Background to this draft

This draft is built from previous drafts and versions of potentiality and actuality, energeia, entelechy, dunamis, and actus et potentia, articles which I propose should be merged. It was started after two things happened:

1. On 16th August 2010 a previous draft was moved from Potentiality and actuality/Draft to User:Machine Elf 1735/Potentiality and actuality draft when one of the editors, User:Machine Elf 1735 involved in the merges at that time, became negative about at least some aspects of merging. Some awkward things were done next amongst which he made this move of the draft to a part of his own user space. But in any case his edit summary and later remarks stated that this was done in order to save the draft for me pesonally (it from that point being his position that it was a merge driven too much by me). From that time until 20th August however, work proceeded on the main article spaces and the draft, which Machine Elf had been working on against his own vision anyway, was no longer useful to anyone.

The idea of using a draft was proposed again by me however, because of difficulties finding a new common vision on talk pages, but this form of cooperation was rejected by Machine Elf in no uncertain terms in a posting which was a sign of how things were about to develop.

2. On the main article which is proposed as the target for all the merges Potentiality and actuality all practical editing slowed to a trickle because of disagreement until 19th August 2010, when I started editing anyway. This led eventually to Machine Elf violating the 3R rule and being asked to take a holiday from the article. He said he would never edit it again. However in the meantime the article has been put on edit block for a few days, and that is the occasion for making a new draft to try to see if a new vision can not be developed.

The situation then right now is that we have several overlapping articles which were looked after by different people. Trying to maintain them as personal articles would be in violation of WP:CFORK and WP:OWN. Perhaps more importantly, the content of all the articles is stuck in the middle of some pretty big but very disrupted efforts to change and improve it, which is not good, and it can be improved by merging not just the overlapping (but quite differently written) texts; but one would at least hope, by merging the focus of Wikipedians on one place.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 16:11, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]