Talk:Reading (disambiguation)/Archive 1

message: why did you delete my 
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas.  The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.  Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
? what proof do you need other than you read it? (w/o problems most likely)
plus i would have gladly put where i got that from, but it's just something one of my teachers got a hold of, and i got it from him, so i don't know where it originally came from
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:Firstly, it just seems like spam as many people will already have received this by e-mail. Secondly, you can't say "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy" without a proper reference as to which university that might be. Wikipedia is not a place for jokes like this and sources need to be cited. Angela 04:42, Sep 22, 2003 (UTC)
if i found the source would it be ok to post that?
and what's that about this being a joke? is it a joke that we don't care about details?
:If it is real research, then that could mentioned (it has to be able to be verified though). But it wouldn't be written like this in the article. It wuld have to be reported in normal English, maybe with a small example. Angela
right
whatever you say.
you know what, im gonna drop this for now cuz its midnight and i got this project to do and i don't really have time for this (right now).
i just thought it might be cool to include that...
hehe good thing i had this here cuz i lost the thing but now i have it again hehe
:I'm pretty sure it was researchers at Cambridge University... I'll see if I can find the site. It is true though —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.170.11.123 (talk) 03:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy 

message: Hi, I wondered what we could do about the changes in the 'mechanics' of reading caused by hypertext?  Surely the reader's thought process is different now that certain words you read are highlighted as links to other pages.  Mjklin 14:41, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mechanics of reading 

message: The merge with Redding wouldn't have worked because we couldn't merge Otis here. I removed the merge notice. Zeimusu | Talk page 04:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redding

message: "Reading of a bill",
:Reading of a bill (a proposed law) is its normal recital before the body which is to consider it
does not appear to conform to MoS:DP, in particular:
:Only use this feature if the item being described actually appears on the page you're linking to...
So I'm going to remove it.--Duckbill 21:59, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Reading of a bill" not to style manual 

message: I am thinking that "Reading Abbey" is not appropriate. Would anyone refer to Reading Abbey as just "Reading"? If not, then it probably shouldn't be on this disambiguation page. If no-one objects I may remove it. Duckbill 23:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Reading Abbey" not appropriate 

message: I am thinking that "Reading (Thoreau)" may not be appropriate. It seems that there is a chapter called "Reading" in a book by "Henry David Thoreau" called "Walden". OK fine, but:
# this is a somewhat "micro" piece of information. One wouldn't expect to have an encyclopedia article about a chapter unless it was notable in some way.
# it's a red link.
Is there any notability in this chapter? If not then the link should be deleted. I may delete if no-one pipes up. Duckbill 23:53, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Reading (Thoreau)" not appropriate 

message: I am thinking that "Reading Rainbow" may not be not appropriate. Would this TV show ever be referred to as just "Reading"? I don't think so. WP:D says "Lists of articles of which the disambiguated term forms only a part of the article title don't belong here." This link would seem to fall into that category. I may delete if no-one objects. Duckbill 23:56, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Reading Rainbow" not appropriate 

message: The IPA is shown in this article as /redιŋ/.
In the article Reading, Berkshire, it is shown as /ˈrɛdɪŋ/.
The first vowel sound is different, e vs. ɛ.
The second vowel sound is different, ι vs. ɪ.
The second one has the emphasis mark on the first syllable.
Looking at the specs (International Phonetic Alphabet for English et. al.), I'd say that the one from "Reading, Berkshire" was right and the one here was wrong.
I'll change it. If there's a problem, please discuss here.
Duckbill 23:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA looks dodgy 

message: We have "Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading" placed above "Reading, Berkshire".
Surely "Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading", being a historical figure, is a somewhat rarely referred-to concept (the Wikipedia article has less than 50 incoming links), and being referred to using the term "Reading" alone would only happen in even rarer cases. 
The concept of "Reading, Berkshire", would surely be far more commonly referred-to (the Wikipedia article has more than 500 incoming links), and is commonly known using the term "Reading" alone.
So surely it is more likely that a use of the term "Reading" would be referring to the town than to the person.
So the link for the town should be above the link for the person.
Extending the idea, we should probably re-sort the sections into decreasing order of likelyhood that the term "Reading" alone would be used to refer to those concepts.
So I think that should be:
* activity
* place UK
* place US
* sporting club (I have done a number of "Reading" -> "Reading F.C." disambiguations)
* person (could conceivably be referred to as "Reading")
* literature piece (the term "Reading" appears to form only a part of the term linked (Reading Capital). I am bit dubious if this one should even be here)
This feels like a good change, well justified, and with the justification documented, and in any case relatively harmless, so I will go ahead with it straight away. All comments welcome. Duckbill 17:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading" out of sequence?