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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/09 00:18 UTC 版)

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Shortly after this page appeared there was a tag to suggest that it be deleted, with the stated reason being it is an insignificant commune. I contest that characterization, and allow me to provide further background to its authorship. I am a prof. of political science at Macalester College (Minnesota), teaching a course on American Political Thought. As one of their assignments this term students were asked to author or improve a wikipedia page related to this course. I was involved in their topic selection, and indeed I rejected or discouraged students from a number of topics, in some cases because the amount of material already available on wikipedia seemed proportional to the topic's significance. In this case, written by a fine student, we sat down together with materials related to a key subject in the course (utopianism) and came to the conclusion that, on the basis of published scholarship, Arthur Morgan's pre-existing entry was too thin and the absence of any entry for Celo Community was a clear deficit. In the coming week I will be reviewing (grading) and editing the entries from the class and working with them to clean them up. On the larger question of the worthiness of this entry, I fail to comprehend how material that might be thought worthy of future discussion in the classroom, and which is the subject of discussion in scholarly literature (not all of which may have been cited in this entry), would be deleted. In the area of utopian thought and communal settlements in particular, it is the flowering of a wide diversity of settlements over a long stretch of American history that helps to make them worthy of study.