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I thiink a better translation for diadein is to bind around or tie off. --Fulminouscherub 22:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I changed it as that's what Liddell and Scott defines it as. Note to people: diadein would be the infinitive of diadeo, Liddell and Scott uses the the "o" form for listing, despite giving the English definition in infinitive tense, so I did the same. I don't know if there is Wikipedia policy on this sort of thing --216.211.73.243 00:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather not add pop culture references

The reference to Harry Potter simply doesn't help me understand what a diadem is.

-- cgp 19:04, 23 July 2007 User:165.215.104.43

Requested move

Diadem → Diadem (disambiguation) — to allow Diadem (personal wear) to take the plain name, with of course an "other uses" hatnote to the disam page. As shown by "what links here", this is by far the dominant usage of the plain name, from which all other senses are derived. None of these are really common, and nearly all have a disambiguating term in their names already. Please comment at Talk:Diadem. Johnbod (talk) 17:35, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:08, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsensical

Anyone care to explain why diadems are essentially made out to be all types of crowns, tiaras, circlets, etc. without any unique meaning, or designation of what it is, despite it is treated as unique from crowns, and tiaras on the List Of Headgear page? And, this page goes from saying it's an Eastern crown to talking about cases of diadems in non-Eastern cultures? Clearly, multiple people contributed to the page, and created inconsistencies that go to a level of "diadem" ceasing to have any meaning... It's so bad someone put that any indication of being royal in general can be called a "diadem," "technically." WTF? Someone needs to fix this page, it's all screwed up. If it truly is so all-encompassing, then why is there any mention at all of specific cultures, or crowns in the article? This is absurd. The parts of the page that must be older from more credible editors clearly indicate a "diadem" is something specific that is unique from other types of metal headwear things, but then people messed up the page to expand the meaning, and to be racist fools who won't leave it as an Eastern thing of any kind. (Literally, the groups that must have been added in directly hype up the favorite ethnicities of some white supremacists (Celts in general, Brits, Irish, Anglo-Saxons in general), all black supremacists (Egyptians (weird, because they did not wear any diadems that I know of at all)), and some Middle Eastern supremacists (Persians). And, at least one of the examples used by white supremacists is not a diadem (from what "diadem" seems to mean), but a normal European crown, so WTF? Clearly, racism is behind these mentions.) --174.19.244.195 (talk) 00:45, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]