Talk:John Dalton
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whoever locked this page, tyvm NSD Student 05:29, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] We have a serious issue, since this page (John Dalton) has been vandalized repeatedly from different ip addresses. We need to find a way to stop this.
Article was adapted from 1911 enc.
- I think this fact should be mentioned somewhere on the main page. Also, there's a problem with the number in the very last sentence. AxelBoldt
Have put a note on the main page (I'll do this for all articles in future). There seems to be some problems with whatever OCR the text was scanned through, some of the text of other articles is almost unreadable. sodium
I think you are right there is a lot of information that is not on this page that should be. It would be really cool if I could talk to John Dalton. The name of this page refers to talking to John Dalton. I am mad that it is deceiving.
all the text is almost exactly identical to that found on reference.com ... - tara
- Because reference.com copied the contents, and credits it like they should. See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. andy 20:36, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Wait, what vandalization has been going on? What exactly has been posted?--- Odin 19:02, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I believe This is one example, currently up: " Dalton was unable to attend Oxford or Cambridge because they were only open to members of the Church of England(fags)." I'm going to change it. Any objections?- Nevermind, someone already did.
Unsurprising for a 1911 source, the text simply describes Dalton as a sloppy experimentalist. There should be some mention of the appearance of Dalton's work in support of the Law of Exact Proportions as a case study in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. -- Alan Peakall 18:29 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
There are several links to this page that mean to be going to The Kinks' John Dalton. Specifically, at least The Kinks and Mick Avory erroneously lead here. I don't know if there is a real page for the other John Dalton, but somebody ought to correct it.
On the other hand, it's pretty funny to be on The Kink's page, and click on the name of the former bassist and end up here.
- I have now created a John Dalton (disambiguation), and fixed those two links for the musician (as well as one more for a US secretary of the navy). andy 11:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- Can we rename the article back to John Dalton? The scientist is by far the best known person of this name so it would seem appropriate. Billlion 19:16, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spam link?
There are some good bios on Dalton out there. I will hold off if it really bothers you so much. -- Pinktulip 11:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] John Dalton
Article is terribly written.
- some of it is, scentences like "John Dalton was born September 6, 1766 in Eaglesfield, Cumberland and received his early education from his father and from John Fletcher, a teacher of the Quaker school at Cumberland, on whose retirement in 1778 he himself started teaching."
- If he was a techer before, how come he became a teacher after retirement? fwed66 20:50, 08 october 2006 (GMT)
I think it means that it was Fletcher who retired, and that Dalton took his place, but your right, it is kind of a bad sentence, because it's too long. I'm not sure what it's supposed to say, though, so I won't change it myself.
