Talk:Spoonmaker's Diamond

Spelling of Spoonmaker's

Currently at wikipedia, the spelling of this word is Spoonmaker's. But in a book by George E. Harlow called The Nature of Diamonds, the spelling of this word is Spoon Maker's. I can find neither Spoon-Maker nor Spoonmaker in any dictionary, though I found both of those spellings (Spoon-Maker's and Spoonmaker's) at various internet sites about this diamond.

I have found various references to "spoon maker" as being the way to spell the job/profession where a person is a maker of wooden spoons. But I am concerned about the spelling of this diamond particularly. Anyone have other sources in print which list this diamond, and how is it spelled in the various official sources? Thanks. Fallendarling (talk) 19:52, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

PBS broken link

I removed this non-working link from the "See also" section. But If anyone has time to search PBS's current website for a similar link, it could be of value to re-list a working link. I'm thinking their website possibly had a reorg, but they may still have the same "Going Places" slideshow feature about Turkey and this diamond. I don't have time atm. Thanks. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/goingplaces3/turkey/slide11.html Fallendarling (talk) 20:06, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Topkapi Palace / "See also" links relevance

Currently the only two "See also" links are these:

• http://www.topkapisarayi.gov.tr/
• http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/topkapi.html

My concern is that neither of these goes to any page which is directly relevant to the subject of this article -- they seem more relevant to the Topkapi palace article, which is already linked to this diamond article. I am wondering if it would be better to:

1. be sure these two links are included in the links section of Topkapi palace,
2. then find a few good links directly relevant to "Spoonmaker's Diamond",
3. next, add the better links to the "See also" section of this article (could also possibly add an internal link to Topkapi palace which might be far better than linking to these external palace URL's directly),
4. then remove the two questionable links from the "See also" section (there may be sub-pages of the 2 links which are directly relevant to the diamond, but in my opinion, those subpages should be found and linked, rather than sending the reader to a non-English page which is difficult to navigate and find the appropriate content, as is currently the case with one of these links, it took me awhile to find how to change the page to English, then it took awhile to figure out what section would have the information about the diamond).

I don't think we should remove these two links until better ones are found as replacements... at least they give the reader something related to explore in the meantime. Thanks, I wish I had time to work on this but I don't atm. Fallendarling (talk) 20:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Ortayli was in that symposium; so what?

Spoonmaker's Diamond § Captain Camus and Napoleon's Mother concludes with

For his part, Dr. Ilber Ortayli, Director of the Topkapi Museum, participated at the 2nd International Symposium of History of Preveza held at that city in 2009, though speaking mainly of a later period in Ottoman history rather than of the origins of the Spoonmaker's Diamond.

Even leaving aside the last clause ("though speaking..."), this says nothing about the diamond, let alone this particular tale. It cites four references, none of them online, thus not easily checked. I'm going to boldly delete the paragraph with its refs, pasting it here in this comment in case good reason is found for restoring it. Even if it is restored, its relevance will have to be made explicit.

References

--Thnidu (talk) 23:32, 2 August 2019 (UTC)