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== Title containing "article" ==
 
This looks like a fascinating (Wikipedia) article, and I'm looking forward to reading it in detail.
 
I'm not too convinced by the title, though. I think it's more usual to refer to such contributions as "papers" rather than "articles". To me "article" sounds like something you find in a magazine, not a journal. Also, as I alluded to above, it's a bit problematic that "article" also is used to refer to Wikipedia articles, and there's possible interference from that, for editors discussing the Wikipedia article, but more importantly also for readers.
 
We ''could'' move it to [[Georg Cantor's first set theory paper]], but to be honest I would rather move it to the actual title, ''[[On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers]]'', and put it in italics. I think in general we write articles on notable papers by their titles. See for example [[On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems]] (not sure why it's not in italics; I think it should be). --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] ([[User talk:Trovatore|talk]]) 03:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
:<small>Just an update on the italics issue &mdash; I went ahead and added {{tl|italic title}} to the other article. But now I'm having second thoughts; there may be an argument for preserving a distinction between book titles, which are italicized, and titles of papers, which are not. I don't know. I think it looks better with italics; it makes it clearer that it's a title of a published work. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] ([[User talk:Trovatore|talk]]) 03:59, 13 February 2016 (UTC) </small>
 
== The article rewrite and thanks to all those who helped me ==