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What is this?
Is it supposed to be a disambiguation page? It isn't well-formatted and arguably can't be one since it lacks a clear list of alternative articles. Is it supposed to be an article? It appears to stumble over
WP:DICTDEF, an article title being an adjective (in Wiktionary) is always a clue. The difficulty is the lack of an obvious noun that covers all types of monobasic compounds. I'm tempted to revert it, or since that would almost certainly be contested it would have to go to a fairly pointless AfD. Some discussion here could be a lot simpler.
Dibasic and
Tribasic also, obviously.
Lithopsian (
talk) 13:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)reply
None of these are properly formatted disambiguation pages.
PRehse (
talk) 15:13, 17 September 2018 (UTC)reply
The original disambiguation idea was
dibasic, which I then expanded to include monobasic and tribasic, because these terms can refer not only to the acid, but to the salts, where they are known as monobasic, dibasic, tribasic, etc. Linking to
acid won't suffice to capture the second meaning, which I was curious to know since it appeared on Sigma-Aldrich chemical names. Could we have a section at
Salt_(chemistry) and then link the (mono- di- tri-)basic salt articles there? Would that fix the alternative articles problem?--
Officer781 (
talk) 15:14, 17 September 2018 (UTC)reply
It would. We need one blue link per entry.
PRehse (
talk) 15:26, 17 September 2018 (UTC)reply
Monobasic can also refer to a
taxon which is
monotypic, that is contains only one sub-taxon. I think there are subtleties about when the correct adjective is monobasic and when monotypic, but I can't find a definitive reference for that and in any case they are widely treated as synonyms.
Lithopsian (
talk) 15:42, 17 September 2018 (UTC)reply