Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chording

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The result was redirect‎ to Chord (music). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:36, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Chording

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Fails WP:DICDEF. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music, Video games, and Technology. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:24, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

• Redirect to Chord (music). MimirIsSmart (talk) 01:05, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Have we considered changing this to a disambiguation page instead of simply deleting it? I mean this IS a valuable point: chording has multiple definitions. That's a classic disambig situation. Blockyblock567 (talk) 08:31, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps, depends if the music definition is the primary one. IgelRM (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting for further input.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris ^talk! 10:00, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

• Redirect to Chord (music), with a hatnote to Chording keyboard, based on WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. An in-text search on archive.org suggests that musical uses of "chording" are by far the most common, with the keyboard definition being at least a factor of ten less common (and even more so if you only look at the last 10 years). There are a few references to a third meaning in the design of electric motors, but nothing recent so it seems to have fallen out of use. Adam Sampson (talk) 11:09, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

• • I think Adam Sampson's suggestion above makes the most sense. I don't think it would be a good idea to lose the link to chording in the typing sense entirely. Maybe also consider a hatnote to the disambiguation page Cording, as they are homophones in English? Not sure if that's acceptable practice though. Blockyblock567 (talk) 07:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
• Redirect per Adam. I couldn't find good coverage of chording in the term of this article; it certainly exists but I'm not sure it's a notable topic, and there's better places to redirect than just deleting. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 15:07, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
• Redirect per all. WP:NOTDICT and this is just a borrowed term from music. Shooterwalker (talk) 15:13, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.