| An example would be ... An Example Of Page Prolepsis.
Except that one is only shown as an example, so it isn't one.
What Page Prolepsis is and isn't
Page Prolepsis is Why's name for the deliberate creation of a potential wiki page, that the editor knows does not yet exist, using Words Smashed Together Like So. So a typo trying to reach a known existing page, such as Hypotesis Of Jesus, would not be Page Prolepsis, nor would Example Words Smashed Together To Illustrate The Principle, however much novices create the thing out of sheer good humor (and always as if they were the first).
Studying Page Prolepsis
This is something we should do.
- How long on average do they promise but not fulfil?
- Is that number good or bad?
- What kinds and contexts have been most helpful, which have been least?
- How much has Page Prolepsis been initiated by one person but the page fulfilled by someone else?
Let's have some examples.
Too much of a good thing?
Was this a little too much, in Good And Evil?
It is true to say that People Arguing With Arrogant Delusions Are Harmful and the antidote might perhaps be to look for People Imploring That We Are Humbly In Need Of A Saviour Are Helpful. I do consider that People Arguing With Fuzzy Definitions Are Harmful because they lead people down a path that causes them to be People Living As If It Doesnt Really Matter Are Harmful.
That must have been Keith Hodges talking to Richard Kulisz. That's only a guess in fact. Someone confirming that would be decisive.
Mark of cooperation?
A reasonably cooperative chain of suggest/create by different people is given in the controversial areas covered by One Of Ours:
There were a number of other examples at that time.
Good question, pity about the mistypes...
Jason Yip achieved two typos in a short space in Which Dichotomizations Are Accurate v2. Not strictly Page Prolepsis at all, but shouldn't the second link, to the page itself, be in separated English?
Guidelines for Page Prolepsis
This is something we should be very tentative about. But some sufficiently tentative ideas, based on good study of the past, may be valuable.
Latest connection
Richard Hays uses the adjective proleptic more than anyone I have read so far.
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