Talk:Programming domain

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Delete?

Not sure if this is a technically correct term. I would vote for deletion. Phoe6 (talk) 05:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just rename it, but keep this as a redirect. "list of application domains" perhaps. It could be extended into an article contrasting the issues in various domains of programming (languages used, etc) —Unsigned comment by user Fmadd on February 5, 2017

Merge?

It has been suggested by user Novem Linguae to merge this article with Domain (software engineering), and to merge Domain (software engineering) with this article. I have removed the merge tag from Domain (software engineering) because the dual requests are conflicting, "Domain" is the senior topic, and we don't want any resulting discussion to be split between two different pages. Put them all together here, if one must.

I spent some time updating both articles which should clarify what they are and show that the concepts are not identical. The senior concept is "Domain", and that is the concept that needs to be understood before one can understand "programming domain".

Although it would be natural to assume that the word "programming" is simply a redundant adjective in "programming domain" (since "domain" applies only to computer programming), it isn't as simple as that. "A programming domain" is a thing unto itself and the word "programming" is not simply an adjective; it forms a compound noun.

I would definitely argue against merging the two topics because one is not a subset of the other (as might be thought if you think of "programming" as the adjective, which it is not).

Normal Op (talk) 01:37, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Klbrain: following up on your request at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Adding reciprocal merge templates. See this edit where Normal Op removed

{{Merge|Programming domain|date=April 2020}} and compare with the template on this article

{{Merge|Domain (software engineering)|date=April 2020}}

Given the misperception here that dual {{Merge}} templates are "conflicting", I intend to start implementing this by placing reciprocal templates only in cases where the direction is specified (i.e. either {{Merge to}} or {{Merge from}} so as to avoid the perception of edit-warring with the removal of a template such as seen here. In general, we should be encouraging editors to specify the direction, except in cases where they are truly ambivalent about what the title of the merged article should be, or unsure about which article is the "original" and which is the "fork". – wbm1058 (talk) 17:03, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Wbm1058: It wasn't the dual merge requests that was objectionable, it was the dual places to discuss it. To contribute to your project, I would suggest that when you set up your template or bot (or whatever the mechanism is) for bi-directional notices that you make provision for a single discussion location. Normal Op (talk) 17:30, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]