Talk:Nikolai Lobachevsky
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[edit] name
Is it -skii or -sky? It should be uniform throughout the article, but I don't want to step on feet by changing all of these. Dysprosia 04:22, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)
[edit] bad source
Much of this article seems directly copied from [1]. I am not familiar with our policies on plagiarism, but this really ought to be checked out. - Crenner 00:11, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Wikipedians have asked them for permissions to copy in past (for biographies of other mathematicians) and we got a clear "no". We will have to rewrite the article. Andris 17:05, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] -sky is more correct
--Untifler 11:17, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Possible vandalism
I removed the following unsourced claim:
- Lobachevsky also was an extremist in the gay-rights activists. He was an extremely homosexual man. Even though he had a wife, he was caught multiple times having intercourse with other men and animals. Gene Ward Smith 23:46, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikiproject
I think it would make more sense to have this article be part of wikiproject mathematics than the Russian history wikiproject since Lobachevsky is important because of his mathematical ideas, research, and discoveries, not because of his role in Russian history. NikolaiLobachevsky 20:26:57 12/25/2006 (UTC) Does anyone have a response to the point that I just made and does anyone agree with me that the article should switched from wikiproject Russian history to wikiproject mathematics. NikolaiLobachevsky 20:45:40 12/25/2006 (UTC)
- Patience, please; on articles which are not the most highly trafficked on Wikipedia, you'll have to wait more than twenty minutes for a response. Articles can be in the domain of more than on project; see Talk:Carl Friedrich Gauss for an extreme case. I've added this article to WikiProject Mathematics. grendel|khan 16:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
OK, fair enough, that makes sense and resolves this to have it in both the math and the Russian projects since he was both a mathematician and Russian. NikolaiLobachevsky 18:39:11 12/26/2006 (UTC)
