Talk:Canonical

message: This article had this sentence, 'the Arabic word "Qanuun" which essentially means "rule", "law", "standard", and has come to mean "generally accepted" or "authoritatively correct." ' This is in error. 
The Arabic word qanuun (or قنن ) is itself directly derived from the Greek word canon. It loan word into Arabic. see page 24 here
Nwbeeson 19:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Arabic etymology

message: I disagree on the statement that the standard base of coordinate space would not be canonical.
It is, because this is not just   a convenient choice, but a canonical choice. It is, btw, preferably called "canonical base" in many other languages ("base canonique" in French, "kanonische (Einheits-)Basis" in German,...). — MFH: Talk 17:34, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you mean standard basis? Michael Hardy 20:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  standard base is canonical 

message: What are canonical redirects?
AndrewRH (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 22:20, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  canonical redirects 

message: Shouldn't the organization  canocial be mentioned here?
* Jmans25 (talk) jmans25 Jmans25 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 01:41, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If this is a disambiguation page (is a bit of a hybrid now), then I'd think the company of the same name would be appropriate. dtype (talk) 17:45, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: What exactly does canonical mean when relating it to a religious text? Does that mean that the text is ruling or significant? Please explain, the article was not clear enough for me. Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.93.39.26 (talk) 13:13, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It means the text is accepted as part of an authoritative set of texts; see Biblical canon. —Tamfang (talk) 19:25, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm confused 

message: The contents currently displayed are
# Religion
# Literature and art
# Mathematics
# Computer science
# Physics
Does this order has some specific meaning such that the word is mostly used in religious context, then literature, etc.? If not, is it not better to sort these items alphabetically? Sae1962 (talk) 12:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting of contents items desirable? 

message: This page looks like something written by and for illiterates who don't know that words existed before they were used in the field of computer science.  Five years ago it was much better. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:49, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The present content of this page makes it impossible to believe that it was not primarily written be dishonest persons who were deliberately being stupid.  It's vandalism. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:52, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've posted on this currently imbecilic and criminally dishonest article at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics.  I'll be back. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:57, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted back to a versions when it was a real article and not just a bad. Is it still illiterate?--Salix (talk): 18:13, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It shouldn't be an article at all - it should be a disambiguation page. What was wrong with this version? StAnselm (talk) 21:25, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  illiterate 

message: This page contains a lot of dictionary entries and further clarification that break the conventions detailed at MOS:DAB. They need to be removed, not changed or left alone. The current state of the page may reflect the fact that editors which added the excess information might have come from the French Wikipedia. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 22:59, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page needs cleanup