Talk:Free Inquiry

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This article was nominated for deletion on August 27, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] Free Inquiry in general

Free Inquiry is besides apparently being a magazine, also a very important principle of Freethought. I feel - since wikipedia's priciple goal is being a encyclopedia not an advertisement - that the main article Free Inquiry should also - and maybe even first - refer to the principle meaning of Free Inquiry (no offense or insult intended). How would you think we should best solve this? Should we use the Wikipedia:Disambiguation option or maybe put both on the same page? I'm kind of new to wikipedia and since some of my recent edits have been reverted i decided to make a username (should have done that a long time ago) and discuss this on the talk page first.

Some general information about Free Inquiry: The principle is based on a text by the French philosopher and mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), in which he says that:

Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to anything whatsoever, except to the facts themselves, because for it to submit to anything else would be the end of its existence.

Mykeyspace 22:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)mykeyspace

Yes, we could do this; they should be on separate pages though. I think the abstract concept of "Free Inquiry" would be here, while this article would be moved to "Free Inquiry (magazine)" say. Laurence Boyce 11:50, 19 January 2007 (UTC)