Talk:CERN

Merging CERN and .cern

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To merge .cern to CERN per short text and context. Klbrain (talk) 06:42, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

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I am sceptical to merge these pages. If we follow that logic .no should be merged with Norway. In many aspects CERN is nearly like a country. Bibliophilen (talk)

Is there more we can say about the TLD? .no has a lot of content. .cern is simply used for official CERN websites. --mfb (talk) 05:01, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

It is still a top-level domain just like any other, I don't see why you'd remove it. Ombreux (talk) 22:47, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Great Idea! You should move it, this page is so small and can easily fit on the main CERN page. Also make sure that this is mentioned on the page about top-level domains. Nrl103 (talk) 22:10, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

There are several hundred pages on TLDs; and they all are short. That's the nature of these subjects. Why should we merge this one, but not all the others? It is absolutely OK to have a short article, if there is not much more to say about this subject. There is nothing wrong with a short article. I'm against merge. Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 11:12, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Shortness alone would be fine, but .cern (and many other .tld pages) fail WP:NOTABILITY, and by policy should be deleted or merged. (IMHO none of the information on it need be salvaged; "when did an organization register its current domain" is usually trivia, whether tld or no). There are literally over a thousand tld's; I know of no notability exemption for tld's. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 23:35, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

1. OPPOSE: TLDs commonly have their own article. 78.55.98.91 (talk) 01:16, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

I oppose to merge the both articles as country level TLD's have different aspect while organizational level TLD's have different aspect. As well CERN is not a country, though it is a member based organizations still it remains an organization only so it clearly shows not to be merged.

User:Bibliophilen please elaborate more.Rockstar250802 (talk) 18:26, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Oppose To me merging the two articles is bacically trying to mix apple and pears. TLDs commonly have their own article. If .cern is to go, there will be no logic if .nato remains. From the discussion it seems like most contributors agree with me. Bibliophilen (talk)

Support merge for the reasons of short text and context. Categorization can be maintained with categories on the redirected page, and section redirects ensure that readers will be directed to the most relevant material. Klbrain (talk) 11:51, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Support per Klbrain:

A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. If a topic does not meet these criteria but still has some verifiable facts, it might be useful to discuss it within another article.
— WP:GNG

If a short article requires the background material or context from a broader article in order for readers to understand it [or] if a page is very short (consisting of perhaps only one or two sentences) and is, in your opinion as editor, unlikely to be expanded within a "reasonable" (unspecified) amount of time, it often makes sense to merge it into a page on a broader topic.
— WP:MERGEREASON

Is there any policy, guideline or other rule I'm not aware of that so many editors insist on all TLDs having their own article, no matter how tiny? --89.206.112.10 (talk) 17:02, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

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  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 06:42, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

History, missing quite a lot

Here's an excerpt from another language:

In the aftermath of the Second World War, European research in physics was almost non-existent, whereas it had been at the height of its glory a few years earlier. It was under these conditions that the Frenchman Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929, launched the idea, at the European Conference on Culture held in Lausanne in 1949, to create a European scientific laboratory.

In 1952, with the support of UNESCO, which promotes the creation of regional scientific laboratories, eleven European governments decide to create a European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN). It is during a meeting in Amsterdam that the site where the CERN facilities will be located is chosen: it will be in Switzerland, in the municipality of Meyrin, located against the Franco-Swiss border, near Geneva. Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 11:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

It's strange. Contemporary video footage clearly shows a "Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléair" sign when the construction works began. Then, at the time of laying the foundation stone by Felix Bloch, it was called as European Institute for Nuclear Research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yogurt (talk • contribs) 09:37, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

spelling error

The "Computer science" section says about the World Wide Web, "It became the dominate way through which most users interact with the Internet." As far as I know, even "British English Oxford spelling" doesn't replace "dominant" (the adjective) with "dominate" (the verb). This is admittedly a trivial error, but one that I've encountered often enough that it annoys me every time. 173.61.40.240 (talk) 22:08, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I fixed it. XeCyranium (talk) 22:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Cern

Baterka Is captivated in there somewhere they say.. 88.101.69.66 (talk) 21:38, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 September 2024

Estonia is now a full member state 2001:1458:203:1:0:0:100:60 (talk) 09:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

 Not done for now: unclear what's being requested as Estonia is already mentioned in the table and infobox. NotAGenious (talk) 16:58, 18 September 2024 (UTC)