Talk:X

message: I find this section to be largely superfluous: EBCDIC is a thing of the past, and all other codes are derived from ASCII: Unicode adopted ASCII 32-126 which include capital and small 'x', as did HTML/XML. So I'd propose to remove this section (haven't checked other similar articles to see if they include something like this). Jalwikip (talk) 16:43, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Codes for computing 

message: ;Kingdom
*Lan Xang (Lan Sang, Lane Sang)
;Provinces of Laos 
*Bolikhamxai (Bolikhamsai, Borlikumsai)
*Oudomxai (Oudomxay)
*Sainyabuli (Xaignabouli, Saiyabouly)
*Sekong (Xekong)
*Xaisomboun
*Xiangkhoang (Xieng Khouang, Siangkuang)
*Xieng Dong Xieng Thong and outpost Xay Fong
--Pawyilee (talk) 09:52, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See Romanization of Lao#Consonants Initial position BGN/PCGN --Pawyilee (talk) 14:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lao X 

message: Old Spanish had the 'sh' sound. See: http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/634-1103/634-BRADLEY-0-0.PDF
Modern Spanish has the softer version of this sound, like 'ich'. The TED talk mentioned in some of the revisions of this page is completely wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.181.114.194 (talk) 14:32, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  'sh' sound in Old Spanish 

message: According to , Maltese X is also pronounced [ʒ] before voiced consonants (as an allophone of /ʃ/)? Burzuchius (talk) 08:03, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maltese X 

message: Two points: First, is a [citation needed] really needed after the note about 'xu' being pronounced as /kš/ and /gž/. Any native speaker with a knowledge of Phonology can attest to this. 
Second, with so much detail given about word-medial and -final pronunciation, why not also mention the general /z/ sound used in word initial positions (Xylophone, xeriscaping, etc.) and at least one exception that comes to mind...Xavier?
Also, (so, a third point) maybe mention of 'x' as an early orthographic option to replace the English digraph "sh" /š/?
50.248.57.235 (talk) 17:01, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation in English 

message: Is it worth pointing out that in Occitan that <x> is often pronounced /ts/? 2600:8803:7D89:8000:2C2B:9F5E:719E:67D (talk) 19:20, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Occitan 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: not moved DrStrauss talk 13:58, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: X →  – Unique among the 26 letters, X has 2 primary meanings, the letter and a symbol for the number 10. Georgia guy (talk) 18:35, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
1.144.111.48 (talk) 01:24, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 September 2017 

message: X is the symbol for halogens. Porygon-Z 18:23, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That is not true.  "X" is a common symbol for an unknown/unspecified variable, and therefore it can stand for an unspecified halogen, but also can be used to stand for many other unspecified chemical species, or indeed unknown/unspecified numbers in chemical formulæ, such as NOX or NOX (although I prefer & recommend a subscripted lowercase-italic "x" in this specific context, NOx).  —DIV (1.144.111.48 (talk) 01:20, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halogens 

message: What's up with the handwriting animation?  I don't know anyone who writes a lowercase "x" like that. Please clarify what style it is attempting to reproduce, and/or amend the animation.  
—DIV (1.144.111.48 (talk) 01:15, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Handwriting animation 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 〷. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  signed, Rosguill talk 17:44, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  〷 listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Pronunciation of X. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:29, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pronunciation of X" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: FTA: Three exceptions are pronounced [s]: six ("six"), dix ("ten") and in some city names such as Bruxelles (although some people pronounce it 'ks') or Auxerre; it is fully pronounced [ks] in Aix, the name of several towns. 92.67.227.181 (talk) 17:51, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomprehensible 

message: Only sixteen references for such a long article, stating so many short facts? That makes the article almost entirely unreferenced. 92.67.227.181 (talk) 17:52, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced article 

message: So I have noticed that the History section had no references, so I was looking to improve it. However, the articles I have found contain different info than what is in this article. Either that, or not enough info is provided. I think it might be best to just completely redo the History section, but I want to see what other users believe. Here's two sources I found.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulysses Grant Official (talk • contribs) 22:52, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues with the History section 

message: The phone appears in the infobox but no language with this usage is cited in the main text.  Does such a language actually exist?  Weirdly in the infobox it's the only phonetic value (wrongly) capitalized and only one not linked to its phonetic WP page. — maiku (talk) 18:20, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I figured out what's going on.  I think "[Ø]" means silent, which is the word used in the main text for one French usage.  I edited the infobox to make the thing consistent.  But if you want to use the empty-set symbol for zero, then I suggest you use the proper symbol and not capital O with slash. —maiku (talk) 01:10, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phonetic usage [Ø] 

message: In the history section, it talks about how Chi and Psi were variants of the same letter. But that is a mistake, and should be Chi and Xi. 2601:646:C101:2840:274D:6174:B357:DAE8 (talk) 16:40, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xi vs Phi in History section. 

