Talk:Quark (disambiguation)

Quark is also the geographic name of a thin stretch of water in the Gulf of Bothnia between two bodies of land- Finland and Sweden. This had been missing, so I've added it. Jcc (Jace1 (talk) 22:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC))

Is it worth trying to say which are named after the particle (the Star Trek character and the Sci-Fi books for instance) and which have other drivations ? -- Beardo 13:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * This sounds like a good idea. Any votes against? - Robert Rapplean 17:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * against. I think such things only belong in the articles themselves, here in disam, it will just clog things up and make arguments.  One comes to disam to sort out where things are, knowing the etym in this case probably won't help any.  However, it IS a good idea to put it into articles where this is known.

IceDragon64 (talk) 09:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

The use in Finnegan's Wake isn't really a nonce word, is it? Joyce made up lots of nonce words, but here he was using an existing German word for partially phonetic reasons. (I see this actually got into the article on nonce word, though, so maybe there's some subtlety to "nonce word" that I'm missing.) -Matt McIrvin 14:11, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Quark is the name of a character in the early doctor who series, Agador of Pelagon, not to be confused with the robot Quarks. I don't have refs, its just in my memory so I will leave it for Whovians to do.

IceDragon64 (talk) 09:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC) No it isn't. My memories of 35 years ago were just playing tricks on me. this is why we need refs! IceDragon64 (talk) 10:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

This page has problems...
And the main problem is that it does not lead to the most important meaning of quark: the particle!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.184.175.118 (talk) 03:09, 3 January 2015 (UTC)