Talk:Victor D'Hondt

Requested move
On WP:RFM there is the following:
 * Talk:Victor d'Hondt &mdash; Victor d'Hondt &rarr; Victor D'Hondt – D'Hondt is a belgian/flemish name, and is written with an uppercase D. The "D'" or "De" is part of the surmane Wdelaet 08:49, 13 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose without more evidence. His d'Hondt method is usually spelt that way in English.  And the surname varies in Belgium.  See  for someone called "d'Hondt" and  for someone called "D'hondt".  It is not Belgian majority rule which should count here, but what the man called himself. --Henrygb 00:15, 14 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Support move. These scientific publications in various languages are nothing compared to this act of a session of the Belgian senate: http://www.senaat.be/wwwcgi/get_pdf?50331933 It's a PDF, French and Dutch, our Victor is on p. 2, 2nd paragraph as "Victor D'Hondt" in both the French and the Dutch text. I suppose the Belgian senate personnel knows how to spell. --Francis Schonken 08:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose The Belgian government does not know how to spell names, as the same (French) legislation lies at the basis of spelling of names. However only Belgium seems to think that capitals of names are also 'strict'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.178.150.27 (talk) 18:38, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Vote count report, 15 days after start of vote
3 people voted, 2 supporting the move, result: Trying to help out with backlog at WP:RM, I implement the vote result, and remove WP:RM listing.
 * 2 voters out of 3 support the move = 67% > 60% => Move to Victor D'Hondt

Apart from cleaning up double redirects I also add Victor D’Hondt and Victor d’Hondt (other type of accent) as redirects. --Francis Schonken 07:03, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

pronunciation
What is the correct pronunciation of the name? --128.103.54.204 (talk) 19:22, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Adopted variants
I'm not aware of any country adopting the D'Hont method as it was initially conceived. They all use a "variant" that fundamentally changes the intent and outcome of the method, so IMHO we can't really say these countries really adopted the method, even if they really claim to. Therefore I suggest we change the sentence "The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including" to "Variants of the method have been adopted by a number of countries, including". IMHO even calling that a "variant" is an insult to the original method. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.203.55.82 (talk) 10:02, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Date of death
I am not convinced that the death date (30 May 1902) is correct, despite the photo of the grave. All books that I found say D'Hondt died in 1901. For example this biographical volume from 1913: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:000130196 Unexpectedinput (talk) 11:30, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

I have now changed the year of death to 1901. Almost all evidence I found points to this date: - A death note from 1901 (Carlier, Jules (1901). "Victor D'Hondt, Albert Nyssens – Notice et portrait". Représentation proportionnelle - Revue mensuelle. 20: 29–41) - This note also mentions that D'Hondt and Nyssens have died within a few weeks, Albert Nyssens died 1901 - This biographical volume from 1913: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:000130196

I do not know why D'Hondt's grave seems to show the year 1902 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185955423/victor-joseph_auguste-d'hondt#view-photo=164441253). But given the other references, 1901 appears to be much more likely. --Unexpectedinput (talk) 15:16, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

D'Hondt a mathematician?
What evidence is there justifying to call D'Hondt a mathematician?

I know of none. Being a professor of fiscal law, D'Hondt occasionally may have dealt with fiscal numbers.

D'Hondt is famous for having devised his method for the allocation of seats in proportional representation systems - which also deals with numbers of course.

However, his dealing with numbers is not enough to qualify him as a mathematician. I propose to remove the "mathematician". Or does somebody know of persuasive evidence?

Repp2 (talk) 09:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

I agree with this change. --Unexpectedinput (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2021 (UTC)