message: This is still early, but I just want to say this just in case. All the letters, from A to Z redirect to their letter page, we must maintain consistency. One of the things that annoys me the most is people appropriating basic words, shapes or things into their agenda. ElskverdigHug (talk) 05:12, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  For the love of God, maintain the letter X as the main redirection for when someone searches for 'X' 

message: The Wikipedia entry for Xsi acknowledges it as the phonetic Greek counterpart to the Roman Letter X inasmuch as it symbolizes the "ks" phonetic particle which is what X in English sounds like.
The status as a recognized form of Greek of ancient pre hellenic localized dialects from which the etruscans borrowed "X" is not clarified from sources in the article, thus it is not conclusive that the counterpart of X in Greek is Khi(χ). 
Very evidently there was no Letter Ξ(ξ) in those dialects thus Χ(Khi) (dialectal) is indeed the root of X. However the counter part in established Greek is indeed Ξ(ξ).
Therefore, sources for the development of the letter X from localized (pre) Hellenic dialects have to be introduced. And the mention of Ξ(ξ) as the official Greek language counterpart has to be placed as well. Ctmv (talk) 17:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps something from Archaic Greek alphabets could be usefully added here. —Tamfang (talk) 02:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ξ/ξ (Xsi) stands phonetically for X in classical and modern Greek. Etruscan and Latin borrowing of X from Χ/χ (Khi/Chi) could have occurred from pre Hellenic localized dialects 

message: It was never <gz> /gz/, article doesn't even provide an example. Since the article is protected, I can't edit it. So please, either show at least 1 example (both in table and sub topic 1.2. "Other languages") or remove mention of <gz> /gz/ in Polish.
31.182.226.214 (talk) 13:00, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  gz in Polish 

message: If someone is searching for X on Wikipedia, they're likely looking for the social network, formerly called Twitter (and still titled that on WP). Maybe we should change the first line to , so users looking for the social network don't have to go through a disambiguation page? 206.204.236.63 (talk) 15:01, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think people searching for X are unlikely to be looking for Twitter; they'd just look up "Twitter" instead. From my anecdotal experience, it feels like most people still refer to Twitter as Twitter, and news sites generally say something along the lines of "X (formerly Twitter)" SheepTester (talk) 01:02, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this list the social network as a possible meaning? 

message: It claims an Egyptian Hieroglyph (Possibly Djed) is the speculated origin of the letter, but I cannot find a single source corroborating this fact, it is barely mentioned in the article, is this just an info box to article inconsistency or am I reading this wrong? Much thanks for any response. Goodbyecomputer (talk) 04:17, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculated Origins? 

message: Should the hatnote here link to Twitter?
My impression is that it shouldn't; Twitter, when referenced as X, isn't so dominant a topic compared to the other items on the disambiguation list that it warrants direct inclusion in the hatenote. BilledMammal (talk) 20:48, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a lot of people come here just to see if this article is about the social network, or if it links to it etc. Whether or not that's a good enough reason to include it is arguable Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 17:23, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote to Twitter 

message: Delink the phrase  to  in the last sentence to maintain consistency like 25 letters else. 2001:EE0:4BE2:4ED0:9496:F804:F0D4:C864 (talk) 01:22, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: — Urro[talk][edits] ⋮  12:31, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi @Urropean, while this news may dissuade you to go, I am regrettably sorry and worried that some of your contributions, here to X, the content of the article may, or ever to be, vandalized in part. Please notice carefully and make your change consciously. I look the page so not seamlessly, thus I suggest you to fix the code error and implement it. 2001:EE0:4BCC:A880:9496:F804:F0D4:C864 (talk) 03:13, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi again! I assume you are referring to my failure to remove the link properly, considering that is the only edit I made to the page. I've since fixed it! Thanks for letting me know. — Urro[talk][edits] ⋮  12:40, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request