Talk:Meerschaum pipe

message: Hello everyone! What a great article! I have edited all "meerschaum" and "meerschaums" to "Meerschaum" and "Meerschaum pipes". Grammatically, Meerschaum is not a general German noun (Substantiv), but a German proper noun (Eigenname), these always require capitalization and prohibit abbreviation in non-colloquial context. Of course it is common and legitimate to use German nouns as names for objects, like reading your Hegel or listening to a good Beethoven when refering to a personal book or record, but to keep the grammar correct, one must avoid "looking for my kant" or "practicing the bachs" in writing. Thank you for understanding! -- a culturally-concerned German citizen 93.133.81.50 (talk) 20:39, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization edits 

message: What is glass paper— Preceding unsigned comment added by  65.42.94.185 (talk • contribs)  17:20, 24 January 2006
:Please don't ask irrelevant questions on talk pages. Glass Paper is a substance used to smoothen the edges of wood. Next time, ask on the Reference Desk.--XenoNeon (converse) 18:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not irrelevant at all, considering that the article says "". That's a new one on me, but it's Wikilinked now. Wbm1058 (talk) 14:24, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see, it's an old term used in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article that this was copied from, which has since fallen out of use. It was Wikilinked by this 29 October 2009 edit. By the way, Dutch rush is another name for the horsetail or scouring rush which was used to polish up these pipes, back in the day. – Wbm1058 (talk) 15:02, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

text: Now that truly does seem to be an irrelevant question, as zebu is a species or sub-species of domestic cattle, and the word was never used in this article, as far as I can tell. But since the question was asked before glass paper was Wikilinked, I suppose perhaps they were making a point. Wbm1058 (talk) 15:15, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glass paper 

message: The formula given in this article is wrong, even by this article's very sources. See http://www.mindat.org/min-3621.html I have also checked our article on Sepiolite and its sources and it seems that the correct formula is Mg4Si6O15(OH)2·6H2O. So I'll be changing it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omulurimaru (talk • contribs) 10:22, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WRONG formula! 

message: I don't know why but the external link turns up as a 403 Forbidden page. As I don't have a censor thing on my computer I wonder what happened, nor how to note it in the text. Thanks, Manytexts (talk) 00:48, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Forbidden link

message: Parts of the text deal with other materials and ought to be moved to separate articles or an article on pipes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.227.15.253 (talk) 09:29, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move some material 

message: The intro paragraph presents two contradictory versions of the etymology. Is meerschaum simply named sea-foam (in German), or is it named after Kummer, the pipe-maker, via French (cum-mer to écume de mer), back to German?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.15.184 (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: There is a problem regarding the pronounciation hint. I don’t know how it is pronouced in english. The phonetic spelling given for sure doesn’t resemble the german pronounciation, whereas the given audio sample sounds like an accent free german. [ˈmeːʁʃaʊ̯m] ist my suggestion of what is presented by the audio sample. -- Pemu (talk) 16:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation hint