Talk:Tomáš Masaryk

message: Why did he adopt his wife's maiden surname as his own middle name?  How is Garrigue pronounced and what is its origin?  JackofOz 02:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Very belatedly (this must be record for procrastination), thanks for the reference to garrigue, a herb I'd never heard of before.  That page tells me nothing about how the word is pronounced.  Is it "gar-rig" (à la French), or "garry-gay", or "garry-gway", or "garry-gew", or something else?  --  JackofOz (talk) 02:48, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is surname of his American wife and at least in the Czech Republic it is pronounce "gar-rig".--Motionofmind (talk) 00:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Garrigue

message: I'm proposing move to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk because:
* it's his full name under which he served as president and is widely known (other possibility is Tomas Masaryk but this lacks consensus and IMO is very inaccurate)
* article introduction lists Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Tomas Masaryk as variants of his name but he is listed as Tomáš Masaryk on Wikipedia nonetheless. This doesn't make sense.
Please discuss here pros and cons of this proposal. Thank you.--Pethr 21:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Move completed. Aleta Sing 15:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: fortnajt 80.250.4.94 (talk) 07:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 

message: The photograph in the "name box" is certainly not a portrait - it is photoshoped from ordinary image of Masaryk getting of a train (which is next to it in Wikimedia), imposed on black background and what's worst, horizontally flipped. It is a little lie therefore and proper portrait should IMHO be chosen. I'll at least change the description under it. --Motionofmind (talk) 00:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I unflipped the image. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:19, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portratit photograph 

message: Hello, I just wanted to add that Masaryk was also an outspoken advocate for the women's movement. That's one of the reasons he took his wife's name. Passages concerning women's emancipation can be found, among else, in Otázka sociální (The Social Question) and in Hovory; the most concise summary of his positions on the "woman question" can be found in his four lectures: Moderní názor na ženu (A Modern View of Women, 1904), Postavení ženy v rodině a ve veřejném životě (The Position of the Woman in the Family and in Public Life, 1907), Mnohoženství a jednoženství (Polygyny and Monogyny, 1899) and Žena u Ježíše a Pavla (Jesus and Paul on Women, 1910). These were later published in the anthology Masaryk a ženy (Masaryk and Women, 1930) by the Czech National Women's Council, a major Czech feminist interwar organization which was supported by Masaryk. Masaryk's wife Charlotte translated John Stuart Mill's Subjection of Women into Czech. Unfortunately, I don't have many English sources (but can give plenty in Czech). However, you can find the gist of Masaryk's opinions on women's emancipation the the article T.G.Masaryk: A Radical Feminist (1991) written by Gordon H. Skilling, published in Cross Currents. This article is available on the web: http://en.scientificcommons.org/26569586
I hope this was helpful. I've never worked on Wiki, so I'm reluctant to change or add things on my own. 
- Majoranka  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.179.210.213 (talk) 10:14, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Masaryk and feminism 

message: I am curious of what kid of vandalism you are talking about. But I´m just affraid that you don´t have much relevant to say about the topic, do you?--Nmate (talk) 13:49, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We are still waiting when you stop revert warring and instead propose the changes you want to make on this talk page and discuss them to reach consensus. Remember that since it is you who wants changes to be made against the long-term consensus version of the lead section (), the onus to argue your point is on you, not the other way round. None of your two posts above addresses any points of your proposed edits, so there was so far no discussion for anybody else to engage in. The ball is on your side.—Emil J. 19:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What kind of vandalism did you identify on this article?

message: I did some work on this article, but I see areas that still need improvement.  In no particular order:
:fix overlinking
:structure-- for example, the "Education" section includes details about marriage and other phases of his life; fix paragraphs so that the meaning/logic/aim flows from one sentence to the next, not simply mushed together
:length -- to be honest, I haven't read all the way through (I just started at the beginning), but it seems too long
:lists-- I deleted the list of places that he stayed while in exile, but, for one, I did not yet touch the list of places he visited while president.  If there's no reason to highlight any particular place, there's no reason in include it.
:I don't know why a family tree is included
One other point, there's no indication why the spelling of his last name differs from his father's. Jkgree (talk) 16:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up