Community Suggestion: Replace "Cosmology" section in religions by "Cosmogony"
Replace "Cosmology" section in religions by "Cosmogony"
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What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
The word "cosmology" refers to "the science of the origin and development of the universe.". However, the section "cosmology" is a subsection of the religion template and its description says "What is the understanding of the world and its creation according to this religion?"How does this feature request address the current situation?
The word "Cosmogony" is larger than cosmology and can be applied both to science and religion : "Cosmogony is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe."The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! Cosmogony would indeed be a more precise word (Dimitris created the templates and is Greek, so he definitely knows!), but Cosmology was chosen instead because it's more widely-known and it's "close enough". We're declining because of a clear lack of community support, but also because we avoid editing headers that already exist because we don't want to change other people's content.
Current score
17/300 Votes · +392 points
Votes Cast
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+1
by Evil God Acedia
on 2024-06-28 09:24 -
-1
by storyauthor
on 2024-06-21 04:29 -
-1
by A Mischievous Orc
on 2024-06-18 13:57 -
-1
by A Wild Dwarf
on 2024-06-15 07:22 -
-100
by Lucha Inc.
on 2024-06-12 16:32 -
+1
by Oneriwien
on 2024-06-12 11:28Keep it as "Cosmology" but have it turn into "Cosmogony" on hover. Then no one will be happy.
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-1
by Buzzard
on 2024-06-11 18:07Even if "cosmogony" is a "better" word, "cosmology" is more widely used and understood. Before this suggestion, I had not encountered the word "cosmogony". And I hang out with a fair number of wordy/nerdy folks. I think "cosmogony" is just too obscure to be widely usable.
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-1
by AvalonArcana
on 2024-06-10 13:42 -
-1
by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-06-10 13:12 -
-1
by A Revolutionary Dimensional Horror
on 2024-06-10 10:17 -
-1
by Datweaselking
on 2024-06-10 05:09 -
-100
by A Fierce Ooze
on 2024-06-09 16:55 -
-1
by DMFW
on 2024-06-09 06:33I appreciate care for accurate language and when a definition is mere a click away on Wikipedia it only takes a few moments to research an unfamiliar word and then learn something along the way as I did just now. WA can be educational as well as entertaining :-) In this specific case, though, this is a very fine distinction and I'm not convinced that changing the heading is actually correct. By using the word Cosmogony you would actually exclude the "development" aspect which is implied within the phrase "understanding of the world" and restrict the kind of things people may have already used this template element for. Since Cosmology does have concerns about the origin AND the development of the universe, Cosmogony, only having concerns about origins is a subset of Cosmology rather than the other way around... At last that's my interpretation!
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-1
by A Lusty Mlem
on 2024-06-09 01:31I think this would just be confusing - people actually know what cosmology means.
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-300
by Scalenex
on 2024-06-08 17:27I am fond of semantics distinctions, but even for me, this going too far into the obscure
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+300
by kaixabu
on 2024-06-08 12:46 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2024-06-08 00:41 -
+300
by Saheyus
on 2024-06-07 22:20
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