Talk:Multiplier

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Multiplier → Multiplier (disambiguation) – I propose that the primary topic of "multiplier" is the term as used in multiplication, that is, a value by which things are multiplied. Although there are specialized kinds of multipliers, almost all of these have to do with multiplication. I would move this disambiguation page to Multiplier (disambiguation), and redirect the current title to Multiplication, where the topic is already discussed at length. Relisted. BDD (talk) 20:57, 10 September 2013 (UTC) bd2412 T 13:44, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose – That's certainly not the interpretation that came to my mind as primary, but I'm an old computer hardware guy. Of course all the uses have to do with multiplication, but that's not an argument in support of any particular primary topic claim. I see no evidence here that any of the many topics should be considered primary for this ambiguous term. Dicklyon (talk) 20:23, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
  • If we remove all the partial title matches, we are left with Multiplier (Fourier analysis), Multiplier (economics), and a redirect to multiplication. bd2412 T 20:59, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
    • That's if you ignore all the ones with natural disambiguation, like Binary multiplier, Analog multiplier, Frequency multiplier, and such. Dicklyon (talk) 07:12, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
      • We absolutely do ignore partial title matches. If we didn't, then the fact that "diet soft drinks", "sugar-free soft drinks", and "fruit-flavored soft drinks" exist would require "soft drink" to be a disambiguation page. Every single one of these different kinds of multipliers are merely different kinds of multiplication operations. This page would be WP:DABCONCEPT, except that a general article on multipliers would duplicate what is already included in multiplication. bd2412 T 12:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.