Talk:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Latest comment: 4 months ago by 2607:FEA8:2C5C:3E00:94BA:C5C7:817:EA46 in topic Inconsistent use of capital letters for "van"
| This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Antonie van Leeuwenhoek article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
| Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL |
Archives: 1Auto-archiving period: 3 months  |
 | This  level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
 | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||
| ||||||||||
 | Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 17, 2017, October 9, 2019, and October 9, 2023. | |||||||||
 | Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
 | This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report. The week in which this happened:
|
Leeuwenhoek
editPlease tell me pronounciation 106.216.161.49 (talk) 12:36, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Wrong word—
editIn the following sentence: "Van Leeuwenhoek has been attributed as the first person to use a histological stain to color specimens observed under the microscope using saffron."
The word "attributed" is improperly used. "Acknowledged" would be more appropriate here. —Or perhaps the wording could be changed to: "The first use of a histological stain (he used saffron) to color specimens under the microscope has been attributed to van Leeuwenhoek." 2001:5B0:270F:3228:3147:99FB:E9E0:82FA (talk) 16:46, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
- B..... 117.236.131.39 (talk) 14:07, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Chaotic letters
editit would be more respectful to say "long" letters Eugenio.orsi (talk) 21:59, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Inconsistent use of capital letters for "van"
editShould it be "van Leeuwenhoek" or "Van Leeuwenhoek"? I think it should consistently be spelled "van Leeuwenhoek", but the article is inconsistent. Bueller 007 (talk) 22:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- It should be "Van Leeuwenhoek" when his first name is not mentioned (which he himself spelled as Antoni, btw, without the E at the end), and "van Leeuwenhoek" when his first name is mentioned. So it's either "Antoni van Leeuwenhoek crossed the road", or "Van Leeuwenhoek crossed the road".
- Either way, they keep omitting the "van" or "Van" from his last name in this article, despite the disclaimer at the top that "van" is part of the last name... 2607:FEA8:2C5C:3E00:94BA:C5C7:817:EA46 (talk) 13:06, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
A discovery?
editI'm wondering why this is under "Discoveries""
"In 1702 he requested a book on Peruvian silver mines in Potosí."
The whole "Discoveries" section oddly written and needs cleaning. 2600:1700:5DD:310:15DD:465:C605:4E4E (talk) 15:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)