus and also the words "Source Jolande Jacobi ed. Paracelsus Selected Writings, 1951, Princeton."

I'd like to get some feedback as to what this 'source' may be and also whether anyone would like to rewrite this article before I go any further. I'd do it myself, but it's not something I've ever heard of. NymphadoraTonks | Talk 28 June 2005 23:43 (UTC)

  • Ok, I'm retarded. I didn't realize wikipedia has mirrors. I'd delete my comment if that wasn't such bad form. I hang my head in shame. --NymphadoraTonks 30 June 2005 23:59 (UTC)

It does not surprise me at all that this page has been 'lifted' and copied elsewhere. This seems to occur to several pages originating from my contributions, this happens with wikipedia articles! As the original poster all i can say to the above is that my sources can be attributable to the Jacobi edition of Paracelsus's writings and that this symbolic proper-name from Roman mythology has an interesting 'family' of associates, hence the article !Norwikian 06:49, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup request

This article as it stands now does not meet the Wikipedia guidelines for format and contents. It reads more like an essay (or part of one) directed at a small cirlce of insiders, or just a record of someone's personal views on the subject. It should begin by defining the head term. Quotations are hardly necessary in an encyclopedia article, and when they are they should be trimmed to the bare minimum. Jorge Stolfi 15:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

It's a legitimate enough subject, Vulcan figures prominently in the alchemical worldview, but the content here lacks substance and is bulked out by stringing together quotations. I think the topic might well simply be incorporated into the Vulcan article, which is surprisingly short, perhaps because the mythology is mostly treated at Hephaestus. --Michael Snow 23:26, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
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