Talk:Adele ring

message: I have reverted this change which changes idèle to idele throughout, and adds the alternative adèle, with an edit summary that fails to mention those changes.  This is the sort of change that tends to produce strong reactions, and so should be discussed here per WP:BRD.  For what it's worth, Neukirch (1999) uses the form idèle and adèle.  Deltahedron (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was not an arbitrary change. You can see that there was no standard before my edit. I just standardized the spelling that has already been established both on Wikipedia (see also Adelic algebraic group) and in the mathematical literature (confer 1; 2, 3). Neukirch (1999) is obviously not the only English-language source on the subject. --Omnipaedista (talk) 02:03, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a change made without discussion here and without a suitable edit summary.  If the spelling has been standardised here on Wikipedia, please link to the discussion where that consensus was established.  The spelling has clearly not been standardised in the mathematical literature, and if you think it has please cite an authoritative source.  Google book searches do not constitute an authoritative source.   Deltahedron (talk) 06:29, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I should have indeed provided a suitable edit summary. As far as Wikipedia is concerned the "no accent" form has been "established" pragmatically. The original version of 'Adele ring' and the long-standing versions of the articles 'Adelic algebraic group', 'Idele class character' feature no accent. The addition of an accent here was made by a single user who him/herself was not even consistent about it. As far the mathematical literature is concerned I deem that there is no authoritative source available establishing a priori which is the standard, so we could for the moment  rely on Google Book searches and ArXiv searches. In any case even if the Wikipedia community eventually chooses for some reason to employ the accented form of the word 'idele', it would be wise to do so consistently throughout Wikipedia, and also to employ the accented form of the word 'adele' to avoid confusion. --Omnipaedista (talk) 11:23, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idèle vs idele 

message: Oscar Goldman claimed to be the originator of the contraction.  He was taking notes for a series of lectures by Chevalley, who referred to them as "additive ideles" at the time.  According to Goldman, when Chevalley noticed the contraction Goldman was using, he liked it and adopted it.  Goldman always insisted on the pronunciation "add-ell."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.113.226 (talk) 19:05, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of the term "adele" 

message: This page might have become bloated to the extent that it detracts from its usefulness. For instance, having the last 2/3rds of the introduction being introducing notation for the following lemmas makes for a bad article.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to cut down or move to the end the long lemma/definition sections, and have a reasonably concise introduction section defining the adeles and talking about their applications (i.e. a brief sketch of its appearance in class field theory/analogues to the ring of repartitions in geometry, etc)? (21 Dec, 2018)
OK, I've adressed this but I've not yet gone through the long section at the bottom to remove any repetition with the short section at the top. (7 Aug 2020)
To me, this article reads more like a textbook than a wiki article. Unfortunately I not experienced in this field, but I think the article should certainly have less high-level, textbooky explanation of the issue than it does. The current article might be good for someone trying to research the topic, but not for someone trying to get a base-level explaination of an unfamiliar term. Perhaps the article in its current form might be better suited on Wikibooks or Wikiversity? Ihvt (talk) 08:43, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the length seems an issue and the style is also textbooky in a bad way. One simple solution is to move the idele group stuff to a separate article. —- Taku (talk) 15:27, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length