Talk:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: I am writing a thesis paper on Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and I use wikipedia as a quick starting point, checking out the sources used for creating this articles. I am worried however as the only source listed is the actually book written by JABS. Could you please post your sources. This makes the article very weak and totally uncredible. Could the author(s) of this article/biography please comment back or post their sources. thank you. As well if anyone else knows of good sources for biographical info on JABS. please comment as well. thank you very much 24.202.180.188 19:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Regina (edit)

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The "passive of non-attribution' is generally followed by an irresponsible statement. Thus ""Physiologie" has been credited as the first promotion of the low-carbohydrate diet." "Carbo-hydrates" were first identified as a group in 1869, according to OED. A link to text of Physiologie is at the entry. Wetman 22:33, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Pointless interference"

It's a great quotation. But this is Wikipedia, not Iron Chef. It may look pretty, but to put a quotation before the leader is just bad formatting. I've never seen another article featuring a quotation (or anything else, apart from disambiguation) before the leader. Check out Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout (in particular Introductory material) and Wikipedia:Introductions. And part of assuming good faith involves not calling other users' contributions "pointless". -- Krash 07:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Apparently I am even more familiar with Wikipedia:Guide to layout, etc etc than our present layout enforcer, for it has nothing to say of putting "a quotation before the leader" —it's called an epigraph, by the way— but in fact says of a Quotation subheading, such as Krash seems to find stylish, "Under this header, list any memorable quotations that are appropriate to the subject...This header is somewhat deprecated." Deprecated indeed. In my well-founded opinion it is lame. And the remark "But this is Wikipedia, not Iron Chef" strikes me as quite unnecessarily pert. There is no point in enforcing an imagined uniformity based on one's limited experience, simply because one has never seen an epigraph, thus the edit is in fact pointless. My aspersion is cast only upon the action, for of the person I know less than nothing— save what I read. My good faith is in quite limited supply: I cannot waste it where it is inappropriate. --Wetman 09:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps the Iron Chef comment was a bit below the belt. But my point was that it doesn't really seem to be encyclopedic to include an epigraph. The device may have a name and be used by famous writers, but it seems a very editorializing stylistic choice. We're not eulogizing M. Savarin, we're just writing an article about him. And part of not being a dick involves not condescending. -- Krash 18:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Now another of these high-school grads who'd never heard of Brillat-Savarin before Iron Chef has begun the article with unintentional hilarity: "His words above immortalized by Iron Chef..." Brilliant! This is like beginning the article on Ares, "Made famous by Xena, Warrior Princess, the Greek god Ares..." --Wetman 06:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hyphenated given names

I always understood his given name is the hyphenated "Jean-Anthelme". Is this not so? JackofOz 12:53, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Modern French practice is to hyphenate: Jean-Luc, Jean-Marc, Jean-Batiste. But where the two names don't normally run together, as Jean Anthelme, are they hyphenated usually nowadays? --Wetman 21:30, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, Anthelme is not normally hyphenated because it is not normally encountered at all. But is this about current conventions about hyphenating, or about what his actual name was? My 70's hard copy Britannica calls him "Brillat-Savarin, (Anthelme)", which suggests he was generally known by his surname alone, but when his given name was used it was Anthelme, and Jean was dropped altogether. (These questions always turn out to be cans of worms.) JackofOz 02:02, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

With published authors, it's never a very complicated problem, as long as one can turn to a title-page. --Wetman 06:36, 6 July 2006 (UTC)