This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Is this too close to a definition for the Wikipedia?
I don't think it hurts... add a bit more if you think its too dictionarylike. KJ
Does anyone know whether luster/lustre is a qualitative property or a quantitative property? I feel that would be part of the expanded definition.
Shouldn't it be luster? That's what I learned in my middle-school science class. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.190.199.242 ( talk) 21:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC).
I thought the two were interchangeable; I wonder if there is a UK/US difference at work here. I'm going to change the first word in the article as the rest of the article uses 'lustre' and we need to be consistent. GideonJones ( talk) 09:26, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
- The '-re' ending is more often a UK thing, although the US spelling '-er' is more phonetic. Firefox's dictionary says the 'lustre' is acceptable with the 'English/UK' word-list, while 'luster' is correct with the 'English/US'. Granted for me, seeing the '-re', and silent '-me' endings on words interrupts my reading pattern. The mineral info box uses the American spelling, so I suggest we change this page to EN-US to fit with that, as the page uses a mixture of US and UK spellings currently. 130.39.188.24 ( talk) 20:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
If a knowledgeable person comes around, I'd like to see physical explanations for these qualities. enzo ( talk) 22:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I've semiprotected for a week as an anon using various ips with 75... has decided to edit war rather than discuss. Please see WP:ENGVAR. We keep the page title and text consistent and as discussed above it has been at lustre since first started and we don't change w/out gaining consensus. I personally don't really care even tho I'm more used to 'er. Any user is free to request a move/rename, but until that decision is reached we keep the text and title consistent. Vsmith ( talk) 14:56, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
According to this article, schiller is "similar" to adularescence, but according to /info/en/?search=Adularescence they are exactly the same. Which is correct? Nikolaj1905 ( talk) 19:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Is this too close to a definition for the Wikipedia?
I don't think it hurts... add a bit more if you think its too dictionarylike. KJ
Does anyone know whether luster/lustre is a qualitative property or a quantitative property? I feel that would be part of the expanded definition.
Shouldn't it be luster? That's what I learned in my middle-school science class. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.190.199.242 ( talk) 21:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC).
I thought the two were interchangeable; I wonder if there is a UK/US difference at work here. I'm going to change the first word in the article as the rest of the article uses 'lustre' and we need to be consistent. GideonJones ( talk) 09:26, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
- The '-re' ending is more often a UK thing, although the US spelling '-er' is more phonetic. Firefox's dictionary says the 'lustre' is acceptable with the 'English/UK' word-list, while 'luster' is correct with the 'English/US'. Granted for me, seeing the '-re', and silent '-me' endings on words interrupts my reading pattern. The mineral info box uses the American spelling, so I suggest we change this page to EN-US to fit with that, as the page uses a mixture of US and UK spellings currently. 130.39.188.24 ( talk) 20:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
If a knowledgeable person comes around, I'd like to see physical explanations for these qualities. enzo ( talk) 22:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I've semiprotected for a week as an anon using various ips with 75... has decided to edit war rather than discuss. Please see WP:ENGVAR. We keep the page title and text consistent and as discussed above it has been at lustre since first started and we don't change w/out gaining consensus. I personally don't really care even tho I'm more used to 'er. Any user is free to request a move/rename, but until that decision is reached we keep the text and title consistent. Vsmith ( talk) 14:56, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
According to this article, schiller is "similar" to adularescence, but according to /info/en/?search=Adularescence they are exactly the same. Which is correct? Nikolaj1905 ( talk) 19:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)