Talk:Center

linking

How about when giving a link to a separate article, you use the spelling of that article in the link rather than changing it to your own preferred spelling, for example it would be Center (basketball) but Centre (France)

Centre Ice Hockey

• Isn't refering to US English as "improper" POV? Maybe if you took the time to read some of the Wikipedia's rules on American VS British spelling you'd have scanned the part that says "leave it at what was originally there and DON'T start a freakin' culture war over it. Get a real problem...

Spelling proposal

Hi there, I notice that in this article there is a lot of activity about spelling that could be better channeled into the subject itself. You may be interested in this proposal to put an end to the problem. Thanks. PizzaMargherita 22:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Numbers, not bullets?

I think those numbers are supposed to be bullets and all the full stops should be removed

Why is center a redirect?

Why did center become a redirect to centre (geometry)? I did a bunch of un-dabbing for this and there were a LOT of articles that pointed to center (American football) and center (hockey), probably more so than to the geometry page. Metros232 23:41, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I just undabbed everything that was left. Basically there were a lot of "centres" - in hockey, football, basketball, rugby, politics, a region in France, algebra, directions, chinese philosphy... and so on and so forth. The only thing they have in common (and the root of the word) is that they are literally or figuratively at the centre of a shape (a sports field, the line of ideologies, the middle of France etc.), hence the redirect. If you think there's a better option then I'm open to it, but theres no clear winner for a "most popular redirect". Deizio talk 00:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move to Center, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 07:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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Center (disambiguation) → center — The disambiguating suffix is superfluous. As long as center and centre lead to this list, it should be at one of those two titles. Stemonitis 16:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Survey

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• Support as "(disambiguation)" is unnecessary in the absence of a main center/centre article. –Pomte 02:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
• Support. I considered the possibility that Centre (geometry) might be the primary topic, but that doesn't seem to hold up when looking at the links. Dekimasuよ! 03:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
• I thought this qualifies as a speedy? I can't think of plausible situation where [Foo] should redirect to [Foo (disambiguation)]. See WP:DAB#Generic topic. Duja► 14:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Possible Unmerge

What would everyones opinions be on splitting Centre and Center? Thanks 81.137.240.118 (talk) 12:55, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Strongly opposed. For most of the entries, the difference is not intrinsic to the subject and merely reflects WP:ENGVAR. That is to say, so many of the subjects might be known by either spelling that splitting would be needlessly confusing. older ≠ wiser 13:10, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Forgive me if i'm wrong but these aren't National Varieties of English/Engvar they're different words: Centre being the middle of something and Center being a place, eg; the centre of a circle and the shopping center.

Thanks Jenova20 14:48, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

No, as far as I'm aware, center has the exact same meaning as centre. And centre is also used in the way you describe, e.g., The Centre (Livingston) and The Centre (Bristol), Barbican Centre, Call centre, Adelaide city centre, Town centre, Newport Centre, etc. older ≠ wiser 15:04, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

You appear to be correct.

Center is indeed American ignorance at spelling [[1]] in the same way many other words have been changed and are now acceptable to spell either way.

Thanks for the quick response anyway Jenova20 15:27, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Jenova20- What a benighted, prejudiced nationalist you are. "Ignorance"? I'm afraid you're the ignoramus. ("Center" and "centre" were both in use during Shakespeare's time -- Americans, like many northern Europeans, chose the -er spelling.) Your hatred isn't wanted here. WikiFair1 (talk) 11:19, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

I can see what i said might look harsh, i just meant it as cultural differences of spelling between American and English spelling.

In any case please remember to Act in good faith and Comment on content not contributors.

Hatred aswell? A suggestion of racism against Americans?

I'm not going to bother responding to that one to bait the shark Jenova20 11:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

How is a statement about a people's "ignorance" supposed to be "just" a case of an expression of "cultural differences"? Americans' "ignorance" is a matter of culture?! Before upbraiding people about their behavior, I recommend examining your own. Good luck, WikiFair1 (talk) 13:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Replied on talk page since this is trailling off from the article.

Walk away WikiFair1, this is assuming bad faith and over, done, finito.

I won't be drawn into arguments over perceived meanings i did not state clearly Jenova20 09:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

LGBT

   Seeing no discussion here of why

** Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, a New York City non-profit organization commonly known as the Center

would be more appropriate a topic for inclusion than the thousands or millions of other centers commonly referred to as "the center", i've removed it.
--Jerzy•t 23:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Center (mathematics)

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It seems like we need Center (mathematics), which mainly exists for the disambiguation purpose. -- Taku (talk) 05:16, 2 June 2017 (UTC) On a second thought, I think we should merge center (algebra and category theory) into this page. -- Taku (talk) 09:01, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose merge. Center (algebra and category theory) contains a list of citations; which is legitimate in a WP:SIA. Center is a DAB page, and as such should contain no citations whatsoever. Narky Blert (talk)

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