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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 19:35, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

My intention, people![edit]

I intend to rewrite this article soon. It's barely comprehensible at the moment... Nursethisviper (talk) 07:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

good idea. In our global society the antiquated Euro-centered idea of "discovery" seems ludicrous. The 5 (now 6) continents existed long before the Europeans finally "discovered" them.--dunnhaupt (talk) 12:02, 5 April 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

And? So? Discovery means finding or finding out something you didn't know before. Yes, we need to acknowledge that Europeans were not the first to discover anywhere that already had a population, but that doesn't mean the idea of discovery (or "discovery") is ludicrous. Iapetus (talk) 16:59, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I also believe that this should be removed.

"The Eurocentric assumptions implicit in such a view may go unnoticed by Europeans and their descendants, while being obvious—and resented—by others."

Any topic, no matter how serious or sensitive, can be discussed civilly. Taking a single paragraph to attack European culture without some sort of counter opinion or discussion, comes across as mean spirited. I doubt that was your intention, so perhaps that section can either be expanded to a richer discussion or moved to a history or sociology page. 70.184.77.57 (talk) 04:57, 6 February 2015 (UTC)TravelingMathematicianReply[reply]

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"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
Carl Sagan, cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis', Penguin Books, 2015, pages 162 (ISBN 9780141981048).
Nelly Cookhyles (talk) 21:17, 21 September 2016 (UTC).Reply[reply]

Requested move 2 August 2020[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. The observation article may cover the broad concept of the word, but broad concepts are not automatically primary topics. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:30, 10 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Discovery (observation) → Discovery
Discovery → Discovery (disambiguation)

– main topic; then please move Discovery over to Discovery (disambiguation). fgnievinski (talk) 02:03, 2 August 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:28, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Fgnievinski: This move looks like affecting many links and I can't find any discussion about this move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:28, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose This would perhaps be the main topic if we were a dictionary, but it seems like readers are split on which topic they are seeking, with that one nowhere near the top. But I even think topics like Exploration are very likely the intended destination for more readers than this page, or the concept of legal discovery, far more than this synthesized page of mostly original research about the concept.--Yaksar (let's chat) 04:49, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support This is very clearly the WP:BROADCONCEPT article for the word, even regardless of WP:NOTDICTIONARY._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 21:35, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose. Discovery (observation) is clearly a common use that belongs at the top of the page, but in terms of usage is, as Yaksar points out with the massviews tool, nowhere near the top. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:52, 6 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.