Talk:Nota bene

Punctuation
Minute issue, but 'nb' without full stops / periods is becoming very common in British English, not sure where to get a reference source for this though so didn't make any changes... Perhaps someone could oblige?!

Redirect
Don't see this becoming a non-stub any time soon, should it be redirected to the Latin phrases page? Richard001 22:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Do so! Robert Greer (talk) 23:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, also, there's no reason to give some obscure software program free ad space. 69.181.202.132 (talk) 15:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I've addressed this particular problem (see here). Nota Bene is actually a quite notable word processor. —J.P. Doul (TALK/CONTRIBUTIONS) 20:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to second that: the Nota Bene software suite is highly regarded in academia. (No surprise to see it dissed on Wikipedia, then!) – Brunellus (talk) 19:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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Software and Yale Texts
Information about the Nota Bene word processor and Yale University texts belong in seperate articles. I'm creating the word processor page. I don't know if the Yale texts are notable or not, but that information doesn't belong here. —J.P. Doul (TALK/<SMALL><SUB>CONTRIBUTIONS</SUB></SMALL>) 19:44, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Correct pronunciation
Italian and latin correct pronunciation for "nota bene" is only one (it is the same for every italian word). You should correct this page as I did: somebody has reverted my edit, nobody knows why. user:88.58.4.130 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.58.4.130 (talk) 13:25, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't revert your edit but I've added English IPA . I'm not sure we need the alternative pronunciation for this phrase but have left them in anyway in case anyone can think of a good reason. Benchamoneh (talk) 10:57, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I would say that in Italian pronunciation there is no "ʊ", neither "ː". :-) (Take a look at Italian phonology.) — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 04:35, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I fully agree. No diphtongs here. Sadly, English seems to have a tradition of imposing its own phonology on foreign words. One might better adapt to this tradition until some general reform arise. However, the rest of the world has the tradition of more closely following the original pronunciation, so it would be educative for English readers to see and thus be able to comprehend that one, too. Providus (talk) 16:32, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Addition of disambig link to WP formatting command page - question?
I added an explicit disambiguation link to the WP formatting page for making a nb reference link ([Template:Markup#Examples]). The reason is that I would imaging that many beginning editors (myself included) wanting to know how to create such a note go to Google (or wha(tever) and type in "Wikipedia note bene" or something similar. This not surprisingly, brings up this article as the first or second best "bone in the pile" of search results.  Hence my edit..  What are the general policies for including such disambig links pointing to wikipedia formatting/help pages?  I don't see them much, leading me to think there is a policy against adding such.  Useful as I think they might be for beginning editors, I won't get into an edit war over it (perhaps there should be a "Wikimedia Help Only" checkbox on the search page (there isn't, nor does a "nota bene" search bring up the Formatting page..) Jimw338 (talk) 16:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

where are examples of typical use of each form mentioned in this article?

 * NB
 * Note that this form is not currently in the article....
 * Note
 * N.B.

108.28.184.34 (talk) 16:31, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Usage before 1721
N.B. seems to have been used to Joseph Addison's "No.102" (1711). Yet article says "circa 1721"? 2605:E000:1610:8132:8480:5591:FA18:4EBD (talk) 05:42, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Nice catch! -- Kendrick7talk 03:56, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Hfhawthorne (talk) 14:04, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

It's been found as early as 1651 (see the recently revised entry for NB in the Oxford English Dictionary: 1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces 124 "N.B. If the black stinking oyle be rectified from the calcined Caput Mortuum, it will be clear and subtle.")

Relation to 'reference mark' ※
In Chinese/Japanese/Korean ※ (reference mark) is used in a similar way to NB in English (and other languages). Would it be appropriate to have a section here on equivalents to NB in other languages? I have suggested in the talk page for ※ that the connection to NB should be drawn somehow. --- Stephen.G.McAteer (talk) 22:13, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

N.B listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect N.B. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 12:38, 9 May 2019 (UTC)