Talk:Dvorak

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Dvorak page.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1

2009

There should be a link to the Dvorak simplified keyboard article in my opinion. Mnitn (talk) 20:47, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

spelling / pronunciation

Can someone explain the purpose of the diacritical marks on the r and the a ? --Jerome Potts (talk) 18:05, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dvorak is a slavic name and those marks are part of how the language is written. 74.126.230.53 (talk) 21:04, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Straight to the composer

I feel that when someone types in "Dvorak", Wikipedia should lead them to the composer Antonin Dvorak as his fame far eclipses the others'. Of course, a reader could click to the disambiguation page if they weren't looking for Antonin. 72.93.195.137 (talk) 12:57, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. What evidence do you have that his fame "far eclipses" the others'? --Geniac (talk) 17:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Link totals from http://stats.grok.se/en/201112/Dvořák and similar follow. TimBentley (talk) 21:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dvořák-785
Antonín Dvořák-32769
Ann Dvorak-2393
August Dvorak-1142
Bill Dvořák-121
Dusty Dvorak-166
John C. Dvorak-3115
Josef Dvořák-125
Karel Dvořák (biathlete)-59 (other Karel has no article)
Max Dvořák-256
Milan Dvořák-154
Pavel Dvořák-143
Radek Dvořák-1106
Tomáš Dvořák-662
Vernon Dvorak-151
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard-51275
Dvorak encoding-1046
Dvorak (game)-518
Dvorak technique-1025
Dvorak Awards-120

Requested move

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.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:48, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dvořák → Dvorak – Alternatively could be moved to Dvořák (disambiguation). In either case Dvořák would be a redirect to Antonín Dvořák. Per the statistics I listed above, the fact that I only found one reference to someone on this list in 100 Ghits (same for Google News, although that seemed not to distinguish undiacriticed), and that I fixed over 25 links to either Dvořák or Dvorak all to Antonín Dvořák, make me think he is the primary topic. He also seems to be the primary topic with respect to long-term significance. For Dvorak there seems to be no primary topic between Antonín Dvořák and Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. Probably if the move succeeds Dvořak should redirect to Antonín Dvořák; all other redirects probably to the new location. TimBentley (talk) 21:36, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

support removing accents diacritics should not be on the disambiguation page, since several entries don't use them, and the plain form should be used for disambiguation pages. However, the current title with dios should redirect to the non-dio disambiguation page, especially with the Dvorak keyboard also being famous in computing. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 08:01, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support I don't see why you would ever want to have a DAB with diacritics. The version of a term with diacritics is never a common English-language search term, at least not compared to the version without. The No. 1 topic for "Dvorak" is the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which doesn't even use diacritics. Kauffner (talk) 08:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose -- There is a story that thefamous composer was so annoyed by the omission of the diacriticals in New York that he paid boys to go around correctign the posters. It would thus seem that the correct spelleing has them. However, Dvorak should exist as a rediredct to this page. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:49, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- But the dab page is not about the composer. — AjaxSmack 03:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support the nomination proposal or Dvorak (disambiguation) (without diacritics). It doesn't really matter where Dvořák directs — not many English speakers will be typing that — but it should probably direct to the composer. — AjaxSmack 03:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Another Dvorak

Tomáš Dvořák is a young Czech composer and artist, becoming well-known and popular. See: http://fulcanellinewworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/machinarium.html http://www.floex.cz/en/floex-short_bio-en.pdf Lriley47 (talk) 17:18, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If he is notable, then write an article on him and add him to the page. However blogs do not count as WP:RS. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:50, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was hoping that someone else would take on the task; my health allows only limited participation. Perhaps he isn't notable; I'm not sure how to make that determination. However, perhaps these webpages where he is mentioned will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinarium --- "PC Gamer - Best Soundtrack of 2009"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_Design
http://www.normanrecords.com/vinyl/115634-tomas-dvorak-machinarium#axzz1m64cIn3f
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/25855/Interview_Floex_And_The_Music_Of_Machinarium.php%20%20

Lriley47 (talk) 18:08, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]