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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorvarkor
    • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2021

    I came across bimorphism recently. Since from the discussion on the page it seems very few, if any, people think this is reasonable terminology (it’s unclear to me that the concept itself is interesting at all), might it be reasonable to delete the page? There doesn’t seem any advantage to propagating bad terminology.

    (I’m not sure how to link this thread to the relevant nLab page. I thought “Discuss this page” would be sufficient, but apparently not.)

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorHurkyl
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2021

    For what it’s worth, even if we assume for the sake of argument the terminology is objectively bad, there is some value in having the reference so that if someone saw the term in the wild they could still come here to find out what it means.

    But I don’t really have an opinion on this either way.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorvarkor
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2021

    My impression is that it’s not common enough terminology that it would be used in a paper without definition. It could still be useful, but having an entry may encourage the unnecessary use of the term.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2021
    • (edited Nov 3rd 2021)

    From the history of this entry it looks like Zoran made up the term 12 years ago in rev 1 but had forgotten that he did by rev 9, 8 years later, where he joins the comment box discussion with: “I never likes bimorphism either.”

    Let’s delete this page.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2021

    I have cleared the page, see the thread there.