Talk:Thinking Maps

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This page is not meant as advertising. This "Thinking Map" stuff is popping up in a lot of public school curiculums, and I wanted to put a good article up on wikipedia to explain what this was and the pros/cons of the system. I lazily hoped other people would contribute, hopefully this won't get deleted. Even though this is the name of a propriatary system, it seems in use widely enough to be notable and worthy of inclusion. --Zeke pbuh (talk) 02:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I do wonder how much the copyrighted concept is notable versus the general, non-copyrightable idea. For instance, there is a striking resembleance between a bubble map and a mind map. What I've seen from a little cruise on the thinking map website strikes me as "yet another hype wave"; this stuff needs *independent* sourcing. --Alvestrand (talk) 06:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

It may be "another hype wave", but it is still notable and worthy of inclusion based on its current popularity among educators. By all means feel free to add sourced info that discredits this if you have any, or perhaps propose merging into another article if the info is too sparse to warrent its own article. --Zeke pbuh (talk) 21:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

It's the popularity among educators that I feel needs documenting. So far, I've only seen material that relates to the people selling the concept; if the popularity that the proponents claim can be documented from reliable sources, I'm happy to have the article. --Alvestrand (talk) 06:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)