Talk:Charles K. Bliss

Nobel Peace Prize nomination

 * It is said that he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. However who nominated him, and when he was nominated is unknown. The same source says that he asked for his nomination to be withdrawn when he found out Le Duc Tho, founder of the Indochinese Communist Party was nominated also. Le Duc Tho refused the 1973 award.

Being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is an honor, but it is not official or even prestigious. Any national legislator or about a third of the university professors in the world can make a nomination, and there have been as many as 140 some years. Nominators are requested to keep their nominations secret, so it's only those wishing publicity who make announcements, and more often it is impossible to verify. I see no reason to keep it. No offense to the subject, this is a general Nobel Peace Prize "nominees" issue. -Will Beback · † · 09:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Bliss and Blissymbolics Communication Foundation
According to Radiolab (WNYC - Radiolab.org, episode "Bliss'), Bliss was actually very unhappy with what he saw as the perversion of his language. He even sued over its use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.197.220.234 (talk) 03:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I removed the "happy" from "happy discovery" in the article, as the content of the paragraph itself refutes that interpretation. If it was meant as sarcasm, that doesn't work too well in an encyclopedic article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:07, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

CKB's initials
I've been studying Blissymbolics for my own pleasure, and I've found Charles K. Bliss referred to as CKB in many places, including Blissymbolics Communication International specification documents as well as informal educational documents.

I'd like to add CKB to the disambiguation page. However, according to Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages, "When considering articles to include in the list, it is important that each individual entry is referred to by its respective abbreviation within its article."

Currently, the initialism CKB does not appear in this article, and therefore an entry cannot be added to the disambiguation page.

My question is, should the article mention the initialism CKB? I'm in favor of it because I think audiences who are researching Blissymbolics would find it helpful, since they are likely to encounter his initials in external materials. But on the other hand (so far as I am aware) his initials are only used within the Blissymbolics community, which is not large, and so this information might not be encyclopedic.

Does anyone know of a precedent for this, or can point me to some criteria I can try to satisfy (e.g. are the initials used in a biography of him?). Thank you! DanielFlaum (talk) 00:39, 3 May 2023 (UTC)