Talk:Schrödinger equation/From Talk:Schrodinger equation

I moved Schroedinger equation back here. It hardly makes sense to switch to a new (and no more valid) spelling. We already have everything linking here. Also, the articles on Erwin Schrodinger and Schrodingers cat are already spelled this way. -- CYD

I just realised that you were discussing this issue here.

What is the relevance of "everything linking here"? Everything will link to wherever the redirect sends them. The use of redirects does not harm Wikipedia in the slightest, it is designed to use them. (This is in contrast to double redirects or links to disambiguation pages, which do not work and must be fixed.)

I moved Schroedinger equation because I happened to land on it and decided to improve the spelling. Any individual change from "Schrodinger" to "Schroedinger" will be an improvement (because the latter more precisely reflects the German original), but I wasn't in the midst of a crusade to improve them all; I just improved the one that I happened to be at while I was looking something up. Similarly, I may improve a grammatical construction in an article that I happen to be reading without seeking it out in every article that I can find.

In Talk:Schroedinger equation, you mention consistency. First, spelling in Wikipedia is not required to be consistent. Next, it seems that most mention of the name is already in the form "Schrödinger" (perhaps I am mistaken about this), so consistency demands conforming to that, not to "Schrodinger". And "Schroedinger" is actually closer to "Schrödinger", since "oe" is the accepted representation of "ö" when accents are not available. (Here they are available, but slightly annoying to use.)

"Schrodinger" is acceptable, so is there no need to seek it out and change it in order to ensure Wikipedia's accuracy. But it is deprecated, which is reason to change it when one stumbles across it.

Anyway, I will not move this again, so you may do what you please, but that is what I was thinking.

— Toby 09:59 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)

PS: I hope that you at least agree that the cat article needs an apostrophe!

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Hey guys (specifically CYD), please please PLEASE use the move page function when you rename pages. Cut-n-paste is a royal pain in the ass for people trying to review a page's edit history down the road, only to discover they have to go across fifteen different spellings and name variations and capitalizations and syntax arrangements, half of which weren't mentioned when they were cut-n-pasted. See Wikipedia:How to rename a page. --Brion 10:19 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)