Talk:Vested interest
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vfd discussion: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Vested interests 17:08, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 12:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
There is some confusion around the three articles: Vesting, Vested interest and Vested interests. The first is now more than a stub. The second was a stub that could not be expanded without containing essentially the same information as the first, and a merge was proposed. I merged the one sentence into Vesting and went to make it a redirect, but when fixing links, I found that all references to Vested interest actually meant the political topic under this article. So, I redirected here instead.
I propose to now swap the singular and plural, per normal Wikipedia naming of articles. Robert A.West (Talk) 22:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] new articles: Vested interest (?) and Vested interest (law)
Comments on this proposal to more permanently deal with the ongoing confusion between these two different concepts? Vested interest would move to "Vested interest (one of sociology/psychology/politics)", and Vesting would move to Vested interest (law). Declare 11:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Coming here via RFC, I would say that the political meaning of "vested interest" should be here as the primary meaning. The legal concept should be at Vesting or Vested interest (law) - I don't mind which. Rd232 talk 11:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Agreed on the location of the primary meaning. The issue basically comes down to this: given that some readers are not obviously clear on the respective meanings, would it improve matters to have a search for "vested interest" go to vested interest (disambiguation) and splitting to vested interest (politics) and vested interest (law), or keeping things as they are (having dablinks only). Declare 06:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think readers not clear on the distinction are very likely to be looking for the political meaning. Rd232 talk 09:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- (sigh) The penultimate editor changed the article because s/he appeared to be confused as to the legal meaning. This is the point. Declare 08:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
