Talk:Undine (disambiguation)

Style

Please:

• alphabetize the list
• be consistent, use italics on all titles or in none but first check style manual
• complete links to authors

Jclerman 14:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages). Alphabetizing: A matter of taste maybe, but I prefer to put the most common uses first, or to sort chronologically. Besides, by which word would one alphabetize? Italics: Agreed. Links to authors: I agree with the Manual of Style that a disambig page should have only links to the disambiguated pages in order to be less confusing visually. --Chl 15:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Most common uses depend on the brain of the beholder ;-)

For me is 1st. Ondine (play), 2nd. Undine, Last Ondine (actor). For other users it's completely different. A neutral alphabetizing is the ASCII sorting algorithm. If the list would contain only a few items I wouldn't care about the order, but with such a long list it's a pain in the mouse ;-) to find an item. Chronological sorting requires that the user knows the date corresponding to each entry and which criterion has been used to asign a date... For me it would be like a blind date ;-) OK with delinking authors (I haven't read the MOS...).

Jclerman 16:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

This dab page was marked for cleanup per MoS:DAB. I deleted a couple of entries basically for obscureness or non-notability (e.g. not even being mentioned on the linked-to article pages), meaning (a) the creation of the/an article is rather unlikely and (b) it's unlikely that someone would search for those terms. I'm not all-knowing and all-seeing though, so please copy-paste those entries back where you strongly disagree and/or have made sure that the linked-to article at least mentions "Undine" etc.

• Undine Leaves, a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann
• Undine Geht, a novella by Ingeborg Bachmann
• Undine (book), a book by Penni Russon
• Undine, a poem by Seamus Heaney from Door Into the Dark (1969)
• "Ondine", a song by They Might Be Giants
• Ondine (font), a font designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1954
• Undine Spragg, ruthless heroine of Edith Wharton's 1913 novel satirizing the mores of American matrimony, The Custom of the Country
• Undine, one of the four elemental spirits in the Arcana video game
• Undine, one of the four elementals in Lost Magic; attacks by biting
• Undine, the water elemental in Vagrant Story
• SS Undine, a ship piloted by the Raised Rats in the book Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix

– sgeureka ^t•c 21:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge

The Undine page already contains most of the links in the other page which is tiny. Jubilee♫clipman 00:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. I'll see if Ondine (ballet) can be made into a redirect. --Kleinzach 10:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done --Kleinzach 10:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

I have just removed a link and renamed one so that there are only two links to the ballet Ondine (the Ashton ballet). The first is a link to Undine (Henze) in the music section, and this article is being rewritten to discuss only the score of the ballet, and the second is Ondine (Ashton), under the ballet heading, and that article will only relate to the ballet production and choreography. This therefore removes the issue of merging, if one article is about the score, and the other is about the ballet Crazy-dancing (talk) 13:56, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

You copied and pasted the content of one article to a new title. Please don't do that. If an article is to be renamed, please use the move function, or ask for it to be moved with WP:Requested moves. older ≠ wiser 14:20, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Someone who knows how (that is not me) should add the opera Ondine by the Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi (1933-2013), which was produced in Italy in 1959 and released on a commercial recording not long afterward. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.107.116.151 (talk) 23:06, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Water nymph

Re this edit asking source, many easily found with web search for Undine or Ondine, + mythology or "water nymph". A few examples from a quick search: [1], [2], [3]. -- Infrogmation (talk) 21:40, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Ok, but as the Britannica article makes clear, she wasn't a Naiad, she was only "derived" from them. So I don't think the entry should link to that article. Paul August ☎ 00:30, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

The correct link is Undine (alchemy), which is already listed, so I've removed the other one again. Paul August ☎ 00:47, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Undine is a semi-common word meaning water nymph, the only specific place I remember seeing it is in a science fiction novel, Shadow of the Torturer, but since reading that book 15 years ago and learning the word, I've noticed it in use half a dozen times. Webster's 9th New Collegiate gives "Water Nymph" as a synonym. I think a "water elemental" is an obscure way of saying Water Nymph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.13.34.202 (talk) 03:49, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved per request with Undine (alchemy) going to Undine. Favonian (talk) 15:08, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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Undine → Undine (disambiguation) – All items on the Undine disambiguation page refer to undines and are hence derivative of the supernatural creature, which is the primary source of the name. Also, "alchemy" is a really really odd/reductionistic bracketed qualifier. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:33, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

• Comment shouldn' this be a multimove request, instead of two separate move requests? (other move request at talk:Undine (alchemy) ) -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 09:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

That makes sense to me. If anyone is interested they shoupd go to talk:Undine (alchemy) since the discussion there is already underway and things will be a lot easier to assess if everything is in one location.--199.91.207.3 (talk) 18:28, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

• Support per nom. --GRuban (talk) 22:33, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

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