Talk:Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment

This page has had a chequered history. It was first created on 7 March 2017 under the heading 'Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE)'. A number of edits were made by me and others, as well as links to and from other wikipedia entries. As with most new pages, do-gooders inserted boilerplate notices over 'multiple issues' and a week or two later it was peremptorily deleted, despite my responding in detail to the person who had issued one of the notices. One referred to 'lack of neutrality' not relating to anything in the text, but simply because the page author was someone cited in the entry. Unfortunately while I had obviously saved the text, I had not thought to save a version with all the wikipedia characters used to create links and references. So I had to rebuild it. I created a new alias, and re-uploaded it. Obviously the history of the page had been lost with its deletion, as had the edits by others in the interim. I re-uploaded it on 17 April 2017. It stayed there happily until 3 July 2017, when another do-gooder moved the page to a new location under the title 'Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment' (without the acronym IDBE in brackets) on the grounds that the acronym was unnecessary. No re-direct was provided. Of course, this had the effect of breaking the links from other pages to it. So then it attracted a boilerplate notice questioning whether it should exist as a separate page as there were no links in to it! When I saw this change and its effect, I moved the page back to the version with the acronym in brackets, so that the links into the page would function again. However, it was quickly changed back again, but at least with a re-direct this time. Thank you! I have subsequently amended the links to this page from other pages, at least, the ones I was aware of. I await the next intervention with some trepidation. A huge effort has gone into the writing of this page so here is my request to anyone editing this page: BE CONSTRUCTIVE! Torino-Topolino (talk) 10:09, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Torino-Topolino, it appears likely that you have some connection to, or vested interest in, this course. If so, you should declare it (here, on this page, would be a good place). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:43, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

This page is a straightforward factual account of a widely known and well respected international masters course. It has an illustrious history based, as it is, on the ideas of one of the world's foremost structural engineers, the late Ove Arup, as well as having emerged from the Madingley Seminar when leading academics and industrialists gathered to establish its objectives and its early syllabus. It can easily justify having its own entry rather than simply being a re-direct to other wikipedia entries. The whole point about html surely is the facility for navigable connections that link to other entries.Torino-Topolino (talk) 19:34, 9 January 2018 (UTC)