Talk:Carl (name)

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Etymology

The etymology is a bit Anglocentric for a page that attempts to cover the Scandinavian Karl as well as the Carl and Charles forms. How about pushing it up the family tree to the Germanic level? Bo Lindbergh 08:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Please do! (I created the article mainly by merging existing articles. Do you have good sources to use?) —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-08 10:11Z

[edit] bolded names

I added bolded names back and a metacomment on what the bolding means: the most common names. Visor, do you disagree with that, or just didn't know why they were bold? —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-15 12:54Z

I just followed Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), where there is declared "There is no need to emphasize the link with bolding (...)". After your explanation, I understand why these titles are bold, but there is another question: What does mean 'the most common' – is it according to proportion of given names in specific country (countries) or quantity of famous people? And what about differences between Carolus and Carlos in this case? Ratio of used names is 8:9 and only Carlos is bold. Visor 13:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I guess it might be hard to define a good worldwide-view criterion. I don't know of any Caroluses so I didn't think it was that common. Do you have a good reference for the popularity of these names? Most_popular_names does not list Carolus. Google shows a lot of hits (2,000,000), but that is still small compared to Carl (94,000,000) or Carlos (67,000,000). Where did you get 8:9? —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-15 13:54Z
I wanted to show that your criteria of the most common usage is quite intuitive. And as I can read above, it is. 8:9 is the list of names under article Carolus (8) in comparison with Carlos (9). I think that in case we haven't got reliable statistics for these names, we should use only bold or non-bold for all links (non-bold in my opinion). My state (of non-bolds) is also strongly 'connected' with manual style of disambiguation pages. Visor 14:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, if there is no agreeable criterion, then de-bold all. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-15 21:29Z

[edit] Info on "Carl Knoblock"

The following information was added to this page by 69.134.181.119 (talk):

[In Male given names]
  • Carl Knoblock (Bear fighting vigilante, Bear) See also www.freewebs.com/andcarlcarl
[In Place names]
Carl Knoblock is a Bear Fighting Vigilante, or BFV. He began his career as a Top gun during the Vietnamese War. His plane was ambushed by an battalion of supersonic bears. They took him down and his partner, Samuel L. Jackson, was KIA. Carl is quoted for saying "I'm going down Peter!!!". Ever since he has made it his life's ambition to destroty the Renegade Bear Faction. Currently Carl's frags are 126 and his deaths are 2. This is regarded is uber 1337 in the gaming community. His most recent accomplishments include taking down the Bear Overlord, which basically was the Dr. Robotnik flying machine with an attached minigun, lighting gun, and energy sword. He has also hit Getman wicked hard. Getman Other smited foes include, Wilford Brimely (that one diabetes commercial guy), Chuck Norris Bear, and a wicked huge kitty. He currently resides in his secret base in Omaha, Nebraska.

Not appropriate for the sections they're in, and, I think, not appropriate for the article at all. I'm removing it. Narsil 22:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Karl vs. Carl in German names

There seems to be an odd inconsistency in German people with one of these names. I notice that the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon of 1890 almost exclusively uses "Karl" for people whom the German Wikipedia calls "Carl". Some of these people can be verified (e.g. from painters' signatures) to have called themselves "Carl". Was this a 19th-century spelling change or attempt at "Germanization" by using the K? I also notice most of these people are called "Karl" in English nowadays, even though German seems to have reverted back to "Carl" for these people. --Delirium 22:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)