Talk:Palladium (disambiguation)

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Perhaps you forgot to mention the Palladium DRM technology by Microsoft, it should be inserted in this page! I don't know much about it so I'm not going to add it, but it is a known brand of shoes and accessories based on a world traveler design, it may or may not deserve a small page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.115.115 (talk) 20:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Palladium technology by Microsoft ***
 * There is a palladium brand**

Newspapers used PALLADIUM in printing
I came here looking for PALLADIUM as used in early printing of newspapers ...

My local newspaper is named:

The PALLADIUM-ITEM

a Gannett Press paper in Richmond Indiana

WiSeNhEiMeR —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.37.112.158 (talk) 01:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

The different meanings are related
I find this page somewhat troubling. It begins thus:
 * Palladium is a rare metal.
 * Palladium may also refer to:
 * Palladium may also refer to:
 * Palladium may also refer to:

You see the problem? It treats the new meaning of the word (barely more than a couple of centuries old) as something altogether separate from the traditional meaning, (quoting a dictionary) "Anything believed to provide protection or safety; safeguard". It doesn't even hint that the new meaning was in some way derived from the traditional one. "Pallas" is Athena; a statue of Pallas protects a city (according to ancient religious beliefs); such a statue is a palladium. The asteroid Pallas was named after the goddess; the metal was named after the newly (in 1802) discovered asteroid.

The fact that the different meanings of the word are related to each other should be made clear. Michael Hardy (talk) 00:34, 14 July 2012 (UTC)