Talk:Period

(Does anyone know where the period came from? I'm fairly certain that the Romans didn't have it since all their sentences ended with the verb they didn't need it.)

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 * What, you mean as in vade retro me? -user:Montrealais


 * Classical Latin vs The Vulgate, i.e. vulgar Latin. Different constructions. I don't know about the genesis of the period but I have seen it used to terminate abbreviated words in classical inscriptions, so the ancient Romans must have used it for at least that much! ~ Veledan | Talk | c . 20:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation
I'm starting disambiguation of this word (redirecting the incoming links to the appropriate pages; i.e. not this one!). ~ Veledan | Talk | c . 20:53, 14 August 2005 (UTC) disambiguation link repair (You can help!) 

I've come unstuck almost immediately with this one, and have withdrawn my hand till I get advice on how to proceed!

Most of the links to Period are linking to the technical meaning of an interval, a lapse of time. The opposite of frequency. This is the one meaning that is defined in the dab but has no article, probably because it's too general a meaning to have an article longer than a dictionary definition. And anyway, it's the opposite of frequency and it's the definition in the dab links to that article. So it'll probably never have an article. I can't link them to frequency because that would cause either confusion, or me having to re-word every sentence it appeared in. Should I de-link? Create a stub that pretends to be an article, but which is really just a specialized dab, linking to frequency or other pages? Redirect to Wiktionary? Help! ~ Veledan | Talk | c . 21:31, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Figured I would answer here too. I commented to your question on this over at the main project page in more detail.  First off reciprocal does not mean opposite its a mathematical distinction but a significant one.  I changed the page to link to Interval (time) for the physics usage of the term.  Links here via the periodic redirect are still problematic, though I am going to add a dictionary link. Dalf | Talk 23:06, look up sexual intercourse for more info

Kk Blazecross90 (talk) 11:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2017
I wrote a possible additional entry to this page. The entry is Period (number). Please consider adding it to the list under Science and Mathematics. Thank you! 24.5.240.230 (talk) 06:53, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Reverted to redirect; what you wrote is not encyclopedic enough to be included. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 07:09, 9 September 2017 (UTC)