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There are a ton and a half
[1] of articles with the word interest in the name, but no good article on the generic concept. Interests and Interesting both redirect to "Attention", but that's not necessarily the best solution. Anyone got a better way to approach the problem?
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– No clear primary topic, the emotion would probably be thought of as primary to most if anything, see also
Commons:Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/12/Category:Interest where
Interest (fee) or
Interest (financial) have also been suggested by me.
Interest (economics) is another option. Even if the emotion is less likely in an encyclopedia it still seems like it has enough long-term significance to displace the payment. By views the payment has 11,074 and the emotion has 1,533 but
Sexual attraction has 33,781,
Conflict of interest has 16,428,
National interest has 4,694,
Point of interest has 1,712 and Self-interest has 1,484. Although Google returns more results for the payment the 1st result is a dictionary infobox which gives the emotion first, Images only appears to return the payment but Books does appear to return the emotion as the 1st result even though the other results appear to be for the payment. Crouch, Swale (
talk) 08:58, 3 February 2021 (UTC) —Relisting.Vpab15 (
talk) 22:24, 12 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Support In my Google scholar search the results for the top 20 are:
interest group (1), interest in psychology (10), interest in economics (2),
self-interest (1),
public interest (3), Interest points in
computer vision (1). Although some of these are partial dabs, clearly economics is not the primary topic in RS. I think
interest (economics) is a better dab, but have no strong feelings on that point. (
t ·
c) buidhe 10:03, 3 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose. In formal written English, when people write "interest" without any preceding adjective, they normally mean interest in the form of money. For example, the academic literature in
communication studies consistently introduces the term with adjectives like "romantic" to distinguish it from the financial kind. In contrast, the academic literature in economics as well as business magazines for a general audience does not use any adjectives before the word "interest." --
Coolcaesar (
talk) 11:51, 3 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose No evidence here that the financial concept of Interest isn't the primary topic.
162.208.168.92 (
talk) 17:31, 3 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose we don't assign primary topic based on what first comes to your mind, but by pageviews or (more frequently) by the long-term educational significance of the topic, and the topic "being interested in something" isn't really something we have an article on.
RedSlash 22:39, 3 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Well being interested in something is something we do have an article on namely at
Interest (emotion) even though in an encyclopedia it may be less likely. Crouch, Swale (
talk) 17:10, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Support. I don't see a primary topic in terms of significance between the financial concept and
Interest (emotion), despite the difference in popularity between the two articles. If anything, the latter article (whose existence appears to have been missed by some of the opposers above) corresponds to the primary meaning of the word interest in English, and hence is more likely to be at the centre of reader expectations during searches for the bare term. –
Uanfala (talk) 21:25, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose, the unqualified term almost always refers to the financial sense.
older ≠
wiser 21:42, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Note: the form
interested may be another matter. Than term perhaps should redirect to
Interest (emotion) rather than to the disambiguation page.
older ≠
wiser 21:44, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Support – no primarytopic. The term has too many versions to not disambiguate.
Dicklyon (
talk) 01:30, 6 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Coolcaesar and others. "Interest" unadorned is the financial version. The other articles aren't relevant due to Wikipedia is not a dictionary - nobody interested in sexual attraction is going to look it up via "interest", even if in running text it could mean that.
SnowFire (
talk) 02:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Half oppose, half support - I would support moving "
Interest" to "
Interest (payment)", but I think "
Interest" should remain a redirect to the article about the payment, as that is by far the most likely thing editors will want to link the unqualified word "interest" to in articles.
HumanBodyPiloter5 (
talk) 18:56, 10 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Support per nom.--
Ortizesp (
talk) 04:01, 13 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose as I suspect most people searching for this term are looking for the financial one. –
CWenger (
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