Talk:Van der Waals

Van should be capitalized unless preceded by first name
See the rebuttal of this, in physics and chemistry, at Talk:Van der Waals force. -84user (talk) 17:30, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 30 April 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 05:52, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Van der Waals → Van der Waals (disambiguation) – Johannes Diderik van der Waals should be the WP:PTOPIC by long-term significance, and probably usage as well. I have added a hatnote to that article. feminist (talk) 15:03, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose not known as a mononym. 20:19, 30 April 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by In ictu oculi (talk • contribs)
 * Support per nomination. In the same manner as Brunel, Faraday, Leibniz, Lomonosov, Tsiolkovsky and various other surnames redirect to their most famous namesakes, so should this redirect. Unlike Newton, this surname has very little competition, with Van der Waals force, Van der Waals equation, Van der Waals radius and Van der Waals (crater) testifying to subject's prominence.   Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:01, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Support. Clear primary topic of the title out of all possibilities. bd2412  T 21:51, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The physicist after which all the physics things were named (force, equation, radius, are they really different things needing different pages?), has a good claim for PRIMARYTOPIC, but this move does not help any reader.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


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