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

• 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)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:24, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

• 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)[reply]

• • 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)[reply]
• 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)[reply]