Talk:Stanisław Staszic

pro-evolution theory
I marked the following sentence as unclear: Some of his views and theories made him an early supporter of pro-evolution theories. I find this term highly unclear. There's no pro-evolution theory article anywhere. Did the author mean "supporter of evolution before Darwin"? Or perhaps "creator of a theory supporting the theory of evolution"? What are those pro-evolution theories mentioned, any ideas?  // Halibutt 12:37, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Quote from PSB, p.549: "Zafascynowany zmiennością i współzależnością zjawisk w świecie przyrody i cywilizacji ludzkick, należał w Polsce do prekusrów ewolucjonizmu w naukach przyrodniczych i społecznych." This is what I based my sentence on, I agree it is not the best one. How would you rewrite it, based on the source claim? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 18:23, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

which stock market?
He also made some successful financial investments, including in the stock market. - which one? I'm guessing the LSE but I could be wrong and this should be clarified. Volunteer Marek 03:07, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

B-class review
I have reviewed the article and promoted it to B-class.

The only problem which I saw was some tense-switching in the text. Basically, the narrative would change from using the -ed form of past tense to the "he would ..." form (and some slippage into present tense as well). This can make sense if the purpose is to interrupt a chronological narrative in order to explain relevant later developments but it's important to watch that this isn't over done.

My sense is actually that other than that the article is ready for GA status. One thing that could be considered is a couple more images (and perhaps better organization of these in the article). I checked on commons and what gives me a bit of pause is that almost all the relevant images are of Staszic himself and it's probably not necessary to have half a dozen portraits of the guy, or a half a dozen statues of him. However, it would be nice, for example, to get an image of the cover of one of the editions of his works or something like that. That may be wishful thinking though.

I do think it should be nominated for GA. Volunteer Marek 03:27, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll try to reread this for tense, and nominate it for a GA in a not-so-distant future. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 03:33, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

"On the Reasons of Jewish Noxiousness"
O przyczynach szkodliwości Żydów (1818) doesn't appear among his works on the Polish Wikipedia page. If this is among his "best-known" works, such a well-regarded, influential Polish intellectual's position on the Jews would be pertinent to include here. -- Deborahjay (talk) 07:02, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Theology at the Collège de France
Hello.

I think there must be a mistake about this issue : "he continued his theological studies in France at the Collège de France". If you look at this page : Collège de France Teachers since 1530, you will find no teacher for Theology. If Staszic listened conferences at the Collège de France, it was not about Theology ; and if he studied Theology, it was at the University (la Sorbonne).

Cordially.

--Jacques Goliot (talk) 11:25, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Merci, Jacques, good catch. I checked the source and it is indeed clear that he studied physics and natural history; the theology claim was erroneous. It is now fixed. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:47, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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