Talk:Ernő Lendvai

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Authorlinks on their self-same page[edit]

I don't know, I kind of like how they go bold. :) --Blehfu (talk) 07:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no problem with emphasizing texts which our by the subject of articles, but according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#First sentences, "The first (and only the first) appearance of the title is in boldface...the title does not need to appear verbatim in the main text; if it does, it is not in boldface". Hyacinth (talk) 20:59, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling[edit]

French WP has him as Ernő Lendvaï. This article has two other options.
Could someone establish a reasonable solution and document it here?
Varlaam (talk) 07:15, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is no ï letter in Hungarian, his name is Lendvai.

I also attest that there is no ï in Hungarian. It is with i. E.g. on the homepage of the (roughly) Hungarian University for Music

context![edit]

This article began as follows:

Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993) was one of the first theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartók's music.[1] He also formulated the axis system, acoustic scale and alpha chord.

So when I'd read through "Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993) was one of the first theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and[.&nbps;. . .]" I was thinking: Fibonacci lived around the year 1200 or so; did this guy live around that same time. Then I read "and how these are implemented in Bartók's music." Music. That's what this is about. A mental speed bump at the end of the first sentence. I changed it to the following:

Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993) was one of the first music theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartók's music.[1] He also formulated the axis system, acoustic scale and alpha chord.

Usually when one sees references to the golden section and the Fibonacci sequence, music is not the topic. Not that there's any reason why it shouldn't be, but the topic of the article should be made clear before mentioning things that might make it appear that the topic is something else. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:34, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]