Talk:Gaia (disambiguation)

Also...

Gaea is also the name of the world from which the Earth and moon can be seen in the sky in the Anime, Escaflowne.

Gaea

...is also a crater on the Jovian moon Amalthea, according to that article. I'm not sure whether this is a typo for Gaia, but if not, Gaea shouldn't redirect straight to Gaia. Marnanel 06:00, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

Gaea is also a genus of moth (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) HKmoths (talk) 10:33, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Other uses of "Gaia" for this disambig

I've found one more usage: a 2000 short film. Apparently very unnotable. But if you've seen it and think it's notable enough, then by all means write an article and link it here. :-) • Benc • 09:43, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Also not notable, as decided on VfD: Gaia, the Croatian sci-fi club, and Global Artificial Intelligence Act. Please do not re-create these articles, unless you're prepared to write more than a stub and justify why they are, in fact, notable. • Benc • 00:48, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm not qualified to say it's notable, being a member, but there is also a Gaia Community in Kansas City. It is a Unitarian Universalist/neopagan congregation, so something of a unique entity, but may not rise to the standard of a full entry. Nae'blis 21:45:37, 2005-08-31 (UTC)

Telepathically connected

"It is society in which all animals, planets, and even inanimate matter are telepathically connected."

Whoa, the creatures are telepathically connected with the planet itself? Or should this just be "animals, plants, and even inanimate matter"? I don't know enough about the novel to know what the correct word is, but if someone here who's read it can tell me . . . 204.201.135.163 02:20, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Good catch. I clarified that sentence. (Side note/spoiler: the novel ends with the expansion of "Gaia" to include the entire galaxy — so planets would be part of the entity.) • Benc • 00:43, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Reorganization

An anonymous user recently reorganized the page to imply that the Ancinet Greeks derived their concept of Mother Earth from the work of Ken Wilbur. The reorganization implied that the use of Gaia in relationship to Gaia theory was the primary usage and that all others were less important secondary uses. I have changed the section related to Gaia theory to reflect the points below.

• Point A. His name is Ken Wilber.
• Point B. Since he currently alive, he would have to be thousands of years old to have influenced the Ancient Greeks. While some people's philosophical beliefs may allow for this possibility, I don't feel that we promote this POV on Wikipedia.
• Point C. The article on Ken Wilber makes no mention of Gaia. (It is due to these first three points that I've removed all reference to Ken Wilbur.
• Point D. "Gaia model of Gaia theory" seems to mean "The model of Gaia theory." It is redundant. That is why there is no article for Gaia model.
• Point E. "Gaia model" turns up less than 500 relevant hits on Google. ("gaia model" -"Gaia model base" -"generic architecture for information availability" -"computer science" -"environmental information system" -"gaia project" -"francine pascal" -"toyota" -"gaia lista" -"gaia architects" -leblanc -"spatial demography" -"european space agency" -"ESA") These search terms result in 514 hits, which include references to the Mars Express Gaia solar array and Amaral Gaia, a model with the last name Gaia. Also note that "Gaia model" doesn't appear in the Gaia theory article.
• Point F. "Gaia metaphor of Gaia philosophy" see Point D.
• Point G. "Gaia metaphor" turns up just 258 hits on Google, of these only 93 are suitably distinct for google to display them and one is wholy unrelated (poetry portal). Note also that "Gaia metaphor" doesn't appear in the philosophy article.

If anyone feels that what I removed was, in light of the seven points above, was justifiably on the disambiguation page I welcome your comments. Please reply here and leave me a note on my talk page directing my attention to your response. WAvegetarian 22:12, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Gaia Gear

Just so you know, there's a reason behind putting Gaia Gear where I did. Both Gaia Gear and the Gaia Gundam (both named after goddess of Earth, not each other) are from the Mobile Suit Gundam series. Gaia Gear was both written and takes place before the series in which the Gaia Gundam appears, Gundam SEED DESTINY, and therefore should be placed before it.

