Naming conventions for Wikipedia articles on Plato's texts

Update - Francis Schonken 12:23, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The new scheme has been implemented as fair as I could, note however:

• Move requests at Wikipedia:Requested_moves#March_13.2C_2005 for Phaedo -> Phaedo (Plato) and Parmenides (dialogue) -> Parmenides (Plato)
• I tried to solve all second level disambiguation issues, but improvements might still be necessary, see for example: Sisyphus, Halcyon, Demodocus, Ion, Lysis, Republic, Letters, Laws, Symposium, Apology.

The proposed scheme

Naming of articles treating Plato's dialogues seperately is confusing, I propose following renamings (per tetralogy):

note 1: Since

works marked (1) (scholars don't generally agree that Plato is the author)

and

works marked (2) (scholars generally agree that Plato is not the author of the work)

might lead to discussion if marked "(Plato)", I'd mark these "(dialogue)", except where these works are no dialogues.

note 2: This proposition is on Talk:Plato too – I propose to have the discussion here

--Francis Schonken 12:56, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I.
  • Euthyphro -> Euthyphro (Plato)
  • Apology -> Apology (Plato) (Note that technically this is not a "dialogue", so in fact Category:Dialogues of Plato is a misnomer if one wants to include this text by Plato... but that's maybe a bit too far-fetched)
  • Crito -> Crito (Plato)
  • Phaedo -> Phaedo (Plato)
• II.
  • Cratylus (Plato) (OK!)
  • Theaetetus -> Theaetetus (Plato)
  • Sophist (Plato) (OK!)
  • Statesman (Plato) (OK!)
• III.
  • Parmenides (dialogue) -> Parmenides (Plato)
  • Philebus (Plato) (OK!)
  • Symposium (Plato) (OK!)
  • Phaedrus (Plato) (OK!)
• IV.
  • First Alcibiades (Plato) (1) -> First Alcibiades (dialogue)
  • Second Alcibiades (Plato) (2) -> Second Alcibiades (dialogue)
  • Hipparchus (2) -> Hipparchus (dialogue)
  • Rival Lovers (2) -> Rival lovers (dialogue)
• V.
  • Theages (2) -> Theages (dialogue)
  • Charmides (Plato) (OK!)
  • Laches (Plato) (OK!)
  • Lysis -> Lysis (Plato)
• VI.
  • Euthydemus (Plato) (OK!)
  • Protagoras (dialogue) -> Protagoras (Plato)
  • Gorgias (Plato) (OK!)
  • Meno -> Meno (Plato)
• VII.
  • Greater Hippias (1) -> Greater Hippias (dialogue)
  • Lesser Hippias -> Lesser Hippias (Plato)
  • Ion -> Ion (Plato)
  • Menexenus -> Menexenus (Plato)
• VIII.
  • Clitophon (1) -> Clitophon (dialogue)
  • Plato's Republic -> Republic (Plato)
  • Timaeus (Plato) (OK!)
  • Critias (Plato) (OK!)
• IX.
  • Minos (Plato) (2) -> Minos (dialogue)
  • Plato's Laws -> Laws (Plato)
  • Epinomis (2) -> Epinomis (dialogue)
  • Letters ((1) for some) -> Letters (Plato)

Remaining works (most of them considered spurious already in antiquity):

• Axiochus (2) (OK!)
• Definitions (Plato) (2) (OK!)
• Demodocus (2) (OK!)
• Epigrams (Plato) (OK!)
• Eryxias (2) (OK!)
• Halcyon (2) (OK?)
• On Justice (2) (OK!)
• On Virtue (2) (OK!)
• Sisyphus (Plato) (2) -> Sisyphus (dialogue) (or treating this work in the Sisyphus article?)