Talk:Dmitri Mendeleev

Start biography of Dimitri Mendeleev

Start biography of Dimitri Mendeleev. Anthony.Sebastian 02:32, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Usually the name is spelled Dmitri (without i). Here I have a link to Dmitri Mendeleev. --Paul Wormer 05:29, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree, Paul, 'Dmitri' more common than 'Dimitri'. Of three refs I cited so far, two (Morris, Scerri) use 'Dimitri', and the third, something different altogether. Morris also says 'Mendeleyev' more common than 'Mendeleev', but I haven't tried to confirm that.

The best thing to do, change the name of the article to 'Dmitri Mendeleev', include an explanatory note about the transliteration variations. Before doing that I'd like to explore a little further. In the meantime, I'll set up Dmitri Mendeleev, Mendeleyev, and Mendeleev to redirect to the current Dimitri Mendeleev, ultimately undoubtedly doing the name change of the Main Article to Dmitri Mendeleev.

Thanks for calling this to my attention.

BTW, a beautiful scholarly history of the origins of the periodic table you wrote. Anthony.Sebastian 15:45, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Renamed Dimitri Mendeleev to Dmitri Mendeleev

I did the rename in response to Paul Wormer's pointing out to me that Dimitri Mendeleev's Russian language name more often transliterated Dmitri Mendeleev. Thanks, Paul. Anthony.Sebastian 15:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Record!

I bet the first sentence of the lede is the longest in all of Citizendium. (Having learned Latin and German, I read it without problems, though.)--Paul Wormer 16:12, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Paul, without overdoing it in a particular work, I write long sentences, sentences referred to as 'cumulative sentences', sentences that start with a base clause, like this sentence's "I write long sentences", adding free modifiers non-exclusively to either the subject or predicate of the base clause, eschewing dependent clauses, the free modifiers adding informational content, each modifier keying on an obvious prior one, each accumulating more and more information as the sentence progresses, each added in anticipation of a curious and attentive reader's questions, the modifiers ordered and re-ordered to ensure a flowing and coherent sentence, new ones added until nothing more seems required to accumulate information relevant to the base clause: I write long sentences.

I do not consider the lede sentence especially long, as cumulative sentences go in the modern literature. Anthony.Sebastian 21:06, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Nice font

Seen in the blockquote: Comic Sans MS, Trebuchet MS, Consolas. Thanks for digging that one out! --Daniel Mietchen 17:18, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

10-q, & you're welcome. Anthony.Sebastian 20:45, 25 April 2010 (UTC)