Age of Empires II

I added a point to the list, and then reformatted it to look more like the rest of the entries. Apologies for the double edit. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.110.155.150 (talk) 20:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Greedy Gaia MF

If we search... or maybe in search… of WHAT?

The basics of Gaia have been explained a thousand fold times by all religions and by the thoughts of many philosophers. So why don’t we understand? Because of GREED! Why? The human greed is also the driving force behind human evolution. So when stop being greedy and start being a part of the whole? Here I could’ve tried to express my good thoughts on the subject, but listen to Neurosis instead and you will understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larkar (talk • contribs) 02:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Why various media and not this non-fiction book?

• <<External link spam by this block-evading sock deleted by NewsAndEventsGuy>>

99.109.126.11 (talk) 08:17, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Because there is no article about the book or significant discussion of it on Wikipedia. If the book is notable, and you are so inclined, you can write an article about it and then link to the article from this dab. Lambtron (talk) 14:31, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Ordinarily that would be true, however that option is not available to this IP at present because he is a block-evading WP:SOCK under a 1-year block for external link spamming. See User:Arthur Rubin/IP list NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:04, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, AR. Now it's clear that previous attempts to add this book to the dab were made by the same sp. Oh well, this option will be available if he should ever decide to go straight. update: I removed the link from the above heading per WP:MOSHEAD. Lambtron (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 9 December 2017

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Moved as proposed. Consensus is clear and based on a solid explanation of long-term significance. bd2412 T 04:33, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

• Gaia → Gaia (disambiguation)
• Gaia (mythology) → Gaia

– Gaia (mythology) seems the most likely primary topic based on enduring notability and educational value. – Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:22, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose – What is this weird concept of "the most likely primary topic" anyway? There's clearly no primarytopic here. Dicklyon (talk) 23:34, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Then why is there a link to Gaia (mythology) at the top of the page? —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 00:02, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support Gaia (mythology) is definitely the primary topic. It does not make any sense at all for Gaia to be a disambiguation page, since all the other items listed on this page lack enduring notability and are clearly named after the Greek goddess Gaia. If someone searches for "Gaia," the person is almost certainly looking for the Greek goddess. In fact, if you look at the article history, the first revision of this page was just a redirect to Gaia (mythology). --Katolophyromai (talk) 01:17, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support Per Katolophyromai's analysis, which I agree with._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:27, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per long, long, long-term significance and a huge lead in page views Ribbet32 (talk) 06:21, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose results in Gbooks are more to do with Gaia (hypothesis) than Gaia (goddess) In ictu oculi (talk) 11:28, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Except the Gaia hypothesis was named after, and heavily inspired by, the mythological goddess. One clearly predates the other in importance._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 16:56, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Authors and scholars on Google Books call it the Gaia hypothesis rather than plain Gaia. Gaia (hypothesis) didn't even exist as a redirect until you created it five hours ago [1] Ribbet32 (talk) 17:02, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
  • I would have suggested Gaia hypothesis as another likely search target, partly due to book search results, but it lags considerably behind Gaia (mythology) in page views and so, presumably, in search queries. In the relatively few cases where readers end up at the latter page when searching for the former, the hatnote I just added should be sufficient in getting them to the page they want. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 21:02, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support per Wikipedia:PRIMARYTOPIC: "A topic is primary for a term with respect to long-term significance if it has substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term", which seems clearly the case here. Paul August ☎ 19:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support. It clearly dwarfs everything else on the dab page put together in terms of prominence, and most of the other dab entry names are derived from the goddess. —Xezbeth (talk) 22:08, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support. Gaia (mythology) has clear long-term significance for "Gaia", and Ribbet32 has shown that that page also clearly gets a vast majority of page views as well. Egsan Bacon (talk) 06:12, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:12, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose.This seems a clear case of WP:NAMECHANGES. Current awareness of the term came through the medium of science fiction IMO, but it has obviously spread since then. The primary topic if there is one is certainly no longer the goddess, although it would have been once (but long before Wikipedia). Andrewa (talk) 01:40, